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Self-Introduction: Steven Pierce
by Steven Pierce 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

1. Steven Pierce - Huntington Beach USA (Pacific Time Zone) - Currently working for the Dept. Of homeland Security (TSA) Also have a second job doing consulting for a small company here in Huntington Beach - See above - Your goals in the Fedora Project - What do you want to write about? I am very open to this topic. I am trying to learn more about linux. I am currently in the process of trying to set up a web, mail, dns server so that I can expand my skill set. - What other documentation do you want to see published? None currently, but I have done a couple of FAQ for my employers (Past / Present) - Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy? I would be open to either. grammer / writing is how I discovered the project Thanx to Paul Fields. - Anything else special? - Historical qualifications - What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past? I have done a master's thesis and a couple FAQ's. - What level and type of computer skills do you have? I am not a novice, but I am not guru either. I put my skills in the more advanced level. I can set up most types of machine, I have built my own machines. I have set up a couple of servers with RH 9. - What other skills do you have that might be applicable? User interface design, other so-called soft skills (people skills), programming, etc. I have a fair amount of people skills, I have done tech support for a long time. I am currently learning more about HTML / CSS. I am hoping to take a couple java script classes in the future. - What makes you an excellent match for the project? My willingness to learn.

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I introduce myself
by Francesco Ugolini 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

My name is Francesco Ugolini, i'm an Italian Fedora Ambassador (on probing) and i have decided to help the Fedora Community to export the power of this system everywhere. I've seen that many documents are only in english so my first task were to traduce the FC4 install guide in italian. This is the reason i've joined to this group to talk about my progress and to be connected with other translator. Currently i've traduced the begginig, first chapter (in .txt format not in xml, but i'm working on) and the chapter 7 (in .xml). See ya Francesco Ugolini

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Feedback request
by Debbie Deutsch 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's been suggested that a good beginner task for me would be to proofread and edit the FAQ and related pages (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ). I am happy to take that on. I've read the pages about writing using the wiki and wiki editing. It's left me with the impression that perhaps the FAQ should be broken into pages instead of being one long page. What do people think of this potential change? Is there a standard way to lay out a multi-page FAQ? I am imagining that the table of contents would be one page. Each of the six main topics would also become a page. I have some business travel coming up that probably will keep me from doing any editing until the weekend. I would very much appreciate people's comments and advice in the meantime. Thanks, Debbie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD3u5BFsydcHPNKWkRAgfEAJ4koT2en6R4wjObS6pljWm3RLSIzwCdGhrp wKCR2sNiOynMMDJIJaz4uNk= =rfQg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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"how-to-burn on Windows" doc
by Karsten Wade 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 22:24 +0000, David Fletcher wrote: > So, hope to see my document amongst the ISOs in a little while. Just to be clear, where exactly do you see this file being put? * In the directory with the ISOs, mirrored to every download site? Uh ... I guess that's the only sensible answer. Everything else would put it somewhere that you'd have to burn or mount the ISOs to see. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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Minutes of FDSCo Meeting 31 January 2006
by Stuart Ellis 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Attending Members: ------------------ Karsten Wade (quaid) Tommy Reynolds (megacoder) Gavin Henry (G2) Paul Frields (stickster) Stuart Ellis (elliss) Also Participating: ------------------- Elliot Lee (Sopwith) Schedule of Tasks: ------------------ http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/FedoraDocsSchedule Highlights: ----------- * Karsten: E-mail with details on licensing documents with the OPL will be sent to the mailing lists. * Tommy: The translations within each CVS module will be split into separate directories, one per language. This requires the migration of the main translations infrastructure to completed first. Once complete the documentation package building infrastructure will also need to be updated. * Paul: RPMs for documentation now build from CVS. The resulting packages needed to be checked for correctness. A new package group will also need to be created for documentation packages. Once these items have been completed the packages can be added to Fedora Extras. Full IRC Log: ------------- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-dsco-list/2006-January/msg00007.html -- Stuart Ellis stuart(a)elsn.org Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA

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Re: docs-common Makefile.common,1.34,1.35
by Paul W. Frields 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 05:31 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Author: jtr > > Update of /cvs/docs/docs-common > In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv8374 > > Modified Files: > Makefile.common > Log Message: > When using find(1) to generate the list of candidate files for the > tarball, do not expand the filenames onto the command line, using > "find *" because a filename with an embedded '#" will bork the > remainder of the command line, seriously breaking the build process. > Thanks again, Emacs! Keep in mind CVS is also responsible for some of this filename cruft, since it moves locally modified copies to ".#filename.N.N" (actually, all of it, for those of us who use Emacs' auto-save-file-name-p function)! ;-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/

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Reference for XIncludes
by Gavin Henry 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Requested from todays FDSCO irc meeting: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/amanda/xml-docs/howto/ Specfically: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/amanda/xml-docs/howto/index.xml?view=… Note the <part id=""> in the following:  <part id="tapesnchangers"> <title>About Tapes and Changers</title> <partintro> <title>Tape-Drives and Tape-Changers</title> <para> &A; is able to use a wide range of Tape-Drives and Tape-Changers. This section contains information on the concept of the tapetypes as well as information on how to make use of your tape-changer by using the appropriate changer-scripts. </para> </partintro> <xi:include href="tapetypes.xml"/> <xi:include href="tapechangers.xml"/> <xi:include href="chgscsi.xml"/> <xi:include href="rait.xml"/> <xi:include href="labelprinting.xml"/> </part> <part id="howtos"> <title>HOWTOs</title> <partintro> <title>How to do this?</title> <para> This section contains some HOWTO-style-documents which should help you to get &A; up and going with Cygwin, AFS or chg-disk ... </para> </partintro> <xi:include href="howto-cygwin.xml"/> <xi:include href="howto-filedriver.xml"/> <xi:include href="howto-afs.xml"/> <xi:include href="howto-wrapper.xml"/> <xi:include href="howto-gpg.xml"/> </part> <part id="various"> <title>Various Information</title> <partintro> <title>Additional information about &A;</title> <para> Here you find various other documents like the &A; FAQ, the Top Ten Questions and the &A;-Wishlist. You can also find the last &A;-Survey in here (although it still needs formatting ... sorry, Jon ...). The latest addition is the "famous" &A;-chapter by John R. Jackson. </para> </partintro> <xi:include href="using.xml"/> <xi:include href="faq.xml"/> <xi:include href="topten.xml"/> <xi:include href="wishlist.xml"/> <xi:include href="survey.xml"/> </part> HTH. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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ready to move languages to sub-folders
by Karsten Wade 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Ok, I give. The module is getting full. I think we have at least through FC5 using the current translation system. This means all actions occurring in cvs.fedora:/cvs/docs/release-notes. Tommy or Paul, can we work up moving the individual languages to their own sub-dirs? release-notes/*-en.xml /it/*-it.xml /ja_JP/*-ja_JP.xml /pa/*-pa.xml /ru/*-ru.xml /zh_CN/*-zh_CN.xml ... If we can do this ASAP, it can happen before the translators 'cvs up' for the test3 content freeze. Otherwise, we can wait a few weeks and work it up for FC5 proper. thx - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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beat writers need to sync content from XML to Wiki
by Karsten Wade 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

There is content in the XML release notes that is not in the Wiki. Please take a few minutes and find your content in the HTML output and pull it into your beat page: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test2-latest-en/ The Wiki is going to be canonical source for the relnotes, hopefully starting tomorrow. We'll continue to pull XML into CVS, tag, build, and ship, but the writing source is going to be the Wiki. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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relnotes beat freeze - FC5 test3 - 08:00 UTC 30 Jan 2006
by Karsten Wade 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Release notes beats are freezing for translation at 08:00 UTC 30 Jan 2006. We're going to scramble to convert the content into XML for translation by Monday evening. Please get all your changes in before then. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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