[OLPC library] Updating Sugar documentation for release 0.84

Sat Feb 21 20:29:03 EST 2009

Hi Christoph -
Thanks for the query. We've been talking with David Farning and Walter
Bender about the doc needs - and we've decided to do a lot of action the
first week of March when a handful of us from FLOSS Manuals are at
WinterCamp in Amsterdam.

We'll likely store off all the existing doc and mark it as 8.2 doc. Then
we'll revise the Sugar guide and the Turtle Art manual as first priorities.

I would still like someone to point me to a git location where I can refresh
the Help Activity. I think if I play around with git long enough I'd figure
it out, but it sounds like I also need permissions. So if someone can help
me with that, that'd be great.

I've also re-freshed the PDF file so that it can be sold on Amazon (yet
another delay due to the page size) and Adam will update the pretty PDF at
http://en.flossmanuals.net/publish/PDF/g1g1_2.pdf soon.

I just went on wiki.laptop.or to update some of the doc pages and will do
the same on the Sugar Labs wiki as well so that people can easily step in
and help, once we get our source files settled the first week of March.

Thanks,
Anne

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> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:32:17 +0100
> From: Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>
> Subject: [OLPC library] Updating Sugar documentation for release 0.84
> To: Library-OLPC <library at lists.laptop.org>
> Cc: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,    Grassroots OLPC
>        <grassroots at lists.laptop.org>
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> Hi all,
>
> as some of you might be aware a new Sugar release - 0.84 - is going to
> be released at the beginning of March. So I thought it would a good time
> to start discussing how to update Sugar documentation to consider the
> changes and new features.
>
> Off the top of my head I can think of the following places which contain
> documentation that needs an overhaul:
>
> * wiki.sugarlabs.org
> * FlossManuals
> * Help-Activity
>
> (Probably the most widely asked question will be "How can I upgrade my
> XO to Sugar 0.84?" so this might be worth also putting on the Sugar Labs
> landing page and spread via the various developer blogs.)
>
> I think a relatively short and remote (but well planned!) weekend-sprint
> would go a long way in getting the necessary work done!
>
> Before that can happen though we would need to decide how to fork the
> existing documentation and make it *very clear* that going forward there
> will be different versions of Sugar made available by OLPC and Sugar Labs.
>
> I still have a very limited understanding of what exactly this entails
> and how it's going to work out but as far as the FlossManuals and
> Help-Activity documentation is concerned making clearly distinct
> versions - one for OLPC's 8.2.x releases and another one for Sugar Labs'
> 0.8x releases - seems like a reasonable starting point for me.
>
> Anyway, please let me know what you think and how we can make this
> happen! :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Derndorfer
> co-editor, olpcnews
> url: www.olpcnews.com
> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:09:48 -0500
> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC library] [IAEP] Updating Sugar documentation for
>        release 0.84
> To: Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>
> Cc: Library-OLPC <library at lists.laptop.org>, iaep
>        <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,     Grassroots OLPC
>        <grassroots at lists.laptop.org>
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> The FLOSS Manual team how best to handle the changes to the Sugar
> Manual. Our plan is to archive the 0.82 manual and update to 0.84.
>
> -walter
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as some of you might be aware a new Sugar release - 0.84 - is going to
> > be released at the beginning of March. So I thought it would a good time
> > to start discussing how to update Sugar documentation to consider the
> > changes and new features.
> >
> > Off the top of my head I can think of the following places which contain
> > documentation that needs an overhaul:
> >
> > * wiki.sugarlabs.org
> > * FlossManuals
> > * Help-Activity
> >
> > (Probably the most widely asked question will be "How can I upgrade my
> > XO to Sugar 0.84?" so this might be worth also putting on the Sugar Labs
> > landing page and spread via the various developer blogs.)
> >
> > I think a relatively short and remote (but well planned!) weekend-sprint
> > would go a long way in getting the necessary work done!
> >
> > Before that can happen though we would need to decide how to fork the
> > existing documentation and make it *very clear* that going forward there
> > will be different versions of Sugar made available by OLPC and Sugar
> Labs.
> >
> > I still have a very limited understanding of what exactly this entails
> > and how it's going to work out but as far as the FlossManuals and
> > Help-Activity documentation is concerned making clearly distinct
> > versions - one for OLPC's 8.2.x releases and another one for Sugar Labs'
> > 0.8x releases - seems like a reasonable starting point for me.
> >
> > Anyway, please let me know what you think and how we can make this
> > happen! :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
> > --
> > Christoph Derndorfer
> > co-editor, olpcnews
> > url: www.olpcnews.com
> > e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
> >
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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