Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

Just to state the obvious - we have a documentation team - and they do a
ton of work including writing user manuals....to say anything else is
ridiculous.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Dave Barton <db@tasit.net> wrote:

> -------- Original Message  --------
> From: Dallen
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:18:26 -0700 (MST)
>
> > I have joined the documentation team already and am working with
> > them. What I'm looking for is feedback from users. It's easy for
> > writers to write what they want to write or what they find useful.
> > What I want to know is how users feel about the documentation.
>
> Ding! Ding! Hello!
> Who the heck do you think has been writing this stuff since 2001?
> Short answer: USERS!!!
>
> There is no "Documentation Team", only a tiny handful of USERS, who
> occasionally step up to the plate and try to contribute something that
> may be of help to our fellow USERS. Be assured that none of those
> contributors only "write what they want to write or what they find
> useful" and if they wanted "easy" they would not write anything.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, only one of those USERS has professional
> writing skills and without her tireless input from day one neither the
> previous OOo project or LO would not have any usable documentation.
>
> Of course it's possible to create documentation in the form of videos,
> epub, slide presentations or any other "all-singing, all-dancing,
> lights-bells-whistles-and-buzzers" media form anyone wants to add to
> their wish list. There is just one tiny trivial problem, finding the
> army willing volunteers to take on these tasks. Research is good, but
> the research priority should be how to find and keep documentation
> contributors.
>
> Regards
> Dave
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