Thanks for the information! Writing books is more my style. I'll dig into
the link you sent, and I look forward to reading the notes from tomorrow's
meeting.

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Olivier Hallot <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Amanda
>
> Welcome to the team. Don't worry if you can't attend, I'll try to guide
> you.
>
> First tell me where do you want to work? Writing books or writing our
> Help system contents?
>
> The first is rather easy provided we follow the instructions on the page
> below, but you should be very proficient in Office suites especially
> LibreOffice, which is our target. It is basically update our books to
> the newest release, and it involves checking consistency and write about
> new features.
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development
>
> The second is a bit harder because it involves writing source code
> contents in XML files, compilation, testing and submitting patches for
> git... very nerd thingy... but anyway let me know if you want to jump in.
>
> I expect tomorrow to get a list of tasks on writing books for the next
> 6.0 release and distribute to people for writing. Stay tuned.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Olivier
>
>
> Em 01/08/2017 01:00, Amanda Labby escreveu:
> > Hi all -
> >
> > My name is Amanda. I work in healthcare IT as a SME and do a lot of
> > documentation for the product that I work with. I've been wanting to get
> > involved in helping an open source project, and was happy to find this
> > opportunity.
> >
> > I've been on vacation for the past week and have been trying to catch up
> on
> > the emails in that time, but I'm still a little confused where to start.
> I
> > was hoping to attend the Wednesday meeting to get more information, but
> > unfortunately it conflicts with a recurring work meeting. Due to being in
> > the CST time zone, I also haven't been able to connect to anyone in the
> IRC
> > chat.
> >
> > Any direction would be greatly appreciated, and I look forward to helping
> > with the project.
> >
>
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