[Coco] NitrOS-9 Project Website

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Lothan,

Great work.  Thanks for taking the time to do this.  It will go a long way toward making the documentation better.

On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Lothan wrote:

> I just submitted The NitrOS-9 Technical Reference in wiki format to SourceForge after spending several hours cleaning up the formatting to make it readable. The document is far from perfect at this point, but it should be readable and the table of contents at the top of the page seems to be working. Now that it the headings are in place, it should be a lot easier to edit.
> 
> If anyone wants to edit it, I recommend editing individual sections rather than editing the entire document. Editing and submitting changes to a chapter or section is relatively quick and easy using either Firefox or Internet Explorer.
> 
> If you attempt to edit and submit changes to the entire document, expect a few problems along the way. I tried several times, but I could not get Firefox 3.6.3 to submit the changes to the entire document (it just explodes after a couple of minutes). Internet Explorer 8 submits the entire document every time, although it takes several minutes. The most frustrating aspect of uploading the entire document is that SourceForge doesn't merge in the entire change set for some reason. I finally gave up and fixed the last of the major formatting issues by editing the sections.
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> From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:20 PM
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> Subject: [Coco] NitrOS-9 Project Website
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>> Today I have moved the NitrOS-9 Project website over to a Wiki hosted service on SourceForge.net.  So http://www.nitros9.org now points to the NitrOS-9 Project Wiki.
>> 
>> Moving to the Wiki gives us community collaboration on the documentation and writing aspect of the project -- anyone can sign up and edit the Wiki.
>> 
>> There is work to be done and I am asking for volunteers to edit and fix up the following pages:
>> 
>> - Getting Started With NitrOS-9
>> - NitrOS-9 Technical Reference
>> - The NitrOS-9 Windowing System
>> 
>> These are in Microsoft Word form in the docs/ folder of the NitrOS-9 project (see http://nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nitros9/nitros9/docs/) and must converted to PDF every time they are updated.  I have now put them on the Wiki page as text dumps. There are formatting issues that need to be addressed, so anyone who has the time and desire, please sign up and let me know.  I'll set your account up so that you can make editing changes.
>> 
>> Beyond the documentation, this is a whole new and easy way to add collaborative content to the project.
>> 
>> Any questions, please let me know.
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