<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000099"> Phil, Sorry for the late response. My hard drive crashed and on top of everything else, I'm in the middle of trying to get a book ready for publishing in October. My PC's rebuilt (loving Lucid), the manuscript has been sent and I'm ready to get back into it. Your plan looks fine, but I'm not sure what the timeline is. Why do we have plenty of time? What's the difference between doc team and manual team? There seems to be a lot of crossover. I'll get onto taking some notes. MAG On 27/04/10 05:30, Phil Bull wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1272310245.6845.31.camel@panther" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi guys, Thanks for volunteering! I think the best way to proceed would be to do some prep work first; this would consist of reading existing materials, like the relevant sections of the Ubuntu manual [1] and the wiki [2]. You don't have to read everything thoroughly, but I would recommend making notes of anything interesting/insightful that you find. This exercise will get you familiar with the current state of documentation in this area and the sort of questions people are asking. Browsing the forums for installation-related threads would also be useful. It would also be a good idea to do a little background reading into technical writing, especially if you haven't done this sort of thing before. There are some useful tips here [3]. We can be quite relaxed with this, since we have plenty of time. After the prep work, we would need to get started on planning the document, which I think we should do during an IRC meeting. Also, I think it might be a good idea to have a doc team person and a manual team person to help you out, provide guidance, etc. I'm happy to be the doc team person, but I'll be extremely busy until early June. Let me know what you think of the "plan" above. Thanks again, Phil [1] - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual</a> [2] - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation</a> [3] - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gryphonmountain.net/2010/03/a-short-style-guide-for-direct-concise-technical-writing-2/">http://www.gryphonmountain.net/2010/03/a-short-style-guide-for-direct-concise-technical-writing-2/</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>