On Friday 28 September 2007 14:31, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Please pardon the giant "snip" and a reply to only one point in > Graham's note. I agree with all he said, but wanted to expand on > one item.
Hi Jean, > > Graham Lauder wrote: > > We shouldn't be selling the software.[...] > > We need to be selling the migration process. > > Part of the support information for the migration process could > be the Migration Guide produced by OOoAuthors and available in > free PDF from the Documentation Project or printed copy from > Lulu.com, and planned to be put on the OOo wiki. > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0600MG-Mi >grationGuide.pdf http://www.lulu.com/opendocument > > Unfortunately, this guide hasn't been reviewed and updated in a > long time (May 2006) due to a lack of resources, so I don't know > if it's fully accurate in terms of OOo2.3. Also, the guide could > possibly be expanded in ways that would assist in migration > situations. Indeed, those who work with real migrations might > have many suggestions for improvements in the book... even "scrap > it and start again; here's what we need" if that's the case -- > such suggestions are most welcome. > > But someone would need to do the work of updating/ expanding/ > replacing the current book. Do people here think that's worth > doing? Would the book be useful to you? And if so, can anyone > suggest what should be done and who might be available to do the > work? Actually this is a really excellent idea. I use the Migration guide myself for setting up migration processes but I screw round with it so much that I didn't think my chaotic thought processes would be useful. But rejigging it as more of a guide to the process I think would be an excellent idea. It would also allow us to draw on a lot of the publicly available experiences and case studies from organisations such as Bristol City and the guys from the Japanese project. > > --Jean > Cheers G -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz GET DRESSED GET OOOGEAR http://ooogear.co.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
