Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started with Base

2012-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You remind me of Mark Twain’s famous quote — “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 7/2/12, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation]

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started with Base

2012-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Don't worry about the devs.  As documentation is improving more people are getting interested in Base.  Hopefully that might result in more devs getting interested/less-scared.  Cor, on the Users Lists, keeps berating me for saying there are not many devs working on Base.  I think Alex

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2012-02-07 Thread yecril71pl
Jean Weber wrote The existing user guides are licensed the same as the OOo guides they were derived from, and the templates include this licensing information on the Copyright page (GPL and CC-BY dual license). Note that GPL applied to documentation is void, so it may as well be removed.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2012-02-07 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 01:37:50 -0800 (PST) yecril71pl giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote: Jean Weber wrote The existing user guides are licensed the same as the OOo guides they were derived from, and the templates include this licensing information on the Copyright page (GPL and CC-BY

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2012-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm, i thought i would easily find Richard Stallman's rant about the topic but it seems to have been toned-down somewhat.  The Free Software Foundation do recommend using a slightly different version and a wikipedia article points out that CC-by-SA is almost identical

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started with Base

2012-02-07 Thread Dan Lewis
Additional update: I have cut down Introducing Base and rewrote the Report section. It is located here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-guide/draft-lo3.4/introducing-base-1/view . I'm going to look at Helen's cut down of the Getting Started with Base chapter. --Dan

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2012-02-07 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
In doubt stay with vitamins and excercise ... which is to say ... just do the same we are doing until someone comes along and gives a reason not to ... at least that is MHO Rogerio 2012/2/7 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Hmmm, i thought i would easily find Richard Stallman's rant

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started with Base

2012-02-07 Thread Dan Lewis
More progress: I went through Hazel's cut down version of the Getting Started with Base Chapter. I have accepted most of the suggestions. This chapter has gone from 1.8MB to 1.3. My cutting down of the Introducing Base has taken it from 1.8MB to 1.1. I have decided that the GS chapter