From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Nov 18 10:57:35 2002 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 4A4E237B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DD943E42 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:57:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from lonesome.lonesome.com (cs2876-77.austin.rr.com [24.28.76.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22D1140B4; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:57:31 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Linimon Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: encouraging documentation writing (was: Recently added Jakarta Commons ports) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:58:40 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021118160854.X43606-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> In-Reply-To: <20021118160854.X43606-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211181258.40207.linimon@lonesome.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In a post in freebsd-java, in reply to a post asking for volunteers to write documentation, Herve Quiroz (herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr) wrote: > English is not my first language so I will not pretend to be able > to handle such a task. Might I suggest a policy to encourage non-native speakers to write documentation under the tutelage of a native speaker? IMHO it's much easier to find people to edit documentation than it is to find people to create documentation in the first place. Yes, I suppose I would have to be the first to volunteer for such a task :-) Mark Linimon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message