Hi, :-) When I was working over the "Get Involved" section of the libreoffice.org website, I was trying to figure out who to dump the subject of template development on. In the end, I concluded that it's an area in which the docs team could be active.
We're currently very short on templates to offer our user base. To be more precise, our template download page [1] has precisely two templates (thanks to Ron Faile for developing them). This is not a very generous endowment, yet templates can be a major productivity-booster for LibreOffice users. My idea is that we could trawl the Web and acquire a good collection, upload them to Alfresco, work on them, and then put them on our template download page [1] with a credit to the author, as well as sending back a copy to the original source (when the said source/author is locatable). We could possibly highlight the best 10 of the bunch on the libreoffice.org Features > Templates page [2]. There are various sites we could get Open Source templates from, but we need to be *very* careful about checking the licensing of the said templates for GPL/Creative Commons licensing: - http://opentemplate.org/ - http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ - http://www.smalldataproblem.org/ooextras/ - http://www.presentationmagazine.com/free-open-office-impress-templates-91.htm The above are just a few possible sources. There are many templates out there that fulfill the same purpose, but they are often far from being equal in terms of quality and design. The goal would be to collect only the best, so that we only offer good produce to our users. What do you think of this idea? Any takers for getting involved in this? [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Downloads/Templates [2] http://www.libreoffice.org/features/templates/ [3] http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/documenters/ David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
