Hello Michael,
welcome to the team.
As mentioned on the LibreOffice wiki there is need for document co-ordinators.
I would be more than willing to help in this respect, I just need to
know the procedure for document development.
Am I right in assuming that not much development is happening on the
LibreOffice front but rather porting from OOoAuthors site?
Yes, you're right, most of the development work is being done at the
OOoAuthors website.
I have a healthy understanding of the Calc application and would be
happy to take on responsibility for a document related to LibreOffice
Calc.
If you want to be responsible for one chapter (or perhaps the whole
book?) it would be good, if you could register yourself at the
oooauthors website as well. Ask here again, that someone (I, Jean or
someone else) can give you the needed rights to see the content that
is not published yet (our so-called "author role").
If I do take on a role in this respect is there a requirement to also
produce the OOo version of the document?
As far as I can tell, there is no such requirement from our side that
you must take over the responsibility for the same chapter for OOo. In
my opinion, this would be easy to do now, but it might become more
difficult, when the two programs diverge more in the future. So it is
up to you, if you want to maintain both versions or not.
Sigrid