I Need a Mentor

[Phil Bull]

Hi Keenan,

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:44 -0500, Keenan Windel wrote:
> Hi there. I've been a Ubuntu user for about six months, and I have a
> strong desire to give back to the community and to help in any way that
> I can. I have a degree in English, and it seems that I could put my
> skills to work in writing documentation for newcomers to Ubuntu. I would
> greatly appreciate the assistance of list members in getting started. I
> specifically need to know what areas of documentation are incomplete and
> how I can go about submitting the documentation I create in the correct
> file and style formats, where to upload, etc.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your help.

That's great, welcome aboard!

This morning, my grandad used a computer for the first time. I spent
half an hour teaching him how to use a mouse and keyboard, showing him
how to click things, close things, drag objects and so on. I can't be
there all of the time to help him, though, so I thought about buying him
a book which covers the most basic concepts of computer use.

Unfortunately, it seems that all of these books only cover Windows,
which is no good to my grandad (he's using Ubuntu, of course). The
Ubuntu books on the market which I know of are pitched at more
experienced users too.

Would you be interested in helping to write an 'Ubuntu for Absolute
Beginners' guide? This would require considerable discussion and
planning, and we'd only go ahead with it if other people in the Doc Team
thought it was worthwhile. However, I think that it could be a valuable
addition to the user documentation if we made a good job of it, and
would have some benefit in allowing first-time computer users to start
with Ubuntu instead of Windows.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Phil

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Phil Bull
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