I would like to do a review first to familiarise myself with what goes on at OOo. I have read the instructions and I have gone onto the home page but I dont see a title which actually says review list under the navigation tab. Am I supposed to choose something to review from all those folders listed below..... or how does it work? Sorry but I feel like I am negotiating foreign territory right now..... and I expected to see a tab which says review list or something like that....... Thanks again
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:54:34 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [authors] How does it work > > On 08/16/2010 09:08 PM, CHIPO CHIKURUNHE wrote: > > > > I joined open OOo as an author but I am not quite sure how it works. Could > > someone be so kind as to explain to me what my "duties" are. I joined > > because I am always writing and I felt I could make a contribution but I am > > not quite sure how? > > > > Thanks ya all > > You've done the right first step.. you've asked a good question :-) > > Jean sent some helpful information to the d...@documentation mailing list > a few weeks ago that should get you started: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [documentation-dev] To the newcomers > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:50:35 +1000 > From: Jean Hollis Weber > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Welcome to our recent newcomers. Most discussion on producing (technical > writing, editing, reviewing, indexing, etc) of OpenOffice.org > documentation takes place on the [email protected] > list. This list (dev@) is more for discussions of project infrastructure > and policy. It's good to subscribe to both. > > To get started, look at what we're doing and get an idea of what might > interest you: user guide? FAQs? How-to's? Tutorials? If you have a > technical background (programming or system administration, for example) > you might be interested in working on the docs aimed at developers and > sysadmins; otherwise, you'll probably want to concentrate on docs aimed > at users. Let us know, and that might help us help you a bit more. Also > read the style guide, writing guide, and other instructions on the > OOoAuthors website. > > I have started a task list for the user guides here: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/User_Guides > > Technical writing in the real world involves a lot of research and > planning. Most of the user guides (with the exception of the Base Guide) > are now in the updating-and-enhancement phase. When OOo itself changes, > we may need to update some chapters. Members of the team need to keep > track of these changes in the program and what chapters are affected; > that is easier if several people have each "adopted" a chapter or > several or an entire book. > > We also need people to go through the existing chapters and recommend > improvements: Can we explain some things better? Are some things missing > that should be there? Should we write a stand-alone tutorial for a > particular task and then refer to it in the user guide, instead of > putting it in the guide itself? Write a note to the Authors list with > your ideas so we can discuss them. > > One way to get an idea of what's missing (or not explained well) is to > follow the OOo community forum and see what people are asking (and what > the answers are). http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ > > In addition to keeping the user guides up to date and improving them, we > want to develop a series of tutorials aimed at specific audiences, > explaining how to do common tasks, using real-world examples. I have > started a list on this page and the pages linked from it: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials > > Lastly, when I have time I am working on expanding and improving the > instructions for newcomers. This is going slowly, so apologies if what > we have is incomplete or unclear. > > Jean > -- > Jean Hollis Weber > Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project > > > > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell [email protected] > OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
