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Lukas Graf wrote: |
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> Hello everybody! |
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> My name is Lukas, I've been using Gentoo since 2004.3, instantly fell in |
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> love ;-) , and now I feel like it's time for me to start contributing |
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> something. |
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> Because I especially like Gentoo for its excellent documentation, I thought, |
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> maybe gentoo-doc would be a good place for me to participate. |
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Hi Lukas, many thanks for your kind words. |
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> I'm Swiss, so my mother tongue is german. My english is quite solid I think, |
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> probably not good enough to actually write english docs (or at least not |
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> withouth a native speaker proofreading it), but definitely good enough for |
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> translating en->de. |
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> My primary areas of interest are in networking (protocols, service |
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> configuration, security), so for these topics I would actually understand |
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> what I'm translating ;-) |
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If you think that you can write a nice documentation for something like |
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that, feel free to do so (but coordinate your efforts with us, |
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preferably via the #gentoo-doc IRC channel on freenode). |
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> I'm also capable of creating valid and semantically correct (X)HTML, if that's |
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> of any use. |
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Not so much. We use a custom XML format [1] and a couple of XSLT |
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stylesheets to make our webpage look as nice as it does :) |
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> Ok, so much for that, if you need to know anything else or are just curious, |
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> don't hesitate to ask. :) |
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You might find those links [2] [3] [4] valuable. |
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> I would love if somebody could give me a start, as I have no idea how to |
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> begin ;-) |
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Looking for opened bugreports in our Bugzilla [5] is a good start |
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(search for those assigned to the "docs-team@g.o" e-mail). If you |
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feel like willing to help, just go on, comment on them and provide |
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patches :). |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/doc-tipsntricks.xml |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/doc-policy.xml |
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[4] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/translators-howto.xml |
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[5] http://bugs.gentoo.org/ |
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Cheers, |
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-jkt |
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