[LINK] OpenOffice, Call for Documentation Volunteers

[Brenda Aynsley]

On 27/02/13 09:03, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Apache OpenOffice
>
> www.openoffice.org
> TUE FEB 26th, 2013
>
> Call for Documentation Volunteers
>
> As the Apache OpenOffice project gets closer to our big 4.0 release we're
> ramping up our documentation team.  The goal is to have our new User Guides
> ready for the OpenOffice 4.0 launch.
>
> If you know something about technical writing, or OpenOffice, or ideally
> both, we'd love your help.
>


ah this is the weakness of open source in my view.  libre Office having 
forked (split off) from Open Office for whatever reason over a year ago 
now is competing for community support from the limited resource that is 
called 'the volunteer'.

Open Office has failed to maintain the support of my linux distribution 
so I am now in the Libre Office camp, so Darwin's law applies as far as 
I can see and it is the survival of the fittest.

I am not attempting to start a war on the merits of one over the other, 
simply to point to what I see as the wastefulness of resources 
(volunteers) in providing documentation for what is, for most practical 
purposes, the same thing.

Couldn't our time be better spent in difference rather than more of the 
same thing?

cheers
brenda


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