---please forgive crossposts--- XO / Sugar Book Sprint
This week in Austin, Texas a team of writers are gathering together to immerse themselves in a one week intensive documentation jam. The purpose of the Book Sprint is to produce documentation in 1 week to support the forthcoming 2008 roll-out off the OLPC G1G1. The team in Austin consists of members of FLOSS Manuals (Adam Hyde, Anne Gentle), OLPC (Adam Holt), Sugar (David Farning, Walter Bender), and the Austin XO Users Group, and YOU! We have set up the online tools so you too can contribute! To make a contribution please do the following : 1. Register To contribute to the documentation you can register at FLOSS Manuals : http://en.flossmanuals.net/register 2. Contribute! There are several manuals planned to be finished by the end of the week (August 29) including a Sugar manual, an XO manual, and 5 Sugar Activities manuals. You can see the structure of the manuals here: Sugar : http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar XO (OLPC Hardware) : http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/XO Sugar Activities : http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Browse http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Chat http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Record http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Terminal http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Write To contribute you must register and then select a manual and a chapter to work on. if it is not marked 'complete' then press the edit button! Its as simple as that. Contributions can include cleaning up layout, spell checking, adding images, proof reading, or taking responsibility for writing one of more chapters. You don't have to be a technical writer or a super geek, you just need to know how to write. If you need to ask us questions about how to contribute then join the chat room listed above and ask us! We look forward to your contribution! For more information on using FLOSS Manuals you may also wish to read our manual : http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals 3. Chat Its a good idea to talk with us so we can help co-ordinate all contributions. We have a chat room for this using Internet Relay Chat (IRC). If you know how to use IRC you can connect to the following : server : irc.freenode.net channel : #olpc-content If you do not know how to use IRC then visit the following web based chat software in your browser : http://irc.flossmanuals.net/ Information on how to use this web based chat software is here : http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/IRC _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
