Help keep the Calc guide up to date

The Documentation Team Meeting will

take place in May 10th at 17:00 CET

The Calc module of LibreOffice is one of its most complex and extensive applications and one of the most in-demand for documentation, as our measurements of the documentation website clearly show.

The latest published Calc Guide is connected to LibreOffice release 4.1. The gap between this guide and the most recent Calc developments has widen and the current publication is outdated.

Book	Unique downloads	Downloads
All guides	11476	12347
CG41-CalcGuideLO.pdf	913	969
BH40-BaseHandbook.pdf	711	793
WG42-WriterGuideLO.pdf	697	760
GS52-GettingStartedLO.pdf	517	542
DG43-DrawGuide.pdf	398	425
MG44-MathGuide.pdf	329	337
IG42-ImpressGuide.pdf	305	319
…	…	…

It is clear that the six-month time release of LibreOffice is very fast and poses a challenge to all guide authors. Documenting and writing books will never slow the pace of development, but must adapt to follow the pace.

So action is necessary to update the guide, but we must go ahead and plan for the future releases.

We want to think about a flexible workflow, to think about contents instead of formatting, to ease authoring process, to gather more authors and contributions.

The documentation team (DT) is resuming its periodic meeting to talk about documentation issues, on Wednesday May 10th at 17:00 Berlin time (CET). All community members are invited and we will minute our discussions in the doc pad at https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/documentation which will contains a preliminary agenda and the connection links for the meeting.

Helping out with documentation is a great way to get involved in open source. You can build up valuable experience working with a community, and it could pave the way for a technical writing career in the future.