On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 13:43 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > I was just wondering if there was ever in OOo talk of organising > "Templating Teams"? > > This was touched on in another thread. The idea would be to have an > official LibO Templating Team where the teams' only task would be to > come up with different templates for various categories. The members > would be picked according to their expertise in these categories. > > For example, I am an expert in 14th-19th century keyboard > reconstruction. Some of my regular jobs is to order specific wire for > strings. As I order from one individual in the UK on a regular basis, I > would join the template team and be in charged of the "Period Keyboard > Restoration" category and build templates according to the needs in this > category. > > Another example, which has been discussed, is a "Religions -> > Evangelical" category, where the person responsible for this section > would be in charge of templating various forms that done regularly by > church admins, church music directors, chruch ministers etc. > > If we were to setup a Templating Team group and published a large > variety of templates, then the LibO suite would become more valuable as > an Office suite for everyone.
Hi Marc, Great idea - not sure we need a team, per se, but a place to collect these would be of great help, IMO. I would be bold enough to turn this email around and challenge you to help lead this by putting together a short presentation on LibreOffice / ODF / FOSS as if you where to deliver this to a small group, say at a lunch time presentation to the IT team of a small public school system in CA, as this I believe is your personal perspective. To be clear I'm not speaking of a template specifically, rather it is the content, write a 15 minute presentation. I would not be so bold without willingness to also help - IMO a great presentation to have as a shared resource would be one going over the pre-LibreOffice history of the applications. Specifically I'm thinking of taking the wiki page from OOo that covers the first 10 years and using that as the basis for this, 4-6, page presentation "Roots - The Story of LibreOffice" or some such. It can be an ice breaker for small meetup groups, or the first 3 pages to presentations by others. So, what do you say - shall we get the first 2 shared presentations into the LibreOffice Presentation Library... Drew > > We would not have to find "templating specialists" but in most cases, we > could all make an effort to convince people who are active in a > particular domain and has a central administering role in making an > organisation work. These people would be the most likely people to make > use of repetitive chores/documents. We could then organise a "templating > mentoring programme" where members could get help in learning on how to > template as well as on-hands help in template construction. > > What do you think? > > BTW, I do have a person who may be interested in creating some templates > for Evangelical church routines. She just needs a little more convincing > as she is too busy filling out forms that she does on a weekly > repetitive basis. > > > Cheers > > Marc > > -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
