Hi Keith, Keith N. McKenna schrieb:
It has become painfully obvious over the last 6 months or more that I am not the person to push this effort forward. I am tired of answering queries about how to help and then never having people come back to the list. I will continue to work on the introductory material as I have time, but I no longer have the energy to continue to try and drive it forward.
You are frustrated. But you can be sure, it is not your fault. The situation had been the same in times of OOo. A very large number of subscribers of the list, but only about 1% active writers. And some of them are now working for LibreOffice.
What we need is people with experience in technical writing to drive this and to mentor new comers.
I have attended a meeting of the German LO community last weekend, with very similar topic. There was the idea of "mentors" too. On the meeting there were consensus, that pointing a newcomer to some sites to read is bad. The idea on the meeting has been, to have a set of starting tasks. The mentor explores the skills of the newcomer. Then he suggest three tasks to the newcomer, who chooses one. After some time the mentor contacts the newcomer and ask about the progress.
Such mentor does not need to have writing skills or be an expert in an area himself, but he need to be a personal contact for novices.
The current situation of working on documentation needs improvement. I see e.g. the problem, that the process is currently not visible to the community, and writers get no merit.
I will continue to monitor the list and
set up accounts on the mwiki as needed.
It is good, that you will continue doing the administrative part. I think I may take a closer look
at trying to learn the process of writing the help files as I am seeing more bugs posted concerning problems with them.
I have already written some help texts, so I might be able to help in technical problems if needed.
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