On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 03:59 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My name is Daniel Shirley. I'm a reformed English teacher and writer.
> I've spent a fair amount of time writing marketing materials, and I've
> decided I'd like to shift my focus into technical writing. I thought
> that Open Office would be a great place to start. I've been using it
> for years, and am grateful for the opportunity to give something back.
>
> I plan on taking some time to just watch the discussions and
> familiarize myself with what's going on here, and it looks like the
> FAQs may be a good place to cut my teeth.
>
> However, if there are pressing needs, I'm more than happy to make
> myself available. I'm not afraid to ask questions, and when I run into
> things I don't already know, I tend to be a quick study. Please, put
> me to work!
Various people have made a start at bringing the FAQs up to date (or
deleting them if totally obsolete), organising them, improving the
wording, perhaps adding some illustrations, and mining the user forums
for topics that should be added. However, much remains to be done, so
that is a good place to contribute.
Similarly, more how-to's could be useful. In fact, some of the FAQs
might be better presented as how-to's, and I believe some work has been
done on a few of them: leaving the FAQ with a pointer to the how-to.
(How-to's, btw, can be either in wiki format or .odt or both.)
Tutorials are similar to how-to's, but often longer, covering more
complex tasks and typically working through a specific example. Like
how-to's, they can be either in wiki format or .odt or both.
Should you be interested in helping with the user guide, we have an
ongoing need for reviewing and updating chapters when the program is
updated... as well as improving the content by rewriting, reorganising,
adding examples, etc. This work is done through the ODFAuthors website,
for which you would need a separate signon and read/write ("author")
permissions. At the moment we are doing final revisions to the Calc
Guide, updating it to OOo 3.3; I can give you more info if you would
like to work on that.
Jean
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Jean Hollis Weber
Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project
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