[FM Discuss] Hi folks

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Tue Jan 2 15:08:39 PST 2018


On 01/02/2018 04:26 PM, M R wrote:
> My name is Mathew Roberts.  I have had two major careers to date, one as
> an English professor (for about 8 years and then another 8 and counting)
> and another as a technologist (primarily a software engineering manager
> for eCollege, 2000-2008).  Looking to contribute to Floss.   Clearly the
> first and easiest thing I can do is copy-edit new manual material -- a
> huge amount of my teaching has been composition and technical writing,
> so that comes easily enough without any particular domain knowledge. 
> What I'd like to do eventually is contribute a chapter of my own to a
> manual --- right now I'm looking at Inkscape for example -- but to that
> end I'd need to become much, much more familiar with the tool.   Happily
> I'm in the market for a new open-source raster-based image editor
> anyway, so I'll probably give it a look.  Meanwhile I'll probably poke
> around in the Audacity manual as I'm much more familiar with that tool,
> and certainly do some sound-editing in a hobby capacity.
> 

Hi Matt,

You might start out just poking around, looking for issues with the way
things are explained in whatever manuals that interest you. I haven't
done so much here, but I've never had any problems with someone
critiquing my work, offering better ways to say what I'm trying to get
across.

Greg



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