Introducing Myself to LibreOffice Mailing List

Hello everyone,

My name is Tommy. I just registered for the LibreOffice mailing list. I
applied for the mailing list to learn and contribute to gain some technical
writing experience with the hopes of breaking into the technical writing
field. I was advised by current technical writers that this would be a good
way to gain experience and learn about styling guides, project process
flow, and the collaboration process as a whole. I do not have any prior
experience with documentation or technical writing, but I would love to
learn and contribute in any way I can.

With regards to my educational and professional background, I graduated
university in 2016 with a BSc in philosophy. Currently, I am employed as a
customer/technical support specialist and have been in this position for
several months now. Prior to this, I have always working in customer
service and other customer facing roles.

Regards,
Tommy

Hi Tommy,

welcome in the LibreOffice community. Nice to hear, that you will help us in documentation. Do you have a favorite part of LibreOffice?

Kind regards
Regina

Hi Tommy,

in case you have no favorite part, what about writing about a new feature?

E.g. write a little HowTo in the Wiki, so that it can be linked from the ReleaseNotes?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1#Signature_Lines

Or explain how to use "Remote Files" (menu File > Open Remote...) with an example of a concrete remote service?

Or if you are looking for a larger topic, introduce the user to LibreOffice Online.

You do not know anything about it? Then examine the existing texts. A good opportunity to notice, where they have shortcomings.

But I'm not a regular member of the documentation team. So perhaps others have better ideas.

Kind regards
Regina

HI Tommy and Regina

Some comments inline

Hi Tommy,

in case you have no favorite part, what about writing about a new
feature?

E.g. write a little HowTo in the Wiki, so that it can be linked from
the ReleaseNotes?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1#Signature_Lines

Signature lines are a good start, although it is only available in 6.1
which is currently under development and require the installation of a
nightly build to test.

Nightly builds:
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Win-x86_64@62-TDF/current/

Or explain how to use "Remote Files" (menu File > Open Remote...)
with an example of a concrete remote service?

That topic is already covered in almost all its range:

https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-US/text/shared/guide/cmis-remote-files.html

But as rule of thumb, every help page can be improved.

Another good start is to pick some help bugs in the following list:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=80430&hide_resolved=1

for example

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80658 (Calc XML streams)
or
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106623 (Pivot charts)

You can follow the instructions for creating contents in an easy way here:

https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/join-community/update-help-contents/

and send it to me for review upload to the code.

Or if you are looking for a larger topic, introduce the user to
LibreOffice Online.

Very good idea too. Let me now if you need access to a working instance
of libreOffice Online.

You do not know anything about it? Then examine the existing texts.
A good opportunity to notice, where they have shortcomings.

But I'm not a regular member of the documentation team. So perhaps
others have better ideas.

Kind regards Regina

Regards
Olivier