Any updates from the past week? How is webcasting coming? I'd like to see this discussion of chapters and flow as well -- I like the idea of cleanly separating how to use / care for / troubleshoot the hardware from how to use / troubleshoot the interface... are there other areas that can be separated into their own subbooks or appendices? A glossary or jargon file might similarly be categorized according to those divisions (imagine: sort by alpha, icons to indicate membership by division).
SJ On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I hope that everyone has joined the library list, from now on all > conversations should be out in public and on this list if at all possible. > I've been making some progress this last week on organizing things here at > OLPC and talking to several people individually. But I apologize for not > emailing the list sooner to get the rest of us going. > > --Intro to FM-- > I've been poking at the FLOSS Manuals site the past couple weeks, and while > it seems very straight forward, several people have expressed interest in an > introduction webcast from someone from FM or anyone else who understands the > system well. I will get this organized for sometime in mid-week if that day > works for most involved. There are a few people here at the office at the > very least that would like a chance to get their questions answered about > the system. > > --Action-- > Our first action item is to move the old Getting-Started guide to FM for > overhaul. There are many many current versions of GS and so far none of > them show off the new UI features upcoming in 8.2.0. But Walter does have > some new UI versions of a few pages [1]. Screenshots for the new UI are > somewhat of a hairy issue, but I'll come to that. > > Each of GS' chapter should be Chapters at FM. Someone will need to create > these as we go (I'm working on this now). I am able to add new chapters via > this link [2] but I might have elevated permissions, I'll need to double > check this. Once these documents are in FM's system there is going to be a > lot of work to do to structure them. > > --Flow and chapters-- > A steering committee of volunteers, professional editors, staff members and > for goodness sakes someone who works with kids; is needed to figure out a > concise presentation of the Introductory information chapters. Do we > introduce the interface first? Do we introduce computers? Does the journal > come before any given activity? > > This group needs to create a rough draft of what the information we give is > going to look like. A structured table of contents and skeleton to build > from. To simply write this document willy-nilly like our wiki isn't going > to result in the kind of document we are looking for. > > Let me know if you have a background that would lend itself to being a part > of this team and we'll start a conversation on the topic. > > --Other notes-- > > * Reviewers > On his trip to SF Christoph was able to meet two volunteers that would like > to review our documentation for usability when we're done. They are willing > to follow the instructions and see if they come upon any rough spots. > > * Conventions- > The conventions/Style Guide document is available [3]. If you would like > to make changes to it, let's discuss them on the library list before you > make changes. > > > Thank you everyone for your patience so far, and I will be more diligent in > the future about making all emails public via the library list. > > > > [1] http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/sandbox. > [2] http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/OLPC_simple/WebHome (must login) > [3] http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/OLPC_simple/WritingConventions > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > >
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