Re: Newbie wants to get involved!

[Eric Baudais <baudais okstate edu>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:12:13AM +0100, Daniel Rees wrote:
> Hello GDP'ers,
> 
> My name is Daniel Rees, I'm a student and a relatively new Linux user (1 
> year). I'm really excited about the development of desktop environments 
> such as GNOME, and feel that I should get more involved in the open source 
> community. I can't program beyond a simple text adventure (!), so I thought 
> I could instead offer something with the documentation project.
> 
> You will probably have a better idea than myself of what I can help with - 
> I am willing to dedicate a few hours per week on the project.
> 
Daniel-

It's great you want to help!  The first thing you need is to install docbook, 
docbook-stylesheets, libxslt and libxml2 on your Linux system.  All our 
documentation is written in DocBook.  There are some good tutorials on the 
web about DocBook.  Some must reads are the GNOME Handbook and the GNOME 
Documentation Style Guide.  They are located at 
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/resources.html  

If you have any questions just email this list or chat with us through IRC at 
irc.gnome.org on the #docs channel.

Don't forget to subscribe to the gnome-doc-list if you haven't already at 
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list

Some projects that need docs people are: Gnumeric (contact me or jody), GIMP 
(contact Rebecca or #gimp), and probably others.  Just ask around.

Eric Baudais