Aurélien Pocheville wrote:
I'm Aurélien Pocheville, french phd student.
I'm willing to give some help to the dev project. I'm almost exclusively
interested in templates (more in Impress Templates than in other). I'm
also quite interested in the website part presenting templates.
Here is what I think I could do for the project:
1/ Revamp the templates page, with screenshots and a more modern way of
presentation. No offense intended, but I believe the current
presentation looks not good at all. People are are first looking at
In this context I'd like to raise two points:
Why are templates part of the documentation project? Shouldn't they
rather be with art.oo.o?
I would like to suggest a revamp of the doc.oo.o site in the
near future. No offense, Gerry, you're doing a great job, but I
think we should separate the portals for users seeking help and
contributors offering help more clearly.
Aurélien, if you have any ideas about the "more modern way of
presenting", maybe we can use that for a consistent presentation
of the doc.oo.o pages?
Any comments?
graphics and look&feel, authors and information about installing the
templates are relevant, but less important. I also believe that the 2.x
templates&cliparts should be pushed more in front.
2/ Work on more templates for Impress, based on ideas taken on the web,
on MS-Offices templates (they already have done the research of what
users are looking for us) and ideas in this list. Maybe also on some
artwork&cliparts.
3/ Try to integrate more templates with the distribution of OpenOffice.
I know this can be quite difficult, but in the current state people
wanting to create a new Impress document are left with two samples. This
not a very large number... If this implies giving away my work to Sun,
I'm ok with it, if it helps adoption of OOo.
You will never be "giving away your work to Sun". The utmost you do is
to *share* your copyright with Sun. You will never lose anything.
I wanted to start a mockup of the template page, therefore I downloaded
with CVS a fresh checkout of the documentation repository. The problem
is, the copy I get is not what is currently on the website, nor what the
online CVS browser is displaying. I'm using tortoiseCVS latest on
windows, and my CVSROOT is this one
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs with a module :
'documentation' without ''. My copy is not in sync with the website...
Anyone has an idea of what is getting wrong ? Currently I'm stuck at
this stage...
Sorry, but I cannot help you with your original problem. The files
should be in documentation/www
Frank
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