It is more of an FAQ/technique page, than a user guide, but I thought
it was done well. (Ignore the advertising)
http://technofyi.com/2013/11/25/dismiss-pesky-last-time-opened-openoffice-popup/
This is a good example of a topic-based approach to documentation: a
short module that tells how to so
The Help/About box of OpenOffice has a link to this "credits" page:
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html
We link to that page from our website and mention it in release announcements.
That page links to this wiki page for a list of our volunteers:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
> Greetings All;
>
> With the documentation list active for over a year now I believe it is
> time to re-evaluate where we are with the documentation effort and if it
> is worth continuing.
>
> My personal perspective is that very little pr
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
A good opportunity to test-drive AOO 4.1, in a pre-beta form. I
wouldn't recommend using pre-release code for real work, but if you
are curious and can help run some test cases (we have 945 test cases
remaining) you can help us reach our beta-release target.
Read on for more details about how to
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Gregory Zobel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm not sure if this is a doc or marketing question, so I apologize if I've
> posted this in the wrong place.
>
> I was just watching a video about documentation by an Apache doc writer (
> http://youtu.be/f4d-6Sv1vS8 ). The vid
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:26 AM, wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Windows Mail
>
> Sir if we can develop Devanagari Scanning through it as Microsoft office 2013
> along with Devnagari PDF converter add on or extension.
I'm not sure what you are asking. Could you say a bit more? What are
we lacking
I'm thinking of starting to create an updated migration guide for AOO.
If you have any thoughts on this, or want to help, let me know.
Target audience includes:
1) Individual Microsoft Office users, where such users provide their
own technical support.
2) IT departments who support users migrat
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> 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
We currently have this page which is visited over 4000 times *per
day*. It has high visibility since it is the top search result when
querying for "openoffice mac" and similar queries:
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/
This page has many problems:
1) The stock image is dated and out of cha
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
>
>> This projects depends on volunteer efforts. We have many routine
>> tasks that need to be performed during a release cycle and even during
>> ordinarily operation
This projects depends on volunteer efforts. We have many routine
tasks that need to be performed during a release cycle and even during
ordinarily operation of our website and other public-facing services.
In many cases a given task is well-understood and many members of the
project understand ho
We'll soon be releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1. We want to give
recognition to the many volunteers who contribute to the success of
OpenOffice. One way we give credit is in our Directory of Volunteers.
We link to this from the Help/About box of the product, as well as in
blog posts and release
Make sure you are included in our Directory of Volunteers and that the
information is as you want it to appear:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Directory+of+Volunteers
This page is linked to (indirectly) from the "credits" link of the
Help/About dialog box in AOO 4.0. It wil
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Javier LoRa wrote:
> Hello team
> I created a collection which can be downloaded as pdf automatically without
> the use of the tool COLLECTION CREATOR, the problem that has arisen is that I
> wish that an image of OpenOffice cover appears in the pdf, so I insert
iscussing and improving the Work, but excluding communication that
is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by You
as "Not a Contribution."
So I think that covers wiki contributions as well since that is
"documentation of", yes?
-Rob
> -Original Message
As some of you know, I've been poking around to see if we could make
use of the documentation/help for IBM Lotus Symphony. I was
investigating what would be required to get this contributed to
Apache.
But (doh!) I recently found out that this was already part of the
grant IBM made when they contr
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
>
>
>>> On 2013-04-09 I sent the following reminder to all individuals that had
>>> expressed interest in working on documentation but had not yet signed up
>>> for
>>> the mailing list:
>>>
You recently expressed interest in worki
I came across this reference on the web and thought it might be
useful. Not sure what, but it has info that I have not seen collected
in one place before on localized names of Excel spreadsheet functions:
http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~trieschn/excel/excel.html
Regards,
-Rob
--
learning, confidence and motivation are much
> better.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, at 15:55, Rob Weir wrote:
>
>>
>
>> I don't know if anyone counted, but it seemed like we
>
>> had 15 or more people volunteer to help. But of the offers of hel
d of the project is assigning him
>> a personal tutor.
>>
>> With a close guidance, learning, confidence and motivation are much
>> better.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, at 15:55, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if anyon
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
> Dave Barton wrote:
>>
>> Original Message --------
>> From: Rob Weir
>> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org
>> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:07:53 -0400
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:3
Reminder: If you have not yet filled out the survey, please try to submit
results before the end of the week.
Thanks!
-Rob
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
> http://www.openofficesurvey.org//index.php?sid=92484&lang=en
>
> This is intended to be a fun s
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
> Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Keith N. McKenna
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> RGB ES wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/3/19 Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
> RGB ES wrote:
>>
>> 2013/3/19 Rob Weir
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> RGB ES wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
> RGB ES wrote:
>>
>> 2013/3/7 Keith N. McKenna
>>
>>> Evening All;
>>>
>>> With the recent call for volunteers starting to attract new people it is
>>> time that we start keeping closer tabs on what has been done on the User
>>> Guides.
>>
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> 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.openof
2013/3/12 Guy Waterval :
> *us...@lists.educoo.org *
>
> Bonsoir la liste,
>
Wow!
I don't understand French very well, but it is clear that this is a
wonderful tutorial, with a lot of material. It looks very
professional.
Two questions we should ask ourselves:
1) Where should we store the doc
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:48 PM, James Pitt wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My name is James Pitt, and I'm a true believer in the open source ideal of
> software for the masses. I'm also an experienced, credentialed
> entertainment professional and would love to lend my abilities to this
> work. While I'm prim
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Stephen J. Hyland
wrote:
> Hello, everyone. My name is Stephen Hyland, and I've been a long-time user of
> Open Source software, a software engineer, a technical writer (various tools
> but primarily FrameMaker), and am an attorney. I probably won't be of much
>
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Christopher Olsen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My name is Chris Olsen, and I'm an avid user of OpenOffice products. I've
> been using them for almost 7 years now, and I'd love to lend my assistance to
> the documentation project.
>
> I've always been a proponent of the
First, I apologize for sending this unpersonalized, bulk email. We
received many responses to our "call for volunteers" over the weekend,
and this is the best way to get information out to all of you.
If you have not already done this, I recommend reading through our
"Intro to Documentation" web
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:26 AM, rain wrote:
> Good Morning to all of openoffice.apache.org and supporters. You are
> great!!
>
Misawa !
I'm cc'ing our Localization mailing list as well. They are the real
experts, not me.
> Congratulations for your successful works on behalf of culture, kn
Forwarding Alena's wonderful note, since Rainmaker is not subscribed
to the mailing list.
-Rob
-- Forwarded message --
From: Alena Hairston
Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Subject: Please read soon -- this took quite a bit of time that I
simply don't have and will have waste
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Josh Severn wrote:
> This will be my first time working with a community like this, so I
> will take of time to get acclimated to the guidelines and community
> rules, and appreciate your patience.
>
Hi Josh, welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project!
> The Intro
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
wrote:
>
> On 02/25/2013 02:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> The actual writing for the new User Guides will be using the wiki. But
>> perhaps the detailed walk-through of the product needed to document every
>>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Donald Whytock wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers
>
> Looks good. Did you want to say something about testing the new
>
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Keith N. McKenna
wrote:
> Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> I'm following the model that worked well with Marketing and QA, where
>> we have a page for new volunteers to visit that explains the work we
>> do and helps them get started. The
I'm following the model that worked well with Marketing and QA, where
we have a page for new volunteers to visit that explains the work we
do and helps them get started. Then we have a blog post that helps
draw them in by explaining why this work is important and fun. And
then we link to that blo
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:15 PM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/2/2 RGB ES
>
>> 2013/1/27 RGB ES
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe we can do the call on two steps, calling first on the forums and
>>> users mailing list for people with experience on the program (on the forums
>>> there are many experienced users) and only
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:57 PM, tj wrote:
> Hi, Andrea,
>
>
> On 2/7/2013 18:28, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>
>> On Rob Weir wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM, RGB ES wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docu
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/1/31 RGB ES
>
>>
>> I'll try on the next weeks to write about Math.
>>
>>
>
> (almost) done:
>
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Math
>
> The only missing part is a list with all the Math commands. On the wiki
> there is
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:33 PM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/2/2 Rob Weir
>
>> Some of you may have seen the page I recently set up for QA
>> volunteers, to track what the volunteers were interested in working
>> on, what their capabilities were, etc.
>>
>> https:/
Some of you may have seen the page I recently set up for QA
volunteers, to track what the volunteers were interested in working
on, what their capabilities were, etc.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/QA+Testing+Preferences
Would it be useful to do something similar for documen
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
wrote:
> People come in and say "hey, how can I help".
>
> I would like to provide a solid answer, but, the best I can probably do is
> to point them to this mailing list. Would be nice if we had a WIKI page or
> document to spell it out.
>
in the form and submit it. I
>> believe we are still enforcing a 4 day wait period after the account is
>> created before being able to edit anything as an anti-spam measure.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Keith.
>>>
On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:17 AM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/1/21 Rob Weir
>
>>
>>
>> Do we want to have a "call for volunteers" soon? Or do you want to
>> make more progress first?
>>
>> -Rob
>
>
> Today I'm at just four pages to end
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Mike Tuma wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Ok, sounds good, I understand about the copyright issue, however that begs
> the question how other software companies do it? Anyway my vote would be
> Ubuntu, but we would have to agree a version so that the screenshots
> are consistent
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Mike Tuma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to the project and discussion, please let me know if I am
> doing anything wrong as I am not familiar with the culture or etiquette. I
> am however familiar with OS documentation.
>
Hi Mike,
Welcome to the project. We hav
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:08 AM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/1/18 RGB ES
>
>> I started to create the User Guide pages on the wiki
>>
>> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide
>>
>>
>
> I need some help here. There are now several pages covering the beginning
> of the guide
>
> http://
By a style guide, I mean a list of conventions that we agree to use,
for the sake of consistency,
It would cover things like:
1) When we refer to the user, do we refer to them in the 2nd person as
"you", or third person as "the user", or "the author"?
2) When we refer to Apache do we say "We" or
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Bonnie Smith Ries
wrote:
> I am a newbie to the community-created software world. I am not a
> programmer, but I have a degree in English from Columbia in New York, and I
> fluently speak, read and write Spanish. I would love to help compose
> and/or proofread yo
t I created for the the FAQ
> merge clean-up. It is {{AOO}} and it expands to Apache OpenOffice.
>
OK. This is good to know. Thanks!
-Rob
> Regards
> Keith
>
> Rob Weir wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Regina Henschel
> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricardo,
&g
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> On 1/13/13, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>>
>> On 01/13/2013 03:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
>>> mailto:and...@pitonyak.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you advocating
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Regina Henschel
wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> RGB ES schrieb:
>
>> To start writing the user guide on the Wiki, I propose the following page
>> structure
>>
>> /wiki/Documentation/UserGuide
>> /wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Guidelines← guidelines for Writers
>> /wiki
Do we agree on what our target audience is?
The level of detail, and what items we focus on, would be different
for someone who has never seen a spreadsheet before, compared to
someone who is familiar with Excel.
What is the prerequisite knowledge that we assume the reader already knows?
-Rob
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:38 PM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/1/9 Keith N. McKenna
>
>> This list has been active for over 2 weeks now and this appears to
>> be the first post. I am really beginning to wonder if documentation is
>> really something that project cares about. We are pushing for an Apri
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:12 AM, RGB ES wrote:
.
.
.
>
> We can start from this draft
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Details+on+Scenario+3#DetailsonScenario3-ProposedTOC
>
> maybe focusing on the first two chapters for now.
>
>
So how would we map that to wiki pages? I a
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Rob Weir wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:12 AM, RGB ES wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/Permissions/Default.aspx#ERG
>>> "4. Do
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:12 AM, RGB ES wrote:
> 2013/1/7 Rob Weir
>
>> We have a small set of volunteers right now, but it should be easy to
>> attract more if we do a "Call for Volunteers". This worked very well
>> for translators, marketing and QA, for exam
We have a small set of volunteers right now, but it should be easy to
attract more if we do a "Call for Volunteers". This worked very well
for translators, marketing and QA, for example. But what we learned
there is that you really need to have a project structure in place
before bringing in new
I added a page to the CWiki here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Documentation+Volunteers
Could volunteers add their name to the table, listing what things they
are interested in helping with?
Thanks!
-Rob
ort you want to look here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/
Regards,
-Rob
> --- Den fre 2013-01-04 skrev Rob Weir :
>
>
> Från: Rob Weir
> Ämne: Survey: "When you need help with OpenOffice, what do you do?"
> Till: doc@openoffice.apache.org
> Datum: fredag 4
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:15 PM, RGB ES wrote:
> Hello, list
>
> Maybe we can start to discuss how the documentation for AOO 4 will be
> organized, going on with a long discussion we had on the dev mailing
> list(1).
>
> IMO, there are three main topics that needs to be addressed:
>
> * Bundled hel
I recently asked a question on our Apache OpenOffice page on Facebook.
The question was: "When you need help with OpenOffice, what do you
do?"
https://www.facebook.com/questions/442941365764746/
Note that the top response (by wide margins) was "Search the web".
That matches what I see as well.
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