Thanks Seth - I want to confirm a few details with you - Is the format HTML, zipped into a zip file renamed to .xol? Does it need a manifest file as well in the .xol file? Do I just upload it to the wiki? What time of day do you need it by? Is there any additional format you need?
Thanks, Anne On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everybody, Thank you all so much for participating in the BookSprint. > This manual looks great and is going to be a huge help. > > As far as packaging this book goes, we need to finalize updates by Friday > or the changes wont make it into the shipped manual on the XO. So please > make the most important updates quickly. > > After Friday there is still going to be a huge need for ongoing > documentation. Keep up the excellent work everybody! > > All the best, > Seth Woodworth > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Anne Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> Having had a nice 3-day weekend to recover from the high-energy week of >> the BookSprint, I wanted to give you some ideas for maintenance of the >> manuals going forward. >> >> Daniel's review of the manuals was extremely helpful and I believe we've >> incorporated all his suggestions. If you only have time to read and write up >> notes, sending an email to the Library list is a good way of getting your >> suggestions to the writers. Or, as Adam Hyde suggested, make the changes >> yourself, but if you simply don't have time for that, an email listing your >> review comments is perfectly acceptable. >> >> Documentation in some organizations is an integral part of the development >> process, and you can log and track bugs against the documentation. The OLPC >> Trac system can do this to a point, but there is a lot of signal to noise >> there for writers to keep up with. I'd personally prefer that you use the >> FLOSS Manuals wiki system to either go ahead and make the changes yourself, >> or comment on the chapter that you have suggestions for, or email your >> comments to either me or this list. >> >> As the maintainer, I'll be keeping an eye on all changes and all comments >> to the manuals. We've already got a good comment from someone saying that >> since the networking chapter addresses 8.2, how about creating another >> chapter for the 6nn and 7nn deployments that are active today? With FLOSS >> Manuals remix capability, this request seems do-able. I'd like to hear >> commentary on that from this group though. >> >> For additional concepts that you do not feel are covered in the manuals >> but are not "bugs" technically with the manual, please post to this Library >> list so that me or one of the other community writers can find a way to >> incorporate it. >> >> I believe my role going forward is a central person for doc requests, but >> I do want to build redundancy in the system so I'm not the only resource >> available for doc. >> >> Thanks all for your contributions last week, and I look forward to >> continued improvement as we go forward. >> >> Anne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Library mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library >> >> >
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