[19:23] <datawiz> Hi GunnarHj looking to get to know you all.  Wanted to participate/contribute to ubuntu documentation in any way I can
[19:24] <datawiz> I am the guy you just declined :) Robert Wainscott
[19:27] <GunnarHj> datawiz: Ah, ok. ;) Yeah, that was because your LP account is brand new.
[19:28] <datawiz> sorry been inactive for a bit
[19:29] <datawiz> GunnarHj: Happy to learn contribute however I can
[19:30] <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?
[19:31] <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
[19:33] <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
[19:34] <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
[19:36] <datawiz> GunnarHj: I couldn't pass a sysadmin test on a bet, but I can get around the system from CLI
[19:46] <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.
[19:59] <datawiz> OK, thank you...I will go check it out
[20:00] <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.
[20:02] <datawiz> OK, thanks!