Dear Documentation Team Members,
I want to offer myself as a member of documentation team and want to write
and edit the documents about writer, calc, impress etc.
I am a lecturer of computer science in an engineering college in kolkata,
west bengal, india. I am also a freelance journalist of All India Press
Journal(AIPJ).
Please tell me the proceedings and requesting for an account in alfresco to
upload my documents.
Looking for your consideration.
With Regards,
Parichay Chakrabarti
Welcome! I hope Jeremy or someone can set you up with an Alfresco
account. What would you like to work on? We have been converting the
OpenOffoce.org user guides to LibreOffice as a quick way to produce
some documentation, but other docs (tutorials, docs for specific
audiences, FAQs etc) are needed too. You'll find that we are still
discussing how to proceed but much can be done without formal
processes in place IMO.
Hal
Hal, Parichay,
An account has been set up for Parichay and is awaiting verification.
-- jdc
I already completed writer tutorial for the novice to advance learners. If i
upload it into my alfresco account is it visible to all? If not, then where
i have to upload it so that every one can download it and give their
valuable suggestions? Another thing is that, how can i know that it is
accepted by libreoffice? please guide me.
Regards,
Parichay Chakrabarti
Hi Parichay, 
When working with Alfresco, you need to distinguish between your own
personal workspace, where you can add anything you want, and the
various project workspaces on the platform (where you can add stuff
that's ready for the team to continue working with).
People will be able to see all stuff in any space, and download it.
When it's publication-ready, it will be copied from the Alfresco
platform to the LibreOffice wiki, where it will be listed there and on
the main LibreOffice website (libreoffice.org).
When you do work, it's best to come and announce your plans/intentions
here on the Documentation mailing list, so that other team members can
advise you and be aware of what's in progress.
Insofar as you use the Alfresco platform for your work, there is not
currently any "acceptance" process. What will happen is that another
team member will take a look, and probably do the next work task. We'd
only roll back your upload and reject the work if there was some dire
problem with it.
Again, when you finish work, post a message here to let people know -
although there will be a public commits mailing list reporting work on
the Alfresco platform operational in an unfinished form later today.
Parichay, it's great to have everyone possible putting work in on
English docs, but I'd also urge you to go on the l10n list and ask
about localization work. It is likely that there is no-one working on
content for your mother tongue.
Speaking personally, I've always felt that, insofar as possible, it's
best to have mother-tongue writers doing the authoring, otherwise
there is an extra job for us of post-editing to weed out grammar
errors, etc. Although it is true that there tend to be more exceptions
to this principle with English, as it's a widely-spoken international
language. But, in any case, don't let that discourage you from
contributing to English content if it attracts you more than working
with your mother tongue. More info about localization work is here
[1].
[1] http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/localizers/
David Nelson