On 11/23/2020 4:05 PM, Katie Knish wrote: > Hi everyone! > > My name is Katie Knish, and I just signed up to be on the documentation > team. My background is mostly in editing (largely within the sciences and > medical communications, with some fiction and advertising thrown in years > ago). I just did a JavaScript bootcamp over the summer after teaching > myself other coding topics for a couple years, and I've long been a fan of > OpenOffice and of the collaborative nature of open source. > > I've been interested in diving into technical writing for a while now but > am unsure where to start. My writing and editing skills are strong, as is > my ability to distill complex topics into materials appropriate for a range > of audiences, and I'd love to help out in any way I can! > > Thanks! I hope everyone's having a good Monday. > > Katie > Greetings Katie;
First, please accept my apologies for not replying sooner. With my grandchildren's school abruptly switching back to complete on-line learning and the Thanksgiving holiday my schedule has been out of wack. Currently we do our user documentation and our developer documentation on our media wiki (mwiki). It is not a difficult input method, and there are a lot of templates that can be used as shortcuts. These can be found at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Wiki_Editing_Policy#List_of_Existing_Documentation_Templates. That entire document is worth studying as it lays out the general style rules for documentation done on the mwiki. Need for the 4.1.x documentation line is making sure that at least the common data and the Writer and Calc Guides are complete and align with Apache OpenOffice® (AOO)Version 4.1.8. This can be done bye simply installing AOO from https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html and then going through the steps in each wiki entry and making sure that the step by step instructions match what actually shows in the Version 4.1.8 applications. For our next minor release I would like to start using Writer files as the source files for all documentation and storing them in the projects Git Repository so they are under strict revision control. This is still a work in progress, but I would like to start with at least the Getting Started and Writer Guides for AOO 4.2.0. In the next few days I will be finalizing the Proposal Document that will be sent to this list for reviews and then to dev@ for final review and acceptance. I will not kid you the work will be slow as many of the volunteers to do documentation have left for one reason or another. I am hoping that this new process will bring some of them back as well as attract new people. I always monitor this list and will answer any questions or concerns that you may have and work closely with you and other members to get some solid documentation done for the project. Regards Keith
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