Re: Repository Organization

2021-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
marcia wilbur wrote:> I was hoping we would be using gitbox or something not Github (MS). Everything under https://github.com/apache/ is actually a Gitbox mirror. It works the same way for the source code. Some people prefer to push to Gitbox, some (often including newcomers) to Github. But th

Re: CC License on Externally-Produced Documentation

2021-01-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/01/2021 Dennis Hamilton wrote: In the case of documentation projects and their repositories, the exception is not workable. Hello Dennis, nice to hear from you... it's been a while! I basically I agree to everything, but I go a bit further in that I don't see a restriction on using an

Re: Request mwiki account creation

2019-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/09/2019 randolph gamo wrote: preferrred *username*: randolphgamo Welcome! Account "randolphgamo" created; you should have received a password by e-mail. If not, you can just reset the password for your account from the login page. Regards, Andrea. --

Re: Re OpenOffice Spreadsheet suggestion

2017-03-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/03/2017 Barnaby Guthrie wrote: In your spreadsheet section could you include a Command+D and Command+R routine for “Fill Down” and “Fill Right” respectively? You will want to use customized keyboard shortcuts. This is done in Tools - Customize - Keyboard (the menu layout may be a bit di

Re: Is it time to shut down this effort?

2016-07-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/07/2016 Keith N. McKenna wrote: My answer to the question posed in the tittle of this e-mail unfortunately is yes. We have been moving by fits and starts for almost 4 years and have very little to show for it. I would like to hear the opinions of others though. (I know this conversation m

Re: New Volunteer - Technical Writing Experience

2016-01-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: however the wiki appears to be down at the moment so I cannot check to see what actually changed. The wiki was down for 20 minutes due to maintenance by the Apache Infra team. You can receive automated e-mails with information when the wiki is taken down and back up by

Re: Rebooting the Documentation Effort

2016-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Personally I had enough political and turf battles when I worked in the corporate world; I certainly do not need them now Sure. You are coordinating volunteers here without the need of any formal structure. No need for any structure. Volunteers are here, we had more do

Re: Our second page was released today

2015-12-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: With Archana's accuracy check of the Formatting a Document Introduction page it met it's requirements for release. This is the second page that has been released. Thank you all for restarting this work, and especially Keith for his dedication and patience. Keith, if/whe

Re: available to help

2015-08-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/08/2015 John D'Orazio wrote: volunteer to help maintain / contribute to the developer documentation. Thanks! And so I would like to request an account for the Wiki, username can be "johnrdorazio" and email "john.dorazio@...". Account created. You will receive a temporary password by e

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2015-08-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/08/2015 Shruthi Raghunath wrote: Preferred user name: shruthiraghunath Email: shruthiraghun...@gmail.com Your Mwiki account has now been created too. You will shortly receive a temporary password by mail. Regards, Andrea. -

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2015-05-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/05/2015 Yannick Hogarth wrote: username: yhogarth Welcome! Whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Username details

2015-03-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/03/2015 nisha murali wrote: I would like to sign up for an account. username: nishs310 Welcome, MWiki account created. You will receive a password within a few minutes. Your CWiki account has been whitelisted too. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Done with orientation

2015-02-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Olivier Bricaud wrote: I just finished the Introduction to Documentation and I am very excited to help in any way I can. Thanks! Current efforts are mostly on the new User Guide https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide Would it please possible to get whitelisted for the CWik

Re: Apply for a volunteer tech writer

2015-02-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/02/2015 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Once again our esteemed chair has beaten me to the punch. You should be all set to start. I'll be happy to delegate! Since they almost always come in pairs (a MWiki and a CWiki request), would you be able to manage the CWiki requests too? I can setup priv

Re: Apply for a volunteer tech writer

2015-02-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
De Angela Jackson wrote: The "unsubscribe" link isn't working for me. I thought I had unsubscribed before. And how do I remove my email/posts from any forums? Post cannot be removed. See http://www.apache.org/foundation/public-archives.html For unsubscription problems, please solicit help

Re: Apply for a volunteer tech writer

2015-02-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alfred_Ren wrote: In step 2, i need to sign up an account for MWiki with my preferred user name and e-mail address.i think the following is good to me. user name: alfred.ren Email address: rensimin2...@gmail.com My question is that, is above information enough to finish the step 2 Yes, it

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-12-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
David Lloyd-Jones wrote: I don't know who this is intended for, but I'm sure they're all glad to know it... It is an account approval request and it was sent to the right list. See http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html section Getting Started (and hey, if that documentation

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-12-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Robyn Chan wrote: Username is rchan128 Welcome! Whitelisted. Take your time to finish reading the documentation, and then please let us know what you'd like to work on (which OpenOffice module do you know best?). Regards, Andrea. -

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Heather Bloomer wrote: My preferred User name is HBloomer and my email address is heather.e.bloo...@gmail.com Welcome, account created and you will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. Andrea. - To unsubscribe

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-11-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/10/2014 Steve Wolf wrote: I would love to volunteer my time (Which I have plenty of) learning documentation writing. I have strong English writing skills and technical knowledge. Thank you for the opportunity. Plenty of time? Sounds very good, and as you can guess from the delay other pe

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-11-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Stefan Boroda wrote: Requesting an MWiki account. Username: sboroda Email: imnotashr...@gmail.com Welcome, MWiki account created. You will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe,

Re: inscription pour wikiopenoffice.org

2014-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
(answering in English, this list is in English) So you say you need an account for downloading files? Can you provide an example, like sending the link to a page where you cannot download without an account? We might want to fix the configuration. In the meantime, we created an account for yo

Re: [MWiki] Account creation

2014-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carla Bosco wrote: I am a student of technical writing and I would love to help with the documentation. Could you please create an account for me? If possible, my username would be cbosco. Welcome! Account created, you will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. Then your starting po

Re: Improving de documentation of the development process

2014-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Sadly I think the website is too text-oriented and a more visual format would help. Not only on the ooo.apache but also on the wiki. Where the build guide and other 'newbie' documents are very text driven and a better use of visual notificationes like alerts, warnings or

Re: OpenOffice community survey - Please take it!

2014-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
ce it there it would be perfect. For any comments, follow-up to the dev list only. We've fixed some technical and wording issues; if you experience problems when submitting please inform the dev list d...@openoffice.apache.org Thanks, Andrea. On 12/09/2014 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I&#

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Tariq Rahuma wrote: Preferred username: tariqrahuma E-mail address: tariqrah...@gmail.com ...And this account has been created too. We are currently working at documentation at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide ; feel free to "adopt" one of the mostly empty pages and s

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Tariq Rahuma wrote: Account name: Tariq Rahuma Welcome, whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org

OpenOffice community survey - Please take it!

2014-09-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I've prepared, with help from other community members, a survey to gather some quick data about the Apache OpenOffice community. This information will be used for my Apache Conference talk in November, to assess how we have matured in these two years as a top-level Apache project and whether we

Re: Introduction

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/09/2014 Aarti Varma wrote: My name is Aarti Varma (I go by Sonu) and I have just joined the mailing list. I am a software developer focusing on Android. I've been wanting to contribute to some open source projects for a while, and since I love writing I thought documentation and tutorials w

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: Perhaps I'm confused. But my documentation in English, Chinese (kindly translated by Mark Hung), French and German is, so I thought, on the official site openoffice.org. It's advertised on the openoffice.org domain, but it's not hosted there. It's third-party documentation. Which i

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/09/2014 Isha thk wrote: I see that the user guide doc is minimal for Open Office Draw and wish to add a few topics there. Specifically, I would like to work on the topic of Connectors under Styles on Draw as it is listed as TODO. Let me know if I can go forward with this. Sure, thanks! It

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/09/2014 Aarti Varma wrote: I speak Hindi and English fluently. I don't think most Hindi speakers would require a translation as they can usually also speak English quite well. However, I would be happy to translate it if there is any demand. As for translations, we very much prefer that v

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/09/2014 Aarti Varma wrote: Can the account with username "sonusonu" please be whitelisted? Welcome, whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: do

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/09/2014 Isha thk wrote: I recently created a CWiki account on confluence which I would like to white list so that I can start contributing to the project. My account details are as follows: Full name: Isha Thaker. Username: i.thaker Your CWiki account has been whitelisted too. Andrea --

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/09/2014 Isha thk wrote: My name is Isha Thaker and I would like to get started as a volunteer with the documentation team. I request you to create an MWiki account for me. Welcome, account created. You will receive a temporary password within a few minutes. The part that you should hav

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
anuja seith wrote: I am a writer and editor with a background in journalism and content writing. I am now transitioning into technical writing and would like to use my skills to contribute to Apache OpenOffice. Welcome! Account created, you will receive a temporary password in a few minutes.

Re: MWiki Account

2014-07-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bailey Naas wrote: I would love to start helping with this project, may I please have an MWiki account? Preferred username is bmnaas. Account created. You will receive a temporary password in a few minutes. And please let us know the module you use more often, or you documentation preferences

Re: [MWiki] Account creation

2014-07-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/07/2014 Amy Ingram wrote: I just wanted to let everyone know I proof-read the page Andrea listed below and made some changes based on the help style guide. I would be grateful if someone could check that I’m doing everything correctly. Thanks for coming back and informing the list! Indeed

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-07-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/07/2014 Amy Ingram wrote: I’m a new volunteer interested in helping with documentation. My account name on the CWiki is ingramam, and I would like to request it be whitelisted, please. Whitelisted. Of course, the MWiki account is the one you will use more frequently. Please keep us infor

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-06-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
zoo mass wrote: Please create a login account for me (Username: zoomass). Done. If you haven't received a password, please let me know. I'm a tech writer with 10 years experience (mostly policy and procedure with some user-level manuals and quick start guides) You definitely seem to be the

Re: Request for student opportunity to work on Apache OpenOffice

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/06/2014 Sama, Sowmya wrote: My name is Sowmya and my teammates are Keerthana Aravamudhan(karavamud...@luc.edu) and Sathyashree Narasimha (snarasi...@luc.edu). We are currently pursuing our degree at Loyola University Chicago. Welcome! OpenOffice can indeed offer you many opportunities for

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jesse Scanlan wrote: Hi, I'd like to sign up for an MWiki account please. Preferred account name: jessescanAP MWiki account created too. You will receive credentials in a few minutes. Please tell us if you don't receive them. We have a list of pages that need proofreading right now, sent by

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/06/2014 Shyam Sindha wrote: I'm looking to help with technical writing, copy-editing, proof reading etc. I have a bachelors degree in Physics, with some experience of coding. However my biggest strengths are definitely spelling and grammar. Thanks! You will receive credentials for our doc

Re: Stepping back from trying to drive this effort

2014-06-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/06/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: still more structure won't help. People become respected in a field through mutual recognition. This is working well for other OpenOffice fields, like localization and QA. In this case Andrea I feel that a little more structur

Re: Whitelist CWiki Account

2014-06-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jesse Scanlan wrote: jessescanapc Welcome, CWIKI account whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Editing

2014-06-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/06/2014 Anita Diamond wrote: Yes I've had a quick look - I think you're being modest when you say that it's a work in progress. Hello Anita, I hope that then you will be ready to help with the real, official OpenOffice documentation! We edit everything directly online here, for example

Re: Sign up

2014-06-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Account Panagea has been created and a temporary password has been sent to the supplied e-mail account. Thanks. I'm not sure the new volunteer is following the list (message was moderated). And now, to proceed according to the considerations we were doing last week,

Re: Stepping back from trying to drive this effort

2014-06-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/06/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: I am more than willing to help but I am tired of beating my head against walls. Well, volunteers come and go. Your messages had the effect to reactivate some people, fortunately! We really do not have a documentation team at this point. What we appear t

Re: "In other languages" links to missing wiki.services.openoffice.org

2014-05-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hung Mark wrote: I just updated a wiki page in traditional Chinese, however I found that links in "In other languages" sidebar of the wiki website links to wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/... It seems misconfigured. Could anyone help to fix that? Why "missing"? It should still be OK. I mean,

Re: CWiki Account Request

2014-05-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/05/2014 Amanda Lavelle wrote: As requested, I created an account for your CWiki. My username is amandalavellewriter. CWiki account whitelisted. Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: Requesting MWiki Account

2014-05-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Amanda Lavelle wrote: My preferred username is alavellewriter. MWiki account created. You will receive a temporary password. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional co

Re: Volunteer

2014-05-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
archana nagarajan wrote: Can you please create an mwiki account for me? Sure, done. Username "archana". A temporary password was sent to you. but i would like to see if i can contribute in any other way, for eg, editing, etc.. Indeed everything can help. Stay tuned on this list for help req

Re: Volunteer

2014-05-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Elise LaTorre wrote: I'd like a user ID, perhaps elatorre. As in your previous request, you don't specify whether Mwiki or Cwiki, but I created it (elatorre) on Mwiki. Everything else is exactly as in the previous mails. Regards, Andrea. --

Re: Volunteer

2014-05-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hung Mark wrote: I come from Taiwan and volunteer to update documents in Chinese. Please create a user ID for me, marklh9 would be good if possible. I created a Mwiki account for you; if you need a Cwiki account just ask. The Mwiki account gives you editing rights on https://wiki.openoffice.o

Re: Creating user ID

2014-05-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/05/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Ben Hunt wrote: Hi, I am just replying to get a user ID created. For the user ID: bjhunt would be good for me or something similar. ... If no one has set up the account for you yet, please send your email address as a reply to this message. Account "bjhun

Re: I would like to volunteer as technical writer

2014-05-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/05/2014 Luca Ceccarini wrote: I could help with the italian translation. Would be a great way for me to get my hands dirty... I listed other ways to get your hands dirty with Italian translations at http://markmail.org/message/ikngu7tmbmwq2pjq but there's another one if you wish, that i

Re: G'day

2014-05-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jake Thomas wrote: Im Jake, from Australia and I guess I am a new volunteer. Ive read levels 1, 2 and 3 orientation modules for documentation, and am ready to go. As far as a Wiki username goes jazzatomo will be sufficient. Welcome! Account created on MWiki, you should receive a temporary pas

Re: New doc volunteer

2014-05-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/05/2014 Ben Hunt wrote: I am a third year IT student from Australia. Both myself and another IT student have a project to help contribute to an open source project (due in June) so we decided to try and help out with open office. We have no particular set of skills, we have done some Java a

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-04-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/04/2014 Luca Ceccarini wrote: My name is Luca and I’m a tech enthusiast and overall digital geek from Italy. I’m a self-employed web and print designer, my main occupation for almost 10 years now. But I’m looking for a new challenge and I’m particularly interested in technical writing. We

Re: Can't make edits on the Wiki

2014-04-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
José Reyes Ch. G. wrote: Hi Andrea! Yesterday, the problema I could not make changes to the wiki was resolved, in fact I made several suggestions, but today found myself once again the problem that my IP is blocked. Why do I keep getting the same problem? And how do I resolve this problem definit

Re: Can't make edits on the Wiki

2014-04-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
José Reyes Ch. G. wrote: The wiki thinks my IP is similar to a user named MellissaBrodzky which is blocked. I cant make any edits until this situation is fixed. Should be fixed now. See https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124572 and reopen if you still see it. Regards, Andrea. ---

Re: new documentation volunteer

2014-03-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/03/2014 Stephenie B wrote: I am having trouble finding where to set up a user id for the wiki. To combat spam, self-registrations for new accounts is currently suspended. I've now created an account for you. You should have received further information via e-mail. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Is it time to re-evaluate the viability of internal documentation?

2014-03-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/03/2014 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: 2) The work is naturally "bite sized". You can be an effective QA volunteer working 1 hour a week or 40 hours a week. There are tasks of every size. Ditto for Translators. This is also true with documentation. There are a number of tasks

Re: How to change OOo to AOO quickly and efficiently?

2014-03-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/02/2014 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: So, does this mean just change it manually if editing the WIKI, or, can something be done to do a quick database update (as if anything done to a production server is quick... test test test test, ok, now do it). I wrote it several times already (an

Re: How to change OOo to AOO quickly and efficiently?

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/02/2014 De Angela Jackson wrote: Hi. I was just reading the thread. I thought using AOO instead of OO was strictly due to Apache not owning the original licensing. Just to clarify (since this is a publicly archived list): Apache does own the "OpenOffice.org" trademark, see the site foote

Re: How to change OOo to AOO quickly and efficiently?

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/02/2014 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 02/12/2014 06:21 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Sure, this is best done automatically, directly on the server. But I don't see a real reason for being so verbose and always using "Apache OpenOffice" instead of the normal "OpenO

Re: Writer manual FR

2014-02-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/02/2014 Dave wrote: followed your link to the French documentation site. Could you add my documentation in French to the page: openoffice-uni.org ? Thank you Dave, added links to http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Writer/ Regards, Andrea. --

Re: How to change OOo to AOO quickly and efficiently?

2014-02-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: If the intent is to change OOo to AOO, if I could change the pages at 3 minutes per page, it would take 6 days of solid work to change them all. Could this be done during a maintenance cycle? Sure, this is best done automatically, directly on the server. But I do

Re: Presentation and wiki account

2014-02-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
JOSE REYES wrote: Hello! Mi name is José Reyes Chan Guzmán. I want to contribute to the OpenOffice community through my knowledge and skills, helping to translate some documentation to spanish. Want to enter the wiki for to help with some guides. My Nick is jose_reyes1994 Welcome! Your account

Re: Writer manual FR

2014-02-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/01/2014 Guy Waterval wrote: Here is the writer manual FR (unofficial) www.softenpoche.com/sep/writer.odt www.softenpoche.com/sep/writer.pdf Licence : ALv2.0, Status : draft Thank you, added to http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Writer/ Regards, Andrea. --

Re: OpenOffice License cut off

2014-02-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
nbholladay wrote: FYI, I downloaded a copy of OpenOffice for personal use recently. In the OpenOffice 4.0.1 License document (Help-->About-->License), at the very end, it cuts off the latter part of Eric Young's SSLeay license (looks like it's supposed to be there as a condition of distribution).

Re: Calc user manual FR

2014-01-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/01/2014 Guy Waterval wrote: http://www.softenpoche.com/sep/calc140114.odt http://www.softenpoche.com/sep/calc140114.pdf License : ALv2, status : draft Thank you, added to http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Calc/ Of course, if you update the materials just let us know. Regards,

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rachel Sand Harrison wrote: I just need my CWiki account activated: rsandharrison. Whitelisted (i.e., activated): Rachel Sand Harrison (rsandharrison) Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.ap

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2014 Rachel Sand Harrison wrote: So far I have been able to create a CWiki account, and it looks like much of that content has been migrated to another version of Confluence. Or am I misunderstanding the comments on the Documentation Volunteer and Directory of Volunteers pages? I don't h

Re: Openoffice.uni documentation (Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of)

2013-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: Is the Apache License by the way available in other languages? Or is it best just to stick to English? The only normative version is the English one. So, whatever language the document is in, the license is the English one (and very often the notice is in English too). I'm not awa

Re: Openoffice.uni documentation (Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of)

2013-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: Thanks a million! However it seems to me to be a little round about way. Wouldn't it be possible to simply post a link to: openoffice-uni.org There visitors can choose if they prefer pdf or odt (Answering multiple mails in one) The "ODF Authors" model I was referring to was quite si

Openoffice.uni documentation (Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of)

2013-12-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/11/2013 16:23, Dave wrote: any chance of linking my introduction for students (openoffice-uni.org) on the wiki? french version will be up next week, then i'll go back to the german version, and then again the english version. please take a look. Hello Dave, I did take a look today. You ha

Re: Fwd: Documention - sort of

2013-11-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/11/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: Installation Guide 4.odt Introducing AOO 4.odt AOO4.ott

Re: Help Needed: Redo the /porting/mac page

2013-10-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
janI wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/ ... So my first question is - what does a MAC page have to do here. MAC is a supported platform, not third party ? - why does the porting page not have a link to the mac page ? The Mac version used to be a port (you can still find outdated inf

Re: Current message number

2013-07-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Tom Goldie wrote: I'm hoping this message will post with the current message number so I can begin reading the archives; if not, can someone provide it to me? Welcome, for the mailing list archives see http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html Regards, Andrea.

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2013-07-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/07/2013 Alex Stillwell wrote: I don't like to change anything until I know I will not cause problems, so I have attached a couple of suggestions. Dear Alexandra, they are OK, feel free to apply them but won't worry in general, we have the full history of all changes made to any page so i

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2013-07-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alex Stillwell wrote: Exactly what would you like me to do? and exactly how would you like me to respond. I have indigestion from too much information and I cannot see what is important at this stage and what I should do next. Once I get a handle on how to help I will be OK. It is just taking me

Re: Introduction

2013-06-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/06/2013 Cale Sommers wrote: My name is Cale Sommers and I am interested in volunteering in documentation. I live in Sacramento, CA and I am looking to become a Technical Writer. I have my Bachelors Degree in Communication Studies, but no experience as of yet. While reading about how to get

Re: [UserGuide]My "roadmap"

2013-06-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/06/2013 RGB ES wrote: The bare bones for the Draw guide are taking shape with four new pages http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Draw/Intro http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Draw/Layers http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Draw/St

Re: Introduction

2013-06-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gregory Hitchcock wrote: I wish to volunteer on documentation projects at Apache OpenOffice using my writing and editing skills. Welcome Greg, and remember to subscribe to the lists following the instructions that rob already pointed you at on the dev list: http://openoffice.apache.org/mailin

Re: How to apply Collection in the WIKI?‏

2013-06-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Javier LoRa wrote: Hello everybody. I'm Javier. I did subscribe in dev list. I'm working about menu in the wiki in this link http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Functions but i need to insert the extention collection: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection How

Re: [Discuss][Wiki]"Synchronizing" (or not) localized wiki sites [was: Fwd: [UserGuide]My "roadmap"]

2013-06-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/06/2013 RGB ES wrote: At this point, I think we all agree that we have a bit of a license mess that needs to be fixed in order to clarify the documentation project. So here is one possible idea: 1- Move the current /Documentation page to /Documentation-OLD or /Documentation-LEGACY(1), indi

Re: How to create Collection in the WIKI?

2013-06-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I'm not sure Javier is subscribed... Javier, if you missed the reply below remember to check http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-doc/ for answers. Dick Groskamp wrote: Op 7-6-2013 17:06, Javier LoRa schreef: Hello everybody.I'm Javier. I'm working in the WIKI and I need to kno

Re: [Discuss][Wiki]"Synchronizing" (or not) localized wiki sites [was: Fwd: [UserGuide]My "roadmap"]

2013-06-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/06/2013 RGB ES wrote: (Top posting, CC to dev, doc and l10n, not sure on which one it is better to continue the discussion) Do we want to "clone", for example, the documentation section on all the localized sites, just translating it? On Sun times that was the idea, with sub sites ("portals

Re: Is the path to the options menu consistent across all operating systems in the AOO UI

2013-05-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/05/2013 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Since the User Guides are aimed at v4.0, is the Mac path still OpenOffice.org --> Preferences or would it be OpenOffice --> Preferences or Apache OpenOffice --> Preferences? Honestly I don't know. I'm CCing Raphael and Juergen since they surely have a work

Re: Symphony documentation was contributed (and I didn't even know it)

2013-05-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: But (doh!) I recently found out that this was already part of the grant IBM made when they contributed Symphony last summer. And the contribution included translations into 28 languages! ... Under each language dir there is a doc.zip file containing the help, in HTML format. ..

Re: Is the path to the options menu consistent across all operating systems in the AOO UI

2013-05-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: noticed that the path is referenced as Tools --> Options. Now this is a correct path for a Windows operating system, but as memory serves me Mac and Linux operating systems usually have a different path. Windows: Tools --> Options Linux : Tools --> Options (same) Mac

Re: Documentation about portuguese dictionary files

2013-03-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jackson Pinheiro wrote: I´m contacting you because I didn´t find the documentation about the dictionary files, so I´m asking for a little help. Hi, the dictionaries are not OpenOffice-specific. OpenOffice uses a tool named Hunspell, and you can find the Hunspell documentation here: http://sou

Re: Impress tutorial (fr) - unofficial

2013-03-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/03/2013 Rob Weir wrote: 1) Where should we store the document? 2) How do we make Francophone users aware of it? For #1, maybe we can put it as a link from this page: http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Documentation/Impress/ ??? I can upload the tutorial and modify the page, if someone gives me th

Re: Volunteer:Legal and Translation

2013-03-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/03/2013 Paola Aguiar wrote: Hi, I am a Peruvian-US citizen... I would like to contribute enthusiastically to comply Apache's vision Welcome, Paola! It's good to be a huge community: we are looking for a Peruvian to confirm this recent OpenOffice fix https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_b

Re: Apache OpenOffice Voulenteering

2013-02-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Forwarding the answer below to Peter. Peter, welcome and please consider subscribing this mailing list: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html Andrea Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Peter Reddish wrote: Dear Open Office, I would be quite inter

Re: [Discuss]Call for volunteers [Was: Re: Starting to build the user guide]

2013-02-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/02/2013 RGB ES wrote: 2013/2/19 Rob Weir Maybe this already exists, and it already exists, but it might help to have a series of page tags for things like: 1) This page is being drafted by XXX and is not ready for review yet 2) This page has been drafted and is ready for editing 3) This pa

Re: [Discuss]Call for volunteers [Was: Re: Starting to build the user guide]

2013-02-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/01/2013 Guy Waterval wrote: On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:17 AM, RGB ES wrote: Maybe also state that we also welcome contributions, under Apache License, of existing written materials that may be of use for our efforts. Here are the first fr files I actually can release. It's the part 1 concerni

Re: Math commands [was Re: Starting to build the user guide]

2013-02-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM, RGB ES wrote: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Reference/Math_commands but that page it is under a "CC-BY" License, so I assume it cannot be used? Right. But you could link to that page. Or contact the author and see if he could

Re: Starting to build the user guide [Was Re: Possible workflow]

2013-02-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/01/2013 02:03, RGB ES wrote: The first draft for a Writer guide is now (almost) complete http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer Very nice, Ricardo! I had a look and it is already quite complete. I fixed a few typos, but of course it will need to be reviewed by a n

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