Re: New Doc Volunteer
Hy, Caroline! Welcome on board! 2013/5/10 Caroline O'Brien > Hey there! > > I'm eager to learn more about working on the Doc Team for Open Office. > > Can you tell me a bit more about where I should start, outside of signing > up for the two wikis and putting my name on the volunteer sites? > > Thank you! > Great! The user documentation is being worked on the wiki, so after you read the intro-doc page linked by Alexandro, please look at where the draft for the 4.0 user guide is growing: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide (there is a link to the "status page" at the end). There are several missing pages and holes on the existing ones, but an easy start would be to proofread the existing pages and check the information for "accuracy". Clearly, writing an user guide implies not only writing skills but also knowledge of the software: if you have doubts about how Apache OpenOffice works, just ask! Note that this guide is aimed to AOO 4.0, so there are instructions on the guide that do not completely correspond to the stable builds (like "menu Tools → Options → Apache OpenOffice": on 3.4.1 you'll find "OpenOffice.org" there). You can find development builds for 4.0 here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshotfullsets Regards Ricardo > > Caroline >
Re: New volunteer and some ideas regarding volunteering
Welcome and good luck! On Fri, May 10, 2013, at 5:16, Camilla Mont wrote: > Hello, > my name is Camilla and > I'm really excited about volunteering for the documentation project! > I'm graduating from college in a few weeks and have large time slots in the > coming months to dedicate to editing, writing and translating (English to > Finnish). > > I have been following your conversation on recruiting, instructing and > maintaining > volunteers, and I hope I could add my two cents to the great ideas that > have already been proposed. > > I definitely agree that being a new volunteer is baffling. It would be > helpful if a volunteer coordinator existed. S/he could do all of the > initial hand-holding and guiding for newcomers. I don't know if the > Documentation Project already has a person responsible for volunteers, but > perhaps such a position could be created (I would volunteer for this > position since I have time and nothing to do with it, but I'm a newbie > myself, so unless someone is willing to hold my hand for a few months while > I learn the ropes, I don't think I can be helpful to other newcomers). > > Looking forward to working with everyone! > > Camilla - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
