Stein Gjoen bejelentése szerint most ünnepli 10. születésnapját a The Linux Documentation Project (A Linux dokumentációs Projekt).Az elmúlt egy évtizedben több, mint 450 szerző működött közre, több, mint 470 dokumentum látott napvilágot, ezek 14 nyelven jelentek meg, 11 levelezési lista indult e témában, több, mint 400 előfizető használja, és 350 tükörszervere van a TLDP projektnek.
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From: Stein Gjoen
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: The Linux Documentation Project Announces Its 10 Year Anniversary
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:54:50 +0200
Hello,
The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) turns 10 and the
announcement, for immediate release, is attached.
Best regards,
Stein Gjoen
The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is happy to announce its 10 year
anniversary!
Once upon a time there was a general consensus that Unix in general, and Linux in particular, lacked good documentation. Matt Welsh decided to do something about this and wrote the first Linux HOWTO, the Installation HOWTO the first of what became a long series of focused, solution oriented documents. It became a movement just like Linux itself. More and more people joined in on the effort and tools were created and documents were written, translated and published.
Ten years later, it is no exaggeration to say this issue has been dealt with, thoroughly: TLDP today is one of the largest Internet projects, where a few hundred people have written several hundred documents, from small manual pages to in depth guides that span over a hundred pages, covering nearly all aspects of Linux. See the stats sidebar for the figures.
And it is all free, like open source software itself. In fact many Linux distributions include a complete TLDP document set with the installation to help the newcomer as well as the more experienced user.
TLDP is fully multi-lingual, people work and help on tools, review and check, translate, publish and update.
All this requires work, and a core group of a few dozen aid the
authors through a series of mailing lists. In addition, TLDP is pleased to acknowledge support from numerous companies over the years, including Red Hat and IBM.
TLDP continues to grow still, in numbers of documents, supported languages and also new services to better help an ever increasing audience. To achieve this, TLDP is always looking for new volunteers to join, ranging from authors, to programmers, to reviewers.
Some statistics
Authors: more than 450
Documents: more than 470
Languages: 14
Mailing lists: 11
Subscribers: more than 400
Web mirrors: 350
Why become an author?
One of the most common ways people come to join TLDP is when they have already written up notes on a problem they solved, be it new hardware, an installation, troubleshooting or something else. Frequently people realize others could benefit from these notes and submit them for inclusion.
It is also a simple way of joining the world of free software, one that does not require a 24 hour connection to the net to stay current. Documentation follows a calmer path, a necessity since correct documents will always be more important than fast but inaccurate documents.
No matter the reason, documentation is important to help others in using their system to the fullest.
When TLDP receives a new document it is first given an initial review to see how well it fits in and whether it overlaps with existing documents. Sometimes the best solution is to amend the old document rather than make a new one. Also TLDP helps with the documentation infrastructure that makes it possible to produce the documents in a wide range of formats, from the simplest plain text to typesetting for printing books. Next comes publication where the document is included in the archive and put on the web, not just on the main web pages but also on over 100 mirrors all over the world. From then on the author interacts with TLDP in updating and maintaining the document.
Further information
For more information, please visit http://www.tldp.org
and read the LDP FAQ http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/LDP-FAQ/index.html
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