I have now uploaded these files to the wiki, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Students and to the Tutorials and How-To's space on the Alfresco site (for those on the Docs team with accounts there).
Many thanks again to David for donating this guide to the project. --Jean On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:44, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Fantastic. The Documentation Team has occasionally discussed aiming > documentation at specific groups. Students were one of those groups > identified as being an important one to reach. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Thu, 20/10/11, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: openoffice user guide for students >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Thursday, 20 October, 2011, 11:21 >> The author has agreed that we can also put his guide on the >> LibreOffice wiki. I asked him to clarify the CC license, and he said >> CC-BY-SA. I've looked at it and think it will be an excellent addition >> to our collection. >> >> He also said we could rebrand it as long as the name of the original >> author remains, along with the link to the website of his university >> http://www.fb4.fh-frankfurt.de/tips/openoffice/dokumentation/ooo_for_students.pdf >> and his email address ([email protected]). >> >> --Jean >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: David Paenson <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 21:51 >> Subject: [documentation-dev] openoffice user guide for >> students >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> I have been writing and updating a User Guide for the >> Students an our >> university over the past three and half years and have now >> translated it into English. >> >> The English version is available at: >> >> http://www.fb4.fh-frankfurt.de/tips/openoffice/dokumentation/ooo_for_students.pdf >> >> The original document is also online: >> >> http://www.fb4.fh-frankfurt.de/tips/openoffice/dokumentation/ooo_for_students.odt >> >> I have been giving introductory courses in OpenOffice to all new >> students of our department for Social Work at the University of >> Applied Sciences in Frankfurt/Germany now for the past >> seven semesters >> - around 240 students per semester, divided into 12 groups. >> I only have 3 hours per group, so I have to limit myself to the >> absolute essentials (styles, table of contents, cross-references, >> page numbering etc.), but especially those essentials students >> really need in their daily work. As you can imagine, students of Social >> Work are not especially versed in computers and it's all pretty new >> to them, especially in such a condensed form. This introductory >> course addresses their needs as closely as possible. >> >> I think the course is now ripe enough to be distributed to >> a broader public. >> >> I very much hope you find the time to have a look at it and >> to post the course on the English speaking website of >> OpenOffice.org. >> >> My next project is to translate it into French (just happen >> to have been brought up in a bilingual family, no merit of mine). >> >> Yours >> David Paenson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
