Bored Student Looking for Fun

[Corey Burger]

On 6/2/05, Carthik Sharma <mail at carthik.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am Carthik, a Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida. I have
> been an Ubuntu user since January this year. I thought it best to introduce
> myself here, after lurking at #ubuntu-doc for a few (silent) hours.
> 
> I have some experience working with wikis (mediawiki/phpwiki) and I have
> edited the Ubuntu wiki occassionally, and I would like to get involved, but
> not so much with wikis, though. As for programming, I prefer C and PHP, but I
> prefer not to code for fun, since I get lots of that at work/school already.
> I contribute to the WordPress project (http://wordpress.org), so I suppose
> one could say WordPress was my "gateway drug" :-P
> 
> I thought it'd be nice if I could contribute to Ubuntu's doc team.
> 
> I hope to learn how creating documentation with docbook works, and, in the
> process, to contribute to Ubuntu's documentation.
> 
> It would be great if someone could assign me a task or two, and get me booted
> up. I have been to the wiki pages, and all the tasks listed there, and the
> suggestion seem to merit equal importance. A traditional case of the "where
> do I start" problem, I suppose :) So what is the most useful/productive thing
> I could do, in the following few days/weeks? If there is nothing specific,
> then no sweat, I guess I will start somewhere, eventually.
> 
> So long,
> Carthik

Geez, I am surprised that got past the spam filters. Anyway, nobody
appeared to respond to you.

Come to the meeting on the 16th and we can dish out ideas and plans then.

Corey