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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hello Jen -<br>
<br>
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 </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.<br>
<br>
I've attached a jpeg file of a FreeMind outline of the manual that I
put together. It's very rough but it lists</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Thunderbird features and it shows
where they might go. <br>
<br>
Also, I went ahead and registered for the Thunderbird Knowledge Base.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
</font>On 07/26/2010 12:56 PM, Jennifer Zickerman wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C4DBE58.4090209@mozillamessaging.com" type="cite">Hi
Mark.
<br>
<br>
- I have a Mac. I'll do the OS X chapter.
<br>
<br>
- 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.
<br>
<br>
- You might find some helpful source information on the Thunderbird
Knowledge Base (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/">http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/</a>). Feel
free to register for an account if that would help you out. You may
freely reprint any material on that site.
<br>
<br>
- I think it would be good to have a section on add-ons in the
Installation chapter.
<br>
<br>
- 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.
<br>
<br>
- For the Basic Usage chapter, I think we would need the following
sections. (This is a quick brain dump, not a comprehensive list):
<br>
<br>
- Send / Receive / Reply
<br>
- Composing Messages
<br>
- Text versus HTML formatting
<br>
- Switching between the two
<br>
- HTML formatting
<br>
- Search
<br>
- Global search
<br>
- Quick Filter
<br>
- Tagging
<br>
- Keyboard Shortcuts
<br>
- Archive
<br>
- ...more...
<br>
<br>
- We will probably want to have a section on configuring and using RSS.
<br>
<br>
- 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?
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
jen.
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 23/07/10 11:04 AM, Mark wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hello Everyone -
<br>
<br>
I'm looking for volunteers to join me in writing the Thunderbird
manual.
<br>
For this initial version I think we should focus on installation, basic
<br>
email tasks, and security. Please take a look at the chapter list that
I
<br>
put together at the FLOSS site
<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/WebHome">http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/WebHome</a>). I'm
<br>
interested in hearing what you think should be added or removed from
it.
<br>
<br>
At work and home I have computers running Windows and Ubuntu but no
<br>
Macs. I would love it if a Mac user would volunteer to write the OS X
<br>
chapter.
<br>
<br>
As I really don't want to use my email accounts in the screen shots
(and
<br>
I don't think that anyone else does either), I have set up a few email
<br>
accounts for the project. Security isn't all that important to these
<br>
accounts so I'll put the passwords on the writing conventions page.
<br>
<br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:floss.reader1@gmx.com">floss.reader1@gmx.com</a>
<br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:floss.reader2@gmail.com">floss.reader2@gmail.com</a>
<br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:floss_mail@yahoo.com">floss_mail@yahoo.com</a>
<br>
<br>
I'm looking forward to working on this manual. Let's get started.
<br>
<br>
Thanks,
<br>
<br>
Mark Brennan
<br>
<br>
<br>
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