[lug] Advice Wanted: How to Locate OS projects in need of documentation help

[Jason Davis]

Why write docs for a distro. Write docs for software pkgs. Then all distros
can use them.

$.02
jd

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Aaron Nichols <anichols at trumped.org> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>   You could hit a wider distribution on any of the primary OS mailing
> lists. For example, FreeBSD has a general users at freebsd.org type
> mailing list for general discussion, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc I'm sure all
> have something similar. Most of the project owners would likely be
> lurking on those lists in addition to any more specific lists - and if
> not there are likely moderators or project participants who are
> watching those more general lists.
>
> List of FreeBSD lists (I mention them because they can *always* use help):
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
>
> Ubuntu Documentation Team:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam
>
> Fedora Documentation Team (Content Writer):
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join#ContentWriter
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Brian Clark <BClarkInCO at juno.com> wrote:
> > I'm interested in doing some tech writing in order to start a small
> > portfolio I can use in seeking other writing work.  Can anyone suggest a
> way
> > to locate OS projects in need of such help, other than approaching
> project
> > sites individually and at random and inquiring?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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