Grammar

[Rocco Stanzione]

I found this list from a comment to a thread I started on ubuntu-devel 
suggesting a wiki-like interface to simplify doc editing.  I didn't realize 
this team existed or that there was an svn repository, which certainly makes 
editing easier than apt-get source, grep, edit, diff, email.

I hope this post can serve as something like an application to the team.  I've 
got technical writing experience in the aviation and IT industries.  I've 
written what I think is pretty good documentation for my own project, 
ipkungfu.  I've made trivial (spelling and grammar) changes and nontrivial 
changes to a number of wiki pages.  I've submitted documentation fixes 
upstream, most recently to cdrtools.  My biggest contribution, though, will 
be proofreading, a habit of mine that borders on a psychosis.  Spelling and 
grammar errors stick out like sore, rotting, oozing thumbs to me, and it's a 
pleasure to stamp them out.

Much of my present professional work involves document parsing and conversion, 
so I'm familiar with most documentation formats, including chm, sxw xml, 
postscript, pdf, Framemaker, MS Word, docbook and of course html.  My 
personal goal is to contribute to the overall polish of open source software 
by helping to produce more professional documentation.  Possibly it's just my 
quirky sensitivity to its flaws, but it's been my experience that most 
existing open source documentation compares unfavorably to most commercial 
documentation.  Maybe that's to be expected since it's being produced by 
volunteers, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Well, my application to the team is awaiting approval.  If anybody wants to 
push that button for me, I can't wait to apply my sickness to whatever 
documents need attention or are missing.  Meanwhile I'll be prowling the 
streets in black, sans pearls, wielding my trusty paint can and 
apostrophe-shaped stencil.

https://launchpad.net/people/trappist

Thanks,

Rocco Stanzione