[email protected] wrote:
Hello,
My name is Wayne Franz and I'm new to the mailing list.
Currently, I am a Computer Science student the University of Manitoba
up in
Canada.
This term, a group of students from my department have been in
conversation
with Jean regarding a project for a technical writing course we are
taking. Our
goal is to produce a number of tutorial/how-to style documents
targeted toward
university students and the tasks that they perform on a regular
basis (as they pertain to OpenOffice.org). We have enlisted the help
of a 3rd
year technical writing class (about 20 writers) to assist with this task.
We would like to express an interest in donating our final product to
OpenOffice.org under the Public Document License. We recognize that you
have an editing process that such work would typically go through, and
also
that (considering the range of excellent documentation that you
already have)
you may or may not find our work useful.
So, we came up with the idea of posting our work to a simple website
hosted
on our campus servers. The OpenOffice.org documentation community
could feel
free to take a look to see what we have. If you like it, we could
pass the
documents along to you, or provide you with a link to our site that
you could
post as a resource. If not, it would still be up on the web as a
resource for
our University community.
With this in mind, we had two quick questions:
1) Do you see any issues with us using the OpenOffice document
template for the
documents that we post to our site (any work we post would be under
the PDF
lisence)?
2) If you were interested in our work, does the idea we have proposed
(regarding providing with you a link to our site that you could post)
sound like a good idea, or would you rather that we submit the documents
to you? We both videos and documents.
We would welcome any feedback (good, bad or otherwise) that you might
have. I
apologize for the length of this post. If you have any questions,
feel free to
respond on the list or send me an email.
All the best,
-Wayne Franz
As a member of the development project, I personally think your
project is an excellent idea. Clayton and Jean are the Co-leads, so they
will have the final say as to how this is to be arranged. Personally,
the more materials we have that college students can use to learn how
OOo will do what they need to accomplish the better.
Dan
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