Hi Lauri, Thank you for your involvement with KDE! It's a really great desktop environment, and I'm pleased to have the opportunity to communicate with you as a representative of KDE development.
I've been using GNU/Linux -> Fedora Core 5 since late May of this year. I started out w/ Gnome, as one unknowing would do, considering it's simply the way the FC5 installer is setup. Fortunately for me, I opted to install both KDE and Gnome, and finally ventured into experimentation with KDE a few weeks into my trials with Linux / Fedora. A bit unimpressed, if not frustrated with the way Gnome manages the environment-- in particular the File Management through "Nautilus" (primarily in that, while navigating through the Filesystem, every new folder selection actually opens a /new /window, resulting in multiple windows cluttering the Desktop), I was ecstatic to find that KDE is remarkably more user-friendly than Gnome, specifically Konqueror's seamless integration with the O/S as File Manager / multi-purpose user/ system interface, intuitive in application while remaining familiar enough for me as a Windows XPatrtiot that I found myself becoming comfortable with my new O/S more rapidly, and with greater confidence. (blah, blah...) Anyway-- I'm contacting you about my interest in helping to author, or edit, KDE User Manual / Web-accessible documentation or, in general, any written material needed by KDE development. I first recognized, with all due respect and understanding, the apparent deficiency in authorship while reading some of the Quanta Plus docs. While the practical is basically served, the text tends to be incomplete, or even not well formatted at times. I'm confident that I could take the existing documentation, rewrite those sections for which I have sufficient knowledge to amend any errors, and even venture to author that essential material which might have yet to be documented at all. My education background is in English, as I hold a degree in Secondary Curriculum and Instruction: English (i.e. he's supposed to be a school teacher, but decided to be a hobbyist programmer/ performing musician instead-- as anyone w/ half-a-brain should agree is the more adventurous course for a free-thinker...hehe). I consider myself to be knowledgeable about "computers", although I do not have any formal training. My most relevant position held would have been as Web / Database developer for Penn State University's College of Science Education (note my name: http://csats.psu.edu/directory.htm ). I'd love to help if i can, but I'm afraid I don't know where to begin. My best efforts-- and KDE's most rapid benefit, would probably result if i were to take existing documentation and edit it for a more reader-friendly purpose-- even doc. yet to be published in any form. In general, anything that which needs editing. I'm want to help KDE Documentation team as much as I am able, however my general Users' knowledge of the material should be considered. If I were more of an expert, I'd offer to author material, but i'm afraid I might not be qualified for that particular task. If any developers record their documentation in voice rather than written, I'm willing to transcribe audio to written docs as well. I look forward to hearing from you. For a sample of my writing, you might reference NoviceNotes.net -- a web log I author. The blog is nothing spectacular, but I consider it to be a fair reflection of my work (sans spelling and grammatical errors which may or may not be present there). Regards, Jeffrey Sabarese State College, PA, USA http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreysabarese -- ?????????????????????????????????? Centre Web Design thanks you for your business <http://www.centrewebdesign.com/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20061124/9633ffcb/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CentreWebDesign.com Type: image/png Size: 25973 bytes Desc: CWD_officially-licensed_HTML_email_Signature Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20061124/9633ffcb/attachment.png
