On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 18:15, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sean, > > I appreciate the support, but I don't think what I have written is > going to be anything like a finished product by February 3. A > homepage link to the OLPC content on Floss Manuals might be > appropriate, since there are some finished manuals there and the book > might appear on that page in a couple of months. I wanted to add a > chapter on Collaboration and another on Debugging before I considered > it front-page-worthy. > > As for press releases and the like I don't know that one guy writing a > manual in his spare time is going to impress anyone. A finished book > (and I think the book needs more than the two chapters I mentioned to > be considered finished) or a whole team of people working on a book > would be a different story.
I for one think that this is a wonderful contribution, probably the most important one to happen during the 0.88 release cycle. Regards, Tomeu > Making more Activities available, and especially convincing teachers > and children to try and write Activities is definitely my goal, and I > hope that when we have a more finished product that as many people as > possible get to know about it. > > Thanks, > > James Simmons > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I consider this to be a fabulous initiative. Growing the Activity >> ecosystem is very important for Sugar and OLPC and a handbook has been >> a missing link. >> >> I will speak with Christian about a homepage link and I even think we >> should do a callout in our next press release, tentatively scheduled >> for February 3, the day OLPC France will present the OLPC project (and >> myself Sugar) to France's largest corporate foundations at L'Atelier >> (http://www.atelier.fr/usages/3/07012010/one-laptop-per-child-ordinateur-veritable-revolution-pedagogique-39192-.html) >> >> Thanks. >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on >>> adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various >>> additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out >>> what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here: >>> >>> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.21-18.33.56.pdf >>> >>> I'm going to start working on code samples for a Collaboration chapter >>> next, and I want to do a chapter on debugging Sugar Activities after >>> that. I think Walter had developed some code to let you run Sugar >>> Activities outside of the Sugar environment and that would be a good >>> fit for the debugging chapter. For collaboration I'm going to try to >>> put together a sort of half-finished game called "Battle Royale Tic >>> Tac Toe". I'll also write about file sharing as used by Read Etexts. >>> >>> Once I have this material added I think I'll have enough to make it >>> worth putting on the front page of the site. That won't mean it's >>> finished, but enough of it will be that the book could be considered >>> complete. >>> >>> I welcome collaborators as well as editors on this. There are many >>> topics you could put in a book like this that I'm not qualified to >>> write. >>> >>> I'm up to 87 pages now. >>> >>> James Simmons >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep