Stan Helton wrote:
I am disappointed to see this. I tried to volunteer for this kind of
thing and did not receive a response a few months ago. It is a little
frustrating to see the first comment one of ending the initiative. If I
can help I would certainly like to.
I am a part-time programmer and a writer. How can I help? What is the
most pressing need? I believe I have the requisite technical and
publishing skills to advance this part of the project.
Stan Helton
Trying to volunteer, but a little frustrated in finding the right
position in the team.
Stan;
First off let me apologize for missing your message volunteering. I seem
to remember having an e-mail forwarded to me from the ODFAuthors site on
someone wanting to volunteer. Unfortunately it was caught up in in a
problem on my system and got lost in the recovery.
I you are still interested the state of the effort at this point is all
but one or 2 chapters have been reviewed and need the touch of an
experienced writer or editor to merge the proposed comments and changes;
then polish them for possible publication or a second review effort.
I would like nothing better than to get this back on track so that there
is at least a Getting Started Guide available or the lateset 3.x version.
If you are interested we can discuss this further in a separate thread.
Regards
Keith
On 12/1/2012 10:12 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote:
After 3 months of frustration it is time to end the effort to get The
Getting Started Guide that had been started for AOO 3.4 completed.
Despite repeated requests for help on the ODFAuthors list it is
apparent that either the Authors that had been working on Open Office
docs are either no longer interested or are working strictly on the LO
books.
Alexandro Colorado made an attempt at getting the Base Guide done but
was not able to get any responses to his requests for comments on his
markups and changes and decided to put it on hold until he did. As far
as I know he is still waiting.
One other volunteer stepped up from an inquiry on this list and gave
valuable help. Prabha again thank you very much for your work and I
hope that you will get involved with the defining of a new
documentation project.
With only 2 people actively working it is not possible to give the
work the quality review and editing that it deserves to have the Open
Office name attached to it.
Reluctantly unless someone with the requisite skills in technical
writing and publishing that I do not have can lend a hand I feel it is
best to end the effort and not waste anymore of anyone's time.
I will continue to contribute where I can, but that is difficult or
someone who is not a developer.
Regards
Keith N. McKenna
