Thank you for the information Jean. I'll take a further look through the documentation in the morning. Also, I don't seem to have an ODFAuthors account yet, so I haven't been able to review the links you sent me.
Thanks for letting me know about the processes though, I look forward to contributing to the project in the near future! Regards, Matthew On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:00 PM Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthew, > > Welcome to the team! > > More info on our processes is here: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development > > Some of that is a bit out of date, but you should get the idea. > > If Olivier hasn't already done so, I'll create an account for you on > ODFAuthors, which is where we store the working files of the chapters of > the various books. > > As for something to get you started, I'm updating the Writer Guide from > v4.2 to 5.2, which is a big jump and needs to include a lot of changes. I > would appreciate a careful and thorough review of the chapters I've done, > which are here: > http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/drafts-v5.2 > Or here: > http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/feedback-5.2 > > Note 1: you'll need to be logged in to see these. > Note 2: I am making some changes in the organisation of this book. You can > see the chapter structure listed here: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks#Writer_Guide > > --Jean > (Former Team Leader, LibreOffice Documentation) > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 00:16 Matthew An <myan5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Olivier, > > > > Thank you for your response. Are the docs mainly situated in the books on > > the documentation page? I think I would prefer to handle the Getting > > Started pages first, and then progressing from there to other projects. > > That being said, is there any rudimentary work that I can do to get > > familiar with your protocols? I downloaded the doc template off of the > > website, but I was wondering if there was some proofreading work or basic > > writing work that I could practice on before handling a larger project. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matthew > > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:46 AM Olivier Hallot < > > olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > > > > > Welcome Matthew > > > > > > Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and > you > > > will find a lot to do. > > > > > > We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are > edited > > > in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents, > etc...) > > > > > > We can start in 2 directions > > > > > > one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version > > > 5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty). > > > > > > The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book) > > > and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the module > > > software (medium to hard difficulty). > > > > > > To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like > > > please get any of them in the documentation website at > > > > > > http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/ > > > > > > and let me know your prefered project. > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Olivier > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu: > > > > Hello there, > > > > > > > > My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and > > > > Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was > > hoping > > > to > > > > contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer. > I > > > have > > > > previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small > > > startup > > > > company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of entering > > > > graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time to > > > hone > > > > my tech writing skills. > > > > > > > > Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope > that I > > > can > > > > give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills > > > with! > > > > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > > > > > > > Matthew > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Olivier Hallot > > > LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator > > > Comunidade LibreOffice > > > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00 > > > http://tdf.io/joinus > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > > documentation+unsubscr...@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/documentation/ > > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > deleted > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > documentation+unsubscr...@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/documentation/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@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/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
