Tom On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 21:22 -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Greetings to you all. > > I just wanted to show and and declare myself interested in working on > documentation for Base, which I started using last week. My appearance > here has been urged upon me by Tom Davies, and I'll have to trust his > wisdom on this, as I'm no expert. I do, however, keep copious notes on > most things I learn about new software, and have years of work with MS > Access, developing databases for my own use. > > Right now, as I get the time, I'm accumulating everything I can find > that looks like documentation for Base, while also rushing to get > several databases up and running. I find Base is pleasantly stable, full > of features, and not exactly well documentated. It's also slower than I > expected, even with indexes in place (but maybe I'm messing something > up, being new to this software). But it's a great piece of work, and I > expect to be working with it for many years ahead. > > I write a lot, and I'm very willing to contribute documentation, or at > least drafts for others to tune up as needed. I know I have much to > learn, but I'm on track with learning it, so... > > I'm open to any suggestions as to where I need to go to learn how to be > a better documentation contributor. > > Thanks for your patience while I learn the ropes. > > Tom Cloyd, MS MA > [email protected] > (435) 272-3332 > St. George/Cedar City, Utah > I am working on the base documentation, very slowly. Send me a email off list I will tell where I am at. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
