User:Jeanweber

[mailto:jeanweber@gmail.com Jean Hollis Weber] is a retired* technical writer and editor with many years of experience with companies including IBM Australia. Her award-winning book ''Is the Help Helpful? How to Create Online Help That Meets Your Users' Needs'' (Hentzenwerke, 2004) has been used as a text in technical writing courses in Australia and the USA. She has self-published numerous other books.

Jean joined the OpenOffice.org community in 2002. From 2003 she was the lead editor at OOoAuthors, the group that produced the user guides for OOo. In January 2009 she became Co-Lead of the OOo Documentation Project. Soon after The Document Foundation was announced, Jean began working on user guides for LibreOffice. Early in 2012, the Documentation Team elected Jean as their team leader, but several years later she chose to move back into an editing/writing role. She also has been responsible for publishing the printed copies of LO user guides.

Jean's websites include Taming LibreOffice.


 * "Retired" = "no longer in the paid workforce"