Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 00:23 -0500, Nancy Ward wrote: > > > From: Jean Hollis Weber > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:39 PM > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION > > > Yes, indeed. This past week I've been writing some better, clearer > instructions (long overdue) about our processes and website. It's not > done yet, but it is available. You can let me know what I've left out or > not explained well. ;-) > > --Jean > > Can you point me to the instructions, Jean? I'm still feeling my way > around. > > Nancy Ward > Windows 8 Beta Ferret Nancy, Because these are drafts, they are not available until you join OOoAuthors and get authorised to that part of the website. (When I publish them, they will be publicly available.) I've just found your name on the login list for the website and have now given you that authorisation. You may need to log off from the website and log on again to activate it. Here are the links: Introducing OOoAuthors http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/res3/intro-oooauthors.odt Producing OOo User Guides http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/res3/producing-ooo-ugs.odt Download these to your computer for reading. --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION
From: Jean Hollis Weber Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:39 PM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION Yes, indeed. This past week I've been writing some better, clearer instructions (long overdue) about our processes and website. It's not done yet, but it is available. You can let me know what I've left out or not explained well. ;-) --Jean Can you point me to the instructions, Jean? I'm still feeling my way around. Nancy Ward Windows 8 Beta Ferret -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 22:22 -0500, Nancy Ward wrote: > On 10/1/2010 7:26 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-01, Nancy Ward wrote: > > > >> How I think I may be of help: I am a very good proofreader and beta > >> tester. I can take a set of instructions and try them out. If I can > >> muddle through, then the instructions are most likely well written. I > >> can spot grammatical and spelling errors with ease, and cannot rest > >> until they're fixed. If I suggest a change, and the author disagrees, I > >> can live with that too. > >> > >> So, if anyone writing English documentation thinks I can add value to > >> their work, I will be happy to volunteer my efforts. > > The OOoAuthors group has a set of user guides which are being updated to > > OOo V3.3. These chapters could be adapted to LibreOffice to provide > > basic info to users fairly quickly. In the short term (if not the long > > term) I think OOoAuthors is best placed to produce info for both > > flavors: OOo and LO. > > > > I began this work last night to see how time-consuming it would be. The > > main thing that is needed now is checking the OOo docs against LO to see > > what is different. I am sure that a lot of screenshots will need to be > > changed, as well as some of the text. This is something you could help > > do: at least identify what needs to be done, and even better make the > > necessary changes. > > > > I will be putting what I have done on the OOoAuthors website today and > > starting a discussion on their mailing list. If you are not already on > > the OOoAuthors list, please join us there. > > http://oooauthors.org/english > > > > To subscribe to the authors list, send a blank email to > > authors-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org > > > > Regards, Jean > I didn't expect so quick a reaction, but I'll do as you suggest by first > joining the authors list and seeing what's been done. > > I'll probably need some guidance, but I'm sure that will be provided. :) Yes, indeed. This past week I've been writing some better, clearer instructions (long overdue) about our processes and website. It's not done yet, but it is available. You can let me know what I've left out or not explained well. ;-) --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION
On 10/1/2010 7:26 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-01, Nancy Ward wrote: How I think I may be of help: I am a very good proofreader and beta tester. I can take a set of instructions and try them out. If I can muddle through, then the instructions are most likely well written. I can spot grammatical and spelling errors with ease, and cannot rest until they're fixed. If I suggest a change, and the author disagrees, I can live with that too. So, if anyone writing English documentation thinks I can add value to their work, I will be happy to volunteer my efforts. The OOoAuthors group has a set of user guides which are being updated to OOo V3.3. These chapters could be adapted to LibreOffice to provide basic info to users fairly quickly. In the short term (if not the long term) I think OOoAuthors is best placed to produce info for both flavors: OOo and LO. I began this work last night to see how time-consuming it would be. The main thing that is needed now is checking the OOo docs against LO to see what is different. I am sure that a lot of screenshots will need to be changed, as well as some of the text. This is something you could help do: at least identify what needs to be done, and even better make the necessary changes. I will be putting what I have done on the OOoAuthors website today and starting a discussion on their mailing list. If you are not already on the OOoAuthors list, please join us there. http://oooauthors.org/english To subscribe to the authors list, send a blank email to authors-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org Regards, Jean I didn't expect so quick a reaction, but I'll do as you suggest by first joining the authors list and seeing what's been done. I'll probably need some guidance, but I'm sure that will be provided. :) -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION
On Fri, 2010-10-01, Nancy Ward wrote: > How I think I may be of help: I am a very good proofreader and beta > tester. I can take a set of instructions and try them out. If I can > muddle through, then the instructions are most likely well written. I > can spot grammatical and spelling errors with ease, and cannot rest > until they're fixed. If I suggest a change, and the author disagrees, I > can live with that too. > > So, if anyone writing English documentation thinks I can add value to > their work, I will be happy to volunteer my efforts. The OOoAuthors group has a set of user guides which are being updated to OOo V3.3. These chapters could be adapted to LibreOffice to provide basic info to users fairly quickly. In the short term (if not the long term) I think OOoAuthors is best placed to produce info for both flavors: OOo and LO. I began this work last night to see how time-consuming it would be. The main thing that is needed now is checking the OOo docs against LO to see what is different. I am sure that a lot of screenshots will need to be changed, as well as some of the text. This is something you could help do: at least identify what needs to be done, and even better make the necessary changes. I will be putting what I have done on the OOoAuthors website today and starting a discussion on their mailing list. If you are not already on the OOoAuthors list, please join us there. http://oooauthors.org/english To subscribe to the authors list, send a blank email to authors-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org Regards, Jean -- Jean Hollis Weber Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION
On 10/1/2010 4:20 PM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi all, we'll have to wait some more days until the structure of our community here will be able to handle the amount of topics and ideas in a more appropriate way with new mailing lists, a wiki and other means to divide different interests on several groups. Until then I propose to add some tags to the subject of your mails in order to identify them more easily (and to filter them in your mail client). Hi Bernhard: I have been thinking about how I could help the effort, and have come up with the only way I might be valuable: My skill set: I am a writer of fiction, nonfiction and technical stuff. I publish a small six-page newsletter for my subdivision here in East Texas, USA. I am very computer literate (as a technician, I build, repair, troubleshoot problems, and anything else needed computer wise for my senior citizen clients) and am involved in beta testing for Microsoft. My flaws, as it were: I am your typical non-intuitive idiot; if it's supposed to be intuitive, I need instructions. I speak only US English, and nothing else. How I think I may be of help: I am a very good proofreader and beta tester. I can take a set of instructions and try them out. If I can muddle through, then the instructions are most likely well written. I can spot grammatical and spelling errors with ease, and cannot rest until they're fixed. If I suggest a change, and the author disagrees, I can live with that too. So, if anyone writing English documentation thinks I can add value to their work, I will be happy to volunteer my efforts. Nancy Ward Windows 8 BetaFerret -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
