[libreoffice-design] New member

All,

I'm a recent (and till now silent) subscriber of this list. Before I 
post a few things about LibO GUI and usage, I'd like to introduce 
myself: I'm a 56 yo French civil servant using OOo since 2005 when my 
employer decided to move from MSO. Since then I never looked back and I 
have always been very pleased with OOo.

In a former part of my professional life, I had been an unofficial 
part-time programmer (Turbo-Pascal, Object Pascal then Delphi). Though 
this was supposed to be a part-time job, it in fact took most of my 
time, daily and nightly for nearly 15yrs.

I had to stop sometime after I switched job as I couldn't do both. Now, 
I've been an IT tech (support chain) for 20yrs. As such, among a lot of 
other things, I help and train my colleagues to our office automation 
suite of choice (formerly MSO, currently OOo, very soon to be LibO [2012]).

As such, I can see everyday how and why my colleagues use the software, 
what they do right and what they do wrong. To the risk of seeming overly 
proud, I think I have a broad view of our corporate workflows and I can 
tell where the local pitfalls are (wrt office automation tools). I have 
some ideas of what should be changed wrt textprocessor and in which 
direction some changes would be beneficial to their users. (hence my 
visit here ;)

BTW, I've written a dozen FR how-tos and guides for OOo Writer and I'm 
involved in some other Free software areas: I'm a member of the local 
Bordeaux LUG, a contributor to Clonezilla Live doc and also to the 
OpenStreetMap project.

CU soon,
--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux

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