Making a documentation sprint in April in Boston sounds good. However, it wouldn't solve most of OLPC-Australia problem, as they want to start training teachers for the new versions in March.
I wonder if some people from Australia, New Zeland and other Pacific countries may be interested in doing a documentation sprint before that... Saludos, Pablo Flores On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I always scheduled sprints/summits on civic/religious long weeks/wkds > in the past so the max peop could sneak out of their day jobs, wouldn't a > Passover Sprint "open to all" per the Jewish tradition "*All who are > hungry, come and eat*" just be perfect? > > In any case Nancie don't worry we won't make you cook or host...or will > we, hah ;) > > > > On 1/20/2012 7:15 PM, Nancie Severs wrote: > > Hi Adam, and all, > Just a heads up: This year Passover is April 6 (seder evening) and April 7 > is the first day. Easter Sunday is April 8. That's not a good weekend Adam. > The weekend before or after look ok though. > Nancie:) > > Nancie Severs OLPC Support Volunteer > ------------------------------ > *From:* George Hunt <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > *To:* "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT > laptop.org"" <[email protected]><[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:09 PM > *Subject:* Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Fixing activities documentation for > the new UI > > Two thoughts, > > If the get together was a week earlier, I could attend. > > For manipulating screen shots, the xophoto activity I did might be useful > (see http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html). It's a little > clunky, and didn't make it out of the sugarlabs sandbox. > > The download is available at > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4377. > > And early documentation is at http://xophoto.wordpress.com/ > > Maybe, after being away from it for a year, I'll see ways to make xophoto > more user friendly, and useful for the new tablet. > > George > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Clustering a book sprint around (and including) the wkd of Apr 7/8 when > several including myself, Christoph, Nancie S. etc should be in Boston, > might make a ton of sense? > > But others should speak up if they have better ideas! > > As I'm spending a lot of time in Haiti these days and lost track of the > rich world's schedules, but will happily join if Caryl/Christoph/Pablo/ALL > driving forward enthusiasm to make this real =) > > > > On 1/16/2012 6:44 AM, adam wrote: > > hi Adam > > > > On 01/16/2012 12:32 PM, Holt wrote: > > Caryl Bigenho, Christoph Derndorfer, I & others have been laying > groundwork since Oct/SF but as we all know this is Hell^h^h^h^hGod's > thankless work :) > > > Can we bring this together with a focused doc event? a 5 dayer to complete > the work and move it on to a new level? > > adam > > > > Everyone who can pitch in taking screenshots of critical/latest > Activities is an absolute hero, particularly for these Activities > included in Release 11.3.0? > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.3 > > Update our manual-refresh's wiki here please if so, no matter how you > choose to help! > > http://j.mp/xomanual > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh > > > > On 1/16/2012 6:10 AM, adam wrote: > > hi > > I would like to propose a doc summit for sugar/olpc. Fm can facilitate > a series of sprints to get everything up to date. However we would > need to work together to raise the funds to make it happen. I am happy > to put work into this from our side (FM) - who can take the lead from > Sugars side? > > adam > > On 01/15/2012 03:13 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On 14 January 2012 07:02, Walter Bender<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Pablo Flores<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yesterday we discussed with Sridhar Dhanapalan and other > OLPC-Australia team > people the impact of updating the Sugar version on their > deployment. One of > the unforeseen impacts comes to the documentation they have made for > training their teachers, as it has plenty of screenshots and videos > that got > outdated because of all the UI changes made recently. This will > bring an > important amount of work for updating... > > One of the things that could be very helpful for them would be > having the > floss manuals updated. I took a look at the manuals of "classic" > activities > and they weren't updated. It would be great if some of the > contributors who > worked on those manuals could lend a hand for having them updated. > > Looking further, I think there should be some way for keeping the > activities > documentation updated, or at least having a single place to see for > each > activity how much updated its documentation is. Looking for ideas > for having > this done. > > Would it make sense including documentation updating in the > upstreaming > process somehow? > > > Perhaps a coincidence? I was corresponding with Adam this morning > about the possibility of organizing a sprint to update the Sugar > manuals. I was going to put out a call for a champion on the Sugar > side to help organize it. Any takers? > > -walter > > > The discussion with Pablo was on the same topic, so not just a > coincidence. > > Our OS (based on Dextrose 3) is mostly Sugar 0.94 as included in OLPC > OS 11.3.1. We've made some changes, but nothing too drastic. Updated > documentation on Sugar 0.94 and its activities would take us most of > the way there. > > Sridhar > > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > Engineering Manager > One Laptop per Child Australia > > > > > > -- > Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing > [email protected]http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > -- > Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > >
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