Re: introductory mail

[Jim Campbell <jwcampbell gmail com>]

Hey All,

It looks like Florian sent this just to me, and so I'm passing it along to the group.

It looks like the documentation for Evolution is in need of some proofreading and fixing of various TODOS. That might be a good place to get started, especially considering you already have a technical writing background.

Here's a blog post about the new Evolution user help: http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2011/08/04/new-evolution-user-docs/

I hope that at least helps to get you oriented. Best of luck, and let us know if you have any questions!

Regards,

Jim

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Florian Nadge <fnadge redhat com> wrote:

On 08/02/2011 10:14 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:

Hi Florian,

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Florian Nadge <fnadge redhat com> wrote:

Hi there,

I am keenly interested in community based documentation and have been an enthusiastic GNOME user for the last six years. I am curious about your approach towards topic based user help and have had a first look into the Mallard project.

I am a professional technical writer and editor and would be happy to help with proofing, editing and at least to some extent also with content writing. I also work with the Fedora community and am at the moment battling with the GNOME chapter for the Fedora User Guide.

Kind regards,

-florian

 

Thanks for your message, and thanks for your interest in GNOME documentation. It would be great to have your contributions and input into GNOME docs.

 

Where there certain areas where you'd like to help? For example, would you like to contribute to the platform help, the developer help, or perhaps some application help? Let us know if there's an area where you think you might be most comfortable, or where you think you might be best able to fill a gap.

 

Thanks again, and welcome!!

 

Jim

Hi Jim,
thanks for your reply.  I am not really sure yet in what way I could contribute best. I  hope to talk to other people in the docs team in Berlin at the Desktop Summit. One thing I enjoy iis proofreading. It's an easy way to get to know the matter at hand. So if there is anybody asking for feedback I'd be happy to help.


Florian

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