Please make a suggestion. We're eager to make the system simpler. The
simpler the system is, the more people will be willing to contribute. In
fact, a big part of the reason why OOoAuthors exists is to look for
easier ways to get documentation done. We've gone a long way, but the
system is still not as easy as we'd like.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Hi Daniel.
I would like to simply discribe the path I took to become an author( and
apparently I am not arriven yet):
I read that I had to become a member of OOoAuthors. I subscribed to
OOoAuthors. That was no problem for me.
Then I read that I should send an email to a list and to introduce myself
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I carefully judged my words for this
first contact and wrote an email and sent it. I looked up the list via
Internet-Archiv. And could not find my email. This was the first time when
it was not this simple. I could not find any other posting where someone
was asking to become an author, but losts of postings related to very
internal stuff. I checked the lists adress again.
I assumed that may be the list refused my email, because I was not its
member and that I had to subscribe to the list. But I found no explicit
word about it. A second point where things could be easier.
I managed to make the subscription and after confirming I retried to send
my initial email again. This time it works. First success, but not what I
wanted, because I had to learn that I had to write my demand for the
authors-role in a different way. "Post your oooauthors-name to the list."
As a none native english speaker I had to figure out, what "to post a name
to a list" really meant. I thought it could be synonimous with "sending to
a lists adress an email containig a name", but nobody told me about it
before. A third point where to make this process easier. And again as a
newcomer I was insure to whom I would speak.
If I had known about it, I propably would have chosen a different
oooauthors-name and tried to change mine. No way. A forth point. I posted
the one I had and eventually got your email.
I let you know more about my experience on how to sign up for work on a
particular document, because until now my browser gave me funny reaction,
when I tried to do so.
A first conclusion might be that a knowledge on using or explaining
OpenOffice.org is not nesseceraly related to the knowledge on how to use
newgroups, not to mension the using of "openoffice.org issues". For my
person a form to fill in a username and to give some structured feed back
on experiences and aims would have been the perfect entry.
I hope the above will help you to simplify the access to what you call
"the system".
regards
Hinrich
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