I’ve been considering for a long time to make some kind of contribution back to Open Source Software. Considering my programming skills to be anything but proficient and my artistic talent horrible I didn’t know what I could possibly do. Well that was until my friend Mehul Ved on IRC told me to look further into Documentation. I was thinking of probably contributing to Ubuntu but then again I didn’t want it to be available on one distro only. After reading a couple of my RSS feeds I finally found this blog post.
As you can see that requirements are quite easy.
Can you read and write English?
Can you write technical documentation using DocBook/XML?
Do you have KDE 4.1 running on one of your machines? (either a recent alpha release or a trunk checkout will do…it would be nice if you were running a 4.1 or trunk release)
Well even thats not necessary. You don’t have to worry about the Docbook part as everyone in the channel seems to be more than willing to convert it into the correct format if you type up the content. Further more than is plenty of content to guide folks through the process. I’m posting the links to those threads just in case anyone is interested in contributing out as well .
Further I recommend joining the #kde-docs channel on Freenode and subscribing to the mail list which you can access here. This should be more than enough information for anyone to start out if they are interested.
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Nice! Lemme see if I could be of any help.. :p
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@Amitava : Cool thanks ! Now don’t forget to install KDE4 :D.
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Amitava reply on June 5, 2008 7:00 am:
If u want to reply, just click ‘Reply’ button, your reply will be posted. Just like this one.. :p
Install KDE 4… Checked
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Nice…
I am contributing myself (by converting my friends and fans (lol) into OSS users.
I am more into designing GUIs enhancements (like what infra_red_dude did) and graphics..thats the only part m good in….
So u started Documenting allready? May the force be with you…
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The Void reply on June 8, 2008 2:21 am:
@Quiz_Master : Nice
. You should check with infra-red_dude then I’m sure he could use an additional hand !
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Nice work dude…. contributing KDE
well i kinda on a move to contribute it via not documentation but by getting free my tail frm M$haft and get stuck to F9 with KDE 4.1
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The Void reply on June 12, 2008 12:58 pm:
@Voldy: That itself is a good contribution
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