Hey, I just ran Haiku for the first time through virtualbox on my macbook and I love it! I used BeOS back in high school and am way impressed with the progress that the Haiku team has made. Network and audio didn’t work but I didn’t know it would work with virtual box at all, so it’s very cool.
I’d like to help, but I’m not a programmer. I do training on a second level tech support team, creating trainings and cleaning up the knowledgebase, and so one thing I can do is help with user-oriented documentation. I looked through what’s available and I think there’s a need there, so I’m just wondering who I should get in contact with to start that, what different areas are priorities and how best to submit any documentation.
Just let me know, and if there is a FAQ somewhere that I missed that talks about this please point it out to me.
Thanks
Up until recently, the need for basic user documentation was believed to be a low priority, as A1 is not meant for use by non-dev users. And So the priority has been dev documentation.
Luckily after this , Humdinger posted this, and so it seems as if basic user documentation now has a much higher priority.
You should send a email to this ML and ask if you can help out.
If anyone wants to check over the dev documentation its here, user documentation is here.
The 1st draft of the offline (maybe also online) users documentation is here at the bottom of the page. What looks like the start of a the Offical Haiku User Manual can be found here.
At this stage,'til things get more organised and a dev can reply what to do, anyone who wants to submit user documentation should add a page under “Haiku User Documentation (Draft)” on this wiki page as Humdinger has done and then post about it on the ML.
thanks a lot for the help! I’ll look into that and see where I can contribute.
Nice summary, Richie. 
I didn’t even know about the Official Haiku User Manual.
Maybe it could be used to fill gaps and to give some idea what areas are of interest. The Mail part is pretty detailed already.
Anyone know who’s the original author? I guess darkwyrm…
Regards,
Humdinger
Hey Humdinger where are they hosting your Documentation in the SVN ?
Also on a side note, if anyone has any spare time could they proofread a tutorial I wrote, it bloody well needs it.
http://www.haikuware.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Virtual_Serial_Debugging_for_Virtualbox
You’ll find it all as part of the welcome package at http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk/docs/welcome/
I can’t check your tutorial, as I already tried and failed to get VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. I use VMWare Player instead, which was also a bitch to set up, but I somehow managed that…
Regards,
Humdinger
Cheers for the fast reply.
Also BTW its looking really good.
That’s all stippi’s (and I think mmu_man’s) doing, converting my first static HTML shot into a CSS using thing of beauty. Thanks guys!