Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides
On 02/21/10 09:37, Bhanu Iyer wrote: Hi, I am a Masters in Computer Science student at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR and I am very interested in writing documents for openoffice.org. I would like to contribute to the User Guides section. Please let me know how to proceed. Thanking You, Bhanu. Hi Bhanu, and welcome to the OpenOffice.org Documentation Project. The Documentation Project has two main mailing lists: dev@documentation.openoffice.org, for discussions related to project infrastructure and policy, and auth...@user-faq.openoffice.org, where writers, editors, reviewers, and others discuss documents they are working on. We recommend you subscribe to each of these mailing lists - if you don't subscribe, you will not see any replies to your messages, and you will not be able to participate effectively with the team. To subscribe to the dev list, send a blank email to dev-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org To subscribe to the authors list, send a blank email to authors-subscr...@user-faq.openoffice.org To get an overview of the project, look at the Documentation Wiki at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation There you will find most of the documentation that we have available for OOo. The box on the top right of the Documentation Wiki, Want To Help? contains some helpful information to help you get started. Work on the user guides mainly takes place through the OOoAuthors website, http://oooauthors.org/english Those docs are then made available through the Documentation wiki. Most of the other materials produced and maintained by the Documentation Project, including how-to's, tutorials, and FAQs, as well as documents for system admins, programmers and developers, are Wiki-based. You should set up an account on the Wiki as well. We are in the process of evaluating what the Project is doing and how it's doing it, so some parts of the Wiki and the website are being reorganized and rewritten. If some things seem inconsistent or unclear, that's probably why. You are welcome to join in. And don't be shy about asking questions on the list when things are unclear. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki
The user guides were converted to mediawiki using the export function that is now in the Sun extension. That is probably the easiest way for you to convert the Italian guides. Of course the figures and the tables of contents must be done by hand and some cleanup of the mediawiki code is sometimes necessary. I do minor updates by copy and paste. I do not know if any other docs on the wiki are taken from another source. --Jean On Wednesday, February 24, 2010, Paolo Pozzan pa...@z2z.it wrote: Hello! While we (the italian team) keep on translating the wiki pages, we noted that some sections are the guides contained in OOoAuthors but wikized. We already translated some of those guides, so we wuold like to know what are those ones that need to be converted and if there is any standard way to do so (manually copy-paste or Sun MediaWiki Extension for OOo...). I don't know if this is the right place. Maybe auth...@user-faq is more suitable? Last question: to your knowledge are there any other sections in the wiki that are worth translating but are just a copy from another source? Thank you! Paolo - 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] User Guides on Wiki
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 22:01, Paolo Pozzan wrote: Hello! While we (the italian team) keep on translating the wiki pages, we noted that some sections are the guides contained in OOoAuthors but wikized. We already translated some of those guides, so we wuold like to know what are those ones that need to be converted and if there is any standard way to do so (manually copy-paste or Sun MediaWiki Extension for OOo...). I don't know if this is the right place. Maybe auth...@user-faq is more suitable? Paolo, the same question I asked 5 months ago for the German User Guide Translation. Short answer: MediaWiki Extension plus Macro by TJFrazier plus a lot of manual corrections. You can see the full answers here: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=authorsby=threadfrom=2274618 Last question: to your knowledge are there any other sections in the wiki that are worth translating but are just a copy from another source? Others have to answer this question as I don't know. But, I'd suppose there are quite some good documents in any native language :-) Ciao, Nino - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 23:04, me myself wrote: MediaWiki Extension plus Macro by TJFrazier plus a lot of manual corrections. FYI - I just translated my personal best practice notes into English, see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Nnino/ODT2Wiki N. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides and Tutorials
On 02/12/10 18:55, John Hart wrote: In my business, I am often asked to write material for our clients (brochures, newsletters etc.) but especially requested to edit existing articles, presentations and books. This latter area is where I am most comfortable, and would be pleased to assist wherever I can. I am available after March 3, of this year. Hi John. Welcome to the OpenOffice.org Documentation Project. The first thing to do is subscribe to this list, or you won't see any replies. Send a blank email to dev-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org The Documentation Project has two main mailing lists: dev@documentation.openoffice.org, for discussions related to project infrastructure and policy, and auth...@user-faq.openoffice.org, where writers, editors, reviewers, and others discuss documents they are working on. We recommend you subscribe to each of these mailing lists. To subscribe to the authors list, send a blank email to authors-subscr...@user-faq.openoffice.org To get an overview of the project, look at the Documentation Wiki at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation There you will find most of the documentation that we have available for OOo. The box on the top right of the Documentation Wiki, Want To Help? contains some helpful information to help you get started. Work on the user guides mainly takes place through the OOoAuthors website, http://oooauthors.org/english Those docs are then made available through the Documentation wiki. Most of the other materials produced and maintained by the Documentation Project, including how-to's, tutorials, and FAQs, as well as documents for system admins, programmers and developers, are wiki-based. So you might want to get an account on the wiki as well. BTW, we are in the process of evaluating what the Project is doing and how it's doing it, so some parts of the wiki and the website are being reorganised and rewritten. If some things seem inconsistent or unclear, that's probably why. We also use the wiki for planning purposes. You are welcome to join in. And don't be shy about asking questions on the list when things are unclear. Any editing expertise is very welcome. Just let us know here on the mailing list when you have time and are interested in picking up an edit. We can let you know then which specific document could use a fresh pair of eyes. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead Sun Microsystems, Hamburg, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
