Hi Gary, On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> wrote: > That is perfectly fine by me. Actually, I intend to offer the same > technical-editor training on the other side of the aisle--over at OOo docs > also. It seems obvious (to me, at least) that the source of the > (expected...) super abundance of technical errors in the current LO > documentation chapter source files had originated in the OOo source files > used as the basis for the current LO documentation. > > I intend to offer the training without any specific targets, be they > volunteers at OOo docs or LO docs or from whatever. That is primarily why I > will conduct it online on the forum site instead of having it buried under > the rug and unused at LO docs or elsewhere.
May I ask if this training is going to be offered free of charge? One thing I don't really get is why you don't post content back to a LibreOffice resource, like Alfresco or the Documentation wiki - at least in parallel to whatever you want to conduct on your own site? > I am on the OOo docs email list also as you, so we both clearly know that > OOo docs is getting a fair number of recent volunteers--such as OOo getting > a new volunteer right before I am posting this message, whereas LO is not > receiving many such new volunteers, for what that is worth. OOo docs appears > to be promoting itself much better effectively relative to LO docs--even > though you have appealed to some new OOo volunteers recently over at OOo > docs to entice them to come over to this side of the aisle also. Frankly, I'm wondering if they don't have some kind of spam thing going on over there. I've noticed regular posts from supposedly prospective docs contributors, but not one of them has ever posted back a second time, which is kind of strange. In the past, here on the LibO docs ML, when people volunteer then you usually see follow-up activity and some kind of work contribution thereafter. > Anyway, I will continue to post the original (improperly edited) LO source > file and the edited LO source file for Chapter 10 on the forum site and then > add the exposition that indicates the specific areas of sloppiness and > technical errors therein and how any technical-editor trainees, who might > ever meander over there (from anywhere), should eradicate and remedy the > errors. If you're planning to do something that's "in parallel" to the LibO docs effort, insofar as you don't contribute work via LibreOffice resources, and yet you produce derived content in respect of what's offered by the LibO project, then you might at least want to bear in mind the question of LibO's copyright and logo usage rules. But I don't yet have a very clear idea about what your plans are, so these are just thoughts that come to mind. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
