On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 12:56 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Frank Peters wrote: > > Why are templates part of the documentation project? Shouldn't they > > rather be with art.oo.o? > > I think templates are much closer to documentation than to art, > or any other part of marketing. An ordinary user looking for > templates would never think to look for them under art, and > probably not marketing. Of course, if we had a good user-oriented > page on the main website somewhere that pointed people to a > variety of things (user guides, templates, whatever), it would > not matter so much where they were stored or which project had > responsibility for them. > > > 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. > > +1 > I agree, very much so. Indeed, as mentioned above, I think a > user-oriented section of the main OOo site is something we've > needed for a long time. As it is now, the "contributing" parts > and the "I'm just a user" parts of the main site are too much > mixed up together. The Support page is a step in this direction, > but a lot of the links then take people to projects, where they > get lost. > > Aurélien Pocheville wrote, > >> 3/ Try to integrate more templates with the distribution of > >> OpenOffice. > > +1 Absolutely. >
As I pointed out to Aurélien, template creators must sign the JCA before their work can be considered. Wish it were not so but that is the current situation. I have heard from others that this situation is being examined for a change to a more open way to contribute templates et cetera. Hope it happens but right now we are stuck with JCA :-( -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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