From thatnewyorker at gmail.com Fri Oct 19 15:29:10 2018 From: thatnewyorker at gmail.com (Gerard Cruzado) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:29:10 -0400 Subject: [FM Discuss] Getting Started Message-ID: Greetings Everyone, My name is Gerard and I'm an aspiring technical writer with a BA in journalism. I've been using FLOSS personally for about ten years and I'm curious about how I can get started on using my abilities to give back to the community. If anyone can point me towards any existing or upcoming projects which may be in need of my writing and editing skills, that would be excellent. Much appreciated, Gerard Cruzado -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mick at flossmanuals.net Mon Oct 22 11:37:51 2018 From: mick at flossmanuals.net (mick at flossmanuals.net) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:37:51 +0100 Subject: [FM Discuss] Getting Started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Gerard, I'm working on a book at the moment and within 1 week or so I should have completed draft 2 of it. At that point it would be great to get some help with some proof reading and feedback on sections that are not reading clearly. I'll post back to the list when that's ready. It's here. http://write.flossmanuals.net/learn-javascript-with-phaser There are really quite a lot of manuals which are quite out of date but which with a bit of love could be very useful again. So please do feel free to do your own personal audit of the ones at http://flossmanuals.net and let us know if one jumps out that you think could do with updating. Many Thanks Mick On 19/10/2018 23:29, Gerard Cruzado wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > > My name is Gerard and I'm an aspiring technical writer with a BA in > journalism. I've been using FLOSS personally for about ten years and > I'm curious about how I can get started on using my abilities to give > back to the community. If anyone can point me towards any existing or > upcoming projects which may be in need of my writing and editing > skills, that would be excellent. > > Much appreciated,? > Gerard Cruzado > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net - you can unsubscribe here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andyo at oreilly.com Mon Oct 22 12:48:34 2018 From: andyo at oreilly.com (Andy Oram) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:48:34 -0400 Subject: [FM Discuss] Getting Started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great to see you on the list, Gerard. You probably have the technical and writing skills to do some good work on Introduction to the Command Line. You can find it on the FLOSS Manuals site, and the FSF promotes it: https://shop.fsf.org/books-docs/introduction-command-line Andy Oram | Editor O'Reilly Media, Inc. | 617-499-7479 | oreilly.com [image: oreilly_email_logo.png] On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:37 PM mick at flossmanuals.net wrote: > Hello Gerard, > > I'm working on a book at the moment and within 1 week or so I should have > completed draft 2 of it. > At that point it would be great to get some help with some proof reading > and feedback on sections that are not reading clearly. > I'll post back to the list when that's ready. > > It's here. > http://write.flossmanuals.net/learn-javascript-with-phaser > > There are really quite a lot of manuals which are quite out of date but > which with a bit of love could be very useful again. So please do feel free > to do your own personal audit of the ones at http://flossmanuals.net and > let us know if one jumps out that you think could do with updating. > > Many Thanks > Mick > On 19/10/2018 23:29, Gerard Cruzado wrote: > > Greetings Everyone, > > My name is Gerard and I'm an aspiring technical writer with a BA in > journalism. I've been using FLOSS personally for about ten years and I'm > curious about how I can get started on using my abilities to give back to > the community. If anyone can point me towards any existing or upcoming > projects which may be in need of my writing and editing skills, that would > be excellent. > > Much appreciated, > Gerard Cruzado > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing listDiscuss at lists.flossmanuals.nethttp://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net - you can unsubscribe here > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net - you > can unsubscribe here > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thatnewyorker at gmail.com Tue Oct 23 16:16:58 2018 From: thatnewyorker at gmail.com (Gerard Cruzado) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:16:58 -0400 Subject: [FM Discuss] Thanks for the Direction Message-ID: Hey Mick and Andy, Thanks for the directions! Mick, I took a quick look at the book you're currently writing and did some minor editing and revising of the introduction page. I'm not really sure about the etiquitte on editing other people's drafts on the website yet so I'll send you an email with an .odt attachment with my changes highlighted and comments as well. Let me know what you think. Also, *Introduction to the Command Line* looks like it's right up my alley, Andy. I'll get working on it this week. Much Appreciated, Gerard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michaelglascott at outlook.com Wed Oct 24 06:49:44 2018 From: michaelglascott at outlook.com (Michael Glascott) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:49:44 +0000 Subject: [FM Discuss] First edit on Floss - inkscape Message-ID: Hi Mick and all on the list. I?ve been on the list for a while but I haven?t had a chance to get involved. I?m interested in contributing to the Inkscape manual. I use the basic tools regularly but Paths (and their options) have always been a bit of a mystery to me. I?d like to add to the Paths section for an audience completely new to the concept (as I was). I thought I?d run it past you first to check if anyone was working on something similar. FYI, There are a number of sections titled ?Introduction? under Styling Objects, Live Path Effects and SVG Filters which all link to: There is more then one chapter named - "introduction". I went to the edit screen for these but I?m not sure what the fix is. I couldn?t see it in the Booktype manual. Regards Michael Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maren at goos-habermann.de Wed Oct 24 07:09:15 2018 From: maren at goos-habermann.de (Maren Hachmann) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:09:15 +0200 Subject: [FM Discuss] First edit on Floss - inkscape In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51bf0c9f-a92b-176b-7287-a0c1d33e2afc@goos-habermann.de> Am 24.10.18 um 15:49 schrieb Michael Glascott: > Hi Mick and all on the list. > > ? > > I?ve been on the list for a while but I haven?t had a chance to get > involved. > > ? > > I?m interested in contributing to the Inkscape manual. I use the basic > tools regularly but Paths (and their options) have always been a bit of > a mystery to me. > Hi Michael, the Inkscape Beginners' Guide is a similar project, which intends to fill the gap for new users. It is currently in the process of moving to Readthedocs. I will close that manual on flossmanuals soon, as it was near impossible to maintain. I like to be able to work with plaintext files, proper versioning and markup. Flossmanuals couldn't do that for me (and it has stopped exporting to any format, also, so I had to scrape the website to get my data out... :-/). It is nice for editors who like to work in WYSIWYG. You can find the current version here: https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (repository: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/manuals/tree/setup_rtd/Inkscape-Beginners-Guide/source) This manual is geared towards people who know nothing of the concepts. There is a TODO list in the repository, in the README.rst (mostly for layout/markup), and many pages have a 'TODO' in them (for content and images). Currently, content is of secondary concern to me, though, as I'm still working on getting the markup consistent, and the export right, going through all the pages repeatedly, until everything is resolved. I could definitely use some help with this first step, and with the TODO items. When this is done, we would need to look into updating it for Inkscape 1.0. The Inkscape manual on flossmanuals is unmaintained and horribly outdated, but might at some point in the future be moved over, too - but that's a project for 'in a couple of years'. The more up-to-date, official Inkscape manual at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ is proprietary, unfortunately, but it's the most comprehensive manual available. Maren > > I?d like to add to the Paths section for an audience completely new to > the concept (as I was). I thought I?d run it past you first to check if > anyone was working on something similar. > > ? > > FYI, There are a number of sections titled ?Introduction? under Styling > Objects, Live Path Effects and SVG Filters which all link to: ?_There is > more then one chapter named - "introduction"_.? > > ? > > I went to the edit screen for these but I?m not sure what the fix is. I > couldn?t see it in the Booktype manual. > > ? > > ? > > Regards > > ? > > Michael > > ? > > Sent from Mail for > Windows 10 > > ? > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net - you can unsubscribe here > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From michaelglascott at outlook.com Thu Oct 25 03:20:03 2018 From: michaelglascott at outlook.com (Michael Glascott) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:20:03 +0000 Subject: [FM Discuss] First edit on Floss - inkscape In-Reply-To: <51bf0c9f-a92b-176b-7287-a0c1d33e2afc@goos-habermann.de> References: , <51bf0c9f-a92b-176b-7287-a0c1d33e2afc@goos-habermann.de> Message-ID: Hi Maren, I?ve been through the links, the new manual looks great so far. I?ve registered with GitLab and on the Inkscape mailing list. I?ll introduce myself there and see where I can be of use. Michael Sent from Mail for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: Discuss on behalf of Maren Hachmann Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 3:09:15 PM To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] First edit on Floss - inkscape Am 24.10.18 um 15:49 schrieb Michael Glascott: > Hi Mick and all on the list. > > > > I?ve been on the list for a while but I haven?t had a chance to get > involved. > > > > I?m interested in contributing to the Inkscape manual. I use the basic > tools regularly but Paths (and their options) have always been a bit of > a mystery to me. > Hi Michael, the Inkscape Beginners' Guide is a similar project, which intends to fill the gap for new users. It is currently in the process of moving to Readthedocs. I will close that manual on flossmanuals soon, as it was near impossible to maintain. I like to be able to work with plaintext files, proper versioning and markup. Flossmanuals couldn't do that for me (and it has stopped exporting to any format, also, so I had to scrape the website to get my data out... :-/). It is nice for editors who like to work in WYSIWYG. You can find the current version here: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io%2Fen%2Flatest%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C0529f2e5971445c9a0c008d639ba4e18%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636759869663809578&sdata=2RzWzfRmBYSgY3USHnQ0hwDem3%2F7kmvTDh54jnG2CuE%3D&reserved=0 (repository: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Finkscape%2Finkscape-docs%2Fmanuals%2Ftree%2Fsetup_rtd%2FInkscape-Beginners-Guide%2Fsource&data=02%7C01%7C%7C0529f2e5971445c9a0c008d639ba4e18%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636759869663809578&sdata=gK6b4uzqyrlUMp%2BXTpoIz7gonlJ2e1KiXNtObSq98%2Fs%3D&reserved=0) This manual is geared towards people who know nothing of the concepts. There is a TODO list in the repository, in the README.rst (mostly for layout/markup), and many pages have a 'TODO' in them (for content and images). Currently, content is of secondary concern to me, though, as I'm still working on getting the markup consistent, and the export right, going through all the pages repeatedly, until everything is resolved. I could definitely use some help with this first step, and with the TODO items. When this is done, we would need to look into updating it for Inkscape 1.0. The Inkscape manual on flossmanuals is unmaintained and horribly outdated, but might at some point in the future be moved over, too - but that's a project for 'in a couple of years'. The more up-to-date, official Inkscape manual at https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftavmjong.free.fr%2FINKSCAPE%2FMANUAL%2Fhtml%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C0529f2e5971445c9a0c008d639ba4e18%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636759869663809578&sdata=f%2F1DkiFu3tRLwHTuLdW%2BhcdmZRHHPKv%2ByrGb1iMp6fo%3D&reserved=0 is proprietary, unfortunately, but it's the most comprehensive manual available. Maren > > I?d like to add to the Paths section for an audience completely new to > the concept (as I was). I thought I?d run it past you first to check if > anyone was working on something similar. > > > > FYI, There are a number of sections titled ?Introduction? under Styling > Objects, Live Path Effects and SVG Filters which all link to: _There is > more then one chapter named - "introduction"_. > > > > I went to the edit screen for these but I?m not sure what the fix is. 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