Jeremy: Mentoring Project

[Jordan Mantha]

On 9/5/07, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 01:59 -0400, jeremy at hankenson.net wrote:
> >   I am Jeremy, Currently interested in joining the Mentoring Program
> > for
> > the Ubuntu Documentation group. Little Bio about myself; I have been
> > interested in Linux for about 4 years, installing distributions on and
> > off. I finally decided to give Linux(Ubuntu) another try and now I
> > have
> > learned quite a bit. Also, Interested in Python programming, So I have
> > bought a book and getting my mind bottled on Python programming.
> >
> > I figured that this mentoring program would get myself completely
> > focused on Linux(Ubuntu) and finally be able to be productive using
> > it.
> > I hope to finally help the Ubuntu Community by writing documentation.
>
> That's great, welcome to the programme! Do you have any ideas on what
> you might be interested in writing about?
>
> For example, I've been doing a bit of Python programming recently, but
> found that there aren't many good resources out there for things like
> libnotify. Would you be interested in writing a few guides on basic
> programing in Python for Ubuntu? Python is very well supported in
> Ubuntu, so I think that it would be useful to get some nice task-based
> guides prepared. We already ship 'Dive into Python' which covers the
> language itself, but I was thinking more along the lines of putting
> articles such as 'Showing notification icons and bubbles' and 'Using GTK
> TreeViews as lists' on the Help wiki [1].
>
> Hopefully we could build up a small collection of articles which, when
> used alongside Dive into Python and the PyGTK guide, would help a Python
> novice create a small, useful GTK application for Ubuntu.
>
> What do you think?

Once upon a time I started and registered a spec kinda along these lines:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/scripting-for-users-doc
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScriptingDoc

It might be something for somebody to pick up on.

-Jordan