Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing to LibreOffice documentation

2017-02-07 Thread Jean Weber 
Matthew,
You should have received an email in the last half hour or hour with a
link to set your ODFAuthors password. Sorry for the delay; I had some
minor hardware dramas this morning, resolved now.

I forgot to mention that you can create your own wiki account, if you
don't already have one.

Regards, Jean


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Matthew An  wrote:
> Thank you for the information Jean. I'll take a further look through the
> documentation in the morning. Also, I don't seem to have an ODFAuthors
> account yet, so I haven't been able to review the links you sent me.
>
> Thanks for letting me know about the processes though, I look forward to
> contributing to the project in the near future!
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:00 PM Jean Weber  wrote:
>>
>> Matthew,
>>
>> Welcome to the team!
>>
>> More info on our processes is here:
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development
>>
>> Some of that is a bit out of date, but you should get the idea.
>>
>> If Olivier hasn't already done so, I'll create an account for you on
>> ODFAuthors, which is where we store the working files of the chapters of
>> the various books.
>>
>> As for something to get you started, I'm updating the Writer Guide from
>> v4.2 to 5.2, which is a big jump and needs to include a lot of changes. I
>> would appreciate a careful and thorough review of the chapters I've done,
>> which are here:
>> http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/drafts-v5.2
>> Or here:
>> http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/feedback-5.2
>>
>> Note 1: you'll need to be logged in to see these.
>> Note 2: I am making some changes in the organisation of this book. You can
>> see the chapter structure listed here:
>>
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks#Writer_Guide
>>
>> --Jean
>> (Former Team Leader, LibreOffice Documentation)
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 00:16 Matthew An  wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Olivier,
>> >
>> > Thank you for your response. Are the docs mainly situated in the books
>> > on
>> > the documentation page? I think I would prefer to handle the Getting
>> > Started pages first, and then progressing from there to other projects.
>> > That being said, is there any rudimentary work that I can do to get
>> > familiar with your protocols? I downloaded the doc template off of the
>> > website, but I was wondering if there was some proofreading work or
>> > basic
>> > writing work that I could practice on before handling a larger project.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Matthew
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:46 AM Olivier Hallot <
>> > olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Welcome Matthew
>> > >
>> > > Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and
>> > > you
>> > > will find a lot to do.
>> > >
>> > > We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are
>> > > edited
>> > > in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents,
>> > > etc...)
>> > >
>> > > We can start in 2 directions
>> > >
>> > > one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version
>> > > 5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty).
>> > >
>> > > The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book)
>> > > and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the
>> > > module
>> > > software (medium to hard difficulty).
>> > >
>> > > To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like
>> > > please get any of them in the documentation website at
>> > >
>> > > http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/
>> > >
>> > > and let me know your prefered project.
>> > >
>> > > Kind regards
>> > >
>> > > Olivier
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu:
>> > > > Hello there,
>> > > >
>> > > > My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and
>> > > > Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was
>> > hoping
>> > > to
>> > > > contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer.
>> > > > I
>> > > have
>> > > > previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small
>> > > startup
>> > > > company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of
>> > > > entering
>> > > > graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time
>> > > > to
>> > > hone
>> > > > my tech writing skills.
>> > > >
>> > > > Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope
>> > > > that I
>> > > can
>> > > > give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills
>> > > with!
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks for your time,
>> > > >
>> > > > Matthew
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Olivier Hallot
>> > > LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator
>> > > Comunidade LibreOffice
>> > > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00
>> > > http://tdf.io/joinus
>> > >
>> > > --

-- 
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing to LibreOffice documentation

2017-02-07 Thread Matthew An 
Thank you for the information Jean. I'll take a further look through the
documentation in the morning. Also, I don't seem to have an ODFAuthors
account yet, so I haven't been able to review the links you sent me.

Thanks for letting me know about the processes though, I look forward to
contributing to the project in the near future!

Regards,

Matthew

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:00 PM Jean Weber  wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> Welcome to the team!
>
> More info on our processes is here:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development
>
> Some of that is a bit out of date, but you should get the idea.
>
> If Olivier hasn't already done so, I'll create an account for you on
> ODFAuthors, which is where we store the working files of the chapters of
> the various books.
>
> As for something to get you started, I'm updating the Writer Guide from
> v4.2 to 5.2, which is a big jump and needs to include a lot of changes. I
> would appreciate a careful and thorough review of the chapters I've done,
> which are here:
> http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/drafts-v5.2
> Or here:
> http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/feedback-5.2
>
> Note 1: you'll need to be logged in to see these.
> Note 2: I am making some changes in the organisation of this book. You can
> see the chapter structure listed here:
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks#Writer_Guide
>
> --Jean
> (Former Team Leader, LibreOffice Documentation)
>
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 00:16 Matthew An  wrote:
>
> > Hi Olivier,
> >
> > Thank you for your response. Are the docs mainly situated in the books on
> > the documentation page? I think I would prefer to handle the Getting
> > Started pages first, and then progressing from there to other projects.
> > That being said, is there any rudimentary work that I can do to get
> > familiar with your protocols? I downloaded the doc template off of the
> > website, but I was wondering if there was some proofreading work or basic
> > writing work that I could practice on before handling a larger project.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:46 AM Olivier Hallot <
> > olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Welcome Matthew
> > >
> > > Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and
> you
> > > will find a lot to do.
> > >
> > > We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are
> edited
> > > in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents,
> etc...)
> > >
> > > We can start in 2 directions
> > >
> > > one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version
> > > 5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty).
> > >
> > > The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book)
> > > and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the module
> > > software (medium to hard difficulty).
> > >
> > > To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like
> > > please get any of them in the documentation website at
> > >
> > > http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/
> > >
> > > and let me know your prefered project.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Olivier
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu:
> > > > Hello there,
> > > >
> > > > My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and
> > > > Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was
> > hoping
> > > to
> > > > contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer.
> I
> > > have
> > > > previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small
> > > startup
> > > > company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of entering
> > > > graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time to
> > > hone
> > > > my tech writing skills.
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope
> that I
> > > can
> > > > give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills
> > > with!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your time,
> > > >
> > > > Matthew
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Olivier Hallot
> > > LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator
> > > Comunidade LibreOffice
> > > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00
> > > http://tdf.io/joinus
> > >
> > > --
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing to LibreOffice documentation

2017-02-07 Thread Jean Weber 
Matthew,

Welcome to the team!

More info on our processes is here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development

Some of that is a bit out of date, but you should get the idea.

If Olivier hasn't already done so, I'll create an account for you on
ODFAuthors, which is where we store the working files of the chapters of
the various books.

As for something to get you started, I'm updating the Writer Guide from
v4.2 to 5.2, which is a big jump and needs to include a lot of changes. I
would appreciate a careful and thorough review of the chapters I've done,
which are here:
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/drafts-v5.2
Or here:
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/feedback-5.2

Note 1: you'll need to be logged in to see these.
Note 2: I am making some changes in the organisation of this book. You can
see the chapter structure listed here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks#Writer_Guide

--Jean
(Former Team Leader, LibreOffice Documentation)

On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 00:16 Matthew An  wrote:

> Hi Olivier,
>
> Thank you for your response. Are the docs mainly situated in the books on
> the documentation page? I think I would prefer to handle the Getting
> Started pages first, and then progressing from there to other projects.
> That being said, is there any rudimentary work that I can do to get
> familiar with your protocols? I downloaded the doc template off of the
> website, but I was wondering if there was some proofreading work or basic
> writing work that I could practice on before handling a larger project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:46 AM Olivier Hallot <
> olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote:
>
> > Welcome Matthew
> >
> > Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and you
> > will find a lot to do.
> >
> > We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are edited
> > in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents, etc...)
> >
> > We can start in 2 directions
> >
> > one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version
> > 5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty).
> >
> > The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book)
> > and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the module
> > software (medium to hard difficulty).
> >
> > To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like
> > please get any of them in the documentation website at
> >
> > http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/
> >
> > and let me know your prefered project.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Olivier
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu:
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and
> > > Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was
> hoping
> > to
> > > contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer. I
> > have
> > > previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small
> > startup
> > > company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of entering
> > > graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time to
> > hone
> > > my tech writing skills.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope that I
> > can
> > > give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills
> > with!
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Olivier Hallot
> > LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator
> > Comunidade LibreOffice
> > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00
> > http://tdf.io/joinus
> >
> > --
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing to LibreOffice documentation

2017-02-07 Thread Matthew An 
Hi Olivier,

Thank you for your response. Are the docs mainly situated in the books on
the documentation page? I think I would prefer to handle the Getting
Started pages first, and then progressing from there to other projects.
That being said, is there any rudimentary work that I can do to get
familiar with your protocols? I downloaded the doc template off of the
website, but I was wondering if there was some proofreading work or basic
writing work that I could practice on before handling a larger project.

Thanks,

Matthew

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:46 AM Olivier Hallot <
olivier.hal...@libreoffice.org> wrote:

> Welcome Matthew
>
> Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and you
> will find a lot to do.
>
> We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are edited
> in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents, etc...)
>
> We can start in 2 directions
>
> one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version
> 5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty).
>
> The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book)
> and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the module
> software (medium to hard difficulty).
>
> To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like
> please get any of them in the documentation website at
>
> http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/
>
> and let me know your prefered project.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Olivier
>
>
>
>
> Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and
> > Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was hoping
> to
> > contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer. I
> have
> > previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small
> startup
> > company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of entering
> > graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time to
> hone
> > my tech writing skills.
> >
> > Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope that I
> can
> > give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills
> with!
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> >
> > Matthew
> >
>
> --
> Olivier Hallot
> LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator
> Comunidade LibreOffice
> Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00
> http://tdf.io/joinus
>
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing to LibreOffice documentation

2017-02-07 Thread Olivier Hallot 
Welcome Matthew

Your skills in LibreOffice are indeed important to our community and you
will find a lot to do.

We have a set of guides that need to be updated. These guides are edited
in Writer with our best practices (e.g. styles, master documents, etc...)

We can start in 2 directions

one, is to update our introductory text "Getting Started" from version
5.2 (almost done) to version 5.3 (easy to medium difficulty).

The second is to take one of our module guide (e.g. spreadsheet book)
and update to version 5.3, requiring quite deep knowledge in the module
software (medium to hard difficulty).

To get the guides and have a glimpse on how they actually look like
please get any of them in the documentation website at

http://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/

and let me know your prefered project.

Kind regards

Olivier




Em 06/02/2017 23:50, Matthew An escreveu:
> Hello there,
> 
> My name is Matthew An and I am a recent graduate of the Rhetoric and
> Professional Writing program at the University of Waterloo. I was hoping to
> contribute to the LibreOffice documentation as a Writer or Reviewer. I have
> previous experience at IBM as a technical writer as well as a small startup
> company in New Jersey. At the moment, I am in the process of entering
> graduate school in the fall, so I thought I could use my free time to hone
> my tech writing skills.
> 
> Please let me know if you would like a copy of my resume. I hope that I can
> give back to the software that I developed most of my writing skills with!
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Matthew
> 

-- 
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LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator
Comunidade LibreOffice
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-02:00
http://tdf.io/joinus

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