I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this? -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear@sirius.com rrea@askjeeves.com www.sirius.com/~rear -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
I suppose you could volunteer for the linux documentation project. Check out http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/index.html for more information Cheers, GC -- Gregory Conron gconron@hfx.andara.com - email (902) 443-4562 - voicemail -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
You can head over to the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.linuxdoc.org or the Open Source Writer's Guild. Both of those may be good places to start. Jim Ray
-- Bob Rea
Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg
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Hi. At 2:14 on 28 Dec 99, Jim Ray begun to yabber about "Re: [SLE] Volunteer?" Date sent: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 02:14:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Ray <jray@tsi.gte.com> To: Bob <rear@sirius.com> Copies to: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Volunteer?
You can head over to the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.linuxdoc.org or the Open Source Writer's Guild.
What is a URL where i could find out more info about this "Guild"? I could not find anything obvious that linked to it from http://www.linuxdoc.com Cya Matthew Matthew King: Sys Admin, Quakers Hill High School. My ICQ#: 2342475 Message me! Cellular Phone: +61 415 257 516 E-Mail: noodle@penguinpowered.com Homepage: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~noodle/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d+ s: a--- C++++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E---- W++ N++ o++ K w O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5++++ X++ R+ tv++ b+++ DI+++++ D++ G+++ e* h* r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
-- Bob Rea
Good idea, Bob! I've thought about downloading the latest SuSE documentation, translating the German still in it, correcting the english, and sending it back to SuSE. How about it, SuSE? JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry L Kreps <JerryKreps@alltel.net> To: <rear@sirius.com> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Volunteer?
Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
-- Bob Rea
Good idea, Bob! I've thought about downloading the latest SuSE documentation, translating the German still in it, correcting the english, and sending it back to SuSE. How about it, SuSE? JLK
Would it be easier to run all the documents though something like babblefish and then correcting all the mistakes the translater made? In SuSE 6.3 all the documents are in German, is this a bug or did they forget the translate them before release? If you need any help, I would be willing to pitch in 5-15 hours a week for the effort. Jack
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Jack Barnett wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry L Kreps <JerryKreps@alltel.net> To: <rear@sirius.com> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Volunteer?
Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
-- Bob Rea
Good idea, Bob! I've thought about downloading the latest SuSE documentation, translating the German still in it, correcting the english, and sending it back to SuSE. How about it, SuSE? JLK
Would it be easier to run all the documents though something like babblefish and then correcting all the mistakes the translater made?
In SuSE 6.3 all the documents are in German, is this a bug or did they forget the translate them before release?
If you need any help, I would be willing to pitch in 5-15 hours a week for the effort.
Jack
Using babblefish was amoung my plans. I use babblefish quite a bit when I encounter non-english email, newsgroup or web page stuff, but babblefish can sometimes create a confusing mess that only non-artificial intelligence can make sense of! ;-) And sometimes, when it transliterates, nothing helps. JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Jack Barnett wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry L Kreps <JerryKreps@alltel.net> To: <rear@sirius.com> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Volunteer?
Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
-- Bob Rea
Good idea, Bob! I've thought about downloading the latest SuSE documentation, translating the German still in it, correcting the english, and sending it back to SuSE. How about it, SuSE? JLK
Would it be easier to run all the documents though something like babblefish and then correcting all the mistakes the translater made?
In SuSE 6.3 all the documents are in German, is this a bug or did they forget the translate them before release?
If you need any help, I would be willing to pitch in 5-15 hours a week for the effort.
Jack
Jack, What I really had in mind was to take the published manual and submit corrections to this email list, giving page number, text as published and corrected text, on a page by page basis. That way it could become a suse-list activity and SuSE could harvest the corrections from the list. JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
If you need any help, I would be willing to pitch in 5-15 hours a week for the effort.
..and where can I upload my Dutch contributions? I would be happy to. (There are still some...uh....issues) Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Koos Pol wrote:
If you need any help, I would be willing to pitch in 5-15 hours a week for the effort.
..and where can I upload my Dutch contributions? I would be happy to. (There are still some...uh....issues)
Koos Pol
Koos, Are you saying the Dutch grammer isn't any good either? JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Jerry L Kreps wrote:
Koos, Are you saying the Dutch grammer isn't any good either? JLK
Things could use a brush-up here and there. But all in all, it is quit acceptable. Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Koos and I could work together; we're both Dutch, and I think we could form more 'workgroups' (sorry!) so we can help eachother make the best manual available! Rogier Koos Pol wrote:
Jerry L Kreps wrote:
Koos, Are you saying the Dutch grammer isn't any good either? JLK
Things could use a brush-up here and there. But all in all, it is quit acceptable.
Koos Pol
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Hi, orry for the late reply on that subject. I am still trying to catch up :) You guys write too much for me :) On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Koos Pol wrote:
If you need any help, I would be willing to pitch in 5-15 hours a week for the effort.
..and where can I upload my Dutch contributions? I would be happy to. (There are still some...uh....issues)
Please send your corrections and suggestions to feedback@suse.de, we will forward it to the respective maintainer. Thanks in advance for your help! Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
If you would like to contribute to the GNU project, visit this site: http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/help/help.html There is information there on how to help with the documentation. -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Bob wrote:
I love the Open Source movement and would like to be a contributor. I don't program, but I can write clear prose. Is there a way of contributing to documentation? I could improve the English of something? How could I do this?
http://www.linuxdoc.org :) -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
participants (11)
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gconron＠hfx.andara.com -
grimmer＠suse.de -
icarus＠guldennet.nl -
jbarnett＠axil.netmate.com -
JerryKreps＠alltel.net -
jpennington＠atipa.com -
jray＠tsi.gte.com -
koos.pol＠nl.compuware.com -
noodle＠penguinpowered.com -
raffo＠neuronet.pitt.edu -
rear＠sirius.com