From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Dec 18 07:41:42 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA11684 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:41:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA11679 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA04753; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:41:28 -0800 (PST) To: Jay Kuri cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Volunteering to help with the Documentation project. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:54:03 CST." Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:41:28 -0800 Message-ID: <4749.850923688@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've been a user of FreeBSD since 2.0.5 was released. Since then > I have become pretty familiar with the system. I've set up numerous > machines on 2.1, 2.1.5, and now 2.1.6 both at work and at home. I've > also set up many packages, ports, and system programs (such as user-level > ppp, etc.) > I would like to volunteer for the documentation project. I've > done technical writing before, and would really like to help make > documentation specific to freebsd more readily available. I want to give Excellent! I'm sorry that no one has gotten back to you by now - I was actually sort of expecting one of the members of our newly formed docs team to jump up and throw a bunch of stuff at you, but evidently the holidays and a new team have combined to get you dropped in between the cracks. :-( > Installation > .. > System configuration > .. > Network configuration > .. What can I say, this *all* looks good! :-) We'd welcome contributions in any of these categories. I think the first step for you would be to get ahold of the /usr/src/share/doc hierarchy, if you don't have it already, as well as the www collection so that you can look at what currently goes into making up http://www.freebsd.org and what is most clearly missing. A good way of syncing up with this stuff is to use cvsup (ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup) - it's fairly easy to set up, and one of us can help you if you get stuck. Once you've done that, how about perhaps turning your existing ppp document into a tutorial? Jordan