Thanks, Andy and Jean. I think I will start working on updating pages on the wiki for Calc guide. In addition where could I see the allocation of chapters for the volunteers? I just do not want to repeat things that have been done already. Jean - Do you have an estimated completion date for this Calc Guide? ThanksMary Ann
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [authors] New Volunteer To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 2:02 AM On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:25 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: > Mary Ann Corera wrote: > > Hi, This is Mary Ann from San Diego, CA. I have just finished a certificate > > in professional writing from san diego state and am looking for volunteer > > opportunities to gain writing experience. I strongly believe that I can > > contribute quite a lot towards the Open Office documentation. I am > > currently doing some writing for a client of mine on their site's dokuwiki. > > Please direct me as to what next steps I should take to start work as a > > reviewer. ThanksMary Ann > > Hi Mary Ann, > > I can not give anyone the author role just wanted to say "Hi and welcome > to the OOo Authors" to a fellow San Diego member. > Mary Ann, Welcome to the team! I've given you the author role. You'll find lots of instructions and information linked from the main English page of the OOoAuthors website, but no doubt you will have questions. I may not always be available to answer them, but usually someone else will. (That's a hint to the rest of the group!) At the moment the Review List (in English) has little or nothing on it, but that list covers only one stage of developing the user guides. One very important related maintenance item is in need of volunteers right now: the wiki edition of the Calc Guide needs updating. Since you have some wiki experience, perhaps you might be interested in taking that on, or at least doing part of it. If that doesn't appeal to you, there are many FAQs and other materials on the wiki that need to be reviewed and updated. Here is the note about the Calc Guide that I sent to the list a few days ago (and to which no one has yet responded): We need to update the wiki pages (starting here http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Calc_Guide to match the published Calc Guide chapters from here: http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/calc3/cg3-published This work may involve updating text, images, or both. How you do it is up to you. My method is to export to MediaWiki format from the ODT files and then copy-and-paste text as needed into the wiki. I have not yet written instructions for this, but the essentials are as follows: 1) Obtain and install the Sun Wiki Publisher extension to OOo. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher Restart OOo after installing this extension. 2) To export, open the ODT in Writer and use File > Export. Choose MediaWiki as the file format in the Export dialog and choose where to put the file on your computer. It will have a .TXT extension. 3) Open the TXT file in OOo or in a text editor to copy and paste material to the wiki. 4) Figures (and figure numbers) must be inserted/updated by hand. Optional, but very useful in some cases: TJ Frazier's code to post-process the output of the MediaWiki export filter (the TXT file) to clean up the code for tip/note/caution tables. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:TJFrazier/WikiBasic In OOo, create a macro and paste in the code. Then run the macro on the TXT file. I will write all this up in more detail later and put it on the website. Meanwhile, just ask questions as needed. Jean -- Jean Hollis Weber Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
