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dneary is offline dneary
2009-06-03 , 16:05
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Hello your Lordship,

Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
Ok, figured I'd offer another one of my skills here, since UI design apparently isn't in much demand (I do mostly usability UI design, not actual eyecandy or graphical design) all that much. And that skill involves my writing.

I'm offering my services to anyone who might need help with proof reading, spell checking, or documentation work on their projects. If you need help, I'm your man.

This includes both new documentation, as well as updates and cleanup on existing documentation. Either PM me, or email me at me@raiden.net with your offer and I'll do what I can to help you.
Thank you very much for the offer!

Indeed, there are a few ongoing places where proofreadiong is needed already - in the wiki, where we started the wiki action group last year: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemowiki_Action_Group - a lot of the newer wiki content needs editorial work, and the older stuff needs editing and flagging for where it's inaccurate.

As Lardman says, we expect the official Maemo guides to be available in public for Fremantle, and at that stage, proof reading and corrections will be more than welcome.

And finally, the API documentation is all generated from the source code using gtkdoc - and contributions are welcome there too.

In general, typos and docs errors are bugs that should be fixed - we've been going through bugs.maemo.org for this, but in the absence of a publicly available repository in many cases, it's hard to know how to get the problems fixed. This is a major issue that we're working to fix.

Dave.
 

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