RE: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out

[Brett Meadors]

Hey Matt, I would be glad to help out in some regard or another, possibly with updating documentation. In concerns with portage, they've been wanting me to help get the documents converted from man pages to Doc-book, so if you have any interest with that, I'd be more than glad to coordinate with you on it.



Brett Meadors

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HEHD Technical Support

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-----Original Message-----

From: Matthew Summers; CEO, Liquidus Tech, LLC [mailto:matthew.summers@××××××××××××.com] 

Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:38 PM

To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o

Cc: Brett Meadors

Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Helping Out



Josh Saddler wrote:

> Brett Meadors wrote:
>> I have been reading up and begun helping out with the portage project
>> with their documentation, and I would really like to get involved with
>> the Documentation team as both a active contributor and editor. Please
>> let me know what I can do to help, what projects need some attention,
>> and how I can be of help.
>
> Speaking of Portage . . . one of the things with Portage 2.2, which is
> now in ~arch, is that our Portage Handbook and related documentation in
> gentoo.org/doc/en/ will need to be updated. 2.2, once stable, will give
> everyone capabilities like user-defined sets, new behavior of the world
> and system sets, FEATURES like preserve-rebuild (or whatever they ended
> up calling it), and more.
>
> Though I've heard via third parties that some of the Portage developers
> plan to help out with updating this documentation, we haven't heard from
> them yet. So, if you want to, head on over to the GDP page, at
> http://gdp.gentoo.org. We have resources there on how to write GuideXML.
> Armed with this knowledge, you'd be ready to tackle the updates needed
> for the Portage handbook, which starts here:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2
>
> Lots and lots of stuff to jump into. Or, if you'd rather take a break
> from Portage docs, just jump into bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) and
> search for open Documentation and Docs-user bugs that are assigned
> to/CCed to docs-team@g.o. Just poke at whatever you want to do;
> any and all help is welcome. Happy hunting.
>
Josh,



I was told to talk to you about gentoo related graphics.  I have a hardened badge I made for our main site, that might be cool to include on 

the graphics page, since there are no hardened badges that I have seen.  Here's a direct link. 

http://www.liquidustech.com/media_files/images/powered_by_hardened_gentoo_badge.png



Still could use some more work, but its a good start.





Brett,



My company has two grad students technical writing interns working on Gentoo docs this summer.  I know they would love some additional 

assistance.  Currently we are working on SAN Multipath doc with Joshua Jackson (tsunam), some hardened gentoo docs, bluetooth doc updates, 

autotools doc creation, and himerge (portage gui) docs.  If any of these sound interesting, please contact me.  There is aways room for more 

too.  I would personally like to be a part of updating the portage docs.



Best Regards,



Matthew Summers

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