Posted by: Daniel Carrera
on December 17, 2004 12:52 AM
Have you thought about contributing a tutorial? Or perhaps some HowTos ?
Most open source projects are starving for volunteers, and I happen to know that GnuCash is not the exception. Please write a few HowTos, every little bit helps. Talk to the GnuCash people about expanding their documentation page (if they have one) with your contributions. If they don't have one, talk to them about making one.
HowTos are generally the first step in open source documentation. They are fairly short, easy to write, require minimal coordination, etc. From my experience, I think that the natural progression for open source documentation is:
1) HowTos. 2) Tutorials. 3) A complete manual.
If you are interested, I would be happy to talk to you and share my experiences. I run the OOoAuthors project, which is the development site for OpenOffice.org documentation. You can reach me at dcarrera{at}openoffice{dot}org.
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Posted by: Daniel Carrera on December 17, 2004 12:52 AMMost open source projects are starving for volunteers, and I happen to know that GnuCash is not the exception. Please write a few HowTos, every little bit helps. Talk to the GnuCash people about expanding their documentation page (if they have one) with your contributions. If they don't have one, talk to them about making one.
HowTos are generally the first step in open source documentation. They are fairly short, easy to write, require minimal coordination, etc. From my experience, I think that the natural progression for open source documentation is:
1) HowTos.
2) Tutorials.
3) A complete manual.
If you are interested, I would be happy to talk to you and share my experiences. I run the OOoAuthors project, which is the development site for OpenOffice.org documentation. You can reach me at dcarrera{at}openoffice{dot}org.
Cheers,
Daniel Carrera
OpenOffice.org volunteer.
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