Both this article and this article note how Ubuntu’s documentation needs to be better than it is. The first article describes (in the last point on the second page) that we should do more content scraping from the unofficial documentation (with permission) to improve our docs. We receive lots of requests for mentorship, so there [...]
Read all »Xubuntu documentation for version 8.04, the Hardy Heron
The Ubuntu documentation team has recently migrated all flavors of *Ubuntu documentation from Subversion over to Bazaar. There are now separate branch repositories for each of the flavors, and instructions on how to download the repositories (and how to submit your changes) are up on the Ubuntu wiki. Thanks to Matthew East and a few [...]
Read all »Updates to my website
After thinking things through for a while, I finally got around to making a few updates to j1m.net. Previously I had everything over on j1m.net/chi-ubuntu, but I’m moving my posting activities over to the root page of my site. I’m still working on Xubuntu (quite a bit), and I’m still a member of the Ubuntu-Chicago [...]
Read all »What’s going on?
Things have been pretty hectic lately. It seems like there’s always too much to do in Chicago in the summertime. I’m excited about what is in store, though. Freddy Martinez and I have been working on Xubuntu documentation, basing it largely off of Ubuntu’s Feisty documentation, and we have to submit our first set of [...]
Read all »“Xubuntu Feisty Fawn is the bomb”
Tonight I went to a couple of Linux-related events after work, and I’m glad I made it out. I first went to an initial set-up meeting for a Chicago Gnome user group. We had some informal discussions about Gnome, and what a Gnome user group might be and do in the city. Kevin is leading [...]
Read all »Wireless Troubleshooting Guide, how I love thee
I’d like to give major props to the Ubuntu Wireless Troubleshooting Guide. I was out at a place with free wifi tonight, and I could see the access point via wifi-radar, but couldn’t connect to it. I switched over to my laptop’s Win2k partition (booo . . .) to do some research, and found the [...]
Read all »Getting involved with Xubuntu-docs
Even though my schedule has been pretty hectic lately, I’ve decided that I’m going to try and contribute to the Xubuntu documentation project. Why Xubuntu? Well, for one, I use it. Xubuntu Edgy is presently on my Thinkpad t22, and it’s worked great for me. Also, Xubuntu probably receives less contribution from the community than [...]
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- j1mc: Phil Bull's "Fooproof Guide to Using Computer Terminology," (TM). http://philbull.livejournal.com/55723.html I approve. !docs
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