Jean, all,
when reading the subject you chose for this mail I just had kind of an
enlightment ;-)
Would it be an option to try a totally different approach for authoring
tutorials? You wrote: "Tutorial topics", so it's plural. And presently,
we have lots of people around asking how they can help (to my
perception at least). And, we have a wiki, which is, by definition,
"quick".
So my enlighting idea was, why not opening up an area, where every one
can write a quick short tutorial. No (restrictive) rules (except being
constructive), just freedom of writing. Anybody feeling the necessity
to say or write something should be able to do so.
We can call the approach "just do it" or similar.
I don't know if it makes sense but just wanted to share the idea.
First draft quality of such "just written" tutorials could be improved
step by step, by any people, at any time. Good ideas are caught and can
grow quicker, less attractive ideas might stay in draft state longer.
(The only thing is, I'd really like to use a different wiki for this
kind of experiment, a wiki dedicated to this one and only purpose, as
it needs it's own rule set.)
Any thoughts?
Nino
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 10:20, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> I would like us to develop a series of tutorials on using styles and
> templates, focusing on when, why, what for as well as how, using
> common tasks to illustrate the concepts.
>
> For example, page styles are fundamental to using Writer, but many
> people coming from another program like MSWord are expecting to do
> things using "sections" that Writer does using page styles
> ("sections" serve a different purpose in Writer).
>
> Paragraph styles are less unfamiliar to former MSWord users, but most
> people don't use para styles in any program and don't understand all
> the ways in which para styles can make their work easier.
>
> Templates have some fundamental uses, too, that many people don't
> discover. For example, many MSWord users expect something similar to
> Word's normal.dot, and don't make the connection to using a
> self-defined default template.
>
> I could go on with other examples, but instead I have put this on the
> wiki where others can more easily add their ideas and topics and
> volunteer to write one or more tutorials.
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tuto
>rials/Styles_and_Templates
>
> Much of this info can be extracted from the Getting Started book, the
> Writer Guide, and other books and then improved upon by reworking
> into more targeted tutorials about specific tasks.
>
> --Jean
>
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