Jean Weber had an after-thought that might be useful to know.

I am forwarding it to the list with her permission.

 - Dennis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Weber [mailto:jeanwe...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 17:10
> To: orc...@apache.org
> Subject: Re: Can we get this started again?
> 
> Dennis,
> More info, which may be relevant to any discussions on the AOO-Docs
> list, which I am not following. You may forward this message if you
> wish. I'm sure I've made these points on the list before, but people
> may need reminding.
> 
> Many people have the mistaken impression that "ODFAuthors" is a group
> of people who produce documentation. It is not, although its
> predecessor OOoAuthors was a group of people. ODFAuthors is a
> *website* that provides space for groups of people to store files
> during the documentation production process. The only group that has
> been using the ODFAuthors website for several years is the LibreOffice
> Documentation team. However, there is no reason why AOO docs people
> can't use it too, if they wish; in fact, there has been a folder for
> AOO set up there from the beginning.
> 
> However, when talking about sharing files, there are licensing issues
> that get in the way. I'm not going to go into the details, which are
> fairly well known. But that is a separate matter from the possible or
> potential use of the website.
> 
> Lastly, the ODFAuthors website is not intended to be a distribution
> point for published documentation. LibreOffice docs, for example, are
> distributed through the TDF wiki and the LO website.
> 
> Regards, Jean


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