Hello, folks; hope this finds you well. I'm writing for two reasons. Software wasn't my first career choice; only after I became comfortable with it did I segway to the classroom. In the first of these environments, the learning curve I experienced going from a BA to an MS was steep to the point of being precipitous. In the second, I saw immediately that many of my students, who were trying simply to become practiced end-users, were as flummoxed as I had been by some of the techie terminology with which they had to deal.
My response was to develop what I offered from and used in my classes, for years – a glossary of every tech term I could come up with. There are now a total of 64 of them (no hidden pun intended), at a number of levels of complexity, from application through hexadecimal to Linux to octal to raster to vector. It's been a pleasure for me to work with the AOO documentation team. That's why I want to suggest that AOO arrive at, build, and offer with every member of the AOO suite, a single, generalized, but thorough key to terminology, from the most simple to the most arcane. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the idea, and would be happy to share my design.
