Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction and Getting Started

Hi Aline Thanks for contacting us. Can you join our meeting this Thursday 26 at 18:00 UTC?. It will be an opportunity to let you know what we are doing in documentation. Otherwise contact me off-list so we set a meeting. To give you access to our documents, I need to know SSO login name (*no

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction and Getting Started

Hello, My name is Aline and I'm interested in making contributions to your documentation team. A little about me: 1. I am a university student 2. I have a few years experience in copy-editing for my school's newspaper 3. I have experience in formatting reports to a variety of style gu

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Welcome Vikram. I assume you worked through https://www.libreoffice.org/community/docs-team/ to the wiki finding the https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development link. I'm sure one of the coordinators will reply to guide you through an induction. Please make the most of your first

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello, My name is Vikram. I am considering a career change into technical writing, and would like to get some experience by volunteering on an open source project. I currently work as a corporate recruiter, but would like to work on something more product-oriented. Although I do not come from a te

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - joining the team

Hi, Thanks Steve and Olivier for the suggestions, it sounds good to start with reviewing the Calc Functions wiki. I will look more into it in the coming days, and write here when I have some questions. Kind regards, Laura On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 23:44, Olivier Hallot wrote: > Hi Steve > > Thank

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - joining the team

Hi Steve Thanks for the heads-up! (I was looking at them) Kind regards Olivier Em 30/08/2021 17:27, Steve Fanning escreveu: Hi All, In the interests of avoiding confusion, the updated files for the 7.2 Calc Guide are NOT currently in NextCloud. I will advise via the mailing list when they

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - joining the team

Hi All, In the interests of avoiding confusion, the updated files for the 7.2 Calc Guide are NOT currently in NextCloud. I will advise via the mailing list when they are ready to be reviewed, by whoever wishes to review them. Regards, Steve On 30/08/2021 21:09, Olivier Hallot wrote: He

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - joining the team

Hello Laura You are welcome to review any guide book chapter. The Calc guide is a good topic for mathematicians and well as the Math guide (equation editor). All files are in the cloud, at LibreOffice Documentation/English/Calc Guide/7.2/Work in Progress/ (Calc) Download one chapter and re

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - joining the team

Hi Laura, Welcome! I'm a member of the Documentation Team who (at the moment) focuses on Calc aspects. I've been chatting to Ilmari Lauhakangas and wondered whether you would be interested in helping with some of our current activities to improve Calc's documentation? There is plenty to wor

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - joining the team

Hi everyone, My name is Laura and I would like to join the documentation team. As a background I'm a mathematician, and currently working as quantitative analyst. Joining the project seems like a great way to improve my technical writing skills, so looking forward to getting started! Maybe I coul

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction and Documentation User Account Request

Welcome Mitch You have now access to the cloud files. I have a question for you: What kind of communication you have in mind? Kind regards Em 20/08/2021 12:23, Mitchell Camfield escreveu: Hi everyone, My name is Mitch and I work as a technical communicator for a large public university in t

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction and Documentation User Account Request

Hi everyone, My name is Mitch and I work as a technical communicator for a large public university in the USA. I have worked extensively with various tools in education as well as instructing others on how to utilize those tools. I would like to assist with the technical communication of LibreOffi

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello! I came across the LibreOffice Docs Team while looking for projects to contribute to and to gain experience with documentation. Admittedly, I am not too familiar with LibreOffice yet but I am in the process of learning. Right now I think the way I could be most helpful would be to edit and r

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith

receiving the e-mails from the group. Thank you, Chris Smith Sent fromMailfor Windows 10 From:Dave BartonSent:Monday, October 19, 2020 7:11 AMTo:Chris;documentation@global.libreoffice.orgSubject:Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith Original

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith

Original Message From: Chris [mailto:csmith94...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020, 22:45 UTC To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith > Hi, > > My name is Chris Smith, I just recently discovered Li

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith

Hi, My name is Chris Smith, I just recently discovered LibreOffice, and I would like to help contribute to the documentation team. I’ve been in the technical communications field for several years, but I’m new to technical writing. I’m currently working on my technical writing certification

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi Rob, Its pleasure to welcome you. Regardless of your skills, you can always help. The next step is for you to create a login in our working environmznt. Please follow this link https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Infra/SingleSignOn Regards Randolph Le mar. 29 sept. 2020 10:20 PM, Robert Darlo

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello. As per the /JoinDocTeam /guide, this is a brief introduction to me and what I can offer to the documentation team. I work in the public sector in England in a data management team. Much of my work h

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction and request

Hello everyone! I'm sorry for not following the instructions. I guess it was kind of rude not to introduce myself, but in my defence, I'd like to say that I was in a bit of a hurry when writing the previous email. Again, I'm sorry. Let me start over. My name is Rafał, I live in Poland, and my dre

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi, I am a currently retired engineer / programmer / sales guy / business owner, based in Sydney, Australia. My first word processor was wordstar on CP/M. Along the way I have used Xerox Star, MacWrite, Interleaf, Nissus, Word and Openoffice. I recently went looking for a sample document and w

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] - Introduction

Hello Jean, Thanks for the welcome! I have taken Chapter 12 for a review, and updated the *Guide Status WG.ods* as requested. best regards, Felipe Viggiano Em qua., 15 de jul. de 2020 às 00:04, Jean Weber escreveu: > Welcome, Felipe, > Good to have you reviewIng Writer Guide 6.4 chapters. For

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] - Introduction

Welcome, Felipe, Good to have you reviewIng Writer Guide 6.4 chapters. For this round, please focus only on technical correctness and glaring errors. Please do not attempt to reorganise or rewrite, even when it’s obvious a chapter needs serious work. You are welcome to flag issues for revision for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] - Introduction

Thanks for the tips Olivier, I will begin by reading and commenting on the LibreOffice Writer 6.4 documents, since I am more familiar with it. And I hope, in the future, to get evolved with the 7.0 version as well. Best regards, Felipe Viggiano Em ter., 14 de jul. de 2020 às 18:15, Olivier Hallo

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] - Introduction

Hello Felipe Welcome! You can start here and follow the link on writing books. https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/join-the-documentation-team/ If you have a specific subject you want to work, please let us know. People use to start reviewing chapters of one of these books Spreadsheets, W

[libreoffice-documentation] - Introduction

Hello everyone, I'm Felipe Viggiano, an Electrical Engineer from São Paulo, Brazil and I would like to contribute to this beautiful project. I believe that the effort you guys are doing can really make a difference in giving access to good quality softwares to a great number of people, and being p

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - Avani

Hello everyone, Hope you all are doing well. I'm Avani and I have recently joined the LibreOffice mail list. In the past few weeks I've been going over the wiki pages and the style guide to accustom myself with the writing guidelines and processes, so that contribute as a review and a writer. I a

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi, I'm interested in working with the documentation team. I've already signed up for a Document Foundation account and have read through the documentation team wiki. I'm currently a writer for a software development news site so I'm used to writing about technical concepts, but I've never writte

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello Arianie Welcome and thank you for your contact. The documentation team is happy to have you participating in our effort to make LibreOffice even more popular and valuable. PLease have these othtr contact points with us (besides the current mailing list) *The documentation webchat*

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello, My name is Arianie McGee. I have joined LibreOffice’s mailing list in hopes of contributing to the Documents team. I have recently completed a Technical Communication certificate program. I hope to utilize the knowledge I gained from the program and acquire some technical writing experie

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction / request for registration

Hello Tom Sorry for the late reply Welcome to the team Kind regards Olivier Em 12/02/2019 14:13, Tom Thibodeau escreveu: > Good morning from Austin, TX! > > My name is Tom, and I'm a Systems Administrator working for the city of > Austin. I have been working with the city for about 7 years, writi

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction / request for registration

Good morning from Austin, TX! My name is Tom, and I'm a Systems Administrator working for the city of Austin. I have been working with the city for about 7 years, writing documentation in addition to my daily duties. I came across LibreOffice's documentation team via Reddit, and thought it would b

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi guys, I am happy to be here working alongside you all in the LibreOffice Documentation team. I have been hanging out in the IRC for past few days(nick:fearvier) but haven't had time so far to actually make an intro post. I am currently a Computer Science student in Arizona. I'd appreciate it i

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

For sure. I had a glance at the 6.0 and 5.4 change logs to see what was coming down the pipe. Are there style guides for the 6.0 documentation? Or is it keeping the 5.X style guide? On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 at 14:24 Olivier Hallot wrote: > Hello Paul > > It may be better to look ahead and update th

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello Paul It may be better to look ahead and update the documents for the next 6.0 release, due next February. That will include the 5.3 (that you did) and 5.4 (to be released before August) and follow the development of the 6.0 release (on-going). In case you want to have a glimpse to the 5.3,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello Paul Thank you for your mail. Can you send me privately a login name and a mail address for ODFAuthor website? I'll set the necessary authorizations. Regards Olivier Em 06/07/2017 21:51, Paul Figueiredo escreveu: > Hi there; > > I am interested in joining the documentation team and wo

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi there; I am interested in joining the documentation team and would need access to the ODFAuthors website. I do not have much familiarity with *technical *writing, having been a fiction writer in my younger years. However, since I am not a programmer or developer but am finding a need to contr

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction German Translator for Documentation (BASIC)

Hello Maik, Glad to see you here, welcome :-) Best, Charles. Le 15 mai 2016 14:00:46 GMT+02:00, Maik Wagner a écrit : >Dear List, > >I signed up yesterday for this list and would like to introduce myself: > >My name is Maik Wagner and I am from a small village called Brome which > >is in Low

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction German Translator for Documentation (BASIC)

Dear List, I signed up yesterday for this list and would like to introduce myself: My name is Maik Wagner and I am from a small village called Brome which is in Lower-Saxony (Niedersachsen). I am offering services relating to Linux, Websites as well as translation services. I am fluent in Engl

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi Andrew, Le 06/03/2016 23:44, Andrew Wetmore a écrit : > Hi, all: > > I am Andrew Wetmore, a playwright and software documentation expert in Nova > Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. I have been using Libre Office (and > Open Office before it) for a number of years, and would like to contribut

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi, all: I am Andrew Wetmore, a playwright and software documentation expert in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. I have been using Libre Office (and Open Office before it) for a number of years, and would like to contribute in any way that is useful to strengthening the documentation for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi Ava, Thanks for your offer. As you requested, I created an account for you on the ODFAuthors website. You should have received an email with a link to set your password. If you have any questions feel free to ask here on this list again. Welcome to the team. Sigrid On 12 November 2015 at 0

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi Ava, Ava Jarvis píše v Ne 08. 11. 2015 v 22:21 -0800: > My software engineering background gives me the capability of additionally > taking on tasks for writing documentation geared towards developers. In > addition I have the writing and mentoring skills to write end-user > documentation, tut

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello there, I'm new to the project, and I'd like to help out with documentation. I'm a Seattle-area freelance writer who focuses on tech topics. I used to work for Amazon.com (for nearly 11 years!) until last year—as a software developer. Though I mostly coded, I also wrote the technical and func

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Hi Steve, Glad to have you here. If you don't already have an account on the ODFAuthors website, where we store our working files, I'll set one up for you -- as soon as I find out your surname and your preferred username. You can sign up for an account on the wiki yourself. The best way you can he

[libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Hello, My name is Steve. I just signed up for the mailing list and I wanted to get involved in any way that I can to help with the documentation for LibreOffice. I've been an OpenOffice/LibreOffice user for many years and have converted basically everyone I know. I thought it would be nice to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:43 AM, John Linton wrote: > Hi, > My name is John Linton and I would like to contribute to the LibreOffice > Documentation Team. I've been a LibreOffice user for the past 5 years when > I made the switch to the Linux OS. I solely used LibreOffice through grad > school and

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi, My name is John Linton and I would like to contribute to the LibreOffice Documentation Team. I've been a LibreOffice user for the past 5 years when I made the switch to the Linux OS. I solely used LibreOffice through grad school and in the business I started. My background in mainly in busines

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

> > > From: Joel Madero > To: Gary Collins > Cc: "Documentation@global.libreoffice.org" < > documentation@global.libreoffice.org> > Sent: Monday, 29 September 2014, 0:21 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introducti

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

e very soon!! best, /Gary From: Joel Madero To: Gary Collins Cc: "Documentation@global.libreoffice.org" Sent: Monday, 29 September 2014, 0:21 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction Hey Gary, Great to have you volunteering! So I beli

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Hi :) I wasn't suggesting me and i agree about the "too many cooks". I'm too inconsistent; too rash at times and too absent at others. I think Joel would be a good back-up person for this. His natural talents lay in that direction and he's good at checking lots of variables before taking action

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

umentation@global.libreoffice.org" Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 5:26 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction Gary has been registered on ODFAuthors. Gary, you should have received an email. Tom, you do not have the permissions required to register people or even see who is

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Gary has been registered on ODFAuthors. Gary, you should have received an email. Tom, you do not have the permissions required to register people or even see who is registered. The small group that maintains the ODFAuthors website is NOT the LibreOffice Documentation Team, although there is some o

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Hi :) Gary did join last week sometime. I am not sure if he is already registered on ODFAuthors and i have no idea how to check. My fault! I should have learned much more about ODFAuthors - to register people and take the burden off otherwise already very busy people. We have been trying to hol

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Hey Gary, Great to have you volunteering! So I believe you'll want to check out: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/7/74/Producing-LO-userguides.pdf If you go to the "How to Review a Chapter" section - I believe that's where the documentation team is at in the process. There are several c

[libreoffice-documentation] introduction

Hi, I'm Gary. The 'joining the LibreOffice Document Team document says to introduce myself on the list, and as I can't remember that I've done that, I'm doing it now! I've signed up to help with review of the documentation, with a particular interest in helping with base. my current work - which

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hey folks, My name is Tony and I'm from a small city a little bit north of Nashville, TN. I'm currently a systems administrator for a community college while pursuing a Master's Degree from Champlain College online for Digital Forensic Science. Lately I've been feeling the need to contribute to so

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - new volunteer

You are very welcome to help update the last few chapters of the Writer Guide. Great to have you! I will set up your account on ODFAuthors. You will receive an automated email when that happens. I do most of what little coordination there is of contributors; usually the people working on a boo

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction - new volunteer

Hello, my name is Rafael Atias and I would like to cooperate to write documents about LibreOffice. I work as a writer and editor in a web content company and before I worked in a publisher as an editor. I have experience writing and revising documents using different style guides, but I don't have

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Franziska Schulthess wrote: > For years I've been using Linux and many free programs like LibreOffice. > I've wanted to make a contribution to an open source project for a long > time, but not being a programmer, I didn't know how. > > About a month ago I started a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi Franziska, nice to have you here. Some others will give instructions for the international work here, especially Jean as team lead. It seems that you are German speaking so I want to invite you to help the German documentation team for producing documentation. If you are interested then I w

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi, For years I've been using Linux and many free programs like LibreOffice. I've wanted to make a contribution to an open source project for a long time, but not being a programmer, I didn't know how. About a month ago I started a course to become a technical writer and would like to help

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Welcome back, Rick! It's great to see you again. I've created an account for you at the other website the LibreOffice Docs people use. (I see Sigrid set you up at ODFAuthors.) You'll receive a private email with login info. --Jean On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:52, Mail Dump wrote: > Hi all, > > M

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi all, My name is Richard Barnes. I would like to help out and have access to the Documentation Team web sites. I have previously helped with the OOo docs and you will find my name on several Calc chapters as an author. I have been thinking about the lack of documentation for Base and would li

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hi, You could usefully join the localization mailing list as well, because they can give you lots of useful advice. Check here for that: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/localizers/ But I can also set up a Danish area on our Alfresco platform, where you could have a storage area and simpl

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Dear documentation team, A few words to introduce myself - I am a Danish Linux user. I have been active with Free & Open Source Software for many years, written about it on writtenandread.net, used it professionally - it is part of my everyday life. I was proud to see myself on the list of ht

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

e.org Sent: Mon, 21 February, 2011 20:48:41 Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction Hello, My name is Johnny and I'm interesting in helping with LibreOffice documentation. I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. Since installing Ubuntu a few months ago, I'm working o

[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction

Hello, My name is Johnny and I'm interesting in helping with LibreOffice documentation. I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. Since installing Ubuntu a few months ago, I'm working on joining the Ubuntu Beginners Team ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/) to work on the Ubuntu Community