I've been writing Open Source documentation for ... well, a long time. We'll say fifteen years, for the sake of not having to go actually to remember too much of College, shall we? In my current life I write both formal online docs (Apache, PHP) and dead tree user manual kinds of docs (O'Reilly, Sams, APress, NoStarch).

I was pointed to this site, and was immediately enthralled. As I mentioned to a colleague this week, if I could get paid to just write user docs, full time, I'd leap at the chance. But, so far, I haven't had that opportunity, and so I write code. My passion, however, is explaining complicated things to people and seeing the light of understanding in their eyes.

But, as I started to look through the guide itself, I was disappointed that so little of it was actually written. Disappointed, but also a little excited, because that means that I can write it, right?

So the question is, where do I sign up, and is it ok to just start writing? I am very opinionated on the topic of writing end-user documentation, and am more than happy to share those views, but I don't want to stomp all over the process.

Truth be told, I already *did* start writing, but then I thought it might be polite to knock on the door and see if anyone else is at home. 'Cause if not, I might move in and start rearranging the furniture.