Peter,
The point of my post was that I returned to my PC after two days and had
over 70 posts regarding the new licensing, and only a very few about
work on the documents. And for several more days it continued
until...there were a few posts about members needing some work ("being
bored"). At this point the post seemed to change back to our work at
hand. Although much had to do with "cover art".The current licenses provide us protection, and I just think we can work on everything in a more "paced" approach...writing and discussing the licensing, templates and artwork at the same time. I didn't mean to offend you...but just to point out to everyone that there is still alot of work to do in CREATING the documents. Calc is not as easy a project as writing the guides for the other components...topics such as Macros, formulas, managing multiple worksheets (spreadsheets, or whatever), data sources and functions will take a good deal of energy. And the Base guide is not any easier. Both of these components are valuable to users who are considering switching from M$ Office, if they can't find good documentation they will probably not make the change. A viable and well documented word processor alone is not a reason to dump Office. My take on the posts here is "thank goodness the Writer chapter is done" now we can relax". ...I am working on an outline for the Functions and Formulas chapter to submit so I won't write anything that is considered unnecessary. But I also have 3 other documents in the cooker...I wrote the Functions appendix first as a lead in to the Functions and Formulas chapter, so I would be up-to-date on any new features. This chapter will take me several weeks to complete...but first I need to have the others well under way...I still need to look over the latest "What is OOo? version. I, for one, remember looking over the previous version 1.x guides for help, and finding them seriously lacking in substance (as do others check out the OOoforums). Sorry for my enthusiasm, although it seems that I am hard (and at times abrasive) on others, I am hardest on myself. So you can basically forget I wrote anything...it's always just my opinion. Have fun tonight... On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 15:28 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote: > Rick Barnes wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 08:33 +0000, Iain Roberts wrote: > > > > It does seem that there has been way too much discussion on licensing > > documents that haven't been written yet, and not enough work on writing > > them...of course some will not agree, but there is still a lot of work > > to do on the Impress, Base and Calc guides...and not even a mention of a > > Math Guide??? > > > We do need to get the license squared away as publishers who will try > and steel our work for financial gain need to know how to do that and as > people d/l the beta they will be reading our chapter done or not and > they need to be licensed correctly. Time is running out. > > I don't think there will be a Math Guide. I think it will just be the > chapter that Daniel wrote which is QUITE extensive. If is a part of the > Writer chapter. > > The Calc guide is coming along. Most of the meat and potatoes chapters > have been written and we now have two very nice appendices. > > The Impress guide is not impressive (Sorry, it was too easy) but I would > imaging it will get done sooner or later. I think Writer and Calc are > probably bigger priorities. > > Base will be done when the program stabilizes. The GS guide for base > isn't bad (I am editing it now) and the rest will come along. > > Like Math, I don't know how big the Base guide will even be. It seems to > be a function that is used across multiple components and not all that > much in and of itself. Probably a few chapters about how to design > things, but I would imagine small comparatively. Just a hunch. > > If you look at the Calc outline, there are some chapter towards the end > that are kind of daunting such as notes and revision control, embedded > worksheet, and data pilot. You could work one those. > > Have you made any headway on the writing functions and creating formulas > chapter? > > I don't mean to be condescending, but I can't tell what the real purpose > of your message was. People are working, and stuff is getting done. Are > you looking for me to do, because there is plenty. Are you saying others > aren't working, because I know there are people that are working and > checking docs. > > I am not trying to start a feud, I just want us all to get along. There > has been some recent nastiness on some other lists, and I don't want it > to start here too. I, for one, wouldn't be able to deal with it. > > Have a good one, >
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