Documentation team meeting minutes Friday May 8th, 2026 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione, Peter, Dennis R, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

Pending Action Items:

AI: New GSOC Improvements

Misc Topics

  • Simplified English
    • “SE” suggestedd is geared toward the aeronautic/airline industry
    • Prefer plain English (Dione)
      • Suitable for the general public and office suite users
      • does not prevent to be well written, clear text, good writing practice
  • Style guide in wiki needs update (Peter)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DocumentationTeamInfo/StyleGuide/
    + Will present suggestions next week (Peter)

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

  • New book entry webpage
    • Redesigned entry page of Online Writer Guide 26.2 (Olivier)
    • Approved (Dione, Peter)

Guide Bugs reported in Bugzilla

Meta bug opened for collecting Guide bugs
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171695

Getting Started Guide (recurring)

AI: Getting started with Base chapter needs rewrite?

  • Need to finish chapter 12 (peter)

Calc Guide (recurring)

Writer guide (recurring)

  • New feature “Paragraph composer” in Paragraph Alignment tab

Draw Guide (recurring)

Base Guide (Recurring)

Other

Help Chatbot
+ stalled
+ See Franklin Weng presentation in Budapest on LLM for LibreOffice

File management in NextCloud.
+ pending

Provide sample spreadsheets?

  • Will resume this topic later

Videos
+ Stalled - under evaluation

Sanity check extension

  • Version 26.4 publshed. Thanks to B. Antonio Fernandez

General Info:

Doc team Telegram - group

Doc team in TDF Jitsi

Doc team pad for minutes
https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/documentation

Next meeting:

Fridays at 15:00 UTC.

I have uploaded Chapter 1 Creating User Guide for the LO Contributor Guide to NextCloud and is ready for review. This new chapter is based on 2-ProducingLOGuides2022_01-JHW.

The new chapter can be downloaded from https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/files/1763955?dir=/LibreOffice%20Documentation/English/Contributor%20Resources/Documentation%20Team%20Info/Work%20In%20Progress

Creating LO User Guide is a new guide and is based on the Documentation Team Information chapters that were created by Jean in 2022. The chapter numbering and titles are as follows:
LOCG2600 Creating LO User Guide
LOCG2601 Creating User Guides
LOCG2602 Style guide
LOCG2603 Using Document Team Workspace
LOCG2604 Joining Documentation Team

I will now create Chapter 2 Style Guide based on the file 4-StyleGuide2022_01-JHW.

I will also attempt at creating a deck in NextCloud for the LO Contributor Guide.

Regards
PeeWee