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).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Dec 22, 2007 10:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 22, 2007 9:15 PM, Michael Burns <<a href="mailto:maburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">maburns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span></span>On Dec 22, 2007 7:57 PM, gnome <<a href="mailto:gnome@greenglim.com" target="_blank">gnome@greenglim.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yes, indeed. There's a distinct lack of a friendly manual. Maybe this<br>is something we could do as a community?</blockquote></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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
<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide" target="_blank">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_guide
</a><br><br>Indeed, it is community-editabled wiki designed to be a simple, friendly user manual. Suggestions always welcome.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>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.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab
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