Kubuntu Documentation Mentorship

[Sean Wheller]

On Saturday 20 August 2005 15:56, Ken Kasina wrote:
> my name is Ken Kasina, from Kenya, African - we met some time back on
> #kubuntu-devel. I'm interested in joining the Kubuntu team and wish to
> start of with documentation work. Its the first time that I'm getting
> involved in an online community project. I was previously using Debian but
> once a friend introduced me to Ubuntu. I have never turned back. I'm more
> of a KDE person hence my great interest in Kubuntu. I wish to request that
> you assist me as I begin my  contribution and point me towards the right
> direction.

Hello Ken,

Good to hear from you. Involvement in the community is easy, especially for 
documentation.

First your want to get yourself a copy of the sources. These can be found in 
Subversion at https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk

Subversion is a revision control system. It can be installed by doing 
sudo apt-get install subversion
When that is installed, we need to install the docbook components

sudo apt-get install docbook
sudo apt-get install docbook-xsl
sudo apt-get install xsltproc

That's the basics.

Let's get the src.

make your home dir the present working directory then issue this command:
svn co https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk ubuntu-docs

This will copy the most current release of the XML src and images to your 
local hard disk and create a directory called ubuntu-docs/ in your home dir.

Once the checkout is over you can make changes to the XML using any XML Editor 
(structured editor).

Next read 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamStepByStepRepository

Now choose a project

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamProjects

More information available here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam

Join the docteam mailing list and irc channel.

If you have any mor questions, just let me know.

Enjoy,

-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
084-854-9408
http://www.inwords.co.za
Registered Linux User #375355
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