Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Regards from Tom :) On 7 September 2014 07:40, Leo Moons wrote: > Hello Sophie, all, > > Many thanks for offering your help. We have first met in Lyon OOo > conference in 2006 and you have been more then a helping hand to me ever > since. I think our project and in particular the doc

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-09-06 Thread Leo Moons
Hello Sophie, all, Many thanks for offering your help. We have first met in Lyon OOo conference in 2006 and you have been more then a helping hand to me ever since. I think our project and in particular the documentation team will benefit a lot from your help. As translating the guides into Du

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-09-04 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Jean, all, Sorry to not have post before but I was focusing on the LibreOffice conference and wanted to have time to read the mails of the list. So I would like to volunteer to coordinating the work on this project. For those who don't know me, I'm with LibreOffice since the beginning of the pr

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-08-28 Thread Jean Weber
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > > I try to "promote" this team... on the Users Mailing List, especially at > times the devs have been promoted or when people seem to want to know how > to contribute back to LO. I get flak for that too ... You don't get "flak" for promoting t

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-08-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is something that people try to do when they join the team but it might be nice to hear from a few people who have been here a while. Me, i am just a lurker here. It helps me deal with other issues on other mailing lists or with questions outside of the on-line community. I try to brin

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-08-28 Thread Tim Lloyd
just a thought...could all contributors introduce themselves and what aspects of the doco they work on? I am not a qualified author and my knowledge of LO is largely gleaned from this mailing list (and reading the documentation). I therefore try to proof read docs when they come out - been a b

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-08-28 Thread Tony Graver
Hi Jean I agree with you. My problem, coming recently to volunteering, is that it's hard to actually know what to do. Some mentoring or at least direction relating to tasks would be most useful, even though it seems to go against the grain of 'volunteering'. By the same token, rigidity is no good;

[libreoffice-documentation] Coordination, mentoring, etc

2014-08-25 Thread Jean Weber
IF people in this group think some coordination and/or mentoring is needed or at least would be useful, the group needs to find someone or several people to do that, do it consistently, and do it well. I do a bit now and then, but I have not been doing it consistently, have no intention of doing i