New Volunteer! Bonnie Kim

[Bonnie Kim <bo...@gmail.com>]

Hello!

My name is Bonnie and I'm a recent graduate from UC Berkeley. I'm new to
Apache OpenOffice, so I wanted to give a little introduction of myself
before we begin.

I studied English as an undergrad, and completed an honors thesis devoted
to sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. My primary interest was in the literary
figure of the robot, and why it continues to grip us today, as a legend if
not as a reality.

I'm interested in OpenOffice because I'm excited to begin my career as a
technical writer, and I wanted to gain some experience before I began as a
professional. Having come from a strong academic background, I still want
to challenge myself by continuing to learn new things, although to be
honest I'm a bit overwhelmed by the sheer variety of technological fields
that are out there.

Anyways, I hope we'll get along very well! And I'll shoot along a couple of
questions here and there if that's alright.

Thanks, everyone!

Bonnie

-- 
Bonnie Kim
University of California, Berkeley
English, B. A.
bonniekim@berkeley.edu
(510) 908-0479

Re: New Volunteer! Bonnie Kim

[Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Bonnie Kim <bo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> My name is Bonnie and I'm a recent graduate from UC Berkeley. I'm new to
> Apache OpenOffice, so I wanted to give a little introduction of myself
> before we begin.
>
> I studied English as an undergrad, and completed an honors thesis devoted
> to sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. My primary interest was in the literary
> figure of the robot, and why it continues to grip us today, as a legend if
> not as a reality.
>
> I'm interested in OpenOffice because I'm excited to begin my career as a
> technical writer, and I wanted to gain some experience before I began as a
> professional. Having come from a strong academic background, I still want
> to challenge myself by continuing to learn new things, although to be
> honest I'm a bit overwhelmed by the sheer variety of technological fields
> that are out there.
>
> Anyways, I hope we'll get along very well! And I'll shoot along a couple of
> questions here and there if that's alright.
>
> Thanks, everyone!
>
> Bonnie
>
> --
> Bonnie Kim
> University of California, Berkeley
> English, B. A.
> bonniekim@berkeley.edu
> (510) 908-0479
>

Welcome Bonnie!

We can always use more technical writers. Right now, there are two primary
areas where your contribution would be valuable: (1) a new set of User
Guides (coordinated through the documentation mailing list, using MediaWiki
as the publishing platform); and (2) the actual OpenOffice internal help
files.

If you're interested in working on User Guides, you could start here:
http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/

and, I would suggest you subscribe to the documentation mailing list -- see
the mailing list page:
http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

If you want to get into something "more challenging" using the XML files of
the internal Help, please see:

http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/online_help/

and subscribe to this developer list.

In any case, we are here to make your experience successful. Please do not
hesitate to ask any questions. Thanks for volunteering.

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MzK

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged
 to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
                             -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain