<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 May 2012 19:52, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan.pope@canonical.com" target="_blank">alan.pope@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi all, I'm in a session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit about the Ubuntu Manual <a href="http://ubuntu-manual.org/" target="_blank">http://ubuntu-manual.org/</a> which you may remember was started some time ago with the goal of producing a high quality pdf (and printed) manual for Ubuntu desktop. They are looking for new blood to help author and edit the manual for 12.04 to be released around the time of 12.04.1 (July 19th). However we're trying to figure out why we don't have more contributors and what may be holding people back. So my question to you is:- "If you have considered contributing to Ubuntu Manual, but haven't, what's stopped you?" Some reasons might include:- * Lack of time * Lack of motivation * Lack of skill * Difficult to use tools Or something we're missing. We'd really like to know in case it's something we can fix. If you're interested in contributing, please do let us know, and we can help you get involved. Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%207973%20620%20164" value="+447973620164">+44 (0) 7973 620 164</a> <a href="mailto:alan.pope@canonical.com">alan.pope@canonical.com</a> <a href="http://ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">http://ubuntu.com/</a> </blockquote></div> Hi Alan I'm looking at becoming an Editor now. Looks reasonably straightforward to get going. I tried to get into helping with the OpenOffice.org manual a few years back, but was defeated by the version control system. But then I was on Windows and had to install cygwin, etc to be able to SSH. I assume that there is IRC, mailing list, etc to help out if I get stuck over the technicalities. BTW, there is no particular reason why I have not offered my help before. All of the above reasons apply to some extent, but I think that a lack of invitation/notification of the need for more help is a big factor as well. Tony