On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:08 +0200, Frank Peters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> one thing that I noticed while talking to people
> on OOoCon2006 in Lyon is that there is a *lot* of
> writing potential in some native language groups.
> 
> Particularly the German (de) and French (fr) groups
> apparently are very productive.

I have said this many times. Scott has said the same thing many
times. :-)

> 
> Thinking about that, the following questions
> come to my mind (you may notice hat I like
> bulleted lists...):
> 
> - How can we shamelessly exploit ;-) those talents
>    for the documentation "mother" project?
> 

Quite frankly, I have not found a way. It appears that most of the
project members are uni-lingual, probably English. This situation makes
it somewhat awkward to take advantage of other project's work. I have
tried to get important docs into the repository. 

> - How can we make sure that both docs and native
>    lang projects benefit from each other's docs
>    efforts? I know that we already link to the native
>    language docs pages but is there a closer connection
>    in place?
> 

For a start, the documentation project does offer direct access to the
NLCs, who have given UTLs, and their documentation. I would applaud
closer ties but ...
 
> - Should we have someone with corresponding language
>    skills looking through the repositories and see
>    where there is room for synergy (buzzz!)?
> 

This process assumes that you can direct users. If one could encourage
NLC authors to report new/revised/important works on this list then I
expect there would be positive responses.

> - Talking about other projects: do we also go through
>    the developer projects to harvest what they write?
> 

Hmm, I thought we were doing that with evaluating the possibility of
creating an OOo DevGuide.

> Just a few thoughts.
> I apologize for any dumb questions.
> 

Not a dumb question in the message, at all. Good ideas or food for
thought.

P.S. I am still getting PostTo to a simple reply. Is the newsgroup in
your ReplyTo?
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