Documentation team meeting minutes Friday March 20th, 2026 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Peter Schofield, Dione Maddern, Ed Olson, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

  • WG262 Chapters 14,9,12, (Olivier)
  • WG 262 Chapter 11 (Ed Olson)
  • WG 262 Chapter 8 (Dione)

Pending Action Items:

AI: New GSOC Improvements

Topics

Help pages (recurring)

  • Updates and fixes
  • New pages for new features
    • “Canvas Slide” (not yet visible)
    • Table Styles (exclusive for XLXS files)

Documentation website pages

Guide Bugs reported in Bugzilla

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137487

Getting Started Guide (recurring)

AI: Getting started with Base chapter needs rewrite?

Calc Guide (recurring)

Finished

Writer guide (recurring)

Guide refactoring ?
Ch 8 has 3 examples of page break/style,

  1. “Chapters”
  2. “Special pages”
  3. “Book chapters” - this one has a 5 pages long and detailed explanation in steps repeating several settings seen elsewhere
    I suggest: keep 1), drop 2), reduce 3) and…
    move 1) and 3) to chapter ch 5 “Page Basics”
    → Approved

Draw Guide (recurring)

Draw guide is completed (P. Schofield)

Base Guide

AI: Check suitability of using LLM to translate Base Handbook to English (Ed Olson)

Misc (recurring)

Help Chatbot

File management in NextCloud.

  • pending

Provide sample spreadsheets?

  • Will resume this topic later

Videos

  • Stalled - under evaluation

Sanity check extension

Question from Peter: Can we use it for other docs?

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Hello Everybody

Having completed the Impress Guide 26.2, I shall now update the Math Guide to version 26.2.
Watch this space for news on my progress.

Regards
PeeWee