From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 09:08:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B40316A4B3 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 09:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8F644017 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 09:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc3-cdif2-5-0-cust222.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.101.152.222] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 1A3e5X-000Kil-6F; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:08:00 +0100 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.22) id 1A3e5V-0004sb-AH; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:07:57 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:07:57 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "Robert G.Waycott" Message-ID: <20030928160757.GJ915@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "Robert G.Waycott" , doc@freebsd.org References: <20030928072434.DJWZ1843.imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqCDj3hiknadvR6t" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030928072434.DJWZ1843.imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Involvement? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:08:03 -0000 --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:24:34AM -0400, Robert G.Waycott wrote: > > Hey docTeam. I am pretty new to FreeBSD, having recently migrated from >three years as a Linux user. For one prodigious reason or another, I >have somewhat found myself taken with FreeBSD--perchance because I have >finally escaped the old "shit, what'd I do? I don't now! Hell, let's >just install Redhat again and everything will work" scenario. Anyway, I >am about to go ahead and install 4.9-PRERELEASE on my main box here at >home, and am wondering what kind of help the docProject needs. Does 4.9 >need work? I have several years experience as a writer and editor, thus >this seems to be the best place to offer my skills and finally find >involvement in the Open Source community. I do not know much of how you >guys do what you do, but would really like to learn and serve as an >editor for documentation, and possibly write when I know more. I am >pretty good at communicating difficult subject matter to a rather >uninformed/underinformed audience, and would love to help ensure that >the docs which are out there are fairly straightforward for the >"newbie." Anyway, I have spoken enough. Waiting for direction. Hi Bob, Glad you'd like to help out. Firstly, please wrap your mails at 72 characters. Secondly, to get involved, please initially read the primer at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html and the background information to the documentation project at http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/index.html. As a new user you're in a good position to write documentation; if you're trying to do something and the docs are lacking or don't exist, you can just make a note of what you had to do and write it up. When you're done reading the above, you may have some more specific questio= ns, so feel free to ask again then. Cheers, Ceri --=20 --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/dwddocfcwTS3JF8RApyNAJd4qO7qv2dbZJLih8jzSC4mwsAeAKCMhLz5 ppsKREV1GM1nWW5uF6MIGw== =08Wc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t--