On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:36 +0200, Frank Peters wrote: > Hi, > > Uwe and myself* are going to visit OOocon in Lyon in > September and we would like to meet as many of you as > possible to discuss the future of OOo product > documentation, particularly the future of the online help. > > For this purpose, we would like to hold a BOF session > at the conference where we can discuss related issues. > The main focus will be online help but we think it makes > sense to talk about other areas of collaboration, too. > > Is anyone of you planning to hand in a proposal for > a session at OOoCon 2006 that deals with OOo documentation? > > If not, would you support a BOF about online help (and more)? > Are there any specific topics you would like to see addressed? > > * For those who don't know us: Uwe is a technical writer > on the OpenOffice.org/StarOffice documentation team and he > is the wizard of online help. All complaints and bugs > go to him and he basically writes the help. > > I am the manager of the team and I maintain the xhp format, > and some tooling around it. We both work for > Sun Microsystems in Hamburg. > > Let us know what you think > Frank
I think this is great. In fact I think there are documentation members willing and able to get involved. In fact I recognized this some weeks ago and contacted [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following message: On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:19 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > I have just gone through the 38 issues that you just changed the target > on. To me, this means that you and the few others on the team are > swamped. So I would like to help you help help. Here are some ideas: > > 1. An exclusive discussion mailing list on > documentation.openoffice.org. > 2. Help with recruiting editors et cetera to get the content > correct. > 3. Exploring ways to bring On-line Help issues to the doc project > membership. > > Please let us know what we can do to make your task easier and more > productive. With the conference coming up, I would like to bring these ideas to a broader audience particularly the On-line Help team. Surely we can help Help :-) -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
