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<volumenum>2003</volumenum>
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<issuenum>15, 16 and 17</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>20030819</pubdate>
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<title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
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<sect1>
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<para>
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This is a combined edition for issues 15, 16 and 17. We also have an
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interview with the LDP review coordinator Tabatha Marshall.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>New documents</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>Proposed new documents</title>
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<listitem><para>Saqib Shaikh is the maintainer of a document called the <emphasis>BLinux</emphasis> Software Map, which is a guideline for blind people who want to use Linux. He <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5436:200308:pedfgheipkemgjaehgio">proposed to submit it</ulink> and awaits your comments.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Tobias Reif has a draft for a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5467:200308:jkcmdfngjbkdlmikmhpk">Vim as XML Editor HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>We also received a draft from Scot W. Stevenson, for a document which he would like to call the <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5471:200308:ohcibkfannekdlhembkb">Mock Mainframe mini-HOWTO</ulink>, describing how to centralize small computer systems in order to save time and money.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Mustafa El-Sheikh has a beta version of what he would like to call the <ulink url="http://elsheikhmh.20m.com/mount-mini-howto/">Windows Partitions Mount mini-HOWTO</ulink>, and awaits your input.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Adam <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4909:200308:eocaiogdchaleaemgcmo">posted his intent</ulink> to write a Whole Disk Encryption HOWTO which will instruct the reader how to encrypt a computer hard disk (such as in a laptop) with an external key (such as on a USB flash drive) using Linux 2.4 and the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/">loop-AES</ulink> program.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Updates</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>HOWTOs</title>
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<para>We received updates for a whole bunch of documents:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/">Apache based WebDAV Server with LDAP and SSL</ulink>, v4.0.1, by Saqib Ali.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/">Linux Gamers' HOWTO</ulink>, v0.9.34, by Peter Jay Salzman.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Linux Kernel HOWTO</ulink>, v6.7 was sent in by Alavoor Vasudevan.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David Lawyer is still updating the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, in order to help all those who can't have fast access yet; it's now at v0.29.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>And Håvard Stranden's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-R200/">ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO</ulink> is now available in v1.3.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric updated his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Eric S. Raymond sent in an update for the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/">Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Gerardo Arnaez presented v2.2 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/">Linux Medicine HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/">Printing HOWTO</ulink> by Grant Taylor is now at v1.8.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink> by Rick Moen has been updated twice over the past two weeks and it is now v1.6.6.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>What with wireless access becoming ever more popular, you might be interested in reading the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/">Link-sys WPC11 mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v2.2.3, updated by Gerardo Arnaez.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>We also got hold of v34 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips.html">BogoMips mini-HOWTO</ulink> by Wim van Dorst. From the FAQ: BogoMips is <quote>the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing.</quote></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The Quota mini-HOWTO v0.5, by Ralf van Dooren can be found at <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html" />.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Aaron Isotton sent in v1.03 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/C++-dlopen/">C++ dlopen mini HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/">Vim Color Editor HOW-TO (Vi Improved with syntax color highlighting)</ulink> by Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) is at v19.2.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David S.Lawyer's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html">Plug-and-Play-HOWTO</ulink> has been updated to v1.07.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>People - Tabatha Marshall</title>
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<para>This is Tabatha Marshall, TLDP Review Coordinator. She describes
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herself as the proud mother of three sons, registered Linux user 170785,
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partly Canadian and Italian, but mostly Geek.</para>
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<figure><title>Tabatha Marshall, Review Coordinator</title>
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<para>Tabatha volunteers for assigning reviewers to newly submitted documents,
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and when other volunteers are awed because of the size of a guide, she reviews these herself if necessary. She frequently contributes to
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discussions on the mailing lists, and while she has a strong opinion of
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her own, she is always friendly and open to new views.</para>
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<para>The Weekly News team had the occasion of asking this marvelous woman a
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couple of questions.</para>
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<para>Q: We did our homework, and read that you started volunteering for TLDP
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about a year and a half ago, and that you started experimenting with Linux
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twice as long ago. This leaves us wondering: how do you rise from Linux
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Newbie to coordinator of one of the main Open Source initiatives in such a
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short time?</para>
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<para>A: <quote>Persistence! (grin)...When I first learned about Linux, I relied on the
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LDP to learn how to do everything. In early 2002 I decided to jump back
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into fiction-writing with both feet, and sought volunteer work that
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would help me hone my skills. I remembered the LDP, and by March 2002 I
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was reviewing, thanks to the initial help of Joy Goodreau and Dave
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Merrill. I stayed active, always accepting new documents for review,
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and in November 2002, Joy asked if I would accept the position of Review
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Coordinator. I did, and I'm grateful, because I think it's made me a
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better writer, and a heck of a lot of friends!</quote>
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</para>
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<para>Q: What was the most remarkable event at TLDP while you have been contributing?</para>
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<para>A: <quote>You mean besides being offered the position of Review Coordinator? That
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was MOST exciting for me! Actually, the best thing so far was seeing
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the pictures from the recent Metz trip. It's wonderful to put faces to
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the names of the people I work with, and I wish we had pictures of
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everybody!
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</quote></para>
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<para>Q: Do you think that you will still be Review Coordinator in 5 years? In 10 years?</para>
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<para>A: <quote>Wow, good question! Well, as I mentioned, I recently made a leap of
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faith with my writing, and my goal is to become America's answer to JK
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Rowling. I completed my first manuscript on July 15. The novel is a
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middle-grade/young adult adventure which I plan on developing into a
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series of books, hopefully extending them to film or television. I'm in
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the editing stages right now (you can imagine how much I must love that
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part!), and will begin writing the next book in the fall, when the kids
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start school.</quote></para>
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<para><quote>In the meantime though, I do plan on continuing my work with the LDP,
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and I do see myself doing it for some time to come. I believe
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wholeheartedly that I'm a stronger writer for it, so why stop now? :D
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</quote></para>
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<para>Q: What do you think is the single most needed improvement for TLDP?</para>
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<para>A: <quote>I'll stand my ground and say it would have to be an online editor for
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authors. It should provide a simple way for authors to choose the
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version of markup they wish to use, and help them progress through
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creation of their document in a logical format, based on the LDP
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documentation templates. Ideally, this system would parse and validate,
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provide suggestions for errors, and allow for a browser preview no
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matter how much of the document has been created.
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</quote></para>
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<para><quote>Why? Right now there are numerous Linux distributions, various types of
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markup and output formats, and far too many editing programs that just
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don't quite cut it for the new user. It is difficult for many people to
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put the tools together on their machine. This system would encourage
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more authors to write. Just think - if a new author can create a
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document online without having to worry about all the other issues, she
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is able to give much more focus to the content, now isn't she?
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</quote></para>
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<para><quote>Though this idea has been brought to the table, there has been some
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resistance...concerns that this means yet another system to learn. But
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I believe if it was designed with the author's needs first, it would be
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valuable to everyone. Dream big!</quote></para>
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<para>And right she is... Read more at <ulink url="http://www.merlinmonroe.com" />, Tabatha's home site.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>We make free documentation</title>
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<para>A very long and at times tiresome discussion about (1) SCO servers storing the LDP documents with <quote>extra</quote> clauses (2) Who can or can not use TLDP documents dominated the past two weeks. You can read the entire thread <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4905:200308:nndilkkmnocimdnhjmkm">here</ulink>. Summarized, it comes down to this: everybody can read our docs and store them on their servers, in accordance with the license of the document. This includes also people we don't like. Guylhem Aznar <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4906:200308:fjghdeinimkjhbapdmej">said that</ulink> license violations of the documents released under a free license by the LDP can not be tolerated. He later posted <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4920:200308:hghecligfeoadbjiedal">RMS response to SCO use of our documents</ulink>.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Bibliographies in DocBook XML/SGML</title>
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<para>If like Martin A. Brown, you are searching for information on how to do Bibliographies in DocBook XML/SGML, <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?2:mss:508:200308:ojenlikbehfnljafjfmh">here</ulink> is a piece of information from Tabatha.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Document Disclaimers</title>
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<para>Adam <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4909:200308:eocaiogdchaleaemgcmo">posted his intent</ulink> to write a Whole Disk Encryption HOWTO and <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4916:200308:eocaiogdchaleaemgcmo">wanted</ulink> a disclaimer boilerplate. David Lawyer, however, <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4917:200308:claiepedajakajhoajgg">doubted</ulink> if there was any case law for a document provided for <quote>free</quote>.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="feedback">
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<title>Feedback and Contributions</title>
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<para>
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You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:
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</para>
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<listitem><para>Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html">documents in progress</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Picking up one of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html">unmaintained documents</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Providing assistance with <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html">markup</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
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in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
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HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
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magazines? You can update us by sending in links and information at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>LDP Weekly News is edited by
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Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
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with help from several other people.</para>
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</sect1>
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