This thread has come to my attention, and I notice that I am mentioned along with ODFAuthors. I wish to provide some background information, particularly for the newer members of this list.
Once upon a time, when there was only OpenOffice.org, the group of people producing user guides for OOo were known by the name "OOoAuthors" and that was the name of our website. Soon after LibreOffice began, we changed the name of the website to "ODFAuthors" and added a section on the website for LibreOffice. Later, after Apache OpenOffice began, we added another section for AOO. Now, as Regina has noted, ODFAuthors is only a working environment that the various documentation groups can use during production of documentation. It is not a group on its own. The LibreOffice docs team, after considering an alternative platform, chose to use the ODFAuthors website. The Apache OpenOffice docs team chose not to use it. Almost no one is left from the original OOo Docs group. As far as I know, with the exception of me, people did not "resign" from OOo Docs; most of them just drifted away when nothing much was happening at OOo between when Oracle bought Sun and when Oracle gave OOo to Apache. Some members of the OOo Docs group were employees of Sun and then Oracle, and they were redeployed elsewhere. The current LO team is mainly people who were never part of the OOo project, although some do lurk on the mailing list and occasionally contribute (particularly Dan Lewis and Andrew Pitonyak). Alexandro wrote, "Previously the documentation project was mainly steered by Sun engineeers. Specifically Frank Peters and Clayton Cornell." For the last year or two, Clayton and I were the co-leads of OOo documentation, because Frank moved on to some other role. Clayton (a Sun/Oracle employee) dealt mainly with developers docs; I (a volunteer) dealt with user docs. jonathon wrote, "why did the former head of the AOo Documentation project resign? (Need I point out that the wiki page lists that individual as the current head of AOo documentation.)" If this statement refers to me, (a) I was not aware that any wiki page still lists my name for any role in AOO; and (b) AOO Docs never had a "head" or "leader" because that is not The Apache Way; certain AOO individuals were quite emphatic about that. If you mean why did I resign, I refer you to my blog post on that topic. http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?p=1473 -- Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
