Thank you for the welcome. I don't know if I am just daft and doing something wrong, I attempted to confirm my email address for the wiki accounts, but I have not received the message (checked spam folder, etc). I left ample time (a day or two?) to be sure, but so far nothing.
Otherwise I seem to be signed up for everything else. Looking forward to diving in. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Josh Severn <[email protected]> wrote: >> This will be my first time working with a community like this, so I >> will take of time to get acclimated to the guidelines and community >> rules, and appreciate your patience. >> > > Hi Josh, welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! > > >> The Introduction materials are useful, they changed over the course of >> going through the Orientation, to include more steps in the "Get >> Started" section. >> > > There is a lot of material there. Much if it is background info on > how we're organized and make decisions. From the documentation > perspective, the main start-up things to do are: > > 1. Make sure you are subscribed to this mailing list (send an email to > [email protected] if you still need to subscribe) > > 2. Sign up for accounts on our two wikis (details in the > http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html page) > > 3. Add your info this this wiki page: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Documentation+Volunteers > >> I work particularly well, as a new volunteer, with concrete tasks >> being assigned and ensuring an understanding of the expectations. With >> time, taking the initiative to find projects won't be a problem. >> > > We're working on the 4.0 User Guide right now. You can see the draft > material on the wiki here: > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide > > One easy way to get started is to take one or more of the chapters and > edit it for style and usage. (We'll also do a technical review pass > later once 4.0 feature work has completed). > > Regards, > > -Rob > >> Thank you. >> >> -- >> Joshua Severn >> [email protected] >> 805-710-7127 >> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joshua-severn/20/252/6ab -- Joshua Severn [email protected] 805-710-7127 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joshua-severn/20/252/6ab
