Reliable Writer wrote:
Hello, I am interested in contributing to the open office projects
documentation. I have been using OO for over a year on the Windows XP and
Linux platform. When I first discovered this site I wanted to jump in and
start writing, but I think it best to start with a review or two first.
Although I am not a professional technical writer, I have formal and
informal training, as well as hands on experience with C++, Windows
troubleshooting, basic linux usage, and intermediate mac knowledge. Can I
have Author privileges please? I hope to offer the OpenOffice Community
quality input and documentation in the near future.
Thanks
Simon
I'd assign Author privileges to you, but frankly, I forgot how to...
However, somebody will do that for you, after a bit.
Because you have some practical programming experience, how would you
like to author something along the lines of XML-structured authoring
(or structured application design--although that's much more involved?
OOo and OOoAuthors are both rather short on XML documentation,
especially stuff less than two years old. FrameMaker has plenty of
documentation for its XML the past five years or so, but OOo sure could
use some practical XML application documentation or tutorials.
Based upon my Structured FrameMaker XML experience, I could edit (and,
perhaps, help write) some XML documentation for OOo--preferably doing
"round-trip" XML in order to fill the XML void with OOo's documentation.
BTW, it doesn't have to be well written or very thorough at this stage
because it could easily be spiffied up in later stages or rewriting/editing.
Gary
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