Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:36:09 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: eliott morst <eliott_morst@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: volunteer opportunity Message-ID: <403A1DE9.6010406@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040222161529.36604.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040222161529.36604.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com>
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eliott morst wrote: >I am interested in proofreading documentation for the freebsd operating system project. >I enjoy reading technical journals and it bothers me when subjects of a technical nature are not expressed in correct english. >Please make me aware of any opportunities where i can help along those lines. > > > > > Cool! You would be interested in the doc team, then.... I think that anyone can subscribe to the mailing list, "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org", but I'd be sure to spend some time reading the list (and its archives), as well as the doc team's WWW pages, before you make too many assumptions and/or comments about the documentation. (I'll let you think about why that might be true....) Another thing you should become familiar with is the "gnats" system (bug reporting system). Anyone, anywhere can submit a problem report (using send-pr(1)) on a FBSD system*, including pr's on the documentation. These will be read and acted upon by experienced members of the FreeBSD Documentation Project. I know how you feel; FreeBSD needs professional looking, high quality documentation in order to keep moving forward. The Good News: it has it. The Bad News: it's a volunteer project with a *huge* amount of (text/code/markup), and mistakes can be overlooked or even introduced in advertently. Get familiar with send-pr and doc@freebsd.org, and then feel free to join in! I'm sure they'll be glad to have more help.... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. *If you have a system (whatever OS**) that does not have "send-pr(1)", there is, (or was?) a web interface to the send-pr(1) program at the Project's web site. **Yeah, but if you're not running FreeBSD, shouldn't you start ;-)
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