I haven't heard of any complaints about the faq system you have been working on.
neither do i it was a helpfull faqs and we can make it usable for other people who has just started to migrate to OOo
Hi,
Wow, that's funny. Thank you. I'm still wobbling on the edge, but after thinking about things more last night, I wondered, myself, if I should stick to my original plan too. I've been thinking about this a lot over the past few weeks.
I feel like a serious bottleneck in the system, which doesn't do well to support work provided by others. For that I feel sad. I'm seeing what it's like to sit on the other side of the fence, I guess you could say.
I have seen small comments about how worrying about css is a hurdle to productivity, and I guess I took the comments personally. I take everything personally, maybe because I want to do my best, and I analyze many comments against my actions, and then usually see that I am not reaching the ultimate goal well, in this case, migrating of FAQs to the OOo site in an efficient manner.
Maybe my need for "perfecting" (if you can call it that) each FAQ before it reaches the site is a hurdle. Maybe it's self-serving. Maybe it's not what is best for all. Maybe it is just me and my little ego doing work in my little way.
But here comes the wobble: I'm just learning about CSS, which has me now working in Bluefish, which has introduced me to one type of HTML validation. (I tried doing this CSS stuff in a text editor at first, but I still have too much to learn, so I must allow an editor to help me until I learn more.) Then, while working to get my on-line resume perfected for a job lead, I asked a friend for help and we talked even more about another kind of HTML validation. (HTML validation awareness is occurring inside. :) I also see that others at OOo are working toward HTML validation; in fact, one issue just passed through this morning which mentioned this as a goal. I know that the mass migration will have oodles of failures in this area, because of the code in the FAQ answers. This will be something that likely needs to be addressed each time an update is performed, and that scares me, because there are so many FAQs, many which I know nothing about. I will have to research to know well enough to verify or fill in the blanks where needed. I'm not a fan of auto tidy tools. I'm a super quality oriented individual. So... in many ways this mass transfer method still goes against my core motivators.
I can be open minded. I like to learn and grow. Sometimes challenges and failures bring the best learning experiences, so maybe this is a place where I should let go of my fears and just go for it.
So here I am, chasing my tail again...
When we worked to set up OOoAuthors, we opened up the world so that all folks who became members of that site could edit and contribute to the FAQs. There is great potential there for more folks to contribute, yet when they do, their FAQs sit there, and we don't point folks to them, and we are (I am) painfully slow at migrating them. What do we say to folks about this? Are we misleading them? Is it the dangling of the proverbial carrot... That feels not so good to me. I'm trying to figure out a way to make things better in that regard... This idea (one that others have already in the works) was one of those ways to try. But like I said, maybe I'm not feeling so comfortable with it myself.
Maybe it's just a matter of good old hard work to get from Point A to Point B, and I just need to push up my sleeves and get to it. Because I feel so wishy-washy about this, I will drag my feet at performing this suggested mass transfer. I like things I do to feel right intuitively, and this still doesn't somehow.
Do any of you think about the collaborated list of FAQs at OOoAuthors? Do you have ideas of how we can make them more accessible to OOo's users? Even that set is not complete, btw. I'm finding some good information has been omitted, so we still haven't a true list of all available FAQs in one place, at this time.
Anyway, I better stop writing, because this is getting long, and I'm not sure that I am saying much. I tried my best to answer your question... in my usual long-winded fashion.
Thanks for your time!
:)
Diane
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