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  <volumenum>2004</volumenum>
  <issuenum>16</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2004-04-21</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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<title>New documents @ The LDP</title>

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<sect1 id="new-review">

<title>Documents submitted for review</title>

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<listitem><para>The review of Lars Strand's OLSR IPv6 HOWTO is nearing completion.  OLSR is a routing protocol used in mobile ad-hoc networks.  <ulink url="http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/code/OLSR-IPv6-HOWTO-v0.5.tar.bz2">Here is a preliminary copy of the OLSR IPv6 HOWTO</ulink>, created with the help of the OLSRd developer.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Emma Jane Hogbin submitted an update of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LDP-Reviewer-HOWTO/">Reviewer HOWTO</ulink>.  This document contains information for our editors so that they can streamline the look and feel of TLDP documents.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Nearly there with the <ulink url="http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Kernel-Build-HOWTO/">Kernel Build HOWTO</ulink> by Kwan Lowe.  A lot of our readers have been complaining about the retirement of the Kernel HOWTO, and about the time it takes to rewrite this document.  Good news: your patience will be awarded very soon.  Our reviewer team is raising efforts to have the language and technical review ready by the end of this week.</para></listitem>

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<title>New document proposals</title>

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<listitem><para>Howard Shane came up with the idea of writing a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:7057:200404:biifelfgnkaocpnpjgoj">Home Office</ulink> HOWTO or FAQ, addressing such questions as <quote>how to print different types of files?</quote> and <quote>Which applications to use to print, faq and format files and share them among others with non-Linux systems?</quote>.  He argues that much of the information needed by beginning users is out there, but shattered over tens of different documents and thus hard to find.  Howard awaits your input.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Zeeshan Ali asks whether his <ulink url="http://www.geocities.com/zeelists/video-wall.xml">Video-Wall HOWTO</ulink>, using Xinerama and Gstreamer, would be a good addition to TLDP.  The document has been around for a while, but he now converted it to XML and applies for inclusion in our collection.  Send him your comments!</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Martin Rodgers thinks his <ulink url="http://www.wildcard.demon.co.uk/howto/ameol-wine.html">Ameol/Wine HOWTO</ulink> is finished.  Ameol is the offline reader for the commercial CIX service.  Martin would appreciate input from Ameol users.</para></listitem>

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<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>

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<listitem><para>AJ Lewis' <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">LVM HOWTO</ulink> v0.9 features an updated FAQ, info about ext3, an updated links section and an overview of LVM2 commands.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html">list of documents being reviewed</ulink> has been cleaned out rigidly by Emma Jane, who jumps in while Tabatha takes a much-needed holiday.</para></listitem>

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<sect1 id="tldp-world-news">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>

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<para>Wanted: Game Server HOWTO maintainer</para>

<para>Anders Jensen-Urstad is looking for somebody to take over the <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/index.html">Game Server HOWTO</ulink>.  The document describes setup and maintenance of the various Quake servers and the Half-Life and Unreal Tournament servers.</para>

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<para>Outdated LDP man page</para>

<para>Very few people know that most Linux systems come with an LDP man page that you can display with the <command>man <parameter>LDP</parameter></command> command.  Unfortunately, this man page contains a lot of old links.  The maintainer has been contacted to put this straight, and we hope it doesn't take too long for all distributions to include the corrected man page.</para>

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<title>Discussions on The LDP lists</title>

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<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
<title>HOWTO contribute to The LDP</title>

<para><ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation
Project</ulink> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality
documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
TLDP, consider joining
<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>

<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events
related to free software documentation. Write to us at
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>

<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>

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