Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:05:13 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Rich Fox <rich@f2sys.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Helping... Message-ID: <20020404060513.GW29594@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204031928320.337-100000@iwishihadaname.crosslink.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204031928320.337-100000@iwishihadaname.crosslink.net>
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Hi Rich, We could use lots of help. At the moment, our problem report database has swelled uncomfortably large in the area of documentation updates. You can view these PRs from bugs.freebsd.org (click on "search problem reports" then search for reports assigned to "freebsd-doc". You will see many problem reports in the area of man pages or corrections to the DocBook SGML sources of our documentation. If you have the time and patience, it would be most helpful if you could learn to use some of the SGML tools we use in the FreeBSD Documentation Project. A primer is available here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ If you don't have time to learn our tools, then we could still use help with content. Many of the PRs say things like "The Handbook doesn't docuemnt FOO". If you can submit material on FOO in ASCII or HTML format, then someone here would be happy to markup your contribution into SGML suitable for the Handbook. If you have any questions after reading the Doc Primer and looking through the PR database, please post them here. Thanks, - Murray On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:47:10PM -0500, Rich Fox wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if you can use my assistance for documentation. > I am a hobby-level FreeBSD user, but I have been working with it since 2.3 > release. I have reasonably good writing skills and would like to > contribute to the project in some way. I am not really sure what > information you would like from me but I can provide you with some samples > of my writing... > > Some basic PHP documentation for the uber-newbie: > http://www.f2sys.net/rich/docs/ > (Some documentation that I wrote for a couple of friends who were > interested in programming with PHP.) > > Some elementary information on NFS and MacOS X > http://www.f2sys.net/rich/osx/osxnfs.html > (This document was originally authored by someone else. I attempted to > clean up some of the concepts and added other portions. Ironically my > OSX/NFS setup doesn't work at the moment so I am troubleshooting it and > may add or edit this document.) > > I have also wrote and published a small magazine (or 'zine) for BMX which > is not available online however I will happily supply a PDF copy on > request. (I wrote the *entire* magazine. It was actually quite popular but > I did not receive adequate interest from advertisers to continue > publishing.) > > Please let me know if I can help or if you need any other > information/samples from me. > > Thank you, > Rich. > > | rich fox / F2 > | rich@f2sys.net > | www.f2sys.net > | 5927 Ridge View Drive > | Alexandria, VA 22310-2074 > | t:703.528.9616 > | f:703.528.0599 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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