Thanks Pablo. We are tackling this in two stages:
1. engaging with technical writers to solve our immediate, time-critical need for documentation to match our OS release 2. developing a longer-term strategy to better sync with community We'll announce more details as they develop. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia On 22 January 2012 01:53, Pablo Flores <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> >> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT >> laptop.org"" <[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 list >> [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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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