I can not state the history as Dave said. Thanks for your view.
>but you should be aware that there are members of of the
> Apache OpenOffice who are vehemently opposed to anything and
everything > related or connected to the TDF and LO.
I have no issues if the work is based on top of LO Documentary efforts.
As you have said,
AOO Documentary project is currently blank. I think if it awakes, people
will join.
The only thing that might be an issue from LO is the license used.
But I am willed to support any license that is category B for
documentation, to lower the barrier.
As long as we have a clear and easy to understand able approach what
license a documentation has.
In general I would appreciate if LO and AOO find ways to enhance
cooperation, and overcome their
differences in the long term.
How is the view on my project colleagues?
Anyone has fundamental issues with contributions from LO?
Is it okay to create Documentation not using the AL2 License, but
compatible?
All the Best
Peter
Am 31.03.20 um 20:27 schrieb bmcs:
Over the years Keith N. McKenna has made many valiant attempts to
maintain the project's documentation and enlist new contributors, but
the regrettable situation is that very little new or updated AOO
documentation has been written for a very long time.
I would take this opportunity to make a small correction to Peter
Kovacs's observation about ODF Authors. The original OOO Authors was
established shortly after OpenOffice.org was open sourced by Sun
Microsystems in 2001 and subsequently managed by Jean Hollis Weber, the
person mainly responsible for the core of ALL of OOo, AOO and LO
documentation. When the OOo project was split into AOO and LO the
decision was made to change the documentation working area name from OOO
Authors to ODF Authors. The idea being that it would be one of the few
shared areas where AOO and LO could work cooperatively together and the
ODF Authors website/common working area was set up with provision for
both projects to equally utilize the facilities of the ODF Authors
website. Regrettably, AOO rejected this option, while LO made full use
of the facility. For around 10 years ODF Authors facility was served by
a Plone instance on a TDF server, but last year the LO project decided
to move their reliance on Plone for the documentation development over
to a Next Cloud instance. Since AOO had not made any attempt to use the
facilities offered by ODF Authors in 10+ years it was reasonably assumed
that the AOO project had no interest and would not be affected by this
change.
Where is this past ODF Authors material for AOO? When the change from
Plone to NextCloud was agreed, I personalty archived everything from the
AOO directories on ODF Authors to the LO NextCloud instance. For anyone
with LO Nextcloud access this material can be found at:
https://tinyurl.com/sbrfkqv (link to the NextCloud archive directory).
I am sure that any contribution you and your friends might make to the
AOO documentation would be very welcome. However, before you put more
work into an Apache OpenOffice edition of the Base User Guide I think,
in the interest of disclosure, it would be advisable to notify the
members of the AOO project that you are currently finalizing an English
translation of Robert Großkopf's Handbuch LibreOffice Base
(https://tinyurl.com/vgokn75) for the LibreOffice Documentation Team,
which is about to be published as the LibreOffice Base User Guide. I do
NOT claim that what you are offering the AOO project is a copy of the
same work, but you should be aware that there are members of of the
Apache OpenOffice who are vehemently opposed to anything and everything
related or connected to the TDF and LO. That is NOT to say that your
contribution would be rejected by the AOO project.
For anyone keen to create documentation for the Apache OpenOffice
project, I would say you have a blank page so go for it.
Dave
On 31/03/2020 13:55, Pulkit Krishna wrote:
Is there no one left in the documentation team. I can convince a few of my
friend to join it. Meanwhile I need a wiki account. I have started the work
on Base Guide and I will finish the Preface and Chapter 1 by 5 April 2020.
Pulkit Krishna
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:50 PM Peter Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
Which files do you mean? I am not sure what you refer to.
ODF Authors have left the project, in favour of Libre Office. They
disbanded on 6 Nov 2018 within Libre Office.
OpenOffice Documentation is currently not active. Dead sounds so final.
There are volunteers,
but imho it lacks a vision where to go, or where to start.
I am sure if you manage to create a vision people will join. On
[email protected] you could find people that join.
However I am happy if someone does something on our web presence. Wiki is
the simplest access point.
All the Best
Peter
Am 29.03.20 um 13:57 schrieb Pulkit Krishna:
Where are the files stored? Does ODFAuthors exist? Is OpenOffice
Documentation Dead?
Pulkit Krishna
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:06 PM Pulkit Krishna <[email protected]>
wrote:
I have not written the book till now.I willl check out the guidelines.
Meanwhile, can I get a wiki account?
Pulkit Krishna
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 4:13 PM Peter Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I have found only those guidelines:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Wiki_Contribution_Guidelines
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Guidelines
If something does not fit from your standpoint, then please open up a
discussion.
If ou have written your guide, it would be great to post a link for
review.
All the Best
Peter
Am 27.03.20 um 10:39 schrieb Pulkit Krishna:
I want to write the first base guide. Should I use any specific style
or a
template for it?
Pulkit Krishna
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:07 PM Pulkit Krishna <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
I want wiki account with useride:- pulkitkrishna email:-
[email protected]
Pulkit Krishna
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:06 AM Peter Kovacs <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello Pulkit Krishna,
Do you have a specific Idea what you want to do?
We could need Tutorials or the Manual in the Wiki updated to the
latest
version.
You get an Wiki account if you ask nicely on
[email protected].
Please name your prefered login handle, when you ask for it. After
that
you are setup to contibute to our wiki.
Please, have patience, we all are free timers that work pro bono. So
answers take a while.
The overall team is small so we usually use only @dev (mailinglist)
these days.
I am not sure what the link provided states. Maybe the organisation
behind it does not exist anymore.
All the Best
Peter
Am 26.03.20 um 14:07 schrieb Pulkit Krishna:
Hello,
I want to join the apache openoffice documentation team. Can anyone
tell me
how to do so?
Pulkit Krishna
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