Hi :) The documentation team needs a LOT more people. At the moment it barely has enough to just work on the guides (which were extremely well received at Scale btw).
If these other attempts at documentation are done through by individuals through blogs and personal spaces then when/if those individuals "run out of steam" or if outside life takes over then the work would be lost or difficult to carry on with - or even difficult to find at all. By joining the Documentation Team you can use centralised resources such as their ODFAuthors site to make the work more likely to be continued by others. Other people in the team are often helpful and encouraging and are experienced at writing for non-technical end-users and can help gain consistent use of terms and phrases. Joining the team means your work will not get wasted if unforeseen circumstances (such as suddenly gaining a shed load more clients) conspire to reduce the amount of time you can spend on the work. People are encouraged to join in with the work they are currently doing in order to gain some experience with their process and then perhaps use that experience to get on with their original plans. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2013, 19:32 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s) > >On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:56 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: >> > If I'm incorrect, please let me know what is correct - but I'm pretty >> > sure that someone with some PyUno skills will be needed. >> I would guess that those are rare, since PyUNO is at about the best >> kept secret of LO(/OO). > >+1 +1 +1 > >I've even attempted to make several runs at it. The documentations is a >*@(^&@*$^&@*# crime. There are silly trivial "Hello World" examples, >and there is the dump of the API. And nothing in between. > >If someone implements this as a contribution to the project *PLEASE >PLEASE PLEASE* do a step-by-step BLOG article/series of it. I'll send >them a six-pack; just let me know the URL. > >There really seems to be an *AMAZING* amount of power just sitting there >to be used - but it is completely obscured to anyone not aleady familiar >with UNO's syntax and vocabulary. > >Especially with the introduction of CMIS support it really seems a great >time to facilitate real automation via LibreOffice. > >-- >Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 >Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
