<listitem><para>Mark Hoebeke wants to target the novice developers HOWTO with a <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4757:200307:fcgicpacfnndhgpgbckc">mini-HOWTO</ulink> about the GNU auto-tools, such as <command>automake</command>, <command>autoconf</command> and <command>libtoolize</command>. His proposal was received very positively.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Carsten Kolassa wants to write what he would like to call the <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4772:200307:egongnhkkehbbbfdeaoj">Network-Programming HOWTO</ulink>, discussing among other topics how to write to and read from a socket, how to write simple servers and sniffers. His primary goal is to write in C, but Carsten plans on adding C++, Perl and Java examples as well.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels wants to contribute a document called <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4790:200307:hlbjhhhgndppbpgjlhlo">LDAP Operations HOWTO</ulink>, which is intended to link the <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO/index.html">LDAP HOWTO</ulink> with the <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/index.html">LDAP Implementation HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If you don't have a local Linux User Group yet, click through to the <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5410:200307:fmmbocmbfdobkmphigeo">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink>. Note that this document is now maintained by Rick Moen, who took over from Kendall Clark.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Our Spanish colleagues finished the revision of the <ulinkurl="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/doc-progmodlinux/doc-progmodlinux-html/">Guía de Programación de Módulos del Núcleo Linux</ulink>. The original document, the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/guides.html">Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</ulink> is authored by Peter J. Salzman and Ori Pomerantz; the Spanish translation is the work of Rubén Melcón Fariña, assisted by Óscar Sanz Lorenzo and Francisco Javier Fernández.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html">documents in progress</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Picking up one of the <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html">unmaintained documents</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Providing assistance with <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html">markup</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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