<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/29/2012 06:56 AM, Rich Dennis wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:503DF557.6050208@shorelancs.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/29/2012 01:37 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:503DAAA9.5040205@shimmerproject.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/29/2012 01:35 AM, Rich Dennis wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:503D47B3.2070305@shorelancs.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Went on #xubuntu-devel this morning. Don't think that I have what it takes to do Docbook rewrites, but if you need any writers or grammar editors, I would very much like to contribute. Thanks. rd - amerigena <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> Help with writing and that stuff is welcome too! See the first part of my last mail [1] for a quick introduction to the current situation and you are ready to start working. Cheers, Pasi [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-August/008392.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-August/008392.html</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open.knome.fi/">http://open.knome.fi/</a> Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shimmerproject.org/">http://shimmerproject.org/</a> Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a></pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> Thank you. Got started last night on the Network -> Troubleshooting section of the wiki. Didn't make too many changes - thought that I'd start slow and make sure that they're acceptable. Thanks for getting back to me. amerigena <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> Rich, Thanks for joining the effort. You picked a good place to start! :-) I just want to give you and others a heads up about that section and two others under Section 5: Connecting and Home Networks. Those sections in the 11.10 offline documentation had a lot of embedded links and other special stuff that the wiki did not like. When I tried copying them to the wiki, I kept getting "unhandled exception" errors. It took so long to find the offending parts of the documents that I gave up and copied them over as plain text. That means those three sections are going to require a lot more work than all the others. First, they need to be completely reformatted; and second, they are long and have a lot of specific instructions that will need to be checked to see if they are still accurate or relevant in Quantal. Those sections need so much work that I'm afraid they might hold the whole project up. If anyone else knows a better way of attacking them, even starting from scratch or figuring out how to copy the formatted text over again without errors, feel free. I gather that the goal of this rewrite is to streamline and simplify the old documentation. My approach (I signed up as a Writer and Grammar Checker, not a Technical Editor) has been to copy over the old documents, check them for accuracy against the Quantal changes, reword and reformat as necessary and then leave it up to the Technical Editors and project leads to decide what they want to rearrange and/or strip out. That's why I see those sections taking so much work. Somebody else might want to take a different approach. Regards, Jack </body> </html>