Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile
those companies generously donate their employees' time to OO.o. All others are purely unpaid volunteers. I definitely agree with the generous donation part. I want to say something about how special purely unpaid volunteers are. Just to reinforce this very positive statement. Many people have discovered during this recession that money has absolutely no affect on their skills or who they are. Money says nothing about how intelligent you are, how capable you are, and how good you are. Money just says you have a job and you are getting paid to contribute to society. Having a job and making money doesn't make you a better person. Truth be known, our society is running at very low capacity. We have in some ways a very inefficient economy. The biggest resource on this planet is people. Everyone is intelligent and capable. For a company to restrict its ability to accomplish projects only to people it can afford to hire is to severely restrict that company's ability to accomplish its projects. There are huge numbers of people who want to be involved to help solve problems and complete projects. To limit a company's ability by only depending on people it can pay is to restrict it's ability to move ahead very rapidly. The other restriction we are overcoming is the ability to organize people from a variety of backgrounds to work efficiently together on a project. This project is an example of how resources are beginning to develop to organize a variety of people and their talents and direct them towards a common goal. This project is the future. This project begins to tap a huge resource of very capable and talented people. Now we must find some way to free people from being concerned about survival. We must remove the fear of not having a place to live or food to eat. Make it so people are no longer concerned about their survival and instead, can concentrate on giving the best of what they have to society. Science has proven the health costs to society of people from poverty is far higher than that of either obesity or smoking. Over 80 percent of the people in jail come from poverty. It is far more expensive to society to sustain poverty than it is to eliminate it. The costs of the social problems arising from poverty are immense. Let's build a world which runs efficiently for a change. There are huge numbers of untapped resources available. Let's build a world where everyone is involved. Let's build a world where everyone is able to contribute their talent and abilities to the best of their ability without being afraid of not having food to eat or a place to live. Let's look after each other. Let's build the kind of world we all want to live in. Alan On 3/3/2010 11:05 PM, Claire Wood wrote: Thanks for the replies. It is something that is relevant in the UK, luckily once I explained the situation, the nice man at the dole office let me off, but it might not be the same for someone else so maybe a standard letter when you initially sign up would be a good idea. Then everyone knows where they stand. certainly did and I'm sure anyone else in the UK would find it equally funny. They wanted me to get a form signed by OOo to say that I was a volunteer. (You have to declare that you're working voluntarily and not getting paid so that it doesn't affect your benefits while you're searching for work.) I had to explain that it couldn't be done because the person that would need to sign it was probably on the other side of the world! It served to show that systems in this country need to be dragged into the 21st century and account for people using the internet. Hm, are they fine with an e-mail or a fax? I don't know you very well, so I can't write anything, but if someone asks me for a reference, and I know him from my work within OOo, I'm happy to write a few lines. However, of course, no official organization stands behind that, so I don't know if they would accept it. Florian This sounds like something the Council might want to handle, with a boilerplate letter, (assuming I have the facts straight) something like: Subject: Unpaid volunteers OO.o employs and pays no one. The few people who do get paid for their work here are employed by sponsoring companies, such as Oracle; those companies generously donate their employees' time to OO.o. All others are purely unpaid volunteers. (This to go out over the chairman's signature, as email or fax.) -- /tj/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail:dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail:dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?
If you are using Adobe LiveCycle Designer (cs3 for me) you can change the point size on the checkbox to any size you wish. Alan On 3/3/2010 4:10 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Is there any way to change the size of the checkboxes, option buttons, and other symbols used in form controls? I haven't been able to find it, but when using a checkbox (etc) in a form with large type in the text, the size of the checkbox is very small by comparison. I hope I'm just missing something... --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?
ok. although usually i find there are cross-platform similarities in design. Alan On 3/3/2010 5:50 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Um... this question was referring to creating forms in OOo Writer. We're documenting OOo, so it's pretty irrelevant what an Adobe product will do... especially one that doesn't run on Linux. --Jean deleeuw3 wrote: If you are using Adobe LiveCycle Designer (cs3 for me) you can change the point size on the checkbox to any size you wish. Alan On 3/3/2010 4:10 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Is there any way to change the size of the checkboxes, option buttons, and other symbols used in form controls? I haven't been able to find it, but when using a checkbox (etc) in a form with large type in the text, the size of the checkbox is very small by comparison. I hope I'm just missing something... --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs
Great idea, Claire! Facebook and Twitter users of OpenOffice.org may be very interested in helping out! Alan On 2/24/2010 6:24 AM, Claire Wood wrote: Hi I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work on the wiki page. There are users on twitter and I see them all the time. There are also 75 groups on facebook all dedicated to OpenOffice.org. Just think this is another way to reach out to users. Can anyone give me some advice where I should put the free code that is outputted from the site because I've never seenbody/body tags in a wiki page and apparently that's where they should go or somewhere in the template. An example of the code that is outputted is below. I just went through the website to create a button but didn't register an account. !-- AddThis Button BEGIN -- div class=addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style a href= http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250amp;username=xa-4b8427452ad2d093; class=addthis_button_compactShare/a span class=addthis_separator|/span a class=addthis_button_facebook/a a class=addthis_button_myspace/a a class=addthis_button_google/a a class=addthis_button_twitter/a /div script type=text/javascript src= http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4b8427452ad2d093;/script !-- AddThis Button END -- Regards Claire On 10 February 2010 17:44, Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.orgwrote: Interesting... The problem with social media sites is that they are useless unless the people are willing and able to be a member. I am on neither facebook nor twitter, so I have no access to either site. Also, some social networking sites limit the number of people that can be a direct connection (not sure of the details, but I have heard of the associated issues). On 02/10/2010 10:37 AM, Claire Wood wrote: Hi People Saw this on Twitter from an agent that I use, thought it might be of interest if you haven't already seen it. http://www.invesp.com/blog-rank/Technical_Writing Is anyone looking at how social media sites such as Twitter are incorporating into documentation? I got asked about it at a recent interview but found it hard to answer. However since linking with #techcomm and Adobe on Twitter I've seen a few ewebinars/seminars and tutorials being passed around. It's really quite helpful. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] Introducing myself and need help with wiki
It really is unfortunate that MediaWiki tools haven't been optimized for translation. As an information sharing medium, MediaWiki would benefit hugely from really good translation tools! On 2/5/2010 8:50 AM, Clayton wrote: If it will help you, I can give you the next level of admin rights on the Wiki. You would be able to move/copy/delete pages as well as do some user admin (like ban Spammers). Just let me know if you want this, and what your Wiki ID is. That would be great! My OOo (wiki) username is paolopoz. OK, done. See: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Wiki:Administrators for info on administrators on the OOo Wiki. See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator%27s_Handbook for the general Manual of what you can/cannot do as an Admin on MediaWiki. I think the guidelines are already clear and helpful as they are. I am a complete ignorant in matter of scripting, but I think it would be very nice to have an automation that creates the to-be-translated page, copy in it the content, and adds the basic links (for example the other languages link in the original page). If you think this is possible (and useful) I can provide more infos of what I have in mind. We discussed this here a while back. Basically as it stands there are no really robust translation tools for MediaWiki. There are a few MediaWiki projects that are working on some ideas for this, but nothing is really in a state that I'd consider usable on the OOoWiki just yet. C.
