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Become a docs project contributor

Before contributing to the Docs Project ask yourself if you want to join the docs project. The bare minimum you will need is a Fedora Access System account (FAS) Fedora Contributor License Agreement (CLA).

On Licensing / Copyrights

This wiki is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (see [FedoraProject:Copyrights FedoraProject:Copyrights for details).

Document formatting

The format depends on the type of document the contributor is writing.

  • The website is in HTML.
  • The guides are developed in XML and converted to HTML and .pdf
  • Fedora uses Mediawiki and uses Mediawiki syntax for the wiki pages.

Suggested Tools

  • Gobby is a great real-time documentation collaboration service.
  • Publican is a graphical user interface for developing xml files and converting them into other formats.
  • Works not directly saved into the wiki should be saved in git via Fedora Hosted.

Pointers for contributors looking for documents to write

There is a general task list and a [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_admin_tasks_for_experienced_contributors#Task_table more advanced contributors'. If neither interest you, check out the guides table and find a documentation buddy.

The wiki itself needs to be gardened. Check out the pages that need love index.

Have some other crazy idea? Great! Let's discuss it at the next meeting.