Matthew, Welcome to the team!
More info on our processes is here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development Some of that is a bit out of date, but you should get the idea. If Olivier hasn't already done so, I'll create an account for you on ODFAuthors, which is where we store the working files of the chapters of the various books. As for something to get you started, I'm updating the Writer Guide from v4.2 to 5.2, which is a big jump and needs to include a lot of changes. I would appreciate a careful and thorough review of the chapters I've done, which are here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/drafts-v5.2 Or here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/feedback-5.2 Note 1: you'll need to be logged in to see these. Note 2: I am making some changes in the organisation of this book. You can see the chapter structure listed here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks#Writer_Guide --Jean (Former Team Leader, LibreOffice Documentation) On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 00:16 Matthew An <myan5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Olivier, > > Thank you for your response. Are the docs mainly situated in the books on > the documentation page? I think I would prefer to handle the Getting > Started pages first, and then progressing from there to other projects. > That being said, is there any rudimentary work that I can do to get > familiar with your protocols? I downloaded the doc template off of the > website, but I was wondering if there was some proofreading work or basic > writing work that I could practice on before handling a larger project. > > Thanks, > > Matthew > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:46 AM Olivier Hallot < > olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > > > Welcome Matthew > > > > Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and you > > will find a lot to do. > > > > We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are edited > > in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents, etc...) > > > > We can start in 2 directions > > > > one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version > > 5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty). > > > > The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book) > > and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the module > > software (medium to hard difficulty). > > > > To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like > > please get any of them in the documentation website at > > > > http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/ > > > > and let me know your prefered project. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Olivier > > > > > > > > > > Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu: > > > Hello there, > > > > > > My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and > > > Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was > hoping > > to > > > contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer. I > > have > > > previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small > > startup > > > company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of entering > > > graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time to > > hone > > > my tech writing skills. > > > > > > Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope that I > > can > > > give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills > > with! > > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > > > > > Matthew > > > > > > > -- > > Olivier Hallot > > LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator > > Comunidade LibreOffice > > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00 > > http://tdf.io/joinus > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > documentation+unsubscr...@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 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@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 > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@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
