Re: [authors] Request Author Role

[Andrew Jensen]

Janet, Alright then. Let me see if I have this understood. I have the first tutorial written in Writer 2.0 format. It is based on the V2.0 User Guide Chapter template. Currently it is 25 pages long, and I suspect will be a few pages longer with the final touches to the first draft. My preference would be to generate a PDF from this file, but am open to change if others think HTML would be better. Having read the sections on the review process, how to submit, how to publish and scanning the tutorials section under Members I take that eventually these steps will happen: 1 - Create a new section under Members-Tutorials named "Base Tutorials" (since the tutorial is for the Base module) 2 - Create a page for the Tutorial itself named "First Database", or something similar. 3 - "First Database" is an HTML page that covers the target reader and an overview of what is contained in the tutorial. 4 - Within the HTML page add a link to the actual tutorial PDF file. 5 - Within the HTML page add a link to the companion ODB file. (Actually, I have been wondering if I should include this as at all, as the tutorial takes the reader through the process of creating this file. My thought is that having the actual database as it should exist when the tutorial is finished available, would be a help.) and that to get from here - nothing - to there - published - I start by doing this: 1 - Create an HTML: page for "First Database" that covers the target reader and an overview of what is contained in the tutorial. 2 - Within the HTML page add a dummy link to the actual tutorial PDF file. 3 - Within the HTML page add a dummy link to the companion ODB file. 4 - Enter "My Folder" on the site. 5 - Add new Item - this is the HTML file for the "First Database" page. 6 - Add new Item - this is the PDF file. "BaseIn60Min_17AUG05_AJ.PDF" 7 - Add new Item - this is the ODB file. "Schooldays.odb" 8 - For each of the items above change the state to "Submit" 9 - Post email to this list announcing the items availability for review. Is this pretty much it. Andrew Janet M. Swisher wrote: There is an area of the site for tutorials, which you may have already found, at <http://oooauthors.org/en/members/tutorials/>. We don't have quite as much infrastructure for tutorials, such as templates, as we do for the User Guide and how-tos. You'll see that some of the tuturials in that folder are HTML pages, and some are OOo or PDF files. The "multi-lingual" tutorials appear to use a version of the User Guide template (which has been updated since those were written). I'd suggest starting with the User Guide template for your tutorial documents, and adapting it as needed for your purposes. You can create a folder for your tutorial and post your database file along with your document. Post them separately, rather than zipped, at least to start with. I'm not quite sure how we'll handle publishing them to documentation.openoffice.org (as we do with the User Guide chapters), but we'll figure that out when that time gets closer. You should be able to use the site's "state" mechanism for reviewing and publishing your documents. Take a look at "Contributor Resources" <http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/resources/> to understand how our process works.