Re: Repository Organization

2021-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
marcia wilbur wrote:> I was hoping we would be using gitbox or something not Github (MS). Everything under https://github.com/apache/ is actually a Gitbox mirror. It works the same way for the source code. Some people prefer to push to Gitbox, some (often including newcomers) to Github. But

Re: CC License on Externally-Produced Documentation

2021-01-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/01/2021 Dennis Hamilton wrote: In the case of documentation projects and their repositories, the exception is not workable. Hello Dennis, nice to hear from you... it's been a while! I basically I agree to everything, but I go a bit further in that I don't see a restriction on using an

Re: Request mwiki account creation

2019-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/09/2019 randolph gamo wrote: preferrred *username*: randolphgamo Welcome! Account "randolphgamo" created; you should have received a password by e-mail. If not, you can just reset the password for your account from the login page. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Re OpenOffice Spreadsheet suggestion

2017-03-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/03/2017 Barnaby Guthrie wrote: In your spreadsheet section could you include a Command+D and Command+R routine for “Fill Down” and “Fill Right” respectively? You will want to use customized keyboard shortcuts. This is done in Tools - Customize - Keyboard (the menu layout may be a bit

Re: Is it time to shut down this effort?

2016-07-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/07/2016 Keith N. McKenna wrote: My answer to the question posed in the tittle of this e-mail unfortunately is yes. We have been moving by fits and starts for almost 4 years and have very little to show for it. I would like to hear the opinions of others though. (I know this conversation

Re: Rebooting the Documentation Effort

2016-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Personally I had enough political and turf battles when I worked in the corporate world; I certainly do not need them now Sure. You are coordinating volunteers here without the need of any formal structure. No need for any structure. Volunteers are here, we had more

Re: Our second page was released today

2015-12-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: With Archana's accuracy check of the Formatting a Document Introduction page it met it's requirements for release. This is the second page that has been released. Thank you all for restarting this work, and especially Keith for his dedication and patience. Keith,

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2015-08-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/08/2015 Shruthi Raghunath wrote: Preferred user name: shruthiraghunath Email: shruthiraghun...@gmail.com Your Mwiki account has now been created too. You will shortly receive a temporary password by mail. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Username details

2015-03-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/03/2015 nisha murali wrote: I would like to sign up for an account. username: nishs310 Welcome, MWiki account created. You will receive a password within a few minutes. Your CWiki account has been whitelisted too. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Done with orientation

2015-02-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Olivier Bricaud wrote: I just finished the Introduction to Documentation and I am very excited to help in any way I can. Thanks! Current efforts are mostly on the new User Guide https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide Would it please possible to get whitelisted for the

Re: Apply for a volunteer tech writer

2015-02-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alfred_Ren wrote: In step 2, i need to sign up an account for MWiki with my preferred user name and e-mail address.i think the following is good to me. user name: alfred.ren Email address: rensimin2...@gmail.com My question is that, is above information enough to finish the step 2 Yes,

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-12-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
David Lloyd-Jones wrote: I don't know who this is intended for, but I'm sure they're all glad to know it... It is an account approval request and it was sent to the right list. See http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html section Getting Started (and hey, if that documentation

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-12-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Robyn Chan wrote: Username is rchan128 Welcome! Whitelisted. Take your time to finish reading the documentation, and then please let us know what you'd like to work on (which OpenOffice module do you know best?). Regards, Andrea.

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Heather Bloomer wrote: My preferred User name is HBloomer and my email address is heather.e.bloo...@gmail.com Welcome, account created and you will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. Andrea. - To

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-11-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/10/2014 Steve Wolf wrote: I would love to volunteer my time (Which I have plenty of) learning documentation writing. I have strong English writing skills and technical knowledge. Thank you for the opportunity. Plenty of time? Sounds very good, and as you can guess from the delay other

Re: inscription pour wikiopenoffice.org

2014-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
(answering in English, this list is in English) So you say you need an account for downloading files? Can you provide an example, like sending the link to a page where you cannot download without an account? We might want to fix the configuration. In the meantime, we created an account for

Re: [MWiki] Account creation

2014-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carla Bosco wrote: I am a student of technical writing and I would love to help with the documentation. Could you please create an account for me? If possible, my username would be cbosco. Welcome! Account created, you will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. Then your starting

Re: Improving de documentation of the development process

2014-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Sadly I think the website is too text-oriented and a more visual format would help. Not only on the ooo.apache but also on the wiki. Where the build guide and other 'newbie' documents are very text driven and a better use of visual notificationes like alerts, warnings

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Tariq Rahuma wrote: Preferred username: tariqrahuma E-mail address: tariqrah...@gmail.com ...And this account has been created too. We are currently working at documentation at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide ; feel free to adopt one of the mostly empty pages and

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/09/2014 Aarti Varma wrote: Can the account with username sonusonu please be whitelisted? Welcome, whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/09/2014 Isha thk wrote: I see that the user guide doc is minimal for Open Office Draw and wish to add a few topics there. Specifically, I would like to work on the topic of Connectors under Styles on Draw as it is listed as TODO. Let me know if I can go forward with this. Sure, thanks!

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: Perhaps I'm confused. But my documentation in English, Chinese (kindly translated by Mark Hung), French and German is, so I thought, on the official site openoffice.org. It's advertised on the openoffice.org domain, but it's not hosted there. It's third-party documentation. Which

Re: MWiki Account

2014-07-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bailey Naas wrote: I would love to start helping with this project, may I please have an MWiki account? Preferred username is bmnaas. Account created. You will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. And please let us know the module you use more often, or you documentation

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-06-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
zoo mass wrote: Please create a login account for me (Username: zoomass). Done. If you haven't received a password, please let me know. I'm a tech writer with 10 years experience (mostly policy and procedure with some user-level manuals and quick start guides) You definitely seem to be

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jesse Scanlan wrote: jessescanapc Welcome, CWIKI account whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Stepping back from trying to drive this effort

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/06/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: still more structure won't help. People become respected in a field through mutual recognition. This is working well for other OpenOffice fields, like localization and QA. In this case Andrea I feel that a little more structure may

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/06/2014 Shyam Sindha wrote: I'm looking to help with technical writing, copy-editing, proof reading etc. I have a bachelors degree in Physics, with some experience of coding. However my biggest strengths are definitely spelling and grammar. Thanks! You will receive credentials for our

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jesse Scanlan wrote: Hi, I'd like to sign up for an MWiki account please. Preferred account name: jessescanAP MWiki account created too. You will receive credentials in a few minutes. Please tell us if you don't receive them. We have a list of pages that need proofreading right now, sent by

Re: Sign up

2014-06-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Account Panagea has been created and a temporary password has been sent to the supplied e-mail account. Thanks. I'm not sure the new volunteer is following the list (message was moderated). And now, to proceed according to the considerations we were doing last week,

Re: Stepping back from trying to drive this effort

2014-06-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/06/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: I am more than willing to help but I am tired of beating my head against walls. Well, volunteers come and go. Your messages had the effect to reactivate some people, fortunately! We really do not have a documentation team at this point. What we appear

Re: Creating user ID

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/05/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Ben Hunt wrote: Hi, I am just replying to get a user ID created. For the user ID: bjhunt would be good for me or something similar. ... If no one has set up the account for you yet, please send your email address as a reply to this message. Account

Re: I would like to volunteer as technical writer

2014-05-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/05/2014 Luca Ceccarini wrote: I could help with the italian translation. Would be a great way for me to get my hands dirty... I listed other ways to get your hands dirty with Italian translations at http://markmail.org/message/ikngu7tmbmwq2pjq but there's another one if you wish, that

Re: G'day

2014-05-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jake Thomas wrote: Im Jake, from Australia and I guess I am a new volunteer. Ive read levels 1, 2 and 3 orientation modules for documentation, and am ready to go. As far as a Wiki username goes jazzatomo will be sufficient. Welcome! Account created on MWiki, you should receive a temporary

Re: New doc volunteer

2014-05-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/05/2014 Ben Hunt wrote: I am a third year IT student from Australia. Both myself and another IT student have a project to help contribute to an open source project (due in June) so we decided to try and help out with open office. We have no particular set of skills, we have done some Java

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-04-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/04/2014 Luca Ceccarini wrote: My name is Luca and I’m a tech enthusiast and overall digital geek from Italy. I’m a self-employed web and print designer, my main occupation for almost 10 years now. But I’m looking for a new challenge and I’m particularly interested in technical writing.

Re: Can't make edits on the Wiki

2014-04-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
José Reyes Ch. G. wrote: Hi Andrea! Yesterday, the problema I could not make changes to the wiki was resolved, in fact I made several suggestions, but today found myself once again the problem that my IP is blocked. Why do I keep getting the same problem? And how do I resolve this problem

Re: Can't make edits on the Wiki

2014-04-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
José Reyes Ch. G. wrote: The wiki thinks my IP is similar to a user named MellissaBrodzky which is blocked. I cant make any edits until this situation is fixed. Should be fixed now. See https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124572 and reopen if you still see it. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Writer manual FR

2014-02-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/02/2014 Dave wrote: followed your link to the French documentation site. Could you add my documentation in French to the page: openoffice-uni.org ? Thank you Dave, added links to http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Writer/ Regards, Andrea.

Re: Presentation and wiki account

2014-02-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
JOSE REYES wrote: Hello! Mi name is José Reyes Chan Guzmán. I want to contribute to the OpenOffice community through my knowledge and skills, helping to translate some documentation to spanish. Want to enter the wiki for to help with some guides. My Nick is jose_reyes1994 Welcome! Your account

Re: Writer manual FR

2014-02-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/01/2014 Guy Waterval wrote: Here is the writer manual FR (unofficial) www.softenpoche.com/sep/writer.odt www.softenpoche.com/sep/writer.pdf Licence : ALv2.0, Status : draft Thank you, added to http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Writer/ Regards, Andrea.

Re: OpenOffice License cut off

2014-02-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
nbholladay wrote: FYI, I downloaded a copy of OpenOffice for personal use recently. In the OpenOffice 4.0.1 License document (Help--About--License), at the very end, it cuts off the latter part of Eric Young's SSLeay license (looks like it's supposed to be there as a condition of distribution).

Re: Openoffice.uni documentation (Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of)

2013-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: Thanks a million! However it seems to me to be a little round about way. Wouldn't it be possible to simply post a link to: openoffice-uni.org There visitors can choose if they prefer pdf or odt (Answering multiple mails in one) The ODF Authors model I was referring to was quite

Re: Openoffice.uni documentation (Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of)

2013-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: Is the Apache License by the way available in other languages? Or is it best just to stick to English? The only normative version is the English one. So, whatever language the document is in, the license is the English one (and very often the notice is in English too). I'm not

Openoffice.uni documentation (Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of)

2013-12-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/11/2013 16:23, Dave wrote: any chance of linking my introduction for students (openoffice-uni.org) on the wiki? french version will be up next week, then i'll go back to the german version, and then again the english version. please take a look. Hello Dave, I did take a look today. You

Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of

2013-11-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/11/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: Installation Guide 4.odthttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0IYmtXbWNldnctV0k/edit?usp=drive_web Introducing AOO 4.odthttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0INEplZWlMV1dLNWc/edit?usp=drive_web

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

2013-10-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
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 the mac page ? The Mac version used to be a port (you can still find outdated

Re: Current message number

2013-07-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Tom Goldie wrote: I'm hoping this message will post with the current message number so I can begin reading the archives; if not, can someone provide it to me? Welcome, for the mailing list archives see http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html Regards, Andrea.

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2013-07-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alex Stillwell wrote: Exactly what would you like me to do? and exactly how would you like me to respond. I have indigestion from too much information and I cannot see what is important at this stage and what I should do next. Once I get a handle on how to help I will be OK. It is just taking me

Re: [UserGuide]My roadmap

2013-06-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/06/2013 RGB ES wrote: The bare bones for the Draw guide are taking shape with four new pages http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Draw/Intro http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Draw/Layers

Re: Introduction

2013-06-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gregory Hitchcock wrote: I wish to volunteer on documentation projects at Apache OpenOffice using my writing and editing skills. Welcome Greg, and remember to subscribe to the lists following the instructions that rob already pointed you at on the dev list:

Re: How to apply Collection in the WIKI?‏

2013-06-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Javier LoRa wrote: Hello everybody. I'm Javier. I did subscribe in dev list. I'm working about menu in the wiki in this link http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Functions but i need to insert the extention collection: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection How

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

2013-05-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: But (doh!) I recently found out that this was already part of the grant IBM made when they contributed Symphony last summer. And the contribution included translations into 28 languages! ... Under each language dir there is a doc.zip file containing the help, in HTML format.

Re: Is the path to the options menu consistent across all operating systems in the AOO UI

2013-05-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/05/2013 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Since the User Guides are aimed at v4.0, is the Mac path still OpenOffice.org -- Preferences or would it be OpenOffice -- Preferences or Apache OpenOffice -- Preferences? Honestly I don't know. I'm CCing Raphael and Juergen since they surely have a

Re: Impress tutorial (fr) - unofficial

2013-03-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/03/2013 Rob Weir wrote: 1) Where should we store the document? 2) How do we make Francophone users aware of it? For #1, maybe we can put it as a link from this page: http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Impress/ ??? I can upload the tutorial and modify the page, if someone gives me