Documentation team meeting minutes Friday May 16th, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione Maddern, Ed Olson, Olivier

General Info:

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https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/documentation

Completed Actions Items:

  • CG25213 (Ed Olson), reviewed by Olivier, Published.
  • CG25217 (Vasudev), reviewed by Olivier, Published.

Pending Action Items:

AI: GS24804 - Styles and Templates (Mashuck)
AI: + Starting work on Chapter 2 - Getting Started with Writer (DM)
+ progressing.
+ Cheking grammar
+ CG25207 (Lobaluna), reviewed by Olivier… pending
+ DM: Currently reviewing GS25203 - Getting Started With Calc
+ Review Chapter GS25202 GettingStartedwithWriter (Olivier)

Topics

Help pages

  • Updates and fixes

    • review of the Chart help pages, after Lobaluna remarks on Guide.
  • New pages for new features

    • Help pages for TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER. (ohallot)

Getting Started Guide

  • on-going (DM)
    • Volunteers welcome

Calc Guide

  • work in progress

    • Volunteers welcome
  • Peer Review on going

Misc

  • New Template?
    + Stalled
  • File management in NextCloud.
    + pending
  • Provide sample spreadsheets?
    • Several chapter presents static images of tables, charts and more
    • can be interesting to supply sample spresdsheets as well (Olivier)
    • Can be stored in wiki or nextcloud and linked to the chapters/PDF/HTML
      • In new appendix or inline?(Dione)
      • better inline (Olivier)
    • Preserve image(or update) as-is but add a link to source spreassheet.
    • Videos are also a good addition to User guides (Ed Olson)
      • I make videos for company products I work for besides text doc (Ed)
        • Use Camtasia at work.
        • Once used “wink” on windows (olivier)
      • Small video sketches can enrich Guides, Help and wiki (Olivier)
      • Video library needs careful project planning (olivier)
      • Write an outline of a video lib project (Dione)
        AI + Open a document to draft outline (Olivier)
      • Outline must follow video standards and best practices (olvier)
        • too many bad videos in YouTube, hard to follow
        • “microscopic” mouse pointer flying like mosquito on screen
      • 2-minutes video can take many hours to produce (Ed)
        • Long run project (olivier)
        • can do it steadily, in parallel
        • Good entry point for doc collaborators (Olivier)

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