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? -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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