Re: New Volunteer - Technical Writing Experience

2016-01-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Jessica Steel wrote: > Hello, > > I have set up a login and read the contributions page and I am > currently working my way into the user guide. Please let me know where > to begin or how I can be of assistance. As I do not know the project > yet I am most interested in anything that can gain me

Introduction

2016-01-18 Thread Allison Nonko
Hello, My name is Allison and I'm a new volunteer. I live in the Boston area and I'm currently trying to break into the technical writing field. I have no prior experience and thought contributing to OpenOffice would be a great place to get some experience in editing and writing documentation. I

Re: Whitelist request for CWiki

2016-01-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Allison Nonko wrote: > Hello, > > I just created my CWiki account. My username is anonko. > > Best, > Allison > Allison; You CWiki account anonok has been whitelisted. Regards Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Rebooting the Documentation Effort

2016-01-18 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/01/2016 22:22, David Lloyd-Jones wrote: > Fundamentally, why should software need documenting? AOo obviously includes all of the functionality that is requested in 3959. Making use of that functionality is highly non-obvious, and arguably

Re: Rebooting the Documentation Effort

2016-01-18 Thread David Lloyd-Jones
Dennis & Keith, I think one of the problems in the world now is that there is too much documentation. Fundamentally, why should software need documenting? We don't document doors or refrigerators, stairs or elevators. I blame it all on Jimmy Carter and the Nobel folks: he got the Israelis and

Rebooting the Documentation Effort

2016-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[bcc: dev@] Hi Keith, I have belatedly noticed your efforts to reboot the documentation effort, first in April and again in December, 2015. I commend you on this. While people raise their hands, we don't seem to achieve traction. I would like to know from those who did not persevere,