Hi :) I think we may end up re-absorbing a lot of the OpenOffice community. Many people have been working in both communities already anyway.
My impression is that there is a choice of ways of working in Documentation and that updated documents are copied into the various places. As a result we have experts in the ways the OOo people work and our experts interface well with people that have developed significantly better ways with the new systems. Hopefully this means we can help people move to the new methods at their own pace. I'm not sure that we need leadership but we do need confidence. Self confidence. Often people only get that from strong leadership. Guidance from people like Hal on how her work-flow works would help . Perhaps someone can help her draft a document on that since her time is limited. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Jeremy Cartwright <vardomes...@gmail.com> To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 19:52:13 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I'm working on Calc Guide On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:24:44 -0300 Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.roge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hal ... I still am not confident to start working on these chapter > until a formal workflow develops, > > > > Haven't heard from anyone else. Is anyone doing anything on the > > other books? > > > > Hal > I agree with Rogerio. And in light of the subject matter of this link http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss I wonder in which direction the community will go. Personally I joined LibreOffice because I felt it necessary to promote a competitive free and open source office suite. I thought the only way I could be of service was to join the Documenters. Once I realized that's not just writing I've tried to work into a coordinating position while I learn more about the craft. Since I've begun with LibreOffice, there seems to be a split between the n00bs who joined on with LibreOffice and the old-schoolers who have been up and down since StarOffice, and what is the best way to work toward LibreOffice documentation. I just want to see one big happy family working in a coordinated way. In light of the recent developments at Oracle, and the perhaps timely personal disaster we have experienced with our Alfresco workflow being reset, I wonder in which direction the community will go. Is Jean Hollis Weber willing/able to modify her accepted plone setup to not rely so much on OpenOffice.org workflow and getting started documentation? Is David Nelson going to re-emerge as the driving force behind Alfresco? Is there going to be some consensus reached as to what is the real and proper way to document LibreOffice? I wonder in which direction the community will go. If a leader emerges, I will follow. If one doesn't emerge... we need a leader. tl;dr Wat Do? -- jdc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
