Translating from German to English definitely sounds like something I would be up for and interested in doing. Seems like a good idea :-)
Lindsay On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > I think work on translating the Base Handbook is going to have the biggest > impact on the whole community. Other things are fairly crucial too, of > course, as always. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > *To:* Lindsay Kemmlein <lkemml...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* documentation@global.libreoffice.org > *Sent:* Friday, 5 October 2012, 12:36 > *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation Volunteering > > If you can translate from German into English, you could help a lot > with the Base Handbook. > > If you prefer to do something else, we always have many more projects > than people to work on them. > > Some of us spend most of our time keeping the English user guides up > to date, but we would also like to have people produce other materials > including tutorials and howtos, for both general audiences and > specific audiences such as academics or students or businesspeople. > Whatever your interest, there is definitely room for you to be > involved, and we will be very happy to have you on the team. > > I'll have someone set up an account on the ODFAuthors website, which > is where we do most of the work. But if you prefer to work directly on > the wiki, that can be accommodated too. > > --Jean > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Lindsay Kemmlein <lkemml...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > My name is Lindsay Kemmlein, and I am interested in volunteering with the > > documentation side of things in LibreOffice. Is there room for me to be > > involved? I see I'm also supposed to request a user account on the > > ODFAuthors website. > > > > A bit about me. I just graduated from Temple University with a degree in > > German education, but I also have an interest writing. I worked as a > > writing tutor/editor at my university writing center. We focused on > helping > > students with content strength and grammatical accuracy in academic > > assignments (mostly essays, but also things like PowerPoint documents and > > lab reports). > > > > So, I'm interested in things like editing, proofreading, and reviewing. > I'm > > also hoping to gain a bit of experience with documentation writing. > > > > I look forward to getting started! > > > > Lindsay K > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+ > h...@global.libreoffice.org > > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+ > h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
