[OLPC library] status update on Floss Manual for OLPC

[Seth Woodworth]

By which I mean the rest of the material isn't as technical, and should have
changed, not that it should be less technical.

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com>
wrote:

> The Command Su - has been depreciated in newer builds.  We may need to
> indicate that, and show the alternative sudo prefix to commands.  I think
> that we should get a few techs from OLPC to look this over pre-layout.  I
> gave it a quick glance over, and most of the material shouldn't be as
> technical.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I wanted to give another status update on the XO manual for kids
> > that's housed at Floss Manuals (flossmanuals.net). I had hoped to
> > ready the content for a freeze by February 15th, but instead of being
> > frozen, it was merely a slushy. But, I am making good progress on it
> > this week and I've enlisted the help of a professional editor to
> > assist in consistency in terminology. The Floss Manuals community has
> > been helpful as well - an appreciative shout out to them.
> >
> > My hope is to "finalize" (is there such a thing in software doc?) the
> > manual by the end of next week, and hopefully Seth can work on a
> > layout design. I apologize to Seth for missing my deadline (I wanted
> > to hand it over tonight with my extra day in February!) I sincerely
> > hope we can still use his talents on this project.
> >
> > I have written new topics in Floss Manual's wiki that I will also
> > ensure make it back into the wiki.laptop.org/go/Simplified_user_guide
> > page. I do want to once again commend the support community for their
> > FAQs and support wiki pages, they have been a tremendous help in
> > determining which tasks are most important to XO users.
> >
> > Anne
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