Re: [documentation-dev] seeking to volunteer as technical writer

2010-03-31 Thread Daniel Lewis
Ahba Kumari: In general, we need people who either know how to use one of OOo's components: Writer, Calc, Draw, Base, and Math. Even if you are not well acquainted with one of them, you can help if you are willing to learn and also willing to write how to use one of these components. It

Re: [documentation-dev] seeking to volunteer as technical writer

2010-03-29 Thread Daniel Lewis
gilles lamoureux wrote: Seeking to volunteer as a Technical Writer. Have written training and user manual for employer's software database. gilles Welcome Gilles! We could use some help in writing the Base Guide. (Base is the database component for OpenOffice.org. Either Clayton or Jean

Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile

2010-03-02 Thread Daniel Lewis
Florian Effenberger wrote: Forwarding this (anonymized) to this list, and pointing the original poster to it Original Message Subject: OO helpfile Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:23:54 +0800 To: Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org G'day Florian, Sorry to bother you, and

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

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel Lewis
Drew Jensen wrote: Ah sorry - I keep forgetting just how closed off facebook can be. If you have a facebook account you can see it... sorry Drew Agreed. I'm on FB and I have no problems seeing Oracle on your wall. Dan

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

Re: [documentation-dev] Personalized e-mailing with Ooo

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Lewis
Jean Colladon wrote: Hello, I do like and know about MDB (Marketing Data Base), for BtoB or BtoC. I helped several persons working on Arts to send e-mailings to customers with personalized text and images. I'd like to make a documentation on that subject (in french). I didn't find any (maybe

Re: [documentation-dev] Cleanup the Doc Project mailing lists

2010-02-01 Thread Daniel Lewis
ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: As part of the preparation work I'm trying to do for the pending migration of the OOo website, I've taken a look at the Documentation Project mailing lists... and there are a lot of them. A significant number are dead mailing lists with no activity in a very