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As you know, we're always looking for ways for people to be able to 
contribute to Docs, but we do understand that there's a certain amount 
of pain involved in dealing with Docbook.  So to try and make this 
process easier, we're going to try an experiment.

What we've put together is a system where you can update a wiki with 
links to content in whatever form you've got it -- gist on github, wiki 
page, blog post, whatever -- and we have a dedicated resource that will 
turn it into actual documentation, in Docbook. If you want to be added 
as a co-author on the patch, make sure to provide us the email address 
you used to become a Foundation member.

Because we know that the networking documentation needs particular 
attention, we're starting there.  We have a Networking Guide, from which 
we will ultimately pull information to improve the networking section of 
the admin guide.  The preliminary Table of Contents is here: 
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NetworkingGuide/TOC , and the 
instructions for contributing are as follows:

 1. Pick an existing topic or create a new topic. For new topics, we're
    primarily interested in deployment scenarios.
 2. Develop content (text and/or diagrams) in a format that supports at
    least basic markup (e.g., titles, paragraphs, lists, etc.).
 3. Provide a link to the content (e.g., gist on github.com, wiki page,
    blog post, etc.) under the associated topic.
 4. Send e-mail to reviewers networking at openstacknow.com.
 5. A writer turns the content into an actual patch, with tracking bug,
    and docs reviewers (and the original author, we would hope) make
    sure it gets reviewed and merged.


Please let us know if you have any questions/comments.  Thanks!

----  Nick
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Nick Chase
1-650-567-5640
Technical Marketing Manager, Mirantis
Editor, OpenStack:Now
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