One very helpful thing you could do, later if not now, is to translate some documents FROM German TO English. Right now we are translating the Base Handbuch, but I am sure there are other German docs that could be translated and help us build up a larger library of English docs.
--Jean On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Franziska Schulthess <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks, Jean, for the account. > > For the moment I'll work with the German documentation team. > I plan to work on English docs as well, once I'm more familiar with the > process. > > Regards, > Franziska > > > On 11/19/2012 01:14 AM, Jean Weber wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Franziska Schulthess >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> For years I've been using Linux and many free programs like LibreOffice. >>> I've wanted to make a contribution to an open source project for a long >>> time, but not being a programmer, I didn't know how. >>> >>> About a month ago I started a course to become a technical writer and >>> would >>> like to help writing documentation for LibreOffice. >>> >>> I'm in the process of reading the documents on >>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development. >>> >>> I would like to have a user account for the ODFauthors site and some >>> suggestions about where help is needed. >>> >>> I know the Writer best, followed by Impress and Calc. I have used Draw a >>> few >>> times, but I've never tried out Base. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Franziska Schulthess >> >> >> As requested, I've created your account for the ODFAuthors website. >> You should receive an email with instructions on how to set your >> password. >> >> In addition to Klaus-Jürgen's suggestion about German documentation, >> you are welcome to work on English docs as well. At this time we are >> getting ready to update the user guides to LOv4.0. There are also >> other things you could work on if you prefer; see the "Easy Hacks" >> page, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Easy_hacks and >> especially the "More complex tasks" part of that page, >> >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Easy_hacks#More_complex_tasks >> >> We won't have a beta of LOv4.0 until December, but there is an >> extensive features list on the wiki, so we can work on the first step >> of determining which topics should go into which chapters of which >> user guide books. We can also look at the books in terms of any >> improvements that might need to be made, for consistency or topic >> order or level of detail or whatever. >> >> The features list for v4.0 is here: >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.7 >> >> The books will also need to include features from v3.6 and in some >> cases v3.5. Those lists are here: >> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/ >> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes/ >> >> --Jean > > -- 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
