On 02/03/10 14:43, Claire Wood wrote:
Hi, my name is Claire and I'm retraining as a technical author following a
career break to care for a loved one.
I have 5 years documentation experience and am looking at upgrading my skill
set.
I'd love to contribute to the documentation side of things and the FAQ's and
thus build up my portfolio.
Would love some guidance about where to start.
Yours sincerely
Claire Wood
Hi Claire
Welcome to the Documentation Project at OpenOffice.org :-)
There are many areas where your help would be most welcome. To get you
started, you can take a look at the Documentation Wiki at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation There you will
find most of the documentation that we have available for OpenOffice.org.
The quickest and easiest place to get started is right there on the
Wiki. You only need to create a user account there (if you haven't
already got one) and dive in. Reviewing and editing the existing docs
is where a lot of new team members get started. It gives you a feel for
what the documents are like, and what we are trying to achieve.
From there, you can transition to actually working on the core documents.
Right now there is a lot of effort being put into updating the User
Guides for the OpenOffice.org 3.2 release. The highest priority is the
Writer Guide.
On the FAQ side of things, those are all on the Wiki at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ If you'd
like to work on that side of things, they can all also use an edit and a
fresh pair of eyes looking them over. Many of the answers to the FAQs
are out of date, and need to be brought in line with the upcoming 3.2
release.
So, lots to do, you only have to pick the part that interests you and
dive in. Please use this mailing list to ask questions, and just chat
with the team, and let us know what part you're interested in.. maybe
there is someone already working on it and they would definitely welcome
the assistance.
C.
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Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
Sun Microsystems, Hamburg, Germany
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