[kde-doc-english] Interested in contributing to documentation effort

[Philip Rodrigues]

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Hi Troy,
Lauri Watts, our co-ordinator, is away, so I'll make an attempt to reply 
(CC'ing the list, so that someone can correct me if I'm wrong...)

> I am interested in contributing to the KDE Documentation Team.  I use
> Linux/ UNIX and KDE professionally and personally on a daily basis and have
> experience in technical writing.  I have no experience with DocBook; so I
> would need to come up to speed in that regard.

Great, welcome aboard! We can always use more contributors. I guess your first 
port of call should be the docs status page at: 
http://people.fruitsalad.org/people/lauri/docs/ , and see if there's anything 
that's not marked as up to date that takes your fancy. If so, email the list 
to check that no-one's already working on it, to save duplicating effort.

You'll also need to be running a recent development version of KDE - either a 
recent snapshot, CVS HEAD, or (I think) the latest beta. Details on getting 
one of those should be on www.kde.org . 

As to learning DocBook, it's fairly straightforward to pick up, especially if 
you've done something similar before. The KDE DocBook guide is at 
http://i18n.kde.org/doc/markup/index.html , which explains the use in KDE of 
all the DocBook tags we use. The official guide to DocBook ('The Duck Book') 
is at:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
and there's lots more information at http://i18n.kde.org/doc

If you would prefer to get writing rather than learning DocBook, then you can 
write documentation in plain text, and someone can add the markup for you.

Regards,
Philip Rodrigues
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