From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jan 14 13: 0:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2CC37B402 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0EH7tC05309; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:07:55 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:07:50 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new documentaion Message-ID: <20010114170750.A5294@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:33:06PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:33:06PM -0500, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > I have been using freebsd for awhile now, and I have noticed that > much of it's documentaion is quite dated, I believe documentaion is a key > part of support, especially for a newbie. Also there are many topics not > covered, I think this could all be changed. There are many of us on this list > right now who have enough knowledge to write good, up to date tutorials. > Anything that you think you know well about freebsd you could write a > tutorial about. Before long I think we would have a nice, cuurect, collection > of tutorials. > > I am going to be writing many tutorials in the next few weeks if > anyone wants to help me out, or write some too, that would be awesome. Great. Please read http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ and http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/ to find out how best to do this in a way that makes it as easy as possible for the existing FreeBSD documentation project to integrate your work. I also strongly suggest you subscribe to the freebsd-doc mailing list. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message