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<para>
Topics covered in this section include:
<simplelist type="vert" columns="1">
<member><xref linkend="miscauthor"> Authoring / Documentation</member>
<member><xref linkend="miscadv"> Linux Advocacy / Getting (and Staying) Involved</member>
<member><xref linkend="miscspecial"> Hobbies and Special Interests</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<sect2 id="miscauthor">
<title>Authoring / Documentation</title>
<para>
<ItemizedList>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../HOWTO-HOWTO/index.html">
HOWTO-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>HOWTO HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: July 2000</CiteTitle>.
Lists the tools, procedures, and hints to get LDP authors up to
speed and writing. </Para>
<Para>
<EMPHASIS>Replaced July 2000 by the
<ULINK URL="../../LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/index.html">
LDP Author Guide</ULink>. </EMPHASIS> </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell-HOWTO.html">
LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: February 1998</CiteTitle>.
Aimed at writers and translators of Linux HOWTOs or any other paper
for the Linux Documentation Project. Gives hints at using tools
including Emacs and Ispell. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/Man-Page.html">
Man-Page</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
The Linux Man Page mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: January 2000</CiteTitle>.
Explains what you should bear in mind when you are going to write
on-line documentation -- a so called man page -- that you want to
make accessible via the man(1) command. </Para>
</ListItem>
</ItemizedList>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="miscadv">
<title>Linux Advocacy / Getting (and Staying) Involved</title>
<para>
<ItemizedList>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/Advocacy.html">
Advocacy</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: May 2000</CiteTitle>.
Suggestions for how the Linux community can effectively
advocate the use of Linux. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/Commercial-Port-Advocacy.html">
Commercial-Port-Advocacy</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
Commercial Port Advocacy mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: December 1999</CiteTitle>.
Discusses methods that can be used to approach commercial software
companies to convince them to port their programs to Linux. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Consultants-HOWTO/index.html">
Consultants-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux Consultants HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: August 2000</CiteTitle>.
A listing of companies providing commercial Linux related support. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../META-FAQ.html">
META-FAQ</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux Meta-FAQ</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: October 1997</CiteTitle>.
Mainly a list of valuable sources of information for Linux. Use these
sources if you want to learn more about Linux, or have problems
and need help. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Online-Troubleshooting-HOWTO/index.html">
Online-Troubleshooting-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Online Troubleshooting Resources HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: July 2000</CiteTitle>.
Directs Linux users to resources available on the Internet that
provide access to a vast amount of Linux-related information useful
in troubleshooting problems. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Reading-List-HOWTO/index.html">
Reading-List-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>The Linux Reading List HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: September 2000</CiteTitle>.
Lists the books the author thinks are most valuable to a person
trying to learn Unix (especially Linux) top to bottom. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/Update.html">
Update</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
The Staying Updated mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: October 2000</CiteTitle>.
How to stay updated and abreast of the development that
takes place in the Linux world of development. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../User-Group-HOWTO.html">
User-Group-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux User Group HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: April 1998</CiteTitle>.
A guide to founding, maintaining, and growing a Linux User Group. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../VAR-HOWTO.html">
VAR-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux VAR HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: August 1999</CiteTitle>.
Contains a listing of service companies which do not manufacture
hardware or create packaged software, but add value to existing
products. </Para>
</ListItem>
</ItemizedList>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="miscspecial">
<title>Hobbies and Special Interests</title>
<para>
<ItemizedList>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Access-HOWTO.html">
Access-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux Access HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</PARA> <Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: March 1997</CiteTitle>.
Covers using adaptive technology to make Linux accessible to
those who could not use it otherwise. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Astronomy-HOWTO.html">
Astronomy-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux Astronomy HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: August 2000</CiteTitle>.
Document shares tips and resources to utilize Linux solutions in
the pursuit of Astronomy. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../AX25-HOWTO.html">
AX25-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux AX25-HOWTO, Amateur Radio</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: October 1997</CiteTitle>.
How to install and configure support for the AX. 25 packet radio
protocol utilized by Amateur Radio Operators worldwide. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/Coffee.html">
Coffee</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
COFFEE-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: January 1998</CiteTitle>.
Yes, Linux DOES make coffee, and it tastes good. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Ecology-HOWTO.html">
Ecology-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux Ecology HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: November 2000</CiteTitle>.
Discusses ways Linux computers can be used as a means to protect our
environment, by using its features to save power or paper. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/FBB.html">
FBB</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: November 2000</CiteTitle>.
Covers the installation and use of the most popular amateur packet-radio
BBS software FBB. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Medicine-HOWTO.html">
Medicine-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linux Medicine-HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: November 2000</CiteTitle>.
Some pointers to Linux software (mostly GPLed) for the
medical sciences. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../mini/Netrom-Node.html">
Netrom-Node</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
Netrom-Node mini-Howto</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>
Updated: October 1998</CiteTitle>.
How to setup the ax25-utilities package for Amateur Radio such
that it makes Netrom Nodes for the Node program and the BBS
software from John-Paul Roubelat, F6FBB. </Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<ULINK URL="../Wearable-HOWTO.html">
Wearable-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Wearable HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: March 2000</CiteTitle>.
Nomadism is one of the major trends of our society, now most of the
people can work with a laptop computer, but few did the next step: to
live, or if you prefer to wear one computer - that is a wearable. </Para>
</ListItem>
</ItemizedList>
</para>
</sect2>