Hi, :-) During Thursday's SC meeting, the SC gave me a license to take charge of content on the libreoffice.org website for the next couple of months. In particular, they asked me to work up a website contributors team to complete the building of the website and to subsequently maintain it.
I immediately thought of the LibreOffice documentation team, who know LibreOffice well as a product, and who have excellent copy-writing skills. Could we form a team of 3 to 5 people (for instance, but maybe more) to work on the following tasks: 1) Over the next week to 10 days, I'd like to put finishing touches to the site content. This includes improving the "Features" section, and augmenting the "Get Involved" and "About Us" sections. It will also include a new section on LibreOffice's attractions for home users, SOHO's, NGO and government users, and corporate adopters. I'll also be listening out for your suggestions for improvements. I want to get this part of the work done quite quickly, because of the upcoming 3.3 release. 2) I'll be liaising with Christian Lohmaier and Christoph Novack to roll out a News section. This will be an opportunity for the website contributors to do some regular journalism and news reporting about and on behalf of the LibreOffice project. This will be done in liaison with Marketing and the SC. I also have some interesting ideas for interviews, publicity and marketing for LibreOffice, and it could be an interesting and enthralling opportunity for some journalistic writing and for imaginative and creative thinking. 3) There will also be some cyclical maintenance and updating work on the website, in connection with LibreOffice releases: updating the New Features page(s), Installation Requirements, etc. I think this can be interesting work for us, and a great chance to have fun together and work together. Maintaining the written content on libreoffice.org is also a natural center of interest for us, as "custodians of the English language" within the project. I'd love to hear back from you about this. I'm particularly hoping to form a team of regular, recurring contributors, but why not also consider one-off contributions of high-quality work, if some talented writer feels unable to make an on-going commitment? We're looking for experienced, knowledgeable people willing to contribute properly-finished, good work. I'll be leading this and, although I will obviously be very attentive to your comments and ideas, I will be pushing forward decisions if discussions look like getting bogged down and slowing progress towards expeditious completion. I'm very keen to see our goals getting completed within reasonable times. Can the project get your expert help? David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
