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* ANNOUNCE: Progeny Debian manual now open source project (NEW)
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ANNOUNCE: Progeny Debian manual becomes open source project
Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. is releasing the User's Guide included with
Progeny Debian for public use. Bruce Byfield, the maintainer of the
manual, is asking for volunteers to revise and update the manual. The
User's Guide is over 400 pages about Debian GNU/Linux, and can now be
freely copied and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
Licence.
This is a good opportunity for anyone interested in:
- Linux
- free software and open source projects
- gaining writing experience
All volunteers will be given full credit for work accepted into the
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ANNOUNCE: Upcoming Bright Path Solutions training and events
Bright Path Solutions has many training courses and free events coming up.
A few of these are listed below. For details, visit http://www.travelthepath.com/ and follow links to Training or Events.
The Master Series: a FrameMaker 6.0 1-day Specialized (Advanced) Workshop
-March 20th in Research Triangle Park NC ($149)
SkillBuilder Workshop: Working with FrameMaker Variables
-April 11th in Research Triangle Park NC ($35)
Adobe FrameMaker Free Capabilities Overview
-April 12th in Research Triangle Park NC (free)
-April 23th in Research Triangle Park NC (free)
FrameMaker: our original Boot Camp (basics, advanced, and ePublishing)
-April 1-5 in Nashville TN ($1,800 any location)
-May 6-10 in Research Triangle Park NC
-May 20-24 in Pittsburgh PA
-June 10-14 in Research Triangle Park NC
-also coming soon to St. Louis, Las Vegas, and Orlando FL
FrameMaker+SGML: Structured Document Publishing Boot Camp (includes XML)
-June 24-28 in Research Triangle Park NC ($1,800 any location)
-July 15-19 in Las Vegas NV
Also coming up in RTP, two free users meetings hosted by Bright Path
Solutions:
-NC WebWorks Users April 11th (http://www.webworks.com/forums > NC User
Group)
-Tri-XML mtg April 9th (http://www.trixml.org)
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ANNOUNCE: TECHWR-L Site Redesign and Reorganization
**Breaking News from Behind the Scenes at TECHWR-L** <g>
Since January 2002, we've been feverishly working on a
TECHWR-L site redesign and reorganization, and we're
pleased to announce that the new site is now available:
Highlights of the new site include
* A new, fresher look
* A new structure and keywords to aid browsing
* New navigation aids
* Article summaries
* A new MySQL site search application, called
Mnogosearch
* Detailed (or fixed!) meta tag keywords
and descriptions
You'll also find links to the new TECHWR-L Store, which
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All proceeds go toward supporting TECHWR-L.
We're still tidying up details across the site, but
please do visit, browse around, and send comments,
suggestions, and problems you encounter to me at
debray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-
Hello, my name is Dan, and I'm a technical writer.
Hello, Dan, the support group chorused.
I've been addicted to technical writing for some time now. First, I
started small, with little contract projects here and there . . .
before I knew it, I had a full time job for a software company. I was
just churning out documentation . . .
I knew there was no turning back when I joined the TECHWR-L discussion
list. I enjoyed debating about one or two spaces after the period,
identified with the Deer in Headlights Syndrome, and even spent a lot
of time discussing whether or not I was a writer and if I was indeed
an artist.
Dan cleared his throat and shook his head.
I thought it couldn't get any worse -- then SnagIt came into my life.
The group members nodded their encouragement.
I don't know how I ever accomplished anything before SnagIt! It's
such a time saver - with profiles, I created and stored my most
frequently used settings so I didn't have to constantly change my
configuration. Then with multiple outputs, I could simultaneously
send my capture to as many outputs as I wanted. And, SnagIt offers
more input and output options than any other screen capture program
--input an object, web, text, video, direct x, graphical or program
file!
Not only that, but in SnagIt Studio I added annotation like text, arrows
and clipart, and in the Catalog I easily selected multiple files to save,
convert, print and e-mail in batches!
Dan, spent, flopped into his chair.
A member turned to him and whispered desperately, Is SnagIt really as good
as you say?
Dan nodded weakly. He looked around him and realized that he hadn't
helped at all - every support group member was itching to get to a
computer to download SnagIt.
Inwardly, he smiled. At least if he couldn't help them, he'd enjoy
the company in the SnagIt online forum.
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