I want to start developing a "wish list" for documentation for ordinary users (things like user guides, howtos, FAQs, tutorials, training materials, and others). We won't have enough people to do everything on the list, but it might encourage new people to contribute in areas that most interest them.
Some issues to consider are: * What audiences do we want to reach? What are their needs? Lots of overlap with training here. * What type and format of materials are most suitable for each of those audiences? Books (PDF, ODT), wiki, videos, other? * How much can we adapt from existing materials such as the OOo user guides? (so we can move on to developing new materials to fill in the gaps) * What do the available contributors want to work on? There's no use in saying "our first priority is X" if no one is willing, available and knowledgable enough to actually do the work. When we have a wiki, I'll be happy to start a page where we can collect ideas and get feedback. And I'll try to do a better job than the rather scattered collection of pages at OOo. Meanwhile, here are two pages I started for tutorials on OOo: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Targeted http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Styles_and_Templates --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
