LibreOffice Writer was born – as StarWriter – to produce lengthy documents, such as thesis and relations, and as such offers a number of specific features in this area. Two of the most important are Templates and Styles, which facilitate the creation of good looking documents, and make it easier to reproduce a standard document once the layout – including Styles – has been defined and consolidated.…

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.

Sophie Gautier has been a member of the OpenOffice.org project since its beginning, and then a founding member of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. She is extremely active in the Francophone and international community, and is a staff member of The Document Foundation. She takes care of the French translation of LibreOffice (interface and help), is a member of LibreOffice certification committee and is a leading member of the quality assurance project.…