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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>TLDP Weekly News</h1>
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<b>Issue Number :</b> 10<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2003-06-22<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#AEN9">New documents</a></dt>
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<dt>1.1. <a href="#AEN11">Fresh@LDP</a></dt>
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<dt>1.2. <a href="#AEN15">Submitted for review</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#AEN32">Updates</a></dt>
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<dt>2.1. <a href="#AEN34">HOWTOs</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#AEN44">Happenings in the LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>3.1. <a href="#AEN46">We need volunteers!</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#feedback">Feedback and Contributions</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN9"></a>1. New documents</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN11"></a>1.1. Fresh@LDP</h2>
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<p>Nihil nove sub sole (that's Latin for <span class="QUOTE">"Nothing new under the sun"</span>).</p>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN15"></a>1.2. Submitted for review</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Simon Anderson is in the process of reviewing a document which he presents as <a href="http://oob.freeshell.org/nzwireless/LWAP-HOWTO.html" target="_top">the Linux Wireless
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Access Point HOWTO</a> and requests your comments. It needs to be compared to the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Wireless HOWTO</a> and the <a href=
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"http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/index.html" target="_top">Wireless Linksys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">We always like to see more women joining us, so make Emma Jane Hogbin feel at home. She submitted an <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5164:200306:ocmehohgpokhnfnkgfpf" target="_top">ACPI HOWTO</a> - ACPI being the next generation power management tool.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Saqib Ali converted his <a href="http://www.xml-dev.com:8080/cocoon/mount/docbook/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO.xml" target="_top">Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO</a> from SGML to
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XML.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mendel Leo Cooper sent in v1.9 of the <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5173:200306:abkakfggkohiknknolid" target="_top">Advanced Bash scripting Guide</a>,
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which fixes a couple of serious errata.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN32"></a>2. Updates</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN34"></a>2.1. HOWTOs</h2>
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<p>Two HOWTOs updated this week:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Miroslav Skoric updated his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a> to v1.19.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">And we received v2.2.6 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/" target="_top">DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO</a>, by Saqib Ali.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN44"></a>3. Happenings in the LDP world</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN46"></a>3.1. We need volunteers!</h2>
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<p>That's about the conclusion of last week's <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4627:200306:chccignifbnihoieigoj" target="_top">major thread</a> on the discuss mailing list. In an
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ever-changing environment, our documents become outdated tremendously fast: a one year old HOWTO is like pre-historic charcoal writing on stone. Apart from people with a technical background, we also
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need user reviews to check on a document's usability. Not only will user comments improve on readability; if more people read a HOWTO and comment on it, it would be easier to make out which are just
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hype and which are useful for the general public, as <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4616:200306:chccignifbnihoieigoj" target="_top">David Lawyer pointed out</a> in the discussion.</p>
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<p>While on the subject, several means of getting more volunteers were discussed. It was generally agreed that neither mailing the LUGS about every review needed, nor advertising this in Slashdot
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would improve greatly on the current situation. Indeed, one can hardly be forced to be a volunteer.</p>
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<p>So let's just apply to your goodwill: make your skills known to us - even if your only skill is that you speak English, and <a href="http://tldp.org/mailinfo.html#maillists" target="_top">join the
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LDP</a>! In my (Tille's) point of view, even if you can only do a little bit, you owe it to the community, for being able to use such a good system. Joining the discuss mailing list <tt class=
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"email"><<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org.NOSPAM">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org.NOSPAM</a>></tt> would be a good start. We look forward to hearing from you soon!</p>
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<td width="25" align="center" valign="top"><img src="../images/note.gif" hspace="5" alt="Note"></td>
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<th align="left" valign="center"><b>Officially working for TLDP</b></th>
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<td> </td>
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<p>Several governments, among which the European, can now subsidize your work for TLDP. Check with your local representative.</p>
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<p>As a side-effect, copyright laws came up in this lengthy discussion. Of course there's the law: in almost any country all writing is copyright, on any medium, and you need the author's permission
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to do anything with it. But since most authors are rather flattered to be quoted, remember that getting approval can be arranged in a convivial style.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>4. Feedback and Contributions</h1>
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<p>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in
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newspapers or magazines? You can update us by sending in links and information at <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>LDP Weekly News is edited by Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</p>
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