Welcome, Natasha! More comments below
2013/6/20 Natasha Selvey <nysel...@gmail.com> > Hello, > > My name is Natasha Selvey and I would like to get involved in > documentation at OpenOffice. I have a background in Document > Control/Quality Systems but I enjoy writing technical documents. I am > also currently learning Java, Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. > > I already read through the orientation modules and signed up for MWiki > and CWiki. I would really appreciate some direction for helping out > with documentation. > Perfect! At the moment, the user documentation is being worked on the wiki. Please look at where the draft for the 4.0 user guide is growing: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide (there is a link to the "status page" at the end). There are several missing pages and holes on the existing ones, but an easy start would be to proofread the existing pages and check the information for "accuracy". Most of the material there was written by a non native English speaker (me...), so the actual text needs a lot of attention. Clearly, writing an user guide implies not only writing skills but also knowledge of the software: if you have doubts about how Apache OpenOffice works, just ask! Note that this guide is aimed to AOO 4.0, so there are instructions on the guide that do not completely correspond to the stable builds (like "menu Tools → Options → Apache OpenOffice": on 3.4.1 you'll find "OpenOffice.org" there). You can find development builds for 4.0 here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshotfullsets So the "tasks" available are many, some of them already mentioned: * Check spelling and grammar for existing pages (proofreading) * Check if it is possible to reproduce what the guide suggest, i.e., if topics are clearly explained (accuracy and "understandability") * Write new material It is also possible to add * User Guide "design": to make the user guide more visually "appealing" to the readers. Tester, editor or writer? You choose :) Regards Ricardo > > -Natasha Selvey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
