I have started working on a couple of projects, but I'm also heavily involved in other Free Software advocacy activities, and that has limited the amount of time available for documentation. I don't use OpenOffice at work (my company is a Microsoft shop), so I am limited to using it at home for personal activities.
On the upside, however, I will be starting graduate school shortly, for an MBA. I intend to use OpenOffice and Free Software exclusively to complete my coursework. I think it will be a great training experience for me, and an opportunity to advocate for OpenOffice and Free Software to future business leaders. Of course, it probably also means I will have even less time to devote to documenting my favorite office suite, but once I'm through it, I hope to have learned the product well enough to be a solid contributor. The documentation is extremely useful! Matt Copple On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Barbara Tobias <[email protected]> wrote: > To me, at least, the documentation is extremely useful. When I start > learning to use a new product, it saves an immense amount of > frustration. > > I hope to be able to do more reviewing in the future--just have been > swamped with other volunteer situations (somehow I have not yet learned > there are only 24 hours in a day). I still don't feel I know enough > about the product to be able to actually write the doc. > > Barbara > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 07:26 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: >> Even though hundreds of people are members of OOoAuthors and/or the OOo >> Documentation Project, very few actually contribute to writing, reviewing, or >> editing of user-documentation content (whether for books or on the wiki). A >> few years ago OOoAuthors at least had many more active members. >> >> We've talked a lot (especially on Docs) about how best to provide info (wiki >> vs books vs ??) -- and that's relevant and important -- but very few people >> seem to actually produce any content. >> >> I think this is very disappointing, but perhaps there is so much more now >> available (through community forums as well as third-party books and >> websites, >> tutorials and how-tos) and the Help is so much improved, that we don't need >> so >> much "official" documentation from the project? >> >> --Jean >> > > -- Matthew G. Copple [email protected]
