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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+  type="topic"
+  id="start-conversation">
+
+  <info>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
+    <link type="seealso" xref="add-contact"/>
+    <desc>General method to start a conversation.</desc>
+    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
+      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
+    </credit>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2009</year>
+      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
+    </copyright>
+    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Start a conversation</title>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
+      </p>
+      <list>
+        <item>
+          <p>
+            Choose <guiseq><gui>Chat</gui><gui>New conversation</gui></guiseq>.
+          </p>
+        </item>
+        <item>
+          <p>
+            Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>N</key></keyseq>.
+          </p>
+        </item>
+      </list>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+        From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the account you want to
+         use for the conversation.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        This one is one of your accounts.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+        In the <gui>Contact ID</gui> text box, type the identifier of the contact you want to
+         have a conversation with.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        You have to enter the identifier as it has been inserted when adding a new contact to
+         your contact list. If you are trying to start a conversation using one of your IRC
+         accounts or a SIP account, you have to enter the exact nickname or the
+         exact SIP address of the contact.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>
+        To start a text conversation, click on <gui>Chat</gui>; to start
+         an audio conversation, click on <gui>Call</gui>.
+      </p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+</page>