Hi, "Lessons for Lizards" is a new way to learn about openSUSE. It is a documentation project for and by the community (licensed under GFDL) that will be released on an equal footing with the internally produced documentation. Lessons are written in a cook book style and cover more specific or exotic topics than the traditional manuals. For example: * Experimental or nonstandard software * Third party software * Third party drivers * Unusual hardware * Complex setups (such as configuration of a home network server) The Project So Far ------------------------------- We've set up a project on Novell Forge (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lessons_for_Lizards) with lots of information and a basic functional document. Our software package installs the necessary build environment (including scripts and style sheets). The basic SVN structure is set up and we've gotten started with some documents. If you want to learn to use it all, take a look at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lfl/Lessons_for_Lizards_Quickstar... The Future ------------------------------- Our guide has barely cracked out of its egg. We know it needs: * Content--it's very hungry * Testing and more documentation for the LfL quick start guide (we're already working on this) * Better support for FOP configuration (the program that turns DocBook into PDFs); our gurus are hard at work here * You Yes, the documentation team needs YOU! (No, we don't mean the online update tool) If you have a special topic to document, want to work on the guts of the DocBook stylesheets or FOP build environment, have dreams of becoming an editor, or just want to help out by testing what's been written, this project is for you. We have XML gurus and experienced writers and editors at the ready to help you make this the manual of your dreams. What do you want in an openSUSE manual? Join <opensuse-doc@opensuse.org> and let us know. Contribute as you can to help make it happen. We wanted to get this announced before Christmas so everyone can take some time over the holidays to think about what they want and what they can do. The team members here at SUSE all have a new year's resolution of working with the community to make this happen. When we are back in January (around the 8th for most of us, although we do have some members around between the holidays, too), we hope to see lots of new faces and new ideas on the mailing list. The future of "Lessons for Lizards" is in your hands. Have a lot of fun! The SUSE Documentation Team -- Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX GmbH >o) Documentation Specialist Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ 90409 Nuernberg _\_v http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team