Adam G.F. Cooper Orillia, Ontario, Canada Landscape Labourer Michaelis Landscape
I would be interested in helping with documentation for new users to fedora. Especially people migrating from Microsoft platforms. I have been involved with writing manuals for other charitable organizations. I documented a policy/manual for safe interaction with children.
I have been working with computers for over 16 years now, unfortunately most of my skill currently is in Microsoft Platforms, as I have only enough skill currently to use Fedora and its applications I would not consider myself a "Power" user with Fedora, yet. I have my MCP and an older A+ Certification. I am able to type and I am able to use most word processing programs, and have been using the OpenOffice.org suite exclusively for 5 years now. I do have some programming skills but mostly with the BASIC language. I'm currently actively trying to learn HTML, PHP, and JavaScript. I would be a good candidate for this project because I believe in the Open Source concept, and would like to be able to contribute to it's projects and to help out where I can.
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Adam, welcome to the Fedora Docs Project.
I am the lead writer for the Fedora 8 Desktop User Guide (DUG). There are some active volunteers working on the DUG now, but we can always use another set of eyes and fingers.
I assume that you are using Fedora on a daily basis as your regular desktop. This experience is invaluable in fact-checking the current material and, if you are comfortable with it, making edits to the DUG. The target audience is the new Fedora user, who may be familiar with Windows, but not with GNOME, KDE or Xfce.
I can can give more details if you decide to dive into the DUG. If not, there are other draft docs which can use some help.
Best Regards,
John Babich Lead writer, DUG
docs@lists.stg.fedoraproject.org