David E. Jones sent the following on 7/5/2006 11:58 AM:
>
> BJ,
>
> I have added access permissions for your user on the Undersun doc site.
> Your username for the account I found in there is "
[hidden email]"
> and you password is as it was before, or you can request a new one from
> the login page.
>
> For now please add new pages to the OFBiz wiki space and then existing
> editors can review them and move them to the end-user doc space.
>
> -David
>
>
> BJ Freeman wrote:
>> David I have not volunteered due to my poor grammar. as you can tell I
>> can't write very well. Just a good programmers :)
>> However if it is just moving files and restructuring, I can give you a
>> couple hours a day.
>>
>>
>> David E. Jones sent the following on 7/4/2006 8:19 AM:
>>>
>>> Rafiu,
>>>
>>> We aren't selling the online docs any more because we no longer have
>>> a technical writer working on them full time. We also aren't handing
>>> out accounts for free because we'd like some help moving the docs to
>>> the new server and editing and cleaning them up, so for right now the
>>> only way to get access to those docs (if you don't already have a
>>> paid account) is to volunteer to help migrate the content.
>>>
>>> My hope is that this effort will be over ASAP and then the whole
>>> end-user documentation effort will be much more collaborative, and
>>> more freely available to OFBiz users and developers in general.
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>
>>> Rafiu Fakunle wrote:
>>>> David E. Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Which end user docs are you referring to?
>>>>>
>>>>> The ones from OpenSourceStrategies are, I believe, in the Word doc
>>>>> format but with OpenOffice could certainly be converted to odf.
>>>>>
>>>>> The stuff from Undersun is still sitting in the online doc server.
>>>>
>>>> Can I get access to that? IIRC that's the most comprehensive docs
>>>> set available for OFBiz.
>>>>
>>>>> I asked around for volunteers to move it to the Jira server at
>>>>> docs.ofbiz.org, and while a few people expressed interest nothing
>>>>> has gone into that yet.
>>>> My guess is it's because of the tedium of manually moving the
>>>> content across. Data entry is pretty much incredibly boring; worse
>>>> still, wheel reinvention. If the content is already there, then we
>>>> need to figure out how to move it over automagically rather than
>>>> doing copy-paste.
>>>>> It's there for the taking though!
>>>>
>>>> Cool. How do I access it?
>>>>
>>>> Thx,
>>>>
>>>> Rafiu.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rafiu Fakunle wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are the end user docs available somewhere in an open format
>>>>>> (odf/xml)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thx,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rafiu.
>>>>