[documentation-dev] Would like to contribute

2010-02-23 Thread K. Narssimhan
Hi, I am technical writer and manage a small technical writing company in India. Would like to contribute to OpenOffice by writing parts of its User Guide. Do let me know how I can help. Best regards, K. Narssimhan | Founder / CEO | Commit Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | +91-22-4250 1836 |

Re: [documentation-dev] Would like to contribute

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/18/10 15:58, K. Narssimhan wrote: Hi, I am technical writer and manage a small technical writing company in India. Would like to contribute to OpenOffice by writing parts of its User Guide. Do let me know how I can help. Best regards, K. Narssimhan Hi, and welcome to the

[documentation-dev] Participate in OpenOffice.org

2010-02-23 Thread Jojy Johnson
Dear Administrator Member, I am Jojy P Johnson from Kerala, India. I have been following your website openoffice.org for the last three years. It has been my long time desire to communicate with your forum and establish a contact. My intention is to become a part of your community and share my

[documentation-dev] contribute to user FAQs

2010-02-23 Thread urvashi singh
Hi Dev, I would like to contribute to openoffice and want to start with user FAQs or anything you deem fit for a beginner. I have been writing and blogging for sometime and am currently updating my IT skills to begin a career in technical writing. Here is a link to my

Re: [documentation-dev] Participate in OpenOffice.org

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/18/10 18:00, Jojy Johnson wrote: Dear Administrator Member, I am Jojy P Johnson from Kerala, India. I have been following your website openoffice.org for the last three years. It has been my long time desire to communicate with your forum and establish a contact. My intention is to become

[documentation-dev] Contributing to OpenOffice

2010-02-23 Thread Rachel Komlo
Hi! I'm very interested in helping Open Office out by providing my writing skills. I love OpenOffice and don't mind donating my time to help the site/software. If you'd provide me with some more information on how I can do this, please email me back. I'd really appreciate it! :) Thanks and have

Re: [documentation-dev] Contributing to OpenOffice

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/20/10 02:56, Rachel Komlo wrote: Hi! I'm very interested in helping Open Office out by providing my writing skills. I love OpenOffice and don't mind donating my time to help the site/software. If you'd provide me with some more information on how I can do this, please email me back. I'd

[documentation-dev] Ch15 Writer Guide - Forms

2010-02-23 Thread Claire Wood
Hi Everyone Can anyone tell me please what a spinner is in relation to creating forms using Writer? I've never come across this term before, and how does it work? -- Best wishes Claire Wood

Re: [documentation-dev] Ch15 Writer Guide - Forms

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/23/10 12:39, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Everyone Can anyone tell me please what a spinner is in relation to creating forms using Writer? I've never come across this term before, and how does it work? It's a funny name software developers have given to one of the common GUI elements.

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/21/10 09:37, Bhanu Iyer wrote: Hi, I am a Masters in Computer Science student at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR and I am very interested in writing documents for openoffice.org. I would like to contribute to the User Guides section. Please let me know how to proceed. Thanking

[documentation-dev] Open Office documentation contribution

2010-02-23 Thread Ryan Fulcher
2/22/2010 Ryan Fulcher 804 W. Morgan St., Apt. S-3A Raleigh, NC 27603 919/817-1821 fulcher.r...@gmail.com Dear Folks at Open Office: This is Ryan Fulcher, and I'm a current student in the MS in Technical Communication program at NC State University. I found your documentation contributions page

Re: [documentation-dev] Open Office documentation contribution

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/22/10 18:23, Ryan Fulcher wrote: Dear Folks at Open Office: This is Ryan Fulcher, and I'm a current student in the MS in Technical Communication program at NC State University. I found your documentation contributions page while exploring the Open Office site. I'm writing because I

[documentation-dev] I'd love to help out.

2010-02-23 Thread Christopher Burke
Dear Dev. I've got 18 Computing quals, mainly in old-school stuff like Basic and Cobol, but a fair few in Databases, WordProcessing and Spreadsheets. I wouldn't call myself an Industry Whizz, but I'm good enough to be able to sort out most problems people have with any of the above and I'd

Re: [documentation-dev] I'd love to help out.

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/23/10 09:51, Christopher Burke wrote: Dear Dev. I've got 18 Computing quals, mainly in old-school stuff like Basic and Cobol, but a fair few in Databases, WordProcessing and Spreadsheets. I wouldn't call myself an Industry Whizz, but I'm good enough to be able to sort out most

Re: [documentation-dev] Ch15 Writer Guide - Forms

2010-02-23 Thread Daniel Lewis
Claire Wood wrote: Hi Everyone Can anyone tell me please what a spinner is in relation to creating forms using Writer? I've never come across this term before, and how does it work? The spinner is a spin button. When applied to the field of a control, it is the combination up and

[documentation-dev] ***PING*** Video Capture Tutorial Contributors

2010-02-23 Thread Claire Wood
Hi - calling all Video Capture Tutorial Contributors I sent out an email yesterday about this and updating the tutorials available on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Tutorials and Jean said there are several of us out there wanting to do some video capture tutorials. Can

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-23 Thread Claire Wood
Hi I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work on the wiki page. There are users on twitter and I see them all the time. There are also 75 groups on facebook all dedicated to OpenOffice.org. Just

[documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki

2010-02-23 Thread Paolo Pozzan
Hello! While we (the italian team) keep on translating the wiki pages, we noted that some sections are the guides contained in OOoAuthors but wikized. We already translated some of those guides, so we wuold like to know what are those ones that need to be converted and if there is any standard

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki

2010-02-23 Thread Jean Weber
The user guides were converted to mediawiki using the export function that is now in the Sun extension. That is probably the easiest way for you to convert the Italian guides. Of course the figures and the tables of contents must be done by hand and some cleanup of the mediawiki code is sometimes

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki

2010-02-23 Thread Nino Novak
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 22:01, Paolo Pozzan wrote: Hello! While we (the italian team) keep on translating the wiki pages, we noted that some sections are the guides contained in OOoAuthors but wikized. We already translated some of those guides, so we wuold like to know what are those

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-23 Thread deleeuw3
Great idea, Claire! Facebook and Twitter users of OpenOffice.org may be very interested in helping out! Alan On 2/24/2010 6:24 AM, Claire Wood wrote: Hi I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki

2010-02-23 Thread Nino Novak
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 23:04, me myself wrote: MediaWiki Extension plus Macro by TJFrazier plus a lot of manual corrections. FYI - I just translated my personal best practice notes into English, see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Nnino/ODT2Wiki N.