Tossing out some thoughts for discussion... 1) In addition to the user guides and the blog, IMO we need to develop a set of tutorials or howtos. Videos would be great for many topics, but that is outside my area of expertise, so I'll talk here about written ones (some of which could be used as the starting point for someone doing videos, of course).
2) The user list is a great source of ideas for tutorials and howto documents. In many cases I read them and realise there is a topic in the user guides that could be repurposed into a tutorial with a bit of rewriting and usually the addition of an example or two. In fact, many topics in the user guides began life several years ago as answers to questions on the OOO forums. 3) I have a collection of tutorial type material that I've written, which has either been published on my own blog or in a book I've written, but which has never been placed on the OOo wiki. Also some items of mine that are on the OOo wiki. All of these could become part of the LibO documentation set... if I ever find time to do it. 4) These tutorials and howtos could be published on the blog, but they could --IMO should-- also be collected on one or more pages of the wiki, for easier reference. Also, some are too long for the blog, so having them on the wiki with teasers on the blog could be the way to go. 5) Some items might go well in wiki format, unlike the user guides which are in ODT with only a download link on the wiki. However, many of my items already exist in ODT, so it would be easier and faster to get an initial set of material on the wiki in that form. People writing new stuff, especially if adapting existing material from the user guides, might find it easier to use ODT too. Others might prefer to work directly in the wiki. Any thoughts or comments on any of this? I haven't begun to look at the wiki and how best to add this sort of thing to it, but as we are reorganising the wiki anyway, this could be part of the reorganisation. I do hope David N finds time to work on the reorg, because I've been so involved with some of it, I no longer see the problems or what's missing. But wiki reorganisation is a topic for a separate note... This one is too long already. Sometimes I think that I think too much. I dream up ideas faster than I can put them into practice. ;-) --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
