Short response: +1 from me and especially the use of ODT as format of source docs.
Longer response: Having lurked around the Authors group for a while, I firmly believe in some form of leadership, else we all tend to leave it to others and concentrate on our day job! ;=) As a well known management consultant here in CH said: RESULTS, RESULTS, RESULTS. Nothing else really counts. And Jean has proven over a number of years that she can deliver and round up the flock to do things to advance the documentation. regards Martin On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:30:02 +0800 Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently, several people have mentioned the need for a Docs team leader. > Some time ago, David Nelson urged me to take on that role. I declined, > choosing to stay in my role of Co-Lead at OpenOffice.org. Now, with > Oracle's recent announcement about turning OOo over to the community, I > am reconsidering my choices. > > A question to you, the members of the LibreOffice Docs team (and other > interested people): in the hypothetical situation that I stick up my > hand for the Docs team leader role, would you consider me suitable? > > Some of you know my style from OOo. I'm a pragmatist: while I'd love to > have us maintain a workflow that includes good reviews (both technical > and editorial), I think it's more important to get information out there > as quickly as possible in a form that's suitable for the general > audience. In other words, if enough people are not available to do > reviews quickly, then I tend to publish early and clean up any errors > later. Similarly, I prefer to have no info on a topic than hold up > publication until the info can be obtained and verified; missing info > can be added as it becomes available. > > I'm also 100% in favour of maintaining the source docs for the user > guides in ODT format, which enables us to publish them in numerous > formats relatively quickly and easily. This is what we're doing now. (An > additional benefit is that using ODT files enables people to work on the > user guides without needing to have Internet access while doing the > work.) And lastly, writing documentation for an office suite using any > method other than the office suite itself strikes me as a very bad > advertisement for one's product. > > Hoping to hear from you on my question in the second paragraph. > > --Jean > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 mar...@mjfox.ch buti...@bluewin.ch _______________________________________ VK7MM/HB9TQX www.mjfox.ch / www.badwolf.ch QQ 1472808085 / MSN buti...@hotmail.com Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
