[FM Discuss] Thunderbird Manual Kick-Off

[Mark]

Hello Jen -

Many thanks for the suggestions. Please go ahead and start working on 
the suggestions that you made earlier. Before we do start a chapter 
let's email the list with a brief outline of what will go in it. This 
should help avoid duplicate work and give other contributors a chance to 
comment on the contents.

I've attached a jpeg file of a FreeMind outline of the manual that I put 
together. It's very rough but it lists Thunderbird features and it shows 
where they might go.

Also, I went ahead and registered for the Thunderbird Knowledge Base.

Mark

On 07/26/2010 12:56 PM, Jennifer Zickerman wrote:
> Hi Mark.
>
> - I have a Mac. I'll do the OS X chapter.
>
> - I think a section in the Installation chapter called "Switching to 
> Thunderbird" would be good. It's not simple and almost all new users 
> have to deal with migrating accounts and address books.
>
> - You might find some helpful source information on the Thunderbird 
> Knowledge Base (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/). Feel 
> free to register for an account if that would help you out. You may 
> freely reprint any material on that site.
>
> - I think it would be good to have a section on add-ons in the 
> Installation chapter.
>
> - I think we should have a chapter on the layout of the software with 
> a brief description of each component. For example, one section in 
> this chapter would describe the Folder panel and discuss the 
> differences between the various views.
>
> - For the Basic Usage chapter, I think we would need the following 
> sections. (This is a quick brain dump, not a comprehensive list):
>
>   - Send / Receive / Reply
>   - Composing Messages
>       - Text versus HTML formatting
>            - Switching between the two
>            - HTML formatting
>   - Search
>       - Global search
>       - Quick Filter
>       - Tagging
>   - Keyboard Shortcuts
>   - Archive
>   - ...more...
>
> - We will probably want to have a section on configuring and using RSS.
>
> - In general, with regards to suggestions like the one I made above 
> (proposals for new chapters and section and so on), should I go ahead 
> and make the changes in the FLOSS Manuals site or would you rather 
> discuss via email first?
>
> I will be away from tomorrow until the middle of next week, so I won't 
> be answering emails. I look forward to catching up with you late next 
> week.
>
>
>
> jen.
>
>
> On 23/07/10 11:04 AM, Mark wrote:
>> Hello Everyone -
>>
>> I'm looking for volunteers to join me in writing the Thunderbird manual.
>> For this initial version I think we should focus on installation, basic
>> email tasks, and security. Please take a look at the chapter list that I
>> put together at the FLOSS site
>> (http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/WebHome). I'm
>> interested in hearing what you think should be added or removed from it.
>>
>> At work and home I have computers running Windows and Ubuntu but no
>> Macs. I would love it if a Mac user would volunteer to write the OS X
>> chapter.
>>
>> As I really don't want to use my email accounts in the screen shots (and
>> I don't think that anyone else does either), I have set up a few email
>> accounts for the project. Security isn't all that important to these
>> accounts so I'll put the passwords on the writing conventions page.
>>
>> - floss.reader1 at gmx.com
>> - floss.reader2 at gmail.com
>> - floss_mail at yahoo.com
>>
>> I'm looking forward to working on this manual. Let's get started.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark Brennan
>>
>>
>>
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