The LDP is always looking for people to assist in the quest for developing and providing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system.

Potential volunteers should become familiar with the information contained in the LDP Author Guide (formerly known as the "HOWTO-HOWTO").

Volunteers should register with the LDP - let us know what your skill set is, what you would like to help the LDP with, etc. You will then become part of our authoring assistance list of volunteers.

If you wish to volunteer to assist in the document authoring process, here are some tasks that require attention:

• Provide markup assistance for various documents.

• Become an owner for these (currently) unmaintained documents.

• Write a new HOWTO, FAQ or Guide. Here is a list of documents that are "under development".

Below is a quick-reference list of resources that those authoring for the LDP will find useful.

• First and foremost, the LDP Authoring Guide (formerly known as the "HOWTO-HOWTO").

• The Tools section of the LDP Authoring Guide.

• License / manifesto for the LDP.

• The LDP authoring template :

  • in HTML and DocBook SGML source.
  • in HTML and Linuxdoc SGML source.

• The LDP customized DSSSL stylesheet, ldp.dsl.

• The DocBook 4.1 DTD (local copy of files in zip format).

• The standard (v1.56) DSSSL stylesheets (local copy of files in zip format).

• A set (gzipped tar file) of entity files.

• LDP mailing list archives :

  • LDP Discuss, main discussion group.
  • LDP Announce, general announcements / document updates.
  • LDP DocBook, discussions related to the DocBook (SGML) DTD, tools, etc.

• DocBook: The Definitive Guide, by Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner.

• DocBook V3.1 Quick Reference.

• Intro to DocBook, by Jorge Godoy.

• The Modular DocBook Stylesheets.

• dictionary.com.

• thesaurus.com.

• Webopedia (online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology).

Last Modified: August 30, 2000