OK, I understand. Forwarding. Thank you for the reply.
- Dennis PS: I finally did get my hands on a LibreOffice T-Shirt at OSCON 2014. I still admire your plain one best. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Weber [mailto:jeanwe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 02:55 > To: orc...@apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we get this started again? > > I was not suggesting working on a common shared product. I have no > interest in attempting to produce docs that could be used by both > projects. I know how to do files that could work, but my experience with > volunteers suggests they would not cope with them. > > > TDF will soon be announcing a new mentor/lead for the documentation > team. I don't know what direction the team will choose to take: whether > it will include user guides in their current form or not. > > > I am no longer subscribed to the AOO Docs list. You may forward this > note there if you wish. > > Regards, Jean > > On Thursday, January 21, 2016, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org > <mailto:orc...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hello Jean, > > I recently noticed your 2015-12-08 comment to doc@ oo.a.o, > > If it's any consolation, work on user documentation at > LibreOffice > is also stalled, due to lack of participants, ... . > > I'd like to see everyone interested in user docs coming over to > LibreOffice and working there with a larger community. > > It would certainly be useful to avoid redundant effort. I'm not > clear how the results of shared work could be employed with ease by both > projects though. > > There are book-form guides to LibreOffice (and I have a set), that > strike me as an outgrowth of what was originally the ODF Authors work. > Is that still the thrust? > > As you know, there has been no traction to continue the equivalent > for AOO on ODF Authors. The current AOO effort seems focused on an on- > line, wiki-form approach using a structure begun in January 2013 and > worked on piecemeal since. > > What would you see as a common shared product repurposed for the > two products? Or would you attempt to cover the common parts in a way > that worked for both? > > I am curious what your thinking might be. > > And Happy New Year! > > -- Dennis E. Hamilton > orc...@apache.org <javascript:;> > dennis.hamil...@acm.org <javascript:;> +1-206-779-9430 > https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A > X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
