From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 3 8:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@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 3C10E37B9D7 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA58790; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:21:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA13610; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:09:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:09:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Thomas Olausson Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: here's a contributor Message-ID: <20000401200904.A13550@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000324082248.8324.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> <001301bf9ab1$a5f88600$6da8a8c0@b3works.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <001301bf9ab1$a5f88600$6da8a8c0@b3works.com>; from Thomas Olausson on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:37:17PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:37:17PM -0800, Thomas Olausson wrote: > I just joined the doc mailing list > and would like to contribute to documentation. Marvellous. Welcome aboard. > Areas where I can contribute is: > Linux->FreeBSD migration > Firewalling > Samba All things we could use help on. Of the three, I think the thing we're most lacking is "Linux -> FreeBSD" stuff -- the existing docs about firewalls and Samba are reasonably OS neutral. I've been saying for a long time that we need a "FreeBSD for a Linux user" document, that covers the differences between the two systems (or between a FreeBSD and a Redhat system, a Debian system, a SuSE system, and so on). > Where do I start? Read the documentation project primer at http://www.FreeBSD.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/ That consists of many small, linked, HTML files. If you want one big file (easier to print) add "book.html" to the end of that URL. The primer gives a technical introduction to the project. It's long, but don't let that put you off. If you don't fancy learning the markup and stuff we can do the markup from plain text for you (or, at least, someone will). > How am I supposed to contact to be doing this? Keep in touch with the list. When you've written something you want people to look at put it up on a website somewhere[1], and post an announcement to this list about it. You should cross post the announcement to other lists as appropriate -- for example, a "FreeBSD for Linux admins" document could be announced on the -questions list as well. Hope that helps. N [1] If you can't put it up on a website, let me know, and I will. -- 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-doc" in the body of the message