DocumentationTeam

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Introduction

The Documentation Team is a group of community volunteers who manage the documentation that ships with the Ubuntu operating system, as well as the community-developed documentation in Documentation Wiki and on the Web Forums.

Our work consists of writing, editing and updating the system documentation for Ubuntu, as well as gathering the helpful advice from the Ubuntu Mailing-lists and Web Forums for all to use.

New contributors and members are always welcome. People are needed mostly for writing and editing, but there are many other ways of making a useful contribution. For example, simply pointing out errors (such as typos, grammar and spelling, and technical errors) is an extremely useful way to help.

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How to Contribute

You can help out in a number of ways:

  • Check the existing documentation to see if it covers your problem. If it does, you can add to it, edit it or remove errors (such as typos, grammar and spelling, and technical errors), send any suggestions and changes to the Documentation Team mailing-list.
  • Read through the HOWTOs and other documentation in the Ubuntu Forums and check them for accuracy, and put them in the [http://help.ubuntu.com Documentation Wiki].

  • Join one of the Documentation Team projects listed below and work on directly on maintaining and developing one of the guides for Ubuntu or one of its derivatives. This documentation is written in docbook xml, and hosted in the team's subversion repository. Don't worry if you don't know any of our tools yet. It is easy to contribute without knowing our tools, and they are easy to learn! Check the projects list below, and go to the [:/GettingStarted:Getting Started] page to learn more.

Projects

The Documentation Team maintains guides for the Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu desktops, as well as a specific guides on Ubuntu Server and Switching From Windows. A new version of these guides are released with each new release of Ubuntu, and these are translated through the translation tool Rosetta in the same manner as all other applications in Ubuntu.

For a complete list of these projects and the community members who are currently maintaining them see our [:DocumentationTeam/Projects:Projects page].

You can see the currently available documentation here:

Launchpad Membership Policy

Launchpad team members are those who have upload rights to the documentation repository. Rights are granted by current Documentation Team administrators after some substantial contribution to the project. You can apply for membership on the [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-doc team Launchpad page].

Meetings

Ubuntu Documentation Team meetings are scheduled every 2 weeks and take place in the #ubuntu-meeting IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. You can find the agenda and time for the next meeting at the DocumentationTeam/MeetingAgenda page.

Summaries from previous Documentation Team meetings can be found on the MeetingLogs page.

Sub-pages

This Team wiki page contains the following sub-pages:

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