New Member - Looking for Guidance on Choosing a Project Involving Original Work - Gwibber Documentation?

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Ken VanDine <ken.vandine at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> We definitely need help with docs, and we recently had a great user
> guide created by the Vancouver Ubuntu Loco.  However, they created it in
> OpenOffice and not mallard.  So we can't embed it nicely in gwibber.
> For now we have a link to a pdf.
>
> I am attaching the document they sent to me, I assume it is the latest
> of the original.  It would be awesome if you could convert it to
> mallard.
>
> The bug report we've been using to track this is at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/689146
>
> One thing to note, we are re-writing the client UI so it will change a
> bit.  However, I think it is worth converting the existing guide to
> mallard for a couple of reasons:
>
>  1) in case we don't finish the new client for 3.2, we are prepared :)
>  2) concepts and such probably won't change, so updating the content
> to
>       reflect the new UI shouldn't be that hard.
>  3) converting it to mallard will make it revision control friendly
> (bzr), so we can
>       track history of the changes and more easily managing updating
> the content
>
> Thanks so much for you interest, and I look forward to the results.  You
> can find us in #gwibber on Freenode if you want to chat.
>
> --Ken
>
>
In opening the file, the content is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada license, whereas the Ubuntu
and Gnome docs are licensed as CC-by-SA 3.0.

I'll send a quick note to the team to see if they would be willing to let
the content be used under a CC-by-SA 3.0 license.  This is the license used
by Ubuntu, Fedora, Gnome, and Wikipedia, so hopefully they will be amendable
to it.

It would certainly make things easier for Ben in getting started with the
docs.

Jim
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