Interesting example of an OpenOffice doc page

2014-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
It is more of an FAQ/technique page, than a user guide, but I thought it was done well. (Ignore the advertising) http://technofyi.com/2013/11/25/dismiss-pesky-last-time-opened-openoffice-popup/ This is a good example of a topic-based approach to documentation: a short module that tells how to

Updated migration guide?

2013-11-11 Thread Rob Weir
I'm thinking of starting to create an updated migration guide for AOO. If you have any thoughts on this, or want to help, let me know. Target audience includes: 1) Individual Microsoft Office users, where such users provide their own technical support. 2) IT departments who support users

Help Needed: Redo the /porting/mac page

2013-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
We currently have this page which is visited over 4000 times *per day*. It has high visibility since it is the top search result when querying for openoffice mac and similar queries: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/ This page has many problems: 1) The stock image is dated and out of

Re: Help Needed: Redo the /porting/mac page

2013-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: janI wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/ ... So my first question is - what does a MAC page have to do here. MAC is a supported platform, not third party ? - why does the porting page not have a link to

Re: Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This projects depends on volunteer efforts. We have many routine tasks that need to be performed during a release cycle and even during ordinarily

Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
This projects depends on volunteer efforts. We have many routine tasks that need to be performed during a release cycle and even during ordinarily operation of our website and other public-facing services. In many cases a given task is well-understood and many members of the project understand

Reminder: Time to update your entry in the Directory of Volunteers

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Weir
We'll soon be releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1. We want to give recognition to the many volunteers who contribute to the success of OpenOffice. One way we give credit is in our Directory of Volunteers. We link to this from the Help/About box of the product, as well as in blog posts and release

Re: How I can generate images that can be displayed in PDF?

2013-07-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Javier LoRa xavi_da...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello team I created a collection which can be downloaded as pdf automatically without the use of the tool COLLECTION CREATOR, the problem that has arisen is that I wish that an image of OpenOffice cover appears in

Re: [Discuss][Wiki]Synchronizing (or not) localized wiki sites [was: Fwd: [UserGuide]My roadmap]

2013-06-05 Thread Rob Weir
in writing by You as Not a Contribution. So I think that covers wiki contributions as well since that is documentation of, yes? -Rob -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:28 AM To: d...@openoffice.apache.org Cc: l

Symphony documentation was contributed (and I didn't even know it)

2013-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
As some of you know, I've been poking around to see if we could make use of the documentation/help for IBM Lotus Symphony. I was investigating what would be required to get this contributed to Apache. But (doh!) I recently found out that this was already part of the grant IBM made when they

Re: Response to follow-up e-mails Was Re: Use of Ricardo's Status page.

2013-05-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: snip On 2013-04-09 I sent the following reminder to all individuals that had expressed interest in working on documentation but had not yet signed up for the mailing list: You recently expressed interest in

Spreadsheet function translations (Excel)

2013-05-07 Thread Rob Weir
I came across this reference on the web and thought it might be useful. Not sure what, but it has info that I have not seen collected in one place before on localized names of Excel spreadsheet functions: http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~trieschn/excel/excel.html Regards, -Rob

Re: Response to follow-up e-mails Was Re: Use of Ricardo's Status page.

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Weir
and motivation are much better. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, at 15:55, Rob Weir wrote: I don't know if anyone counted, but it seemed like we had 15 or more people volunteer to help. But of the offers of help, not many ultimately contributed. Why is this so? Regards, -Rob Hi all, Flame suit

Re: Response to follow-up e-mails Was Re: Use of Ricardo's Status page.

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Weir
. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, at 15:55, Rob Weir wrote: I don't know if anyone counted, but it seemed like we had 15 or more people volunteer to help. But of the offers of help, not many ultimately contributed. Why is this so? Regards, -Rob

Re: Response to follow-up e-mails Was Re: Use of Ricardo's Status page.

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:07:53 -0400 On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Keith N. McKenna

Re: Will you take the AOO Community Survey?

2013-04-16 Thread Rob Weir
Reminder: If you have not yet filled out the survey, please try to submit results before the end of the week. Thanks! -Rob On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: http://www.openofficesurvey.org//index.php?sid=92484lang=en This is intended to be a fun survey

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2013-03-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Stephen J. Hyland s...@stephenhyland.com wrote: Hello, everyone. My name is Stephen Hyland, and I've been a long-time user of Open Source software, a software engineer, a technical writer (various tools but primarily FrameMaker), and am an attorney. I probably

Re: Apache Documentation Volunteers

2013-03-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:48 PM, James Pitt filmp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! My name is James Pitt, and I'm a true believer in the open source ideal of software for the masses. I'm also an experienced, credentialed entertainment professional and would love to lend my abilities to this work.

Re: [Discuss]Call for volunteers [Was: Re: Starting to build the user guide]

2013-02-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:15 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/2 RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com 2013/1/27 RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com Maybe we can do the call on two steps, calling first on the forums and users mailing list for people with experience on the program (on the forums there

Re: Math commands [was Re: Starting to build the user guide]

2013-02-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:57 PM, tj t...@apache.org wrote: Hi, Andrea, On 2/7/2013 18:28, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM, RGB ES wrote: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Reference/Math_commands but that page it is under a CC

Re: Math commands [was Re: Starting to build the user guide]

2013-02-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com I'll try on the next weeks to write about Math. (almost) done: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Math The only missing part is a list with all the Math commands.

Do we want a wiki page for Doc volunteers?

2013-02-01 Thread Rob Weir
Some of you may have seen the page I recently set up for QA volunteers, to track what the volunteers were interested in working on, what their capabilities were, etc. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/QA+Testing+Preferences Would it be useful to do something similar for

Re: A first post

2013-01-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:38 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/9 Keith N. McKenna meriodoc_brandyb...@yahoo.com This list has been active for over 2 weeks now and this appears to be the first post. I am really beginning to wonder if documentation is really something that project