I'm looking at the task list and it looks like the Calc guide is ready for review, but not actually being reviewed by anyone. I downloaded Chapter 1 to review. Please let me know if anyone else is already doing this? If someone is already doing this, please point me in the direction of a task that needs doing.
Also, how do I update the task list to reflect that I am reviewing it? Ana On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- > Jean Hollis Weber > Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected] > For additional commands send email to [email protected] > with Subject: help > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
