"Sounds like we need someone with a bit of Gimp skill to gloss up some nice pictures. The User guide has some images, and the Keyboard wiki article, for instance, has some useful bits to pull together. "
put a request on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Art_Wanted and i'll make sure and poke artists [seems that not everyone has put that page on their watchlist :/]. anyway, if you need artwork [or graphics, or anything visual, really], that's generally a good place to start. -nikki On Dec 25, 2007 1:03 AM, Michael Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 24, 2007 7:01 AM, gnome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) Include a printed "map" of the keyboard, ports, and external features > > *with the machine when it arrives*! This might be a good idea > > everywhere. Kids will figure it out by playing around, that's true, but > > > > they may also try plugging in that old cell phone charger that's lying > > around with perhaps not-so-good consequences. > > > > Sounds like we need someone with a bit of Gimp skill to gloss up some nice > pictures. The User guide has some images, and the Keyboard wiki article, for > instance, has some useful bits to pull together. > > We should gather some pictures (flickr.com has thousands of XO images > released under creative commons by now) and throw something together on the > wiki. If it gets quality, we can export a pdf version of it. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard > > > > > > Also include a *printer friendly* version on the web site. The current > > mouseover pages have all the info and look great, but you should see > > what my scribbled reference printout looks like. > > > Part of what we include with each laptop is the Library and Content. A > series of documents, links and resources to using and accessing free > material. For instance, public domain book texts (essentially, early 1900s > or before) from Project Gutenberg might be included on a future XO. > > We could expand that, potentially, to include the User Guide translated > to the local language. Or just keep a copy on the School Servers much more > expansive content Library. > > 2) Include, in bold type, in the flyer that ships with the machine, the > > URL of the wiki basic manual. > > > I would like to work to make the default homepage for Browse more > powerful. Possibly with a link to various documents, like Support. > > > > Maybe it's there somewhere, but I, for > > one, was way too excited to see it, and only found the wiki later, > > almost by accident. That's also why I didn't realize that it was > > intended to be the main manual, rather than just one of many possible > > attempts. > > > Yup, the Manual and Getting Started pages are getting worked on by the > hour. I imagine the look of it a month from now will be much more refined. > More prominent advertisement of them will go a long way in getting feedback > for further improvements. > > > > > (See above about many choices being confusing ... ;-) ) (The > > big problem with a purely web-based manual is that you have to get on > > the web first. So that info should *also* be included in the printed > > materials with the machine ... including the instructions for > > WPA-secured wireless until a newer build solves that problem.) > > > Good point! > > This is why some developer utilities may be included when they otherwise > wouldn't: connectivity. It makes sense to have tcpdump (a command line > program used to inspect each network packet that is sent to the laptop) > installed to help troubleshoot network problems, but it doesn't neccesarily > make the same sense to include ltrace*, a library call tracker. Such a > utility is easily installed with yum and would be taking up valuable space > on the flash drive on the vast majority of machines. > > *chosen arbitrarily > > -- > Michael Burns * Student > Open Source {Education} Lab > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > >
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