[OLPC library] FLOSS Manuals screencast

Anne Gentle annegentle at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 22:06:40 EDT 2008


It's Flash-based, but here's a screencast introduction to FLOSS
Manuals. Adam can hopefully re-encode it to be more open-source
friendly:
http://www.screencast.com/t/wHSXac3b43

Would love to hear feedback on its usefulness... it's not terribly
well-scripted and the audio is poor, but I do hope it helps others get
started in FM.

I'm definitely separating out hardware from interface, with two
separate books (that can be used as subbooks as well). It would be
great to get a glossary going -
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar_guide/Glossary would be a
great place to start.

Thanks,
Anne


> Any updates from the past week?   How is webcasting coming?
>
> I'd like to see this discussion of chapters and flow as well -- I like the
> idea of cleanly separating how to use / care for / troubleshoot the hardware
> from how to use / troubleshoot the interface... are there other areas that
> can be separated into their own subbooks or appendices?   A glossary or
> jargon file might similarly be categorized according to those divisions
> (imagine: sort by alpha, icons to indicate membership by division).


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