Hinrich Schmieta wrote:
I would like to simply discribe the path I took to become an author( and
apparently I am not arriven yet):
Ok. Thank you btw. We need this feedback so we can fix the problems.
I read that I had to become a member of OOoAuthors. I subscribed to
OOoAuthors. That was no problem for me.
Ok.
Then I read that I should send an email to a list and to introduce
myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
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.
Where did you read this? Which page were you looking at?
This is the page I have in mind:
http://oooauthors.org/en
This page says:
1. Join the OOoAuthors site.
2. Join the mailing list.
3. Request author role
So the page says to join the mailing list before it says to write.
Are we looking at the same page? If you looked at a different page, then
I'd like to know what page it was so we can fix 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.
The third point on that list links to a page that should explain this.
Did you see this page? Did the page fail at explaining the process of
asking author role? How can we fix it?
A third point where to make this process
easier. And again as a newcomer I was insure to whom I would speak.
Yes, naturally. Most newcomers are hesitant, and it's important to make
the process easy and make them feel welcome.
If I had known about it, I propably would have chosen a different
oooauthors-name and tried to change mine.
Feel free to make a new Authors login name. I can delete your old one.
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'm not sure I understand this. Could you elaborate? How would we used a
structured feedback form in this project? (writing documentation).
I hope the above will help you to simplify the access to what you call
"the system".
Yes, it's useful feedback. Thank you. And if you could show me what page
you looked at before joining I'll do my best to fix it.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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