An Introducion

[Charles Davis]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:31 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I just joined the Ubuntu Docs mailing list, so I'd like to introduce
> myself. I make my living as the IT department (yes, I'm the whole
> department) for a small business in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. I
> tend to quickly pick up on how a program is supposed to work, and -
> due to working with 100% non-techies - I'm pretty good at translating
> from computer-speak into user-speak.
> 
> I have been using Ubuntu on the desktop at home since Warty Warthog
> and at work on the desktop and server since Dapper Drake. I am brousch
> on Freenode, and mostly hang out there from 8AM to 5PM EST during the
> work week.
> 
> I've been poking my head into the various teams and projects
> surrounding Ubuntu because I'd like to make a contribution to this
> beloved distro. My coding skills are pretty weak, so writing programs
> and patches are not what I should be doing. Bugs get my blood a
> boilin', but despite the Michigan LoCo's emphasis on extermination,
> triaging doesn't really appeal to me. I was a pretty good writer back
> in college, and even wrote several tech articles for one of the campus
> papers, so maybe the Doc Team is place for me!
> 
> Hey, look, I already found a broken link on http://doc.ubuntu.com/ !
> The link in "Documentation Team Styleguide" points to a non-existent
> page. I'm guessing it should point to
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/StyleGuide .
> 
> I see you have a mentoring program, which sounds very nice. Let me
> know where to begin and I'll see what I can do.
> 
>  - Ben Rousch
> 
> 
> 
Welcome Ben!

There is always work to be done on the docs. If you are interested, the
Ubuntu Forums Beginner Team has been trying to clean up and expand the
community docs (wiki). We'd love to have help on the wiki if you have
the time and inclination.

Regards,
-- 
Chuck
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