Hi i am irene. Glad i joined this community and hope to share some ideas with you.

Thanks!

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.

Greetings,

When replying to a forum thread (posting a comment) I get this:

"Your comment has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be published after approval."

Even while logged in. Let's see if the same is true while creating a new forum topic...

Wooly mammoths were in the news lately:

Mammoths survived thousands of years later than scientists originally thought, and died to climate changes, not humans, as originally thought:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-techniques-prove-mammoths-...

Take that humans!

I know that myself and Emma will be at OSCON since we are presenting. Anyone else going?

Emma and I are going to propose a wosdocs BoF during OSCON to get more OS doc folks together and I'd love to catch a beer and make up more woolly mammoth jokes one evening if anyone is around.