On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 13:54 +0300, Sophie Gautier wrote: > On 07/05/2011 13:44, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > A few days ago, Nino Novak asked "is there a documentation blog?" and I > > answered, "Not that I know of, but perhaps we should start one if there > > isn't one already. I can easily set one up on blogspot or similar and > > have it added to the LO planet. What do the rest of you think?" > > > > The silence may answer that question, but just in case you missed it in > > a thread on another topic, I'm asking it again. > > > > Some things we could do with a blog: > > 1) Announce publication of chapters, books, other documents. > > 2) Announce what we're working on, and ask for more people to join in. > > 3) Remind people of things we'd like to do, and ask for people to > > contribute. > > 4) Describe ideas for new docs or improvements to old ones, asking for > > comments. > > 5) No doubt others: add your ideas. > > > > I do not see a blog as a substitute for what we do on this list, or as a > > place to discuss everyday working details. I see it as more of a place > > for announcements, but with a way for others to comment. With the social > > networking buttons available, it would provide an easy way for people to > > pass on info to their networks: in other words, publicity for us and the > > docs we produce. > > > > Comments? > > +1, it's a very good way to reach a broader audience. > I always like also the blog entries Ufi did on tips and tricks. May be > there is no need for a long post like Ufi wrote, but often when working > on the help file, there is small tips that I would like to emphasize/share. > As an example of this small thing but useful and hard to know: the fact > that filling the user data allow the author to open the doc at the last > cursor position when saving, while at the beginning for the others. > May be you will find it to users oriented and not enough documentation > focused, that's just an idea :)
Tips! I like that idea. We could also link to tips and info published by other people. Thanks, Sophie. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
