Call for ideas on Technical Writing

[ohallot]

Hello Good Doc' People

We will have the opportunity to apply for the 2021 edition of Google Seasons of Doc.

The program is open to technical writers to work closely with open source projects, and LibreOffice & TDF qualify as in 2019 and 2020 editions.

The program is open to any technical writer. You may apply too.

We need ideas. What are your ideas for LibreOffice documentation? Samples...

+ More e-learning classes (Moodle)?
+ Doc' for Accessibility (idea by Regina Henschel)?
+ Work on unfinished guides? Update to 7.1?
+ How-to's library ?
+ Collection of best Askbot Q&A ?
+ Notebook of exercises for training classes?
+ Any important doc community still miss?
+ ...

PLease let us know your ideas ! If you have personal ideas that adds values to the LibreOffice community, you're on business too.

Ideas already noted:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/GSoDOC/2021#Ideas_for_Documentation_technical_writing

Cheers

[rwestein]

Hi Olivier,

Development of the LibreOffice Base Guide 7 seems to be on hold. Maybe it is nice to write a new book for it.

Best Regards,

Rob Westein

[felipeviggiano]

Hello Olivier,

I would like to suggest a project idea:
Set up the LO Guides in an HTML format, with the requirement to make it
easy to be updated by the DOC Team.

Best regards,
Felipe Viggiano

[regisperdreau]

HI Olivier

Some real documentations for developers who want to enter the libreoffice
projet.
Many papers are scattered, outdated. May be too ambitious.

Best Regards

Régis Perdreau

[jucasaca]

Hello

I think we need documentation on macro creation, especially on macro creation in python (which is so fashionable lately). All documentation on macros in basic is outdated and it is from OpenOffice (which, I'm afraid, will be unavailable soon) and there is very little, almost nothing, on python and it is scattered.

Regards

Juan C. Sanz

[Patrick_Mundschau]

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Hello

I think we need documentation on macro creation, especially on macro
creation in python (which is so fashionable lately). All documentation
on macros in basic is outdated and it is from OpenOffice (which, I'm
afraid, will be unavailable soon) and there is very little, almost
nothing, on python and it is scattered.

Regards

Juan C. Sanz

[rafaelhlima]

Hi!

Building upon Regis' suggestion, OpenOffice has a 1.600-page long
Developer's Guide. I myself have referred to this book on some occasions,
because it is a good introduction to the API.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/d/d9/DevelopersGuide_OOo3.1.0.pdf

However, LibreOffice needs its own book, since differences between LO and
OO are increasing over time. Hence, one possible idea would be to create a
LO Developer's Guide.

The main problem is that 1.600 pages is too long, so this could be broken
down into two separate proposals.

Regards,
Refael Lima

[ilmari]

It is already a topic: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/GSoDOC/2021#LibreOffice_Developer_Guide

The wiki pages of the book need to be imported first exactly as they were because of the PDL license. Then we can modify the book, but the license must stay the same.

There have been many API changes since 2009 and the task should focus on those.

The diagrams can also be converted to textual definitions and dynamically generated by Mermaid.js diagramming library.

Ilmari

[lachend]

Hello, Olivier, all!

Many LibO critical amendments to Help base in Bugzilla left unchanged.

I insist on making an effort to completely resolve all issues.

Thanks!

[rafaelhlima]

Hi!

Development of the LibreOffice Base Guide 7 seems to be on hold. Maybe

it is nice to write a new book for it.

+1 to this idea by Rob Westein

Cheers,
Rafael