On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:50 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hello Bill, > > Have you thought of contributing at OOoAuthors ? > > http://oooauthors.org >
Things must be bad when you come here recruiting. Please avoid doing this. Thanks. > This is the main development site for documentation. We are working on the > OOo user guide. The team is large, active, and very friendly. Go to the > website and take a look. Feel free to make an account and play with it. > Once our documentation is "published", it gets copied to the documentation > project: > > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ > > Scroll down and you'll see that OOoAuthors is quite active :-) > The stuff you see is the "published" documentation. If you include the > chapters we're working on, the list would be much longer. > > If you can't install OOo2.0 that's alright. It's not imperative. The > primary form of contribution at OOoAuthors is reviewing. To ensure high > quality, each chapter is reviewed by several different authors. If you > don't have OOo you obviously can't verify the accuracy of the file. But > you can still verify that the language is clear, the instructions are > undersandable, and if you're into grammar, you can verify that also. > > In other words, there's tons for you to do there. And we'd love to have > you. We really need more volunteers. Writing a complete, professional > quality, user guide, is a major undertaking. Good reviewers is what makes > the difference between a passable document, and an excellent one. > > All the instructions to join are right on the OOoAuthors home page. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:41:01AM -0400, William T. Marchant wrote: > > Hi all, > > In my message to GRS of 27 Feb, I offered to assist with documentation > > for OpenOffice. I have been following the messages on this link ever > > since, and wondering just how to begin. > > I have down loaded the beta version of 2.0 (which turns out to be > > 1.9.79), and installed it on my Mandrake 10.1. I find that all the > > menus are missing, except for their initial letters. I used rpm to > > install each piece separately. Must these be done in some special > > order? The install simply reported itself complete without complaint of > > any kind. > > I notice with interest that matters of format and punctuation in the > > documentation are still being debated. While OOo2.0 is a new product > > (relatively speaking), I would have thought that these matters had > > already been solved in previous documents. (Please this is not a > > criticism, just an observation). Other questions related to this arise > > in my mind. vis. Spelling: American, Canadian, British, Australian, or > > whatever. > > I do wish to help. At this point I am not still sure where I can fit > > in. > > Bill Marchant > > -- > > William T. Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
