mentoring and helping out.

[Matthew East]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Doc list mentors and authors:
>
> I subscribed to this list quite a while back and haven't had a chance to
> do anything. I tried my hand at working on the "Deskbar Applet" but that
> proved quite challenging. I haven't given up though and this is my second
>  attempt to give back to the community that's made computing such a
> great experience for me.

Great, good to have you aboard!

> My questions are:
>
> 1. What needs to be done.

A list of the major tasks is at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Tasks - we'll try and keep
this page updated as much as possible. However proof reading and
testing to make sure our instructions work well on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)
is also really helpful. You can proof read the documentation at
http://doc.ubuntu.com

> 2. How one can effectively help.

Submitting bugs where you find an error is the first step. Once you
are familiar with our tools, which are quite simple to learn, you may
want to start sending patches with corrections and extra material.

> 3. How to use the tools (for those of us who are tool-challenged).

A start is to read
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/GettingStarted and the pages
linked there, in particular the Repository and Contribute pages.
Please ask if something isn't clear - it's probably because we need to
improve those pages!

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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