Re: [native-lang] IRC Talk starts now!!

Hi Charles,

Charles-H.Schulz wrote:

>This presentation attempts to tell you that OOoAuthors is "THE" way to
>contribute to documentation. What OOoAuthors may not tell you is that
>there are other ways to contribute to documentation. 
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>
I don't think, that this the intention of Sigrid's presentation. Sigrid 
as well as other people working at OOoAuthors are working within the 
germanophone project as well.
E.g. Marco, who has established the german team at OOoAuthors is working 
on the install guide within the germanophone project as well.

>While I can certainly appreciate Daniel's attempt to answer to
>difficulty of using our site's tools, I think it would certainly have
>been better if he had put his talent and energy at teaching people how
>to use OOo's site tools (cvs, mailing lists)rather than coming up with
>an external site and incompatible licences. 
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>
I disagree .. at least for the tools. Sigrid has said something about 
they started using OOo-Infrastructure .. and they still use it. But the 
facilities at OOoAuthors site are more easy to use. (Yes, you can learn 
how to use issuezilla .. but this will take time .. time that many 
people don't like to waste ... and I wouldn't blame them for that).

Incompatible licenses is another point. But read the chatlog (and nail 
Daniel on that ;-) ):

> <lgodard> an 'old' document is under PDL, but translated at OOoAuthors
> <lgodard> what is the licence ?
> <DanielC> lgodard: PDL I guess.
> <DanielC> lgodard: We don't mandate any license.
> <DanielC> lgodard: The *user guide* of the *English* section chose 
> something else. That is all.

So .. I'd strongly recomment to settle this license issue ... and let 
people do their work.

>By the way, one should be aware that by contributing works to
>OOoAuthors, he/she will not be able to have it included in the official
>documentation corpus of OOo. I only hope that all the OOoAuthors
>contributors will realize that their only chance is that the Community
>Council accepts the CC's licensing scheme.
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>
As said above (by Daniel) , OOoAuthors does not enforce any license. You 
still need to agree, that your work will published under PDL, if you 
sign in to the OOoAuthors website. Let's work on this, thas this stays 
or becomes again the default for the documents.

>OOoAuthors is a community fork, despite the amount of work some people
>inside or outside the NLC have invested in it. 
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.. a fork, that wouldn't have happened, if OOo documentation project 
would provide help and environment for easy starting.

André