[UbuntuWomen] GlobalJam, who's going?

[Phill Whiteside]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> The main things that came out of discussions with folks at the meeting:
>
> 1. There is still confusion about wiki.ubuntu.com vs
> help.ubuntu.com/community ("and wait, there is doc.ubuntu.com too?").
> Not sure that the docs team can do anything about this, but the
> confusion does exist.
>
> 2. While contributing to things like IRC and forums is easy - indeed,
> some people even write tutorials in these mediums (-classroom
> sessions, forum threads with how-tos and guides) - it was expressed
> that the path to contributing to the docs team, or even to
> h.u.c/community, was unclear and "seems difficult." So there is a
> tendency to look around for a bit and then just go the "easy" route of
> posting documentation on their blog or in a forum. I'd be happy to
> discuss this more with the docs team and offer some "outside
> perspective" if it's deemed worthwhile.
>


Hiyas,

as a n00b at this, I've now gotten completely confused over what programmes
i need to view / edit etc.

e.g. Is yelp(v.2) going to replaced by yelp(v.3); Do i need it ?

One common theme I read is that the information is scattered quite far and
wide, that it is there I do not doubt it is just finding it !!

Would it be possible for a doc to be made a 'one stop shop' of what is
recommended, I understand that I can use BlueFish as an editor which is nice
as I use it for programming. The multitude of differing systems is
bewildering. I was fortunate to have one of the doc team help me set up my
php key, and I thought signing the CoC agreement to be Ubunuteer was hard !!

If I'm going to be using XML (which think I must do?), there is a problem
that if I look at wiki pages, they use a completely different format and
forums mainly use bbcode. I am okay with bbcode as I have a phpbb forum, so
writing to the ubuntu forum is a case of copy & paste. Community wiki coding
is just head banging different to anything I have used, is it xml ?

I learned most of my xhtml strict coding at w3schools, is their tutorial for
xml http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

 using the correct system for 'official pages' ?

"One of the problems with standards, is any one can make them". I know
things are real busy and possibily now is not a good time to be asking, but
whenever someone has chance to catch their breath I'd really like to learn,
just not even sure what I should be learning.

Regards,

Phill,

apologies for earlier sending this with my other email address, I've not yet
fully gotten phillw.net back after an ... erm.. glitch.. with my email
provider (I'll save their blushes).
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