Documentation team meeting minutes Friday June 27th, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione Maddern, Ed Olson, Rohit Kumar, Olivier, Bernardo , Karen Burke

Completed Actions Items:

Calc Guide is published

  • CG25211-DataAnalysis (OH)
  • CG25200-Preface (OH)
    • Will be done at end of revision, to add changes of the book release.
    • same for master document
  • CG25206-CreatingChartsAndGraphs (EO)
  • CG25212-LinkingCalcData (CP)
  • CG25208-PrintExportEmailSign (OH)

Pending Action Items:

AI: GS24804 - Styles and Templates (Mashuck)
AI: + Starting work on Chapter 2 - Getting Started with Writer (DM)
+ progressing.
+ Cheking grammar
GS25205 - Images and Graphics Ready for peer review

AI: Review of GS25205 by Karen Burke
AI: last review for Calc Guide by B. Antonio

Topics

Help pages

Getting Started Guide

  • on-going (DM)

Calc Guide

  • Finished Calc Guide 25.2

    • Annoucement pending
  • Suggestion: skip 25.8 and work on 26.2. Comments? (OH)

    • Takes a lot of work to review (DM)
    • Fine with me (EO)
    • Add an appendix on 25.8 with inprovements (BA)
      • Incorporate appendix in 26.2

Misc

  • LibreOffice Conference in Budapest Early September

    • Paper submitted? (deadline is June 30th)
      • “Using Deck to manage the documentation” (Dione)
  • New Template?

    • Stalled → consider for 26.2
  • File management in NextCloud.

    • pending
  • Provide sample spreadsheets?

    • pending
  • Videos

    • DM recorded new version of the ‘Change UI to Tabbed’ video, to incorporate feedback from last week’s meeting, including:

      Added pause before User Interface dialog closes.

      More time showing the tabbed interface after the dialog closes.

    • File is saved in LibreOffice Documentation > English > Video Library Project > Videos > change-ui-to-tabbed > change-ui-to-tabbed.mp4

    • Link: The Document Foundation Nextcloud

    • Excelent results (OH)

      • will rty to insert it in Help or Guide,

AI: + will evaluate effort and results (OH)
AI: Manual on how to make a video with quality and usefulness (DM)

  • Future of Documentation
    • AI to assist in dreating a document? (OH)
      • Not the contents but on layout of the document
      • suggest alternatives to existing formatting
      • other suite specific
    • I used AI to assit in presentations (Rohit Kumar)
      • very interested to know more about (OH)

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