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<volumenum>2003</volumenum>
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<issuenum>33 and 34</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2003-12-17</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="new-released">
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<title>New documents @ TLDP</title>
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<para>Lars Strand is the author of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO/">Mobile IPv6
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HOWTO</ulink>. He describes how to configure mobile computers, such as
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laptops and PDAs, for actual mobile use with IPv6. You need a fully
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functional IPv6 network; how to set up one is discussed in the <ulink
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url="http://ldp.linux.no/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">IPv6 HOWTO</ulink>.
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You'll need to patch kernels. We know the Kernel HOWTO is in review,
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but! 1. Lars gives a step-by-step explanation and 2. you may find the
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same information in the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/">ACPI HOWTO</ulink>. Our reviewers are working on the Kernel HOWTO as fast as they can, there's already <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5812:200312:becpbdgagpneamchdggc">a draft for the new Kernel HOWTO</ulink>.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new-proposed">
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<title>New document proposals</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Peter Tonev wants to write a document on Linux and ergonomics.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Feiyun Wang proposes a study guide annex source commentary for the Linux i386 boot code, and <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6608:200312:eepbbjalleodniadebmk">already has it in XML</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Adrian Offerman wrote an <ulink url="http://www.offerman.net/MMBase-Installation-HOWTO/">MMBase Installation HOWTO</ulink>, describing the installation of the MMBase content management system on RedHat Linux, using the Tomcat application server, integrated with Apache and MySQL.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Ralf Holzer notes down his experiences with encrypted file systems and the 2.6 kernel in this <ulink url="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rholzer/cryptoloop_mini_howto.html">Cryptoloop Mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="updated-docs">
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<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>The Skoric triplet, we'll call them:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v1.28, covers the installation, configuration and use of the popular packet-radio BBS server software FBB.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>While GRUB is a wonderful thing (<quote>uses a Bash-like interface</quote>), LILO is the most popular Linux boot loader. The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> is a supplement to the <ulink url="http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~mibe/linux/lilo/user/">LILO User Guide</ulink>, for those who want a quick start or a short overview.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Details for starting Windows NT from LILO can be found in the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Alex Weeks is updating the Linux System Administrator's Guide or SAG. Here are the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/">first results</ulink>, including a new part about NTP, the Network Time Protocol.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Christopher Devine's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encrypted-Root-Filesystem-HOWTO/">Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO</ulink> v1.1 contains information to support GRUB (the GRand Unified Bootloader).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DB2-HOWTO/">DB2 Version 7.1 HOWTO</ulink> contains detailed guidelines for setting up the DB2 Universal Database Version 7.1 on your Linux machine. Version 1.2.7 of the HOWTO tries to fill the gap towards version 8 of DB2, pointing you to some helpful sites while waiting for a HOWTO that will cover the newer version.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The latest developments in logical volume management are covered in AJ Lewis's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">LVM HOWTO</ulink>, v0.6.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Thomas Marteau published 1.1 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/">PA-RISC/Linux Boot HOWTO</ulink>, in which he explains, among other things, how to use PALO, the bootloader for this type of hardware. Thomas added a new chapter covering the setup of your Microsoft Windows 2000 server for net-booting your PA/RISC machine.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Daniel Quintiliani added information for Forte Free Agent, Xnews and Dialog in v2.1 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/">Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-world">
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<title>News in The LDP world</title>
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<sect2 id="news-item1">
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<title>Linux Gazette and the LDP</title>
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<para>Guylhem Aznar <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6191:200312:ekhigcbgkmfeialfacih">wrote</ulink>
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to the editors of Linux Gazette asking if it would be possible for
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LG.net to submit documents to TLDP in a format that the TLDP could use
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to redistribute on its website under a free license. He indicated that a
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clear source format with semantic tags (such as docbook or linuxdoc) is
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preferable and that mirroring the documents would be a better
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opportunity to support LG.net than simply mirroring the website.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item2">
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<title>HTML/PDF generation from CVS source</title>
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<para>Saqib Ali created a <ulink
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url="http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/index.php#88">website</ulink> that can
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convert the XML Documents stored in the CVS to HTML/PDF on-the-fly. The
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idea is to let the HOWTO authors to view the HTML/PDF output of their
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XML source once they commit the source to the CVS. Using the converter
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is as simple as going to something like <ulink
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url="http://www.xml-dev.com:8080/tldp/http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/*checkout*/LDP/howto/docbook/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO.xml">http://www.xml-dev.com:8080/tldp/http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/*checkout*/LDP/howto/docbook/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO.xml</ulink>.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item3">
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<title>WHATIS wiki available</title>
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<para>Even thought David Lawyer's concerns regarding the volume of work
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associated with a WHATIS series were valid, John R. Daily was reluctant
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to forestall a possibly valuable change for years without at least
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conducting an experiment. He set up a WHATIS wiki at <ulink
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url="http://geekhavoc.com/whatis/">http://geekhavoc.com/whatis/</ulink>.
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Feel free to contribute. The WHATIS wiki would be a valuable resource
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for reference of certain often used terms within the LDP HOWTOs. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item4">
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<title>The LDP HOWTO Generator</title>
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<para>Stein Gjoen <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6016:200312:jbdbakjaacfndkmflfhi">announced</ulink>
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that the LDP HOWTO Generator was ready for use. The current version is
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0.40 at <ulink
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url="http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/The_LDP_HOWTO_Generator.html">http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/The_LDP_HOWTO_Generator.html</ulink>.
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A link to this resource has been added to the revised LDP author guide.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="discussions">
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<title>Discussions on TLDP lists</title>
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<sect2 id="discussion1">
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<title>Sponsorship for The LDP</title>
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<para>Rahul Sundaram initiated a <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5875:200312:ihpahginmljdgbhooeje">thread</ulink>
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for discussing getting sponsorship for the LDP and a reward program like
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that of Gnome and Mozilla. During the thread, Saqib Ali said that a
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HOWTO about the product of a company could be reviewed by them and the
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LDP could place an ad acknowledging the same. David Lawyer however, was
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in <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5966:200312:claiepedajakajhoajgg">disagreement</ulink>
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with him.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="discussion2">
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<title>Right to new maintainer</title>
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<para>During the discussion on The LDP document licenses, Guylhem Aznar
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<ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6192:200312:nfnlmplgcedgajjaphdf">suggested</ulink>
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that we should require authors to automatically grant the right to TLDP
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to appoint a new maintainer for their documents when they can no longer
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be reached for some time.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="discussion3">
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<title>DocBook created html may break links but LinuxDoc OK</title>
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<para>In his continued advocacy for LinuxDoc because of its ease of use,
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David Lawyer <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6164:200312:claiepedajakajhoajgg">discovered</ulink>
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that the conversion of LinuxDoc to HTML and of DocBook to HTML result in
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a different naming scheme for chunks. For DocBook, the chunk names are
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the same as the label name. For LinuxDoc, the chunk names are the same
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as the title of the doc with a numeric prefix. However, Mark
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Komarinski <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6171:200312:nhcmlpmaiihhjanmmgma">said</ulink>
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that, reformatting the document will lead to incorrect links even though
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the links themselves exist and that the solution (for both formats) is
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to make sure your section names make sense and there will be little
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reason to rename them. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="discussion4">
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<title>Copyright Infringement of Linux Dictionary</title>
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<para>Binh Nguyen <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6091:200312:kdlafegngoikhcpbhlid">complained</ulink>
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that a certain <ulink
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url="http://www.swpearl.com/eng/scripts/aboutus/">PearL Linux
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Limited</ulink> created a <ulink
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url="http://www.swpearl.com/eng/scripts/dictionary/">database</ulink>
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based entirely on the definitions from the Linux Dictionary and did not
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acknowledge the original source. </para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="feedback">
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<title>HOWTO contribute to TLDP</title>
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<para>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
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free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If
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you want to help TLDP, consider joining
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
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community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events
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related to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y
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Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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