RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith
Hi Dave, Thank you for the follow up e-mail. I will await further instructions regarding the SSO account. In the meantime I’ll look over the software and current documentation so that I’m more familiar with LibreOffice. sp; I have also subscribed to the mailing list, so I’m currently receiving the e-mails from the group. Thank you, Chris Smith Sent fromMailfor Windows 10 From:Dave BartonSent:Monday, October 19, 2020 7:11 AMTo:Chris;documentation@global.libreoffice.orgSubject:Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith Original Message From: Chris [mailto:csmith94...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020, 22:45 UTC To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith Hi, My name is Chris Smith, I just recently discovered LibreOffice, and I would like to help contribute to the documentation team. I’ve been in the technical communications field for several years, but I’m new to technical writing. I’m currently working on my technical writing certification at UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension. I would be interested in reviewing, editing, researching, helping with artwork, and once I get more familiar with LibreOffice, I would like to help write user documentation. I have subscribed to the mailing list and created an SSO account. Thank you for the opportunity. Regards, ; Chris Smith bsp; Hi and Welcome Chris, Most of what we do here is updating previous editions of the User Guides to reflect changes made made to more recent versions of the software. At the moment we are updating the guides to cover changes made to version 7.0. For most guides a team member will take and update one or more chapters of a guide, then other team members review those updates. Unfortunately you have joined us at a time when we are making a small change to our workflow and the instructions found in our Contributors Guide book [1] and the equivalent pages on the wiki [2] are in the process of being updated. If you need any information please feel free to ask on this list. You mention that you have created a SSO account, but you need to wait until our team coordinator (Olivier Hallot) has set up access to the Documentation workspace on our NextCloud instance. If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to the documentation mailing list, by sending a message to documentation+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org and follow the instructions that will be mailed back to you. BTW. You seem to have created you original message in MS Word and transferred it to Gmail. Regrettably, by the time the list server has removed the HTML formatting and reduced it to the most primitive form of ASCII text, your message is only just readable. For future reference, the list server also dumps attachments into /dev/null sp; Best Regards Dave [1] https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/?dir=/LibreOffice%20Documentation/Englishfileid=57390 [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith
Original Message From: Chris [mailto:csmith94...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020, 22:45 UTC To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith > Hi, > > My name is Chris Smith, I just recently discovered LibreOffice, and I would > like to help contribute to the documentation team. I’ve been in the technical > communications field for several years, but I’m new to technical writing. I’m > currently working on my technical writing certification at UC Santa Cruz > Silicon Valley Extension. I would be interested in reviewing, editing, > researching, helping with artwork, and once I get more familiar with > LibreOffice, I would like to help write user documentation. > > I have subscribed to the mailing list and created an SSO account. > > Thank you for the opportunity. > > Regards, > > Chris Smith Hi and Welcome Chris, Most of what we do here is updating previous editions of the User Guides to reflect changes made made to more recent versions of the software. At the moment we are updating the guides to cover changes made to version 7.0. For most guides a team member will take and update one or more chapters of a guide, then other team members review those updates. Unfortunately you have joined us at a time when we are making a small change to our workflow and the instructions found in our Contributors Guide book [1] and the equivalent pages on the wiki [2] are in the process of being updated. If you need any information please feel free to ask on this list. You mention that you have created a SSO account, but you need to wait until our team coordinator (Olivier Hallot) has set up access to the Documentation workspace on our NextCloud instance. If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to the documentation mailing list, by sending a message to documentation+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org and follow the instructions that will be mailed back to you. BTW. You seem to have created you original message in MS Word and transferred it to Gmail. Regrettably, by the time the list server has removed the HTML formatting and reduced it to the most primitive form of ASCII text, your message is only just readable. For future reference, the list server also dumps attachments into /dev/null Best Regards Dave [1] https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/?dir=/LibreOffice%20Documentation/English&fileid=57390 [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
[libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith
Hi, My name is Chris Smith, I just recently discovered LibreOffice, and I would like to help contribute to the documentation team. I’ve been in the technical communications field for several years, but I’m new to technical writing. I’m currently working on my technical writing certification at UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension. I would be interested in reviewing, editing, researching, helping with artwork, and once I get more familiar with LibreOffice, I would like to help write user documentation. I have subscribed to the mailing list and created an SSO account. Thank you for the opportunity. Regards, Chris Smith Sent fromMailfor Windows 10 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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