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Outing

Mittwoch, 28 Januar 2009

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Having been a GNU/Linux- and also KDE-User for almost exactly 10 years I decided that it was about time to give something back to the community.

Because of my, so I believe, familiarity with KDE after all those years and the friendly community that I found here I started to look for a place for myself in this ecosystem. This place I seem to have found in documentation writing, especially since (as it appears to me) devs don’t seem to be too eager to write handbooks and such.

Because of my poor reputation as a developer I probably better not write code but handbooks and started to do so a few weeks ago by updating and rewriting the KMail-Handbook which seems to be going to be a rather permanent  project for me, now that I come to think of it.

I hope that I will also be able to document here the one or other constructive criticism, lots of praise and maybe reports from a few KDE users that I happen to know and what terms like usability (that is mentioned quite regularly here) mean to them.

And now, back to docbook …

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5 Kommentare to “Outing”

  1. Jure Repinc Sagt:
    January 28th, 2009 at 22:09

    This is fantastic. Documentation sure is one of the weakest points of KDE. I’ve also tried to start helping with this but currently I just can’t find the time to also work on this. Maybe we should organize the second KDE Documentation meeting at Akademy this year. Something similar to the one in Erlangen in 2000. There we could try to find some ways how to make this way of contributing to KDE more popular. Anyways, keep up the great work, it is much appreciated.

  2. Markus Sagt:
    January 28th, 2009 at 22:40

    Hey, you really fill a gap here, thanks a lot for your effort!
    Markus

  3. Dion Moult Sagt:
    January 29th, 2009 at 15:10

    Sounds like a great idea! I will definitely contribute to documentation one day as I know how important it is!

  4. Mircea Sagt:
    January 29th, 2009 at 22:41

    Thank you for doing this! I would love to have KDE better documented. Please don’t stop :)

  5. Diederik van der Boor Sagt:
    January 30th, 2009 at 09:29

    Your blog post prompted me to post a reply about this too, and it seams I’m not the only one. Great to see someone is working on the documentation! :)

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