Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I think the trick is finding the right people, of connecting volunteers with volunteer opportunities.  Realistically, if someone was really interested in

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jean, 2012/5/2 Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Over the years I've done quite a bit of that type of recruitment. My experience is that such efforts mostly bring forth a collection of wannabe writers who waste enormous amounts of my time and produce nothing useful, and reviewers who

Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll go back to my travel photos and to the LibreOffice books.

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread eric
Hi, Le 01/05/2012 12:23, Jean Weber a écrit : The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. What about wait for the Apache OpenOffice availability *before* to stop ? IMHO, it should be more easy to find contributors once we'll

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On 01/05/2012, at 20:37, eric eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Le 01/05/2012 12:23, Jean Weber a écrit : The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. What about wait for the Apache OpenOffice availability *before* to stop

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Jean, et al. On 2012-05-01, at 06:23 , Jean Weber wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 12:23, Jean Weber wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll go

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.comwrote: On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 12:23, Jean Weber wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I think the trick is finding the right people, of connecting volunteers with volunteer opportunities.  Realistically, if someone was really interested in tech writing, they probably would not be on this list.  The traffic