The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 1
Publication Date : 2004-01-07

Table of Contents
1. New document proposals
2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
3. News in The LDP world
3.1. Active Brazilian TLDP effort
3.2. DocBook quick reference card
4. Discussions on TLDP lists
4.1. LDP unreachable author problems
5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News wishes its readers a happy year 2004.


1. New document proposals


2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides


3. News in The LDP world

3.1. Active Brazilian TLDP effort

The resurrection of our Portuguese-speaking colleagues LDP activity in Brazil. Check http://br.tldp.org.


3.2. DocBook quick reference card

A quick reference card for users of DocBook is available at http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.refcard.pdf. A compact reference card is also available.


4. Discussions on TLDP lists

4.1. LDP unreachable author problems

Jean-PhilippeGuérard, the howto translations coordinator for the French project traduc.org said that traduc.org would like to publish the Compressed-TCP Sessions using SSH-like tools HOWTO but wanted information regarding the license under which it was published and was not able to reach the author. David Lawyer responded saying that The LDP was facing similar problems and that they would be of little help.


5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining .

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The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.