[kde-doc-english] How can I help?

[Philip Rodrigues]

Hi Robert,

> Is there some application's documentation to which I can usefully
> contribute? I've been using KDE for 5 years and would like to give
> something back, over and above the odd bug report I already make to the
> developers.

I guess you saw my message to Javier on the list; if not, I've appended it 
below - if any of those suggestions pique your interest, please get in touch 
and we can work out the best way to get started.

> PS:
> In the following web page, the last-but-one bullet point
> contains "signifigant" and "signifigance". The correct spellings
> are "significant" and "significance".

And on the same page that says "always spellcheck your work" - ouch! I've 
fixed the source in SVN, and the updated version should show up on the 
website shortly. Since you obviously have an eye for detail, you might be 
interested in doing proofreading of existing documentation - if you're 
interested, I can get some of the existing proofreaders to get in touch with 
you.

Regards,
Philip

Text of previously sent message:

 Is there a particular KDE app that you use a lot? That would be a 
good place to start. If you can think of any particular app you'd like to 
work on, we can look over the existing documentation and find out what needs 
to be done. If there's no particular app that fits in that category, it's no 
problem :-). Here are some ideas:

KOffice is seeing lots of developments, so if you're interested in office 
applications, that might be interesting.

We have some gaps in the KDE User Guide, which aims to be an overview of KDE - 
you can see it online at
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/userguide/
or on your own system at
help:/khelpcenter/userguide .
If you see an unwritten section there which you'd like to write, tell me and 
we can work out how to get started.

One more thing is the new features in KDE 3.5.x. As you might know, the 3.5 
branch, which would usually be closed to new features, has some new features 
in it, and some of these will need documentation. I plan to try to make a 
list of these features so we can see what needs to be done, but if you're 
interested in this, just tell me and we can work something out.

Do any of those pique your interest? If not, don't worry, there are lots of 
other ways to get involved in improving the KDE documentation, so please do 
tell me.

If anything isn't clear, or if you have any other questions, please don't 
hesitate to ask.
-- 
KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc
KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org
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