[kde-doc-english] Hello. I'm new here.

[Francis Giannaros]

Hi Jonathan, :)

It's truly encouraging to hear your willingness to help out, and the 
documentation team will readily accept any contributions that you would be 
willing to offer. Really nice to see people putting efforts in to give back 
to the community =). A bit of preamble:

KDE uses Docbook for its documentation, but you by no means have to know it 
(and indeed, it is recommended that you don't use it at all at first); what 
is in dire need in the world of documentation is the content. A lot is 
missing and/or needed. :)

It is entirely up to you how much time you put in, and even a few hours a week 
is really great news. 

The doc websites are currently going through an update and hence in a state of 
transition, but here are a few useful links:
http://docs.kde.org/ -- you should be able to easily access any KDE 
handbooks/docs from there, including any ones in extragear.
http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ -- current home.

Ok, now to possible/available places for you to contribute. :)

If you check here ( http://tinyurl.com/ch3qo ) you will get a list of the 
bugs, for the documentation team, that are considered ideal or particularly 
suited for new contributors; ones to easily get you right at it. You should 
feel free to choose any of those; could be a good idea to go for any of the 
ones in the userguide there, or you might choose to do one for any of the 
applications as described there.

Take a look through the doc you're planning to work on, and/or at the 
application that you plan on writing about, and then you can just send the 
mailing list a text file, with the changes proposed.

If you have any questions at all, you shouldn't hesitate in the slightest 
(really) to fire away and ask them here (or, you can catch us in IRC; join us 
in #kde-docs under Freenode). I'm pretty new to documentation myself, but, as 
you will find, there are several very knowledgable (and extremely helpful) 
persons on the doc team. 

Once again, welcome aboard, :)
Kind thoughts,
Francis Giannaros.