I've updated the preface and first two chapters of my book, but I am not feeling terribly motivated to continue. I’m finding AOO very clunky and lacking in features that I use all the time in LO. OTOH, so little appears to have changed since AOO 3.4 that updating has been going fairly quickly so far.
Another thought: my book is licensed CC-BY, so AOO docs people could take a copy and do your own updating, giving proper acknowledgment to me (and changing the title of the book to "Getting Started with AOO 4.1" and the author to “AOO Docs Team”). If you choose to go that route, I’m happy to contribute what I’ve done so far. If you're interested, you can download a copy of my v3.4 book here: PDF http://taming-apacheopenoffice.com/downloads/TamingAOO34.pdf ODT http://taming-apacheopenoffice.com/downloads/TamingAOO34.odt Jean On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 1:21 PM F Campos Costero <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jean - Thank you for considering this! It would be a very valuable > contribution. If you do decide to go ahead with the revision, would you > prefer to do the updating entirely on your own or could others help in some > way? > > Francis > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:41 PM Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm thinking of updating my self-published “Getting Started” book on AOO > > and making it available to the community in free PDF and low-cost printed > > copy, whether you choose to link to it or publicise it in any way. It could > > be dual-licensed CC-BY & GPL, but not A2. > > > > The v3.4 version of this book began in the ODFAuthors group, but after AOO > > rejected it, I completed it and published it under my own name in 2013. It > > doesn’t cover the full range of topics as for the old OOo book, but IMO a > > “Getting Started” book doesn’t need to do that. > > > > Jean > >
