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Good luck! --Panic (discuss • contribs) 16:37, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Greetings!
Hi, i am new to wikibooks. I am maintaining a porting guide on a server. Some people said to me wikipedia/wikibooks is the perfect place to maintain this porting guide. So, i am exploring the possibilities by transferring the contents of the guide to wikibooks. I have to clean up some things while trying to conform to the wikibooks style and conventions. Other people are (then) invited to enhance, comment, expand, update,....

I sure can use the help of a experienced wikibooks author to get these things done. One of the things i want to know is how to properly name and "store" this guide, so it can be easily found by other people.

Forgive me for my ignorance and bad English!

kind regards Ton van der Zwet.


 * Besides the links provided above, take a look at Using Wikibooks/Starting A New Wikibook and Manual of Style, those will provide some general information and a starting point. As for the name/title select something that is descriptive but not too generic.
 * You may also try to start the book in you natural language on the Wikibooks project dedicated to it.  --Panic (discuss • contribs) 17:00, 10 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Consider also if you could write a book on OpenVMS (or if someone could use your book as a section of a greater project). I would also drop the "Open source" bit from the title since the action of porting software is no dependent on how open the source code is and any special considerations could be covered in a specific section. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 17:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)