Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module (Documentation)
On 12/13/2012 03:34 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 12/12/2012 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: A new documentation list should be ready soon. ... Sadly, I do not see the request to create the list at the moment The request was announced here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201212.mbox/%3C50C7768A.4020707%40apache.org%3E The procedure does not rely on public JIRA tickets any longer: I'll be notified when the doc@ mailing list is created and I'll send a note to this list when this happens. Regards, Andrea. yeah!! :-) -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module (Documentation)
On 12/10/2012 09:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Travis Tyler wrote: Hi, My name is Travis Tyler and I'm hoping to volunteer. I'm a student from Austin, at the University of Texas. I love to write and solve problems and I'm looking for a way to exercise both of those skills. Specifically, I want to improve my technical writing ability. That's pretty much it. Thanks for your time! –Travis Travis Thank you for taking the time to communicate your interest in volunteering. You are taking the right first steps by going through the orientation modules. The other good thing to do would be to subscribe to this this list. You may miss replies to your post unless the person replying explicitly cc's You can subscribe by sending a blank email to users-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org and following the instructions that come in the reply to validate that you want to subscribe. This is a moderate to high volume list. We are at the moment taking a fresh look at how we do documentation and your skills at writing and problem solving would definitely be of help. Welcome to Apache OpenOffice and I look forward to seeing more of your posts and working with you. Regards Keith N. McKenna One other thought A new documentation list should be ready soon. subscribe and watch here for the announcement. If I remember, I will email directly when I notice that it exists Sadly, I do not see the request to create the list at the moment -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module (Documentation)
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/10/2012 09:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Travis Tyler wrote: Hi, My name is Travis Tyler and I'm hoping to volunteer. I'm a student from Austin, at the University of Texas. I love to write and solve problems and I'm looking for a way to exercise both of those skills. Specifically, I want to improve my technical writing ability. That's pretty much it. Thanks for your time! –Travis Travis Thank you for taking the time to communicate your interest in volunteering. You are taking the right first steps by going through the orientation modules. The other good thing to do would be to subscribe to this this list. You may miss replies to your post unless the person replying explicitly cc's You can subscribe by sending a blank email to users-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org and following the instructions that come in the reply to validate that you want to subscribe. This is a moderate to high volume list. We are at the moment taking a fresh look at how we do documentation and your skills at writing and problem solving would definitely be of help. Welcome to Apache OpenOffice and I look forward to seeing more of your posts and working with you. Regards Keith N. McKenna One other thought A new documentation list should be ready soon. subscribe and watch here for the announcement. If I remember, I will email directly when I notice that it exists Sadly, I do not see the request to create the list at the moment Andrew; Just as an aside there is no need to cc me to my mail account. I am subscribed to the list thru gamane. I prefer to follow the mailing lists via nntp when ever possible rather than mail.
