New here wanting to help out

[Sivan Green]

Hi George!

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:06 +1100, George Deka wrote:
> Hi All,
> My name is George Dekavalas, i come from Australia. 
> I have never really done any documentation work but i think that it
> would be a good place for me to start to get involved.
> But unfortunatly i will need a little guidance, i will try to make the
> meeting tonight but dont count on it because its midnight here then.

Not a problem. We are going to have a traffic summery of the meeting as
well as the full transcript. If you want to start quick, I suggest to
browse around the new wiki ( http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki ) or the
old one which is now locked now and is not intended to be updated
anymore ( http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org ).

We've recently transited from a MoinMoin wiki to a new one, a ZWiki.
However if you had any experience before with the simple yet powerful
MoinMoin markup text, you can still use it - just make sure you choose
"Save as MoinMoin markup" when modifying content.

If you are a bit familiar with GNOME and it's surroundings (and even if
not, the task might get you familiar with it) there an ongoing work item
which involves the GNOME 2.8.1 user manual. We aim to modify the manual
to suit Ubuntu's modified GNOME layout, some of the special Ubuntu
quirks which are not available under stock GNOME, etc. I don't reckon
much DocBook is needed for this job - it's an already written document.
let me know if you're interested and I will mail back you some details.

Either way, do what best suits you and gives you best fun :)

Cheers!

Sivan