Hi all, Adam Hyde and I wanted to describe our scope, goals and set expectations for next week's BookSprint.
We're writing for kids, parents, and teachers, keeping in mind that kids will teach other kids. (Side note: I'm reading Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time and it has helped me envision the kids and schools we're writing for.) We discussed whether the school server is within the scope of this set of manuals (which are remixable). As Walter put it, a classroom framework for the guide which would include modules (I think he means manuals) on the desktop, connectivity, activities, content and libraries, and maintenance (e.g., backups, etc.). I'd like to keep the school server in mind as we go during the week but we haven't specifically set one up for our use, yet. So, with these expectations in mind, here's what we hope to accomplish in 5 days. 1. Extend and deepen details on the current set of information, updating for version 8.2.0. We have 8 XOs installed with joyride-2301. (BTW, I love the Control Panel and ability to download Activities and just generally love the OS updates.) See http://sugarlabs.org/go/DocumentationTeam#User_Manuals for the outlines for the XO and Sugar info sets. Returning to the school server - the current doc set does discuss the school server but only in passing. We can place more detail in the maintenance and backup chapters when we update them. I'd like input here. 2. Add: Troubleshooting (esp. for connectivity) Repair (dis-assembly with photos) More detailed support-type information (from the RTFM list by Adam's team) Glossary (Is there a way to use a Pootle file for starting the English glossary so that the multiple languages would be easier to follow along? David Farning, is that something you could research for us?) 3. Document Activities in more detail from an end-users perspective with the kids/parent/teachers audience in mind. Apparently reading about Activities is very important to kids in Uruguay according to the analytics on the wiki.laptop.org site. Here is my first attempt at a prioritized list of Activities for next week. Note that all these listed Activities already have a chapter started in FLOSS Manuals. The task of "Documenting Activities" would go further towards manuals for each Activity as opposed to just one chapter. Primary: Journal Browse (with much as much emphasis on Content and ebooks as Internet?) Record Write Terminal Chat Draw Secondary (maybe make these a priority for a second Sprint): Memorize Calculate TamTam Jam/Edit/SynthLab/Mini Turtle Art Pippy Measure (waveforms) Acoustic Tape Measure Already has a lot written but we may want to bring some content into FLOSS, I'm just not sure where to prioritize it: Etoys What activities might we be missing? The MaMa Media Creative Center is discussed as an example of what you'd want to download and install to add to your "original" set of Activities. Honestly, I think we are going to have an amazing week. We can discuss this scope more on this list and plan to have more discussion at 3:00 Sunday afternoon at the hotel. Spanish translation is a high priority and Yama Ploskonka is learning more about FLOSS Manuals and hopes to have enough bilingual translators on hand to translate chapters as we mark them ready. Thanks for reading and I welcome your feedback. Anne _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
