[Olpc-open] friendly manual

[Seth Woodworth]

Considerable amounts of work is being done on a cohesive simplified user
guide for the XO.  The existing work of the Simplified User Guide on the
wiki is being ported over to FLOSS manuals and is being worked on by a
couple volunteer technical writers and myself, who is working on photography
and print layout.

Gnome: I am feeling a growing concern about a perceived separation between
the OLPCnews community (Blog and Forum) and the development community (Wiki,
forum, chat and IRC).

On Dec 22, 2007 11:14 PM, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was there a reason you decided to start anew, rather than extend the User
> Guide? It would be great if we had a more cohesive, less fragmented wiki
> namespace (and unified documentation, to boot).
>
>
> On Dec 22, 2007 10:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Dec 22, 2007 9:15 PM, Michael Burns <maburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec 22, 2007 7:57 PM, gnome <gnome at greenglim.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, indeed.  There's a distinct lack of a friendly manual.  Maybe
> > > > this
> > > > is something we could do as a community?
> > >
> > >
> > I have started a new document, Discovering the OLPC XO, which I will
> > post when it has a bit more form. In the meantime, please use
> >
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide
> > >
> > > Indeed, it is community-editabled wiki designed to be a simple,
> > > friendly user manual. Suggestions always welcome.
> > >
> >
> > Please post questions that this guide does not answer on the talk page
> > there, or on the New Users page. We also need to gather the pages containing
> > existing answers. I plan to link to them from OLPC Publications on the Wiki,
> > or from the relevant page for each publication. You are welcome to help.
> >
> >
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