Hello everyone. My name is Ogechukwu Aina. I am a newbie in technical documentation and will be glad to have guidelines on how where to start
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Hello Ogechukwu, welcome! I think you have come to the right place 
Here’s a link to how you can get started. Give it a go, and let us know if you have any questions!
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Hello all.
Just curious, is the recording for the first Documentation Office Hours session available?
I was not able to join and would love to view it.
Hello!
Sorry for the delay on this - we did make a recording and I’ll hopefully be able to upload it today. I’ll add the links back here. We hope to record them all for people who may not be able to attend.
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The recording is now live - I’ll create a separate post to collate each recording, but you can access the video directly here: https://youtu.be/GT03aSdabJE
(we’ll try to be quicker next time)
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Hello all! My name is Damilola Oladele. I just got to know about this program. I gained documentation experience while working with Wagtail as an Outreachy intern and technical writer for the Google Season of Docs program. I am hoping to improve my documentation experience with this program.
Cheers!
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Hello Damilola! Thanks for the introduction! It’s great to have you here with us - and please always feel free to reach out to us here or on Matrix or email if you have any questions.
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Hi everyone. I am a new to technical documentation but I am happy to offer assistance, and chime in within the next meeting.
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Welcome! If you haven’t found it already a good place to go next for information is here: Getting started
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Hello all. I guess I’m a bit late to the party. However, I’ve viewed all the 3 recorded videos on YouTube and I’m ready to contribute. I believe this is an amazing initiative by the technical authors at Canonical. I’m excited to be a part of it.
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Here’s the URL for this week’s office hours - sorry for the confusion!
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Hi! I’d like to join the Office Hours to learn more about this project. Do I need to sign up to a session prior to being let in? Thanks!
Hello! We’ve just finished, unfortunately, but anyone can join, and you don’t need to sign up or do anything to attend. Just click on the link above (https://meet.google.com/zcy-onjk-smi). I’m still around for another 10 mins if you wanted to ask anything now, but we’ll also be back next Friday.
We’ve just uploaded a recording of today’s Office Hours. You can find a link in the post below:
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Hi - has there been a daylight savings change? I tried to join today’s session at 16:00 UTC, but … nothing. I see April 5th session will be at 15:00 UTC …
I’m really sorry we missed you! I’m not sure what happened, because we did have the meeting at 16:00 UTC. It may have been a different Meet URL after the mixup last week (which was my fault).
Currently the US and the rest of the world are a little out of sync with daylight savings, but that should resolve itself on Sunday.
And you’re right about next week’s. With the clocks going forward for most of us, it means the same numeric time is actually an hour earlier UTC; 16:00 British Summer Time, or 15:00 UTC. Please let us know if this isn’t as convenient and we’ll look at changing the time. And sorry again for missing you today.
Hi! Looking forward to attending the next meeting
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And I’m looking forward to the next one Just found out about ODA through the video on IDEs (now that I’ve seemed to have outgrown my distro-hopping phase I’m into editor-hopping)
This may not be the best place for introductions, but… it’s definitely the liveliest thread
I’m happy to help with some quick edits (hi @dimple-kuriakose ) now that I’m getting ready for holiday at the end of the month and then moving on from a 2 year stint in translating bootcamp courses (PL<->EN) into more direct authoring.
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Hi @krzysiekwie, welcome! It’s great to have you here and also your first contribution, which is already published!
We’ll look forward to meeting you in the next office hours.
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