Greetings Ubuntu Manual Folk! I thought I'd properly say hello - I rather worry I'd intruded in the meeting last night without introducing myself (I'm Synergetic on freenode).
My name is Denise - I'm currently a final-year MA Linguistics student from the U.S. studying in Edinburgh, Scotland. I've been using Ubuntu since 2004 and have led a couple install days and helped numerous friends with installs. It's a fantastic operating system but I've not had the opportunity to contribute more than a few bug reports. I've worked a technical writer and really enjoy writing accessible manuals - I heard about the Ubuntu Manual team through a friend of mine who heard of it from one of Jono's podcasts and I thought it would be a fantastic way to get involved and give back to the community. One thing I thought might be improved is the "Become a Writer" link on the Ubuntu Manual page - it rather immediately sends you a page for getting an SSH key installing LaTeX and bazaar and such things - but it should have "Join our Community" first where they might find, perhaps, a friendly list of people contributing and the sub-projects they're working on and a list of things that could be done by people just joining. I just worry that some people might find the list of installation requirements a bit intimidating to be confronted with before even signing up and having an idea of how the community and project is organised. Hopefully I can be of help to the community - I look forward to getting to know you all! Denise _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
