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

[Ken VanDine]

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

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:06 -0700, Benjamin Abel wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for the information. I will surely take a look at
> Mallard to familiarize myself.
> 
> 
> Ken, as soon as you can get me information on what needs work, I'll
> get rolling on it.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com>
> To: Benjamin Abel <bendabel at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>;
> ken.vandine at ubuntu.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2011 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: New Member - Looking for Guidance on Choosing a Project
> Involving Original Work - Gwibber Documentation?
> 
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Benjamin Abel <bendabel at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>         After looking into this further, I wonder if I may attempt to
>         provide some documentation for Gwibber. Please let me know if
>         this would be acceptable. If so, please provide guidance on
>         next steps to undertake this project.
>         
>         
>         Thanks,
>         Ben
>         
>         
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>         
> 
> Thanks for your interest in contributing to Ubuntu docs. 
> 
> Gwibber is a great little program, and I think it would be a great
> place to get started with writing documentation for Ubuntu and Gnome.
> I'm not sure of the state of Gwibber documentation, so I'm copying the
> Gwibber maintainer on this message.  
> 
> Ken, could you let Ben know if you need any documentation help with
> Gwibber? 
> 
> Ben, any new documentation for Gnome applications is being done with
> the Mallard syntax. You may want to peruse some of the information on
> the Mallard website: http://projectmallard.org.
> 
> Let us know if you have any questions, or if we can be of any
> assistance,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 

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