On 29.04.2019 12:10, Claire Wood wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I once helped out on Open Office back in 2010, and I am a technical author > by trade. I'm looking for something to do a couple of hours a day or in the > week while I'm job hunting. I don't mind tackling the most complicated > stuff either. I've downloaded the latest version of LibreOffice, so just > let me know where you want me to start. > > I won't be able to attend the documentation team meetings though because I > have to help out in library hours and my local one is shut at 7pm on > Wednesdays.
Hi Claire, First, welcome to the documentation team and to say your input and contribution as a technical author will be greatly appreciated. If I may, I would like to offer a couple of tips and pointers. Although I am replying to your first post of the 29th. I will be responding to your 3 subsequent posts on that date. Joining the team meetings is a good thing but not critical, Jean Weber who you probably know from OpenOffice.org days is still one of our top contributors, but the meeting time is not convenient for her Australian time zone. Likewise, the new USA East Coast meeting time is the early hours of the morning in my time zone, so I can never attend. In your 3 subsequent posts you refer to attachments. The TDF have not moved into the modern world and dictate a PLAIN TEXT ONLY posts and NO ATTACHMENTS policy. Thankfully, they have allowed us to create documentation with a word processor, rather than a quill pen and parchment. You say you have downloaded the "Latest" version of the software, which suggests you have either version 6.2.3 or 6.1.5 and you are comparing against the Getting Started User Guide documentation contributed for version 6.0.2 Your review of the published documentation is appreciated, but at the present time no provision exists to either quickly update published documents, or to record these reviews for consideration/inclusion in the next revision of the guide(s). I will be submitting a proposal to the next team meeting to set up a provision to utilize these "Your Documentation Is Wrong" inputs for the benefit of contributors who take on the revision of the User Guides in future. In your 3 subsequent posts you refer to items being out of date, or not appearing in your version of the software. Considering the speed of development/updating of the software, being out of date is almost a given. In the case of the Getting Started Guide for V6 we attempted an experiment to speed up the development of that guide, which resulted in a mixture of OS captures and inconsistent styling. As a team we are mow concentrating on revising/updating the Calc User Guide (the most demanded of all our published guides) and this is where I feel you could make a useful contribution. If Olivier has not already done so, I ask him now to create an "Own Cloud" account for you, so that you can become actively involved in the guides revision/update/review process. As a starting point you might wish to grab and review one of the Calc chapters Jean revised/updated, or if you have masochistic tendencies :) you could review my revision of Chapter 2. In any case keep in mind that this guide is for version 6.0, not 6.1 or 6.2. There are a number of methods by which you can have more than one version of the software installed or available. No matter how much time you can spare to contribute, please stay active by asking questions, making suggestions/recommendations/proposals on this list. Best Regards and Good Luck with Job Hunting. Dave -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
