Author: Florian Effenberger

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a

Documentation Lead

to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, includes amongst other items:

• Mentor and train new members of the documentation project: how we do things, how to use the tools, and writing style as needed
• Guide and coordinate work: what needs to be done when, set priorities
• Set standards and templates
• Maintain Contributors Guide, which includes Style Guide
• Improve and enhance the online help, including building and mentoring a community to work on it
• Research, write and edit, as needed to fill gaps when volunteers contributions are lacking
• Publish chapters and full books
• Identify requirements for books and formats (ODT, PDF, ePub, HTML, other)
• Develop a vision, a plan and a strategy for documentation, to include things like version tracking, workflow, scheduling and recruitment
• Identify other forms of documentation that we should do, either in addition to, or instead of, the user guide books we’ve been producing
• Liaise and coordinate with marketing, translation, other user support, Help

The role requires the following:

• Experience using LibreOffice and other open source tools (such as GIMP)
• Experience in interacting with the LibreOffice community or another large open source project
• Working closely with our volunteer community on tooling, processes and means of collaboration
• Project management skills
• Technical writing and/or editing to know what’s involved, what’s realistic etc.

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

design and implement an “All about LibreOffice” community and developer dashboard

to start work as soon as possible.

TDF wants to invest in a webpage showing latest activity, summaries and trends of the LibreOffice project in all areas, like development, QA, user-to-user support and other key areas of the project.…

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The Document Foundation hereby extends the

TDF Freelance Job Opening (#201507-01) – Development Mentoring Lead

The new deadline for applications is September 24, midnight UTC.

TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications, including curriculum vitae, your financial expectations, and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to Florian Effenberger at floeff@documentfoundation.org. You can encrypt your message via PGP/GnuPG.…

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a

Development Mentoring Lead

to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, includes amongst other items:

• Helping new contributors to get started with LibreOffice code including:
  • building LibreOffice
  • getting started with patch submittal on gerrit
  • patrol bugzilla, github and mailing lists for patches uploaded there and help author to upload to gerrit proper
  • clarifying beginner tasks (Easy Hacks) and connecting beginners with domain experts
  • manage, update and watch the list of beginner tasks
  • select attractive beginner tasks and promote, share and advertise those
  • together with other TDF staff, manage quick access to TDF cloud resources for developers (see: Anytime Builder VMs for Developers and Using a VM)
  • Talking to people
    • make the first time contributors feel they are awesome
    • get them to IRC ASAP
    • watch them, ping them, ask them what’s the next thing they want to
    • work on, help them to choose if they are unsure
• ensure changes are not lingering too long (2 weeks) on gerrit unreviewed by reviewing them or finding someone to review them
• organizing, announcing and leading regular events for onboarding beginners (virtual Hackfests)
• updating, steamlining and maintaining developer documentation
• broadening developer resources with podcasts or screencasts for newcomers
• reporting and blogging about interesting developments on LibreOffice code to attract new contributors
• regularly check back with the existing volunteer developer base:
  • to identify and clear out stumbling blocks
  • to learn about reasons why volunteers move on
• encourage contributors with basic experience to move on from EasyHacks to more challenging and interesting tasks
• coordinate with QA, design and other groups in the LibreOffice community
• put outstanding volunteer contributions into the limelight
• take part in weekly Engineering Steering Committee meetings
• reach out to other OSS communities (desktop environments, programming languages and frameworks, databases, IDEs etc.)

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