If you're a Fedora Documentation Project contributor, or you want to be, this message is for you.

We keep a lot of our work -- the really good stuff -- in DocBook XML in a CVS source code repository. Learning to use it is pretty easy, but if you're not a hardcore geek, it can be scary getting stared. (I know, I was scared of it when I started too.)

This morning I updated http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocBook to point to our example tutorial, a sort of "show and tell" device for learning DocBook XML. It has long segments of explanatory text that tell you how to get started using DocBook.

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/example-tutorial/en_US/example-tutorial...

If you've never used DocBook, or only used it a little, and want to be a powerful contributor to the project, this tutorial may help!

It would be great if all new contributors would check out the tutorial through the link above. Read it, and feel free to ask questions here or on IRC (irc.freenode.net) at #fedora-docs.

I'd also appreciate feedback if you feel something's missing or confusing. You can even be a superstar and file a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ under Fedora Documentation => example-tutorial.