How can I help?

Forum: water cooler
Topic: How can I help?
started by: nickelplated

Posted by nickelplated on June 26 2005,10:11

I really love Damn Small Linux and want to know how I can help, even if only in some small way. Is there anything I can do to help out? I don't know a whole lot of programming, though I know a fair amount of stuff on shell scripting.
What can I do to help you awesome folks?

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 26 2005,14:43

Of course!

You can build and submit .dsl packages, improve existing scripts, or just generally hang around and help out.

Posted by roberts on June 26 2005,15:24

Documentation is an area that could use alot of help.
Answering questions in the forums too.

Posted by nickelplated on June 26 2005,17:22

I can do documentation. What do you need me to do?

And how would I go about improving existing scripts, is that just going through them in vi and looking for better ways of doing things, or is there something else in particular that needs to be done?

Posted by roberts on June 27 2005,03:38

For documentation, search all the forums for "bookmark" Many users have been using "bookmark" to indicate an important post.

Save those posts. Look to see if they are in the Dcumentation project. If not submit them so that they are easily available to everyone. So many times the answer has already been posted and a simple search is all that is needed.

If you do, do this, please let me know as I may wish to do something more with them.

Posted by nickelplated on June 27 2005,23:48

Okay I got the posts and I'm going over which stuff's already in there. When I send the stuff that isn't there to that gmail address, do you want me to send each post separate, or in one big file, and do you want me editing the information in the posts down to pertinent info, or keeping the entire posts intact, comments and all?

Posted by nickelplated on June 28 2005,01:03

By the way, I noticed what may be an error on the documentation part of the site. The URL that points to the documentation project part of the blog goes to this address: < http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/book > , but that page only has a small intro and is missing the sections index that I see at this URL:
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/51 >

edit:nevermind, i just noticed that the title on that page is really a link to the other page. just thought i'd bring it up cause it was a little confusing at first (:

Posted by nickelplated on June 28 2005,07:25

Okay, I finished up. 17 threads copied from the print page option on each one into .txt files, sent to dsldocumentation at gmail dot com. I had to send four emails cause I can only send 5 attachments at a time from my yahoo addy. If there's anything else I can do that's on the simple side, lemme know, I'm happy to help out