Sean, I appreciate the support, but I don't think what I have written is going to be anything like a finished product by February 3. A homepage link to the OLPC content on Floss Manuals might be appropriate, since there are some finished manuals there and the book might appear on that page in a couple of months. I wanted to add a chapter on Collaboration and another on Debugging before I considered it front-page-worthy.
As for press releases and the like I don't know that one guy writing a manual in his spare time is going to impress anyone. A finished book (and I think the book needs more than the two chapters I mentioned to be considered finished) or a whole team of people working on a book would be a different story. Making more Activities available, and especially convincing teachers and children to try and write Activities is definitely my goal, and I hope that when we have a more finished product that as many people as possible get to know about it. Thanks, James Simmons On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > I consider this to be a fabulous initiative. Growing the Activity > ecosystem is very important for Sugar and OLPC and a handbook has been > a missing link. > > I will speak with Christian about a homepage link and I even think we > should do a callout in our next press release, tentatively scheduled > for February 3, the day OLPC France will present the OLPC project (and > myself Sugar) to France's largest corporate foundations at L'Atelier > (http://www.atelier.fr/usages/3/07012010/one-laptop-per-child-ordinateur-veritable-revolution-pedagogique-39192-.html) > > Thanks. > > Sean > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on >> adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various >> additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out >> what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here: >> >> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.21-18.33.56.pdf >> >> I'm going to start working on code samples for a Collaboration chapter >> next, and I want to do a chapter on debugging Sugar Activities after >> that. I think Walter had developed some code to let you run Sugar >> Activities outside of the Sugar environment and that would be a good >> fit for the debugging chapter. For collaboration I'm going to try to >> put together a sort of half-finished game called "Battle Royale Tic >> Tac Toe". I'll also write about file sharing as used by Read Etexts. >> >> Once I have this material added I think I'll have enough to make it >> worth putting on the front page of the site. That won't mean it's >> finished, but enough of it will be that the book could be considered >> complete. >> >> I welcome collaborators as well as editors on this. There are many >> topics you could put in a book like this that I'm not qualified to >> write. >> >> I'm up to 87 pages now. >> >> James Simmons >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel