Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Please use Nat. team or something else

2011-01-23 Thread Cor Nouws

Hi,

Sophie Gautier wrote (24-01-11 06:13)

On 24/01/2011 02:18, David Nelson wrote:

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:05, Freek de Kruijf
wrote:


I know the confusion :-)


So please use Nat. team instead or something else, but avoid NL team.


Sorry, Freek, but this is a widely-used "approved" term in the l10n
area of the project. You should probably contact Sophie Gautier and
explain your thoughts to her?


Please use translation teams here or t9n teams, this is what the work
will be done/used for here. For the native lang teams, we should just
write it in complete words.


OK for me, but in fact NL teams is used often.
Problem with 'Nat' is, Freek, that it is about languages, and not about 
nations/countries. This is a very important difference - lots of 
discussions in the past - so avoiding misunderstanding about that is IMO 
more important than avoiding the confusion for you, and me and others 
for the Dutch NL-team.



Why should Freek contact me for this?


Maybe because of your experience (far more than me) with NL teams Sophie ;-)

Regards,
Cor

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Newbie - at a new (mine)field...

2011-01-23 Thread Ron Faile

On 1/22/2011 7:08 PM, Volker Heggemann wrote:
But as i understand - we need a german template to do the basic's in 
our language.

So please tell me if this -

http://opptimisten.homeip.net/libreoffice/LibO3_3_Kapitelvorlage_DE_test.pdf 



- is the right document i looking through.


Hi Volker,

Yes, that is a translation of the latest template, but it needs a few 
minor changes. There should be a page break after the table of contents 
and the name of the Tips/Notes/Cautions boxes should be centered and 
bold. Other than that, it looks good.


The latest English version is here if you want to review it:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO3_3_chapter_template.ott

Ron

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Please use Nat. team or something else

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi Sophie, :-)

It would be nice if you would make the effort to be more gracious and
courteous in the tone of your messages - not to speak of objective and
rational.

"NL" is a term that I can prove is commonly used in the project.

David Nelson

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi Sophie, :-)

Please do not be laying down rules about what I may or may not write,
so long as it is said in a courteous manner. That would be contrary to
the principle of equality in this community.

I will feel free to re-post portions of what I may have already posted
in a past thread, when it is relevant to the conversation, and you
have absolutely no reason to be telling me otherwise.

Moreover, when you call for "peace and welcome" in the lists, it would
be better if you address those words to those that need to heed them.
I am *always* courteous to people in my messages - which is not always
the same thing as I receive from certain other people - so please
remember to be balanced and objective in your opinions.

Please read what is said, and respond with careful thought.

Thank you for your understanding.

David Nelson

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Sophie Gautier

Hi David,

You do not need to repeat a mail that you have already sent to the 
community. There is archives of the list, so please, just provide the 
link to your message, we will read it again if we want.


Whatever the time of the ODF software, it has proven to be a tool 
appreciated by a big part of our community and its efficiency to provide 
great documentation to our users.


Nobody here will be forced to use a tool because it is more up to date, 
we absolutely don't care.


What we care is to be respectful to the work done by our community 
members and to provide a good environment of peace and welcome to *all* 
of them
So please thanks to remind that we are all here to provide the best 
documentation to the LibreOffice users, respecting each others and the 
way we work.

Thanks for understanding

Kind regards
Sophie

On 23/01/2011 22:59, David Nelson wrote:

Hi Karl-Heinz, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:10, Karl-Heinz Gödderz
  wrote:

OK. the script left out vista.
and referred on the second page to OOoAuthors.

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Please use Nat. team or something else

2011-01-23 Thread Sophie Gautier

Hi,
On 24/01/2011 02:18, David Nelson wrote:

Hi, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:05, Freek de Kruijf  wrote:

So please use Nat. team instead or something else, but avoid NL team.


Sorry, Freek, but this is a widely-used "approved" term in the l10n
area of the project. You should probably contact Sophie Gautier and
explain your thoughts to her?


Please use translation teams here or t9n teams, this is what the work 
will be done/used for here. For the native lang teams, we should just 
write it in complete words.

Why should Freek contact me for this?

Kind regards
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[libreoffice-documentation] ODFAuthors vs Alfresco vs others

2011-01-23 Thread Sophie Gautier

Hi,

I would like to clarify the different initiatives taking part of the 
LibreOffice documentation:


- The ODFAuthors (exOOoAuhtors) is the oldest initiative, hosted now by 
TDF, who has proven its capacity to produce and federate members by the 
guides and books covering all the suite it has produced. Several of our 
members are part of this initiative since a long time and they work on 
several languages.


- The Alfresco initiative is just born, pushed by David Nelson and has, 
for the moment and due to his very young age, produced nothing. It aims 
to work on dedicated LibreOffice documentation on different forms. It 
his hosted by David Nelson and supported by TDF.


- I'm pushing another initiative dedicated to t9n using xliff file 
format on Pootle to allow TM and glossaries. This initiative needs to be 
evaluated and pushed or abandoned following the feedback of the translators.


Even if the ODFAuthors initiative has proven his ability to federate and 
convey users to our project, this should not prevent other initiatives 
to take place.
Each initiative is welcome if it constitutes an emulation and not a 
competition et if it contributes at the openness and complementarity of 
the participations.


Members get the same merit whether they participate to one or another 
and are respected at the same level. These initiatives are here to 
provide choices and our contributors will be free to choose the one that 
better answer their wishes.
Other initiatives will take place in the future and they will be 
welcomed and evaluated in the same way.


I hope this is clear for every body and I will add an introduction of 
the different initiatives on the welcome documentation page of the wiki.


Kind regard
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-23 Thread Barbara Duprey

On 1/23/2011 9:15 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working 
display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea where! It 
belongs under Review with the other edited files, but I was never asked where to put it and I 
can't find it. What did I do wrong?


OK, I went to the Review content display and tried from there, apparently successfully -- still 
don't know where the first upload went, but the file now appears in the Review content.


So I clicked on the next file I wanted to work on, Chapter 14. There was an action bar at the right 
with the first two being Edit Offline and Check Out. Since I wanted to check it out to edit offline, 
I selected the first action and the file downloaded. But now there appears to be no way to get back 
to the toolbar that includes the Check Out action. Sigh.


Sorry to be causing trouble here, but if you'll bear with me for a while, I'm 
sure I'm trainable!

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-23 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Barbara Duprey  wrote:

> I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on
> the Writer-Working display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went
> somewhere, but I have no idea where! It belongs under Review with the other
> edited files, but I was never asked where to put it and I can't find it.
> What did I do wrong?
>
>
I can see it at the bottom of the list under "Review" on the Writer >
Working page in Alfresco.

Hal

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[libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working 
display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea where! It belongs 
under Review with the other edited files, but I was never asked where to put it and I can't find it. 
What did I do wrong?


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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Andreas Mantke  wrote:

>
> Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2011, 20:59:51 schrieb David Nelson:

> Most/all active members of the LibreOffice documentation team now have
> > an account there, and a workflow has been developed for the English
> > documentation team.
> >
>
> it would be interesting to know something about the number of members and
> about the
> language they working on.
> Did they create new documentation for LibreOffice or adapt the
> documentation from
> OOoAuthors/ODFAuthors to LibreOffice?
>
>
I don't know numbers of people, but I can speak about the docs themselves.

The first set of English user guides for LibreOffice are being adapted from
the OOo user guides created by OOo/ODFAuthors. This is to enable us to have
a set of user guides ready as quickly as possible. We expect that in the
future, the two sets of user guides will become more different.

Personally, I suspect that in the future, the OOo docs team will start
adapting the LibO docs set for OOo, instead of the other way around. But
that's just my guess.

Hal

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 03:59 +0800, David Nelson wrote:

> I think that odfauthors.org is a great resource for smaller Open
> Source projects that don't have the people, time or resources to
> properly develop their own documentation.
> 
> In addition, I feel that the LibreOffice project naturally has a
> common interest with odfauthors.org: the promotion of the ODF format.
> And, as another Open Source project, notably one that promotes the ODF
> format, we should be supportive of odfauthors.org.
> 
> But I think it's in the best interests of a major software project
> like LibreOffice to have an in-house documentation team with in-house
> expertise.
> 
> No matter what similarities there might be between OpenOffice.org and
> LibreOffice right at present (odfauthors.org develops documentation
> for OpenOffice.org), the two products are quickly going to diverge.
> LibreOffice might as well start developing its own documentation team
> and expertise now - especially considering the need, at a future time,
> to develop comprehensive developer documentation for LibreOffice, in
> view of rendering it truly open.

David, you appear to have a warped and not entirely correct view of
ODFAuthors. It's a *website* that is available to any group who wishes
to use it. There is no reason why an "in-house documentation team with
in-house expertise" should not use the website. 

Your comment suggests that you think the existing team of techwriters at
ODFAuthors are intending to work on all the projects that might use the
website. Of course there will be --and already is-- some overlap in
people working on OOo docs (through ODFAuthors) and LibO docs (wherever
that's done); but that's unrelated to *where* the work is done.

No problem if the LibreOffice docs team choose to not use the ODFAuthors
website for the technical reasons you mention, but the "in-house
expertise" argument doesn't hold up.

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Karl-Heinz Gödderz <
libreoff...@gukk-online.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried alfresco as a guest and found at Alfresco Explorer the content
> Item "0101GS3-IntroducingLibO_draft_RMF_20101031.odt" on which I have a
> question. Where is the right place to post it?
>
> Or  for now: in the minimum requirements paragraph is as OS XP or
> Windows 7, doesn't LibO work on vista?
>


That is a very old file, an early draft of the chapter. It should not be on
the Alfresco site. The updated file has the name 0101GS3-IntroducingLibO.odt
and is available from http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ as
well as on the Alfresco site.

If the error (no mention of Vista) is in the updated file, then this is the
place to tell us about it.

The reference to OOoAuthors is not in the updated file.


>
> and second just for my information: will all books be published on
> oooauthors? I thought to have read it would give something like
> odf-authors. Am I wrong with this. or how do this connect?
>


The books will be published (made available to users) on the
libreoffice.orgwebsite. Some language groups will use the Alfresco
site to produce their
books; other language groups may use the ODFAuthors site.

Hal

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 22:40 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Andreas Mantke wrote:
> > the page of OOoAuthors will soon be redirected to ODFAuthors.org.
> 
> Thanks for this promise! I hope this happens as soon as possible,
> because right now volunteers are a bit confused by seeing both
> oooauthors.org and odfauthors.org alive and no prominent notices or
> redirections from oooauthors.org. Your idea can serve as a nice example
> to others, so I hope it is finalized soon (no need to rush, but clarity
> helps a lot these times).
> 
> > The ODFAuthors site and Alfresco are two different things on different
> > server.
> 
> I understand (and share) David's remarks that Alfresco is a superior
> system, but I think Italian volunteers would like to maybe try it at a
> later stage, and for the time being just move to odfauthors.org when
> oooauthors.org is migrated there.

The English documentation work has been migrated to ODFAuthors.org.
Folders and files have been set up on ODFAuthors for the other language
groups that were on OOoAuthors. The Italian group can use the new
website now. I think German and Dutch groups are using it already (not
sure about that).

We have not yet done redirections from OOoAuthors to ODFAuthors, because
we want to make sure everyone has their work moved onto the new website
before we make a final change. If the Italian group tells us they have
made the change, that will help.

We are changing links and references from the old site to the new site
when we find them, and I will soon put a notice on the OOoAuthors
website itself, to tell people about the new site. Thanks for the
reminder about that. But language groups will need to have their own
notices, if they want them.

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Please use Nat. team or something else

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:05, Freek de Kruijf  wrote:
> So please use Nat. team instead or something else, but avoid NL team.

Sorry, Freek, but this is a widely-used "approved" term in the l10n
area of the project. You should probably contact Sophie Gautier and
explain your thoughts to her?

David Nelson

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[libreoffice-documentation] Please use Nat. team or something else

2011-01-23 Thread Freek de Kruijf
NL being the language and country code for Dutch/Netherlands, it confuses me 
to see the term NL team in these messages.

So please use Nat. team instead or something else, but avoid NL team.

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:40, Andrea Pescetti  wrote:
> I understand (and share) David's remarks that Alfresco is a superior
> system, but I think Italian volunteers would like to maybe try it at a
> later stage, and for the time being just move to odfauthors.org when
> oooauthors.org is migrated there.

Andrea, whenever the Italian NL team wants to do docs work there, we
can duplicate the existing docs workflow of the English team and we
could maybe do some great work together. Although if you prefer to
work in complete independence from the English effort, you'd obviously
be free to do so as well.

If you guys are interested in doing other areas of localization, we'll
be really pleased to work on a dedicated workflow for that - this work
could benefit other interested NL teams, too.

David Nelson

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:00, Jeremy Cartwright  wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Looks like someone set one up for you. user id alexanderthurgood. Did
> you receive a password off list?

Done. ;-)

David Nelson

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi Alex, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:46, Alexander Thurgood
 wrote:
> I'd like to have an ID/PWD combo if possible, because I don't see
> anywhere to sign up on the alfresco start page. Did I miss something ?
>
> Do you need my e-mail address or anything else ?
>
> Alex

I created you an account and sent you the details.

David Nelson

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Jeremy Cartwright
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:46:02 +0100
Alexander Thurgood  wrote:

> Le 22/01/11 18:47, Jeremy Cartwright a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to have an ID/PWD combo if possible, because I don't see
> anywhere to sign up on the alfresco start page. Did I miss something ?
> 
> Do you need my e-mail address or anything else ?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

Hi Alex,

Looks like someone set one up for you. user id alexanderthurgood. Did
you receive a password off list?


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[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/01/11 18:47, Jeremy Cartwright a écrit :

Hi,

I'd like to have an ID/PWD combo if possible, because I don't see
anywhere to sign up on the alfresco start page. Did I miss something ?

Do you need my e-mail address or anything else ?

Alex


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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andreas Mantke wrote:
> the page of OOoAuthors will soon be redirected to ODFAuthors.org.

Thanks for this promise! I hope this happens as soon as possible,
because right now volunteers are a bit confused by seeing both
oooauthors.org and odfauthors.org alive and no prominent notices or
redirections from oooauthors.org. Your idea can serve as a nice example
to others, so I hope it is finalized soon (no need to rush, but clarity
helps a lot these times).

> The ODFAuthors site and Alfresco are two different things on different
> server.

I understand (and share) David's remarks that Alfresco is a superior
system, but I think Italian volunteers would like to maybe try it at a
later stage, and for the time being just move to odfauthors.org when
oooauthors.org is migrated there.

Regards,
  Andrea.


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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi David, *,

Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2011, 20:59:51 schrieb David Nelson:
> Hi Karl-Heinz, :-)
> 
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:10, Karl-Heinz Gödderz
(...)
> Most/all active members of the LibreOffice documentation team now have
> an account there, and a workflow has been developed for the English
> documentation team.
> 

it would be interesting to know something about the number of members and about 
the 
language they working on.
Did they create new documentation for LibreOffice or adapt the documentation 
from 
OOoAuthors/ODFAuthors to LibreOffice?

> A few members of the l10n community have already expressed interest in
> using Alfresco. Probably more will also do so once they become aware
> of its existence.
> 

Did you have some numbers here?

> Certainly, Alfresco has many technical advantages to offer. See my
> comments below:

(...)

> B) The odfauthors.org software is a hybrid, one-off, custom
> application without any community taking its development forward. The
> odfauthors.org system is a software dead-end, based upon a CMS that is
> not very widely used, for which little technical support is available
> except from a small group of developers. Alfresco has an entire
> community behind it.
> 

Hmm. I don't know where you get your knowledge about Plone from, but it seemed 
a bit 
outdated to me ;-)

Regards,
Andreas

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi Karl-Heinz, :-)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:10, Karl-Heinz Gödderz
 wrote:
> OK. the script left out vista.
> and referred on the second page to OOoAuthors.

This is something that will be looked at during the course of proofreading.

> but the question I tried to ask was: may anyone change this draft or is
> someone special to ask for this corrections?

If you'd like to get involved in working on documentation, you'll be
most welcome. If you like, you can have a user account on the Alfresco
site, and then you will be able to get involved in the workflow there.
Or you can get involved in the development of an l10n workflow.

> and how do fit alfresco with odf-authors? is this a second platform?

The SC took a decision at its last meeting to accept the Alfresco site
a part of its Web infrastructure, and to put it under a LibreOffice
sub-domain (probably alfresco.libreoffice.org).

Most/all active members of the LibreOffice documentation team now have
an account there, and a workflow has been developed for the English
documentation team.

A few members of the l10n community have already expressed interest in
using Alfresco. Probably more will also do so once they become aware
of its existence.

Certainly, Alfresco has many technical advantages to offer. See my
comments below:

IMHO, the odfauthors.org software is far from being an ideal tool for
the LibreOffice docs team.

A) The odfauthors.org software is a product of a past time, when
leading-edge systems like Alfresco had not yet reached maturity, that
does not have all the features and power of a full-blooded content
development system like Alfresco: a mature version control system;
powerful and sophisticated workflow management; powerful content
search capability able to search within the managed content; built-in
discussion system that lets you anchor a discussion on a particular
content object; easy updating and uploading of content from directly
within the LibreOffice applications, via the Alfresco plugin for
OOo/LibO; etc.

B) The odfauthors.org software is a hybrid, one-off, custom
application without any community taking its development forward. The
odfauthors.org system is a software dead-end, based upon a CMS that is
not very widely used, for which little technical support is available
except from a small group of developers. Alfresco has an entire
community behind it.

C) The odfauthors.org software does not have the capabilities of
Alfresco to cater to the LibreOffice project's future needs for a
sophisticated product that can integrate closely with the project's
other development systems. Alfresco can provide a powerful platform
for the production and maintenance of developer documentation: API
manuals, etc. The odfauthors.org software cannot compete with it
feature-wise: it is a fairly manual system that is now dated.

However, no-one going to be in any way obliged to use Alfresco, just
as no-one is going to be obliged to develop LibreOffice documentation
on the odfauthors.org site.

I think that you can say that, ultimately, LibreOffice project
contributors are going to make their own choice and vote with their
feet.

My own personal take on things is this:

I think that odfauthors.org is a great resource for smaller Open
Source projects that don't have the people, time or resources to
properly develop their own documentation.

In addition, I feel that the LibreOffice project naturally has a
common interest with odfauthors.org: the promotion of the ODF format.
And, as another Open Source project, notably one that promotes the ODF
format, we should be supportive of odfauthors.org.

But I think it's in the best interests of a major software project
like LibreOffice to have an in-house documentation team with in-house
expertise.

No matter what similarities there might be between OpenOffice.org and
LibreOffice right at present (odfauthors.org develops documentation
for OpenOffice.org), the two products are quickly going to diverge.
LibreOffice might as well start developing its own documentation team
and expertise now - especially considering the need, at a future time,
to develop comprehensive developer documentation for LibreOffice, in
view of rendering it truly open.

Alfresco has many essential features and capabilities for that.

> I wanna help, but first I must get clear the
> connections/conjunctions/chainings.

HTH.

David Nelson

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Karl-Heinz,

Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2011, 18:10:00 schrieb Karl-Heinz Gödderz:
> Thanks David,
> 
> David Nelson schrieb:
> > Hi Karl-Heinz, :-)
> > 
> >> Or  for now: in the minimum requirements paragraph is as OS XP or
> >> Windows 7, doesn't LibO work on vista?
> > 
> > I can confirm that LibO works fine on Vista (it being an intermediate
> > version between Windows XP and Windows 7).
> 
> OK. the script left out vista.
> and referred on the second page to OOoAuthors.
> 

the page of OOoAuthors will soon be redirected to ODFAuthors.org. There is not 
only a 
change in the naming, but also a change in the server and the version of Plone 
(the 
CMS that runs Authors). The ODFAuthors site is designed to host the work 
documentation teams around the Open Document Format.

> but the question I tried to ask was: may anyone change this draft or is
> someone special to ask for this corrections?
> 
> and how do fit alfresco with odf-authors? is this a second platform?
> 

The ODFAuthors site and Alfresco are two different things on different server. 
The 
first one is hosted on a server of the TDF and  the latter is hosted on Davids 
server 
and will get a subdomain of libreoffice.org next time.

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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Karl-Heinz Gödderz
Thanks David,

David Nelson schrieb:
> Hi Karl-Heinz, :-)
>
>   
>> Or  for now: in the minimum requirements paragraph is as OS XP or
>> Windows 7, doesn't LibO work on vista?
>> 
>
> I can confirm that LibO works fine on Vista (it being an intermediate
> version between Windows XP and Windows 7).
>   
OK. the script left out vista.
and referred on the second page to OOoAuthors.

but the question I tried to ask was: may anyone change this draft or is
someone special to ask for this corrections?

and how do fit alfresco with odf-authors? is this a second platform?

I wanna help, but first I must get clear the
connections/conjunctions/chainings.

Karl-Heinz



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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi Karl-Heinz, :-)

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 20:04, Karl-Heinz Gödderz
 wrote:
> I tried alfresco as a guest and found at Alfresco Explorer the content
> Item "0101GS3-IntroducingLibO_draft_RMF_20101031.odt" on which I have a
> question. Where is the right place to post it?

Right here on this mailing list.

> Or  for now: in the minimum requirements paragraph is as OS XP or
> Windows 7, doesn't LibO work on vista?

I can confirm that LibO works fine on Vista (it being an intermediate
version between Windows XP and Windows 7).

> and second just for my information: will all books be published on
> oooauthors? I thought to have read it would give something like
> odf-authors. Am I wrong with this. or how do this connect?

http://www.odfauthors.org/

David Nelson

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[libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Karl-Heinz Gödderz
Hi,

I tried alfresco as a guest and found at Alfresco Explorer the content
Item "0101GS3-IntroducingLibO_draft_RMF_20101031.odt" on which I have a
question. Where is the right place to post it?

Or  for now: in the minimum requirements paragraph is as OS XP or
Windows 7, doesn't LibO work on vista?


and second just for my information: will all books be published on
oooauthors? I thought to have read it would give something like
odf-authors. Am I wrong with this. or how do this connect?

(sorry, english is not my native language)

Regards
Karl-Heinz


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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco: workflow development

2011-01-23 Thread Samphan Raruenrom
I appreciate current Jeremy effort. I'll help by double-checking/auditing
the configuration to make sure everything are in place.

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:18 PM, David Nelson wrote:

> Hi Jeremy, :-)
>
> For my part, jump in and go for it! ;-) I'm busy writing web pages for
> the libreoffice.site right now... you can catch me on IRC if you
> want...
>
> @Samphan: Thoughts from Samphan?
>
> David Nelson
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 23:12, Jeremy Cartwright 
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:27:04 +0800
> > David Nelson  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Samphan, Jeremy :-)
> >>
> >> 1) Please, could you guys merge your two workflows into one single
> >> one?
> >>
> >> 2) Please, could you try to clean up folders as much as possible? I.e.
> >> remove test documents and stuff, so that only live working files are
> >> there?
> >>
> >> 3) Please, could we write up a little documentation about the
> >> workflow, so that people can get up to speed with what's been done?
> >
> > 1) I propose Samphan's 5 folders
> > (drafts|review|proofing|proofing|proofing2|published) be trimmed to 4
> > folders, have their workflow amended to reflect that, and then be moved
> > to replace the folders in catalog/writer/working. This should merge the
> > workflows and clean up the folders - aiding greatly in reducing
> > confusion.
> >
> > 2) I can begin working on documentation to aid in alfresco navigation
> > and setup.
> >
> > Samphan, David, * - Thoughts?
> >
> > -- jdc
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