Drew Jensen wrote:
Jean mentioned mining the forum for topics, a great idea - in fact one
that a number of people ( moderators and heavy posters at OOoForum )
are discussing at the moment. One difference being this will not be
limited to Base, but rather a team is forming with different folks each
taking a module. The goal will be to offer a 'Best of the forum' type
multi-author blog. Most likely we will host this on a new site running
Drupal and use the tagging features of the CMS package to tag each of
the articles for end user searches. Once the new site if up, we will be
letting people know how they can request a slot in the posting schedule,
just in case anyone here might be interested.
I missed that development at the forum. Thank you for mentioning
it here. I hope it won't take too long to go from a good idea to
a working site.
One final suggestion. There are a number of features ( or lack there of )
that seem to cause the most problems for users. ( at least the
anecdotal evidence for such a statement is at the forum ) and if you
like I believe I have a good handle on what those issues are, so if you
are looking for subjects I would gladly pass that along to you.
I have started a page on the OOo wiki for planning this book. (If
someone has a suggestion of a better place to do this, that is
easy to use and available to all, please speak up.)
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Base_Guide/Planning
I have put the draft outline (from the OOoAuthors website) on the
wiki page. Anyone interested, please feel free to add or change
things on the page. You can annotate your addition/changes on the
page, and/or use the Discussion tab to discuss ideas with others
working on this book, and/or discuss ideas on this list (to reach
a wider audience). Input from potential users of this book, not
just potential contributors to it, is very welcome.
Linking to forum or list topics would also be good, especially if
forum topics are collected as Drew mentioned. Let's not wait for
anything to happen there (unless it happens quickly), but let's
not duplicate effort either.
Any and all ideas on the book's content, and/or ways to expedite
the planning and writing of the book, are welcome.
--Jean
