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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