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[John Cave <john.cave5@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm very interested in helping with this project. Let me know when the
meeting is!

John C

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, at 09:20 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
> On 12/06/13 17:27, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > On 06/12/2013 08:21 AM, Yorvyk wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry about my absence, a thing popped up that took a little while
> >> to deal with.  Let's see if we can get this thing under way.
> >
> > Progress so far:
> >
> > (1) A script exists to get people set up with the tools they need,
> > it just needs a trivial change to branch "our" bzr branch not the
> > main ubuntu-manual one.
> >
> > (2) A bzr branch is now created, but currently empty.  I'll start
> > populating it with the "infrastructure" files needed in the next few
> > days.
> >
> Thanks for that. It means we're under way.
> 
> 
> >> Do you want a meeting to discuss how you'd like to contribute etc.
> >> or would a discussion on a mailing list do?
> >
> > Mailing list is fine at the moment.
> >
> > I see myself as mainly a developer (toolsmith) here, getting things
> > started out, and probably also some editing work later as time
> > permits.
> >
> > Until we define our basic document structure (presumably as close to
> > that of Ubuntu Manual as we can), no-one can state which chapters
> > they will work on, because there *is* no list of chapters!  So,
> > specifics of "how you'd like to contribute" are going to be awkward
> > to specify until we reach the point of having an agreed chapter
> > list/table of contents.
> >
> Agreed. Although a discussion on which chapters from the Ubuntu version 
> can be kept or require minimal edit, if any, could go a head.
> 
> > What kind of description of "how you'd like to contribute" are you
> > hoping for from people at this early stage?  Just one of
> >
> > * Author * Editor * Translator * Programmer * Designer
> >
> > as defined at http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved ?
> >
> Yes, that's what I'm after so we have some idea of what 'staff' we have.
> 
> >> If you'd prefer a meeting, is IRC, Google Hangout, some thing else
> >> preferred?
> >
> > If we do need a meeting, we should use IRC.  It is familiar, low
> > bandwidth, and meetingology exists.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
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