Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:37:32 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD User Group Tips Message-ID: <20010618163732.A33060@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <0106151129530X.37769@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:29:53AM %2B0100 References: <20010613120321.A92103@superhero.org> <000901c0f566$845e0f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010615105306.E1744@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <0106151129530X.37769@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:29:53AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > Most definitely -- even a "Here is how I did it, it might not work for you" > document is a great start, because it provides something that can be > incrementally improved. There have never been a shortage of -doc folks willing to DocBookize plain text files. I made this point at BSDCon last year, but it's worth repeating: How to write documentation in 2 steps: 1) Write it so it doesn't suck 2) If it sucks, rewrite so it sucks less The cooperative FreeBSD documentation process make part 2 *very* easy. Given a technical clue, any number of folks are willing to provide, say, grammar. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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