Hi Jean, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 18:42, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am no longer interested in doing the organizing, coordinating, and > other admin work that the documentation team needs to be done, and > after all these years I am tired of trying to either do the user guide > updates or get people to do them.
Well, your expertise would certainly be missed, although I can understand how you feel. It's funny but, during your "absence", I had been thinking about posting to you on the list and suggesting that we might team up, you and I together, and divvy up the work on the existing documentation. I had thought that if we worked in coordination together, largely under your guidance, we could get a lot done with 1 to 2 hours of work per day each (5 days per week, for instance) over the next couple of months. But it's also true that, since I've taken on the commitment of operating an Alfresco platform for LibreOffice, I can take on a lot of the mundane drudgery you're talking about - in fact it would even form a natural part of the job. > So when I get back from this trip in a few days I plan to start > working seriously on what interests me most, which is writing new > material on more advanced topics. Some of this will find its way into > the docs blog but most will be longer items that will eventually be > part of another book or two. My books will be under creative commons > license so they can be made part of the official docs if others want > them. Well, I'm sure you would/will produce some very valuable material. It's true that knowledge and experience such as yours may well be ideally utilised working on advanced topics that require the kind of knowledge of the product that many other docs team contributors - whether occasional or one-time - simply don't have. > I do hope some people will finish reviewing the Impress Guide. The > Draw Guide Is being done. The Math Guide still needs rebranding but I > think is otherwise ok. Well, there are people who have been/are now working on the Impress guide and Getting Started guide. Myself, I'm still in discussion with the Alfresco project. There are some interesting ideas in the air, but it's not yet clear whether they will have time to undertake a major configuration/customisation job on alfresco.libreoffice.org/documentation.libreoffice.org, or whether they might simply act in an advisory role. In the second case, I'd be looking at doing the work myself - maybe with help from Jeremy and Samphan, depending on their availabilities. So, all that being said, are your plans still the same? In any case, I hope you are having/have had a good break. :-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
