| datawiz | Hi GunnarHj looking to get to know you all. Wanted to participate/contribute to ubuntu documentation in any way I can | 19:23 |
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| datawiz | I am the guy you just declined :) Robert Wainscott | 19:24 |
| GunnarHj | datawiz: Ah, ok. ;) Yeah, that was because your LP account is brand new. | 19:27 |
| datawiz | sorry been inactive for a bit | 19:28 |
| datawiz | GunnarHj: Happy to learn contribute however I can | 19:29 |
| GunnarHj | datawiz: Great that you want to help out with docs. Can you give me some hints on your background, technical skill, and which kind of documentation you have in mind? | 19:30 |
| datawiz | I write well, I can't code :) Been messing with Ubuntu since the 4.## days | 19:31 |
| datawiz | Desktop primarily, not so great on the server side | 19:31 |
| datawiz | when I started we didn't have USB thumb drives (Fedora was 6 CDs) LMAO | 19:33 |
| datawiz | not sure on specific documentation topics available | 19:33 |
| GunnarHj | datawiz: Then you've been around with Ubuntu much longer than me. :) I started with 10.04. | 19:34 |
| datawiz | I am a hobbyist for sure, but not a pro by any stretch, I can spot typos and bad grammar from a mile away though | 19:34 |
| datawiz | GunnarHj: I couldn't pass a sysadmin test on a bet, but I can get around the system from CLI | 19:36 |
| GunnarHj | datawiz: As regards desktop docs, we have the official Ubuntu Desktop Guide. It always needs some love. It's based on GNOME Help and with some Ubuntu pages as a supplement. The source is XML based, and is available in git repos. So to contribute directly you need to learn the git basics if you haven't already. | 19:46 |
| GunnarHj | Then there is the Community Help Wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommunityHelpWiki). It's a huge collection of user contributions, and I'm sure there are a lot of desktop related pages which need to be improved. You'll need to become a member of https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors to be able to edit the wiki. | 19:46 |
| datawiz | OK, thank you...I will go check it out | 19:59 |
| GunnarHj | datawiz: One way to get started with the desktop guide would be to move some of the open bugs forward. It's the bugs of the gnome-user-docs and ubuntu-docs packages. If you find a bug where you feel you know how it could be addressed, submitting a merge request would be a suitable goal. If you haven't worked with git previously, submitting your first merge request is a challenge... But the time it would take would be an | 20:00 |
| GunnarHj | investment to be able to contribute more easily later on. | 20:00 |
| datawiz | OK, thanks! | 20:02 |
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