Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
The more, the merrier Elliot. I've just added you to the blog user list as an author. --Jean On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 23:40 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: Could it be four contributors including me? I'd love to help out however possible. Having only just signed up for the email list, I'm a little

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Lana Brindley
Go ahead and add me too, Jean. My Wordpress account name is Loquacity. L On 05/12/2011 04:00 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: The more, the merrier Elliot. I've just added you to the blog user list as an author. --Jean On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 23:40 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: Could it be four

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
Thanks, Jean. I'll have to review the documentation we already have and brainstorm some ideas. As for right now, John makes a brilliant point about pushing the blog in other social media outlets. I'm assuming the people in marketing are in charge of updating Twitter. Is the official account

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
The individual posts have Twitter and Facebook Share buttons on them, but I don't know anything about the two Twitter accounts you mention (sorry, I just haven't paid attention to that side of things). Our blog entries do turn up in the TDF Planet -- although when I checked just now, the latest

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
I completely understand that you're busy, John. With that in mind, thanks especially for helping me get a foot in the water. I've subscribed to the other mailing list and will start figuring out... everything from there. In the meantime, if there is a member with the time to serve in the capacity

[libreoffice-documentation] Template for compiled user guides

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
I have put in the English Resources folder a template to be used when creating a compiled user guide or its master document. The formatting of a few styles is slightly different from the formatting of the same styles in the chapters, the footer contents are a bit different, and I forget what the

[libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
We need a volunteer to compile a full book from the Calc Guide chapters. If you wait for me to get to it, it might not appear for quite awhile The instructions are somewhere in Producing LibreOffice User Guides in English Resources on Alfresco. The master document and all the chapters are in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

2011-05-12 Thread John Cleland
Hi I am willing to do this. Are there any instructions other than in the email. Regards John Connected by MOTOBLURâ„¢ -Original message- From: Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com To: LibreOffice Documentation documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 12 May 2011, 11:53:40 GMT+01:00

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Thank you!! for taking this on. --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 21:10 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: You mean, other than in Producing LibreOffice User Guides in English Resources on Alfresco? No, I think that's it; I don't think I've got anything more detailed. BTW, some of the early parts of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 05:28 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: I'm game. First though, I'll be needing an Alfresco account. No? Do you have the super powers to set that up, Jean? Sure do. And it's done. Look for private mail from me with login info, coming in a few minutes. --Jean ~Elliot

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
This looks easy enough. I'll have it done later today. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 05:28 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: I'm game. First though, I'll be needing an Alfresco account. No? Do you have the super powers to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread John Shabanowitz
A few good points were made in this thread. I can see we're going to need a project list. LOL. The expert in this thread about writing for LibO, documentation, etc is Jean. She has the experience coming from the OpenOffice.org project. So for all the technical points and how to use the templates

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
Your last point makes a lot of sense, John. The people following those feeds are the choir, which is why we need to encourage them with something to sing about. If the information is already posted then all they have to do is press a button to RT or share that information. That going to really

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

2011-05-12 Thread John Cleland
Hi Jean Can I have a login for Alfresco. I will download the guides. Thanks John -Original Message- From: Jean Weber Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:10 PM To: documentation@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide You mean,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
I've already overwritten the styles, replaced the brands at the tops and deleted the footers on the second page. But does this project also include creating the new screenshots for the tuts? Many of them have OOo specific headings in their windows. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Elliot Turner

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Could references to OOo and OpenOffice.org be removed fairly easily? I think that is one of our top priorities? If it can only be seen by the documentation team then it's less of an issue but if the general public can see it then it should go, if possible. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
Hi Tom :) What I am seeing is OOo specific images in documentation that is already published on the Libreoffice website. Before I say more, I'd like to add that I can see a lot of work has gone into documentation already, and I'm not simply criticizing that work but hoping to help improve upon

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's not taken as criticism. The documentation team has been working hard and fast just to get documentation out there. There will be mistakes that need fixing and mostly those are ok for now. Branding is a fairly serious issue so it would be fantastic if you could fix it. Sometimes

[libreoffice-documentation] Marketing Team now has a blog.

2011-05-12 Thread Marc Paré
I just thought I would leave a copy of this post that I wrote on the marketing list. Thanks to the Documentation team for inspiring us to setting up the blog on Wordpress. I also copied the introductory paragraph, theme and right column widgets from your blog as I thought it would add

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Weber
Replacing the screenshots definitely needs to be done, either at this point or during the review to see what else may need to be changed because of differences between OOo Impress and LibO Impress. So please do so if you want to and have time. If you do replace screenshots, please note that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Weber
That was certainly an oversight if any remained in a published doc, and will need to be fixed in the next update. The Getting Started book in particular was done in a great rush and has far too many uncorrected images in it. If you want to start redoing them, you are very welcome to do so.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
Oh, there's a Resources section on Alfresco. Okay, I'll review the items you mentioned and redo the documents. Unfortunately I won't be able to do screenshots on anything other than Windows until I can switch to Linux. Someone else will need to take that torch if it needs to be done soon. Sorry.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Done. A private message has been sent to you with your login details. Sorry about the delay; I'm in Australia, so the time difference gets in the way at times. --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 14:28 +0100, John Cleland wrote: Hi Jean Can I have a login for Alfresco. I will download the guides.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

2011-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Ahh, so you have to write to us tomorrow for us to get it yesterday? ;) From: Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 13 May, 2011 0:59:27 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need volunteer to compile Calc Guide

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Two topics: (1) Impress Guide rebranding. Have you been using the Template Changer extension to assign the LibO template to the rebranded Impress Guide chapters? If not, please do that at some point. Assigning a template takes care of all the style changes, the footer on the copyright page, and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Posting regularly on blog

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Thanks, John. My experience and primary area of activity is with the user guides. Blogging is a bit different, as it allows more of a personal voice by the writer. You've described the blog writing style very well. We try to use a standard writing style in the user guides, but for a blog entry

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Categorising posts on the Docs blog

2011-05-12 Thread Lana Brindley
On 05/13/2011 10:43 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I have created a bunch of Categories for the posts on our blog, and will add more as we think of them. Please assign categories to your posts to help people find them in future when we have a lot. You, or an editor or admin, can go back and add,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
(1) What I did do was overwrite the existing document's styles with the styles from a document that was already published. Since this didn't automatically adjust the footer, I'm going to redo it using the correct method just in case there are other things I've missed. Don't worry. I have a clear

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Rebranding the Impress Guide

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:20 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: (1) Impress Guide rebranding. Have you been using the Template Changer extension to assign the LibO template to the rebranded Impress Guide chapters? If not, please do that at some point. Assigning a template takes care of all the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Categorising posts on the Docs blog

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:57 +1000, Lana Brindley wrote: Tags and categories can complement each other. No need to use one over the other. Is one or the other preferred for particular purposes? Or is it more that individual readers might prefer, or be more accustomed to using, one or the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Categorising posts on the Docs blog

2011-05-12 Thread Lana Brindley
On 05/13/2011 11:17 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:57 +1000, Lana Brindley wrote: Tags and categories can complement each other. No need to use one over the other. Is one or the other preferred for particular purposes? Or is it more that individual readers might

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Categorising posts on the Docs blog

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 11:29 +1000, Lana Brindley wrote: On 05/13/2011 11:17 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:57 +1000, Lana Brindley wrote: Tags and categories can complement each other. No need to use one over the other. Is one or the other preferred for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Categorising posts on the Docs blog

2011-05-12 Thread Elliot Turner
What Lana said. It's good that you're organizing this ahead of time. It will help keep everything in order as the blog develops. A good way of thinking about it is that tags might give a small SEO bump to a post by repeating keywords, whereas categories make a blog easier for users to navigate