[GRASSweb-list]markus: web help-wanted.html,1.4,1.5

Fri Dec 10 05:09:06 EST 2004

Author: markus

Update of /grassrepository/web
In directory doto:/tmp/cvs-serv15605

Modified Files:
	help-wanted.html 
Log Message:
extended

Index: help-wanted.html
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RCS file: /grassrepository/web/help-wanted.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -d -r1.4 -r1.5

--- help-wanted.html	7 Nov 2003 09:13:06 -0000	1.4
+++ help-wanted.html	10 Dec 2004 10:09:04 -0000	1.5
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <html>
 <head>
    <DEFANGED_meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
-   <DEFANGED_meta name="Author" content="MN/GRASS Development Team, inspired by GNU Octave">
+   <DEFANGED_meta name="Author" content="Markus Neteler, inspired by GNU Octave">
    <DEFANGED_link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sitestyle.css">
    <title>GRASS: Help wanted!</title>
 </head>
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@
 There are a number of ways that you can contribute to help make GRASS a
 better GIS system. Perhaps the most important way to contribute is to <b>write
 high-quality code for solving old and new problems</b>, and to make your code freely
-available for others to use. For inspiration, we have a wish-list of
+available for others to use. For inspiration, we have a <b>wish-list</b> of
 <a href=http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_sort=area&q_reverse=1&q_queue=grass>projects</a>
 and feature requests. Just pick a task from the list. It may be a good idea to
-send a small posting to a <a href=support.html>GRASS mailing list</a> to
+send a small posting to a related <a href="support.html">GRASS mailing list</a> to
 announce you activities (maybe someone will join you!).
 </p>
 
-<p> If you've <b>already written</b> a useful function or module for GRASS that you
+<h3>C Programming</h3>
+If you've <b>already written</b> a useful function or module for GRASS that you
 would like to make available for others to use, please post it to the <a
 href="support.html#grass5_list">GRASS 5 developers</a> mailing list. GRASS standard
 code should be written in ANSI-C. Messages sent to this list will be seen by the 
@@ -40,24 +41,37 @@
 the code is not included in a future release, it will remain available for others to use.
 </p>
 
-<p> If you find GRASS useful, consider <a href="commercial.html">providing
+<h3>Writing/Updating/Improving documentation</h3>
+If you see manual pages or other documents which are outdated, grammatically
+incorrect, to short, lacking examples, please don't hesitate to send <b>text pieces</b>
+(preferably in HTML) to one of the developers or the related mailing list.
+
+<p> Also <b>updates to the web pages</b> are welcome. Just use the contact address at
+bottom or our <a href="bugtracking/bugreport.html">bugtracking system</a>. Please consider
+to send text pieces rather than general statements to speed up the update process.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Translating GRASS: i18N</h3>
+You would like to see GRASS talking your language? Please help to translate the
+messages. No programming skills required! For details, see the <a href=i18n.html>GRASS i18N page</a>.
+
+<h3>Funding</h3>
+If you find GRASS useful, consider <a href="commercial.html">providing
 additional funding</a> to continue its development. Even a modest amount of
 additional funding could make a significant difference in the amount of time
 that its author can devote to development and support.</p>
 
-<p> If you are not a programmer and cannot provide funding or contribute code,
+<h3>Other contributions</h3>
+If you are not a programmer and cannot provide funding or contribute code,
 you can still help make GRASS better and more reliable by 
 <a href="bugtracking/bugreport.html">reporting any bugs</a> you find in the 
 latest version and/or by offering suggestions for ways to improve GRASS. 
 The GRASS Development Team appreciates to hear from you!</p>
 
-<p> Also <b>updates to the web pages</b> or to the GRASS <b>manual pages</b> 
-are welcome. Just use the contact address at bottom or our <a href="bugtracking/bugreport.html">bugtracking system</a>.
-</p>
 
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+<DIV ALIGN=right>&copy; 2002-2004 GRASS Development Team<br>
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