I wish to become a Gentoo developer to assist with the Gentoo documentation. Specifically I wish to work on the following documents. * Gentoo Accessibility Guide - how to install Gentoo with Speakup, how to build a working Gnome system with Gnopernicus, what Gnome software currently works best with speech (OpenOffice, Mozilla etc). I would also like to discuss other accessibility software such as BRLTTY etc. We could also investigate the possibility of a dedicated mailing list for Accessibility under Gentoo. * Building an OpenSource mail scanner with Exim / Clamav / DSPAM Currently we have good documentation available for Postfix and Qmail, but Exim has not received much coverage. Exim can make an excellent MTA, and when combined with CLAMAV and DSPAM, it can be very effective in killing spam before it hits the users inbox. Setting up Exiscan with DSPAM and Clamav is not trivial however, and I had to fight with it for a day or two to get it working right. I would very much like to document this process, for my own personal reference, should I need to rebuild again, and for anyone else interested in per suing a setup of this nature. * Configuring Apache + PHP + MySQL for a virtual hosting environment. Gentoo is one of the best platforms I have seen for this purpose, and the web hosting company I work for has switched to Gentoo for our entire web hosting infrastructure. I would like to put a document together to discuss the various challenges in putting together such a system, and ways in which to make a shared hosting environment secure. The existing Gentoo documentation is great, and I would be greatly honored to be able to contribute to it in any way I can. I can be reached by email at Mitchell Smith <djstatik@djstatik.net>. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The usual process is for the mentor to open the new developer bug after the person has showed they are developer material, trustworthy, etc. Please get ahold of SwifT (swift@gentoo.org or SwifT on irc.freenode.org). Marking this LATER for now.
Mitchell, please do contact the Gentoo Documentation Project by subscribing to the gentoo-doc@gentoo.org mailinglist and occasionally dropping by at #gentoo-doc.
