On 2021-06-02 14:05, F Campos Costero wrote: Greetings Francis and Comments in line.
> Hi Nadeem, > What I have been working on for a while now is updating the user guides. > The old guides are available at [1]. Keith has set up a Git repository [2] > where a branch is dedicated to each guide. I forked that repository [3] and > I have done initial revisions of the Getting Started guide and the Writer > guide. I am slowly working my way through the Calc guide and I am about > half done with that. As far as I know, only the first three chapters of the > Getting Started guide (A0041GS1.odt - A0041GS3.odt) have been reviewed by > anyone else. If you are willing to jump into reviewing the other chapters, > there is plenty to do. Each guide is a few hundred pages and each chapter > is typically 20 - 40 pages. I apologize for that Francis. Some things in my personal life came up in mid-May that took a lot of my time. I am at this point back working on reviewing Chapter 4 of the getting started guide. Some new information on who the Copyright holder should be listed as on the copyright page. It should be The Apache Software Foundation.Also traditionally we follow the American English use headline style capitalization. Follow American English capitalization guidelines for headings. Capitalize the first letter of every word except conjunctions, articles, prepositions of fewer than four letters, and the "to" in infinitives. I am doing this as I review the the chapters of the Getting Started Guide. > The documentation process was dormant for quite a while and Keith has been > trying hard to revive it. We have just recently started to use Git and we > may well have to change the process as we learn how to work with it. Are > you familiar with Git? We only use the most basic features. I am making some changes know that I believe will help with the process of review and merging. Instead of using review and release folders for each branch I am adding Guide Folders in Main that will always hold the currently published complete guide as well as the chapters.This should make the review and merge process much easier.I will make the changes in GitHub today. I am also going to create a how to contribute guide as well as some style guides, that will give some guidance on Heading styles and other things so that we create a consistent look and feel across the documentation we create. Regards Keith > If you are interested in helping with the guides, I can tell you more about > the workflow we have been using. If that isn't the kind of thing you were > looking for, I am sure we can find something else. > I would like to give Keith a chance to participate in this conversation. > He has more experience with the broader documentation process than I do. > > Francis > > [1] > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_Chapters_ODT > [2] GitHub - apache/openoffice-docs: Apache OpenOffice Documentation > <https://github.com/apache/openoffice-docs> > [3] GitHub - FJCC/openoffice-docs: Apache OpenOffice Documentation > <https://github.com/FJCC/openoffice-docs> > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:50 PM Nadeem Patel <nadeemp....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to add that I am interested in developing new content, >> editing, proofreading, research or possibly even helping to create UML >> diagrams. Thanks! >> >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:37 PM Nadeem Patel <nadeemp....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> My name is Nadeem Patel. I came across the Apache OpenOffice Community >> and >>> would love to contribute. I have been looking to build my >>> documentation/technical writing portfolio while also improving the >>> necessary skills for such writing. >>> >>> I graduated from Northwestern University, where I studied journalism and >>> computer science. Currently, I am working as a digital producer at a >> major >>> news network while working on data science projects during my free time. >>> The majority of my experiences include writing, development or both. >>> Through this volunteering opportunity, I hope to continue utilizing my >>> skills and continue to build on my experiences. Thank you for your time >> and >>> look forward to being involved! >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Nadeem Patel >>> >>
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