Hello Alex and welcome to the documentation group. With your skills as
an author and in publishing you can be of great help to us. The first
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The first ones at http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html.
The first two levels will introduce you to Apache and the OpenOffice
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Infrastructure. The third one is the intro to the documentation group at
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html.
Our major thrust at this time is the creation of the User Guides for
OpenOffice v4.0.0 which is our latest upcoming release. All the work is
being on our Mediawiki site at
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide. At the bottom
of that page there is also a link to the status page we use to track
work done.
When you have reviewed the orientation modules send a note back to the
list and we can answer any questions that you have and give you further
assistance on the nxt steps to get you started.
Regards
Keith
Alex Stillwell wrote:
Hi
My training is in physics, I have teacher training and taught science
and maths. After starting a family I went into teaching adults
crafts, eventually specialising in lacemaking and through a series of
events and with a lot of encouragement from friends wrote a book on
lace, that’s another story.
When I started lacemaking there were very few books and very few
lacemakers passing on their knowledge so I had to research everything
I did. The lack of written information was also a spur to continue
writing books. I have just completed my ninth and it will go to print
this week, I am now self-publishing. Publishing is not the same as it
was in the 1980s when my first book came out. That one was written by
hand five times; there were no home computers. My next book was
written using an electronic typewriter with a memory and I bought one
of the first Amstrads just after starting writing a dictionary of
lacemaking terms. It took five minutes to save a file but was
wonderful for cross referencing. A have just competed my 9th book
and have no plans for another, but who knows the future.
I am still teaching lacemaking, demonstrating and giving talks. My
lace has been on exhibition in about 8 countries and I have taught at
lace conventions in Australia and USA as well as at home in UK. I
started the British Lace Guild Logbook Scheme and assisted the US
lace guild writing their teachers’ training program.
I am currently assisting another lacemaker by email to self-publish
her out of print book using Open Office Writer. She is not familiar
with the program and is having to convert the format to A4 with many
diagrams and without changing the pagination; there is a large index
that she does not wish to redo. It is proving quite a challenge.
I am a silver surfer with no plans to put my feet up and retire.
Best wishes to all the team, looking forward to being able to help.
Alex (Alexandra Stillwell, you can see some of my lace and books on
www.alexstillwell.wordpress.com )
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