Re: Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-09-30 Thread Kay Schenk
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 of our website and other public-facing services. > > In many cases a given task is w

help for "bundled help"

2013-10-21 Thread Kay Schenk
Maybe it's time we broached the subject of the "bundled" help with Apache OpenOffice once again. There was actually some initial movement on this topic when this project was first set-up at Apache: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Application+Help in July of 2011. (I've rece

Re: Help in writing documentation

2014-02-06 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Katia, > > Katia P schrieb: > > Hi, Dave >> >> I've looked throught your documentation for students and I'm willing to >> help you with it, whatever you need. And I am also ready to write any >> needed documenation of high priority (in

Re: Help in writing documentation

2014-02-06 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Regina Henschel > wrote: > >> Hi Katia, >> >> Katia P schrieb: >> >> Hi, Dave >>> >>> I've looked throught your documentation for students and

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

2014-03-22 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Dave wrote: > I'm not sure, but possibly the first step would be to have a list of all > the best documentation so far. I personally don't use documentation much, > just google around. I do use the internal Help of OpenOffice though. What > are the average user's

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

2014-03-28 Thread Kay Schenk
l" help. Like you, I am just getting started with that. When I get a bit further along, I hope to share some ideas. Out of curiosity, what documentation tools have you worked with or prefer? > > > I think we need some structure somewhere, what do you think ? Just me two > cents ;-)

Re: Constructing Components and UNO Regist[e]ry

2014-03-30 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > HP wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > So, I registered quite some time ago and probably did not do very much > > until today. However, now I am back and wanting to help somewhat. I > > quickly went through > > > > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wi

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

2014-03-31 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:16 AM, HP wrote: > On 03/28/2014 10:19 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:06 AM, HP wrote: >> >> Hi Guyz, >>> >>> I hope you are OK with me intervening here, I am "pretty new" to this >>&g

Re: Stepping back from trying to drive this effort

2014-06-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Dave wrote: > I think the internal help files are especially vital and enormously > contribute to the overall quality of a programme. > Yes, they are! I have been SLOWLY working toward being able to build inline help content in its own sandbox with dmake only --

Re: Stepping back from trying to drive this effort

2014-06-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi Keith, > > > > Keith N. McKenna schrieb: > >> It has become painfully obvious over the last 6 months or more that I am > >> not the person to push this effort forward. I am tired of answering > >> queries abo

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2014-08-07 Thread Kay Schenk
On 08/05/2014 12:06 PM, Kyra LaRose wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies in advance for such a long intro email. > > I'm Kyra from Canada, and I like cats, a lot. My background is in Media, > video production and content/copy writing. I have extensive experience with > word processing software as I worked

Re: documentation update.

2014-11-04 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello; > > I am reading some of the documentation and it's still very inaccurate with > respect to the license. > > This page: > > https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/uno.html > Says: > > "UNO is freely available (it is distributed unde

Re: Nisha Murali

2015-03-12 Thread Kay Schenk
On 03/10/2015 09:33 AM, nisha murali wrote: > Hi, > I am Nisha Murali and I have 2.1 yrs experience as a VC++ developer and > manual tester. I am currently pursuing a certification in Technical Writing > from California State University - East Bay. I am very excited to contribute > to Apache in

Something useful to add to the OpenOffice FAQs?

2015-05-27 Thread Kay Schenk
We seem to suggest deleting the user profile fairly often to solve problems. However, I don't see any mention of it in the FAQs https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ although it is mentioned in the How Tos page -- https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos as https://w

Re: SQLite ODBC driver for Libra and OpenOffice

2015-09-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Denis Yanov wrote: > Hi, my name is Denis I just wanted to share some info with you which you > might include in documentation. > > I found some info about SQLite ODBC driver for OpenOffice in your wiki > http://www.openoffice.org/dba/drivers/sqlite/index.html >

Re: Something useful to add to the OpenOffice FAQs?

2015-12-24 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: > > We seem to suggest deleting the user profile fairly often to solve > > problems. However, I don't see any mention of it in the FAQs > > > > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Document

Re: Something useful to add to the OpenOffice FAQs?

2015-12-25 Thread Kay Schenk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/24/2015 11:36 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Keith N. McKenna >> >> wrote: >> >>> Kay Schenk wrote: >>>> We seem to suggest deleting the

Re: Is the Help Helpful?

2016-01-26 Thread Kay Schenk
On 01/23/2016 03:28 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I was doing some haphazard curation of obsolete material on the Wiki and the > Community Wiki. > > In following my nose through various links, I encountered this gem: > > Aka ITHH. > > Also, this

Re: Is the Help Helpful?

2016-01-26 Thread Kay Schenk
the wiki result is intended to be the documentation of > record. Isn't that so? > > - Dennis Yes, and please excuse my silly question. For some reason, I was thinking about the included help and NOT the documentation efforts on the wiki. > >> -Original Message-