On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:10 PM, ryan lerch ryanlerch@gmail.com wrote:

Full Name: Ryan John Lerch

Location: Brisbane, Australia (UTC+10)

Personal Goals for Fedora Docs: My motivation for joining the fedora docs team is to learn more about fedora, tech writing and documentation toolchaining while being able to give something back to the community. However, I am a little unsure how I would like to (or can) contribute to the fedora-docs project. The first area that jumps out at me is the Desktop User Guide (?Fedora User Guide?)

Historical qualifications: Other projects that I help out on are Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/) and The openclipart library (http://openclipart.org/) Over at Inkscape, I help out with writing docs and tutorials, bug triaging and responding to the question tracker. I finished my Bachelor of Information Technology majoring in Software Engineering and Multimedia in 2003. I'm a fairly new fedora user (< 12 months) so I hope i can provide an insight for other new users after making the switch to a free and open source operating system.

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regards, ryanlerch ryanlerch@gmail.com

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for joining...I'm also in Brisbane.

Probably best to ask someone else, but I'm pretty sure you can edit/add what you like to the wiki, and then that content is converted to XML at the end.

Regarding the Desktop User Guide, there is a table of what is happening at the bottom of the page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/DesktopUserGuide

There is also an Admin Guide, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide, which at the moment is missing a few sections. The sections marked "Edit-Ready" need someone other than the original person who wrote it, go over it and make sure it makes sense, spelling, grammar etc. There a guidelines for wiki editing here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing#MarkingTechnicalTerms

I'm sure someone else will have better ideas.

Thanks,

Murray.

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ryan lerch wrote:

Full Name: Ryan John Lerch

Historical qualifications: Other projects that I help out on are Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/) and The openclipart library (http://openclipart.org/) Over at Inkscape, I help out with writing docs and tutorials, bug triaging and responding to the question tracker.

This specifically has my attention. In case you have time left after the docs and art work, it would be great to have more people actively participating in bug triaging after the recent re-launch. We desperately need more people there.

http:///fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers.

Catch us on #fedora-qa and welcome to Fedora.

Rahul