From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 13: 5:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A8637C203 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:05:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13K4l0-0009Si-00; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:04:50 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:04:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Rick Hamell Cc: msilver@sc.rr.com, "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" , 'Doug Young' Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Message-ID: <20000802220450.B36147@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:30:44AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 2000-08-02 (09:30), Rick Hamell wrote: > Sun employees a team of technical writers just for that > purpose. The FreeBSD team can't afford something like that, nor do the > developers want to do it. It ain't glamours but it's a perfect way for > those of us who considers ourselves 'newbies' to contribute > meaningfully. Check out the freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list. I think you're making a false assumption when you say "it ain't glamours (sic)" to be a documentor, and when you say "nor do the developers want to do it." There is massive respect for people who write documentation in the development and user communities, and the developers often just don't have the time or ability to produce the end-results, and will often exchange email furiously with whoever does the documentation to help get it done. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message