[OLPC-SF] Preparations for Friday's documentation session (was: Help Activity Refresh during summit?)

Tue Oct 18 18:39:18 EDT 2011

Hi all,

apologies for not following up on this conversation sooner but now that 
my departure to San Francisco is only 36 hours away I was thinking about 
last-minute preparations for Friday's documentation session.

(1) Workflow: I'm not sure whether we have we figured out a workflow or 
specific agenda for the session? My first thought is that we need to 
identify which sections need an update (unless someone has already done 
so), then preferably split up the resulting updating and enhancement 
(based on the suggestions found on 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh) 
work among the group, and start getting things done.

(2) Tools, dissemination, audience: Based on the conversations over on 
the other lists it really seems like we should also spend some time 
thinking about which tools to use in the future (especially with regards 
to localization), how to better disseminate what documentation we have 
(e.g. also thinking about print-on-demand, beautiful Class Acts, and 
some other ideas discussed here in the past), and for which audiences we 
currently are and should be providing documentation (e.g. at least two 
of the ideas on 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh#Suggestions_for_Additional_Chapters 
seem to be more targeted towards teachers whereas so far much of the 
Help Activity is more catered towards users in general).

(3) Travel: If you can think of anything meaningful I can do in terms of 
preparations on my 14h (minus sleep and some dead-tree reading) flights 
then please give me a shout... :-)

Anyway, those are just some ideas off the top of my tired head so I'm 
really looking forward to your thoughts, comments, criticism, and 
suggestions.

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 05.10.2011 20:00, schrieb Sameer Verma:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>  wrote:
>> (apologies for the spam, I had forgotten to add OLPC-SF to the CC list)
>>
>> Am 05.10.2011 18:49, schrieb Frederick Grose:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de
>>> <mailto:simon at schampijer.de>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 10/04/2011 10:41 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi all,
>>>
>>>         now that I finally have my flights (yippie!) and saw Tabitha's
>>>         documentation e-mail on the developer mailing lists today I
>>>         thought we
>>>         should pick this topic up again.
>>>
>>>         As I understand it now quite a few of us will already be in town
>>>         by late
>>>         Thursday so I was thinking we could try to get together before the
>>>         opening on Friday to get some work done on this front.
>>>
>>>         I also just learned that one of the Finish volunteers who
>>>         closely worked
>>>         with the famous Sdenka Salas in Puno, Peru will be in the Bay
>>>         Area for
>>>         the Google SOC documentation camp which is taking place from
>>>         Oct. 17 to
>>>         21. Maybe we could also convince her to at least drop by on
>>>         Friday or
>>>         better yet stay for the Summit as well.
>>>
>>>         What do you think?
>>>
>>>         Cheers,
>>>         Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>>     This would be a great task indeed. Would be great to have the Floss
>>>     manuals/Help activity updated to the latest Sugar 0.94 [1] / 11.3.0
>>>     [2] release. The notes about the Sugar changes are gathered at [1],
>>>     still a work in progress, but some good information is already
>>>     there, will make an extra effort in the next days.
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>        Simon
>>>
>>>     [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/__0.94/Notes
>>>     <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Notes>
>>>     [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.3.0
>>>
>>>
>>> The Browse WikiBooks Sugar Activity development manual provided in every
>>> image should also be refreshed.  See
>>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10733
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the heads-up, this is good to know.
>>
>> @All: I've taken the liberty and started a wiki page to keep track of all
>> the information related to the Help Activity Refresh:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh
>>
>> It's really quite empty at the moment but I need to head out to dinner so
>> please feel free to add, edit, remove, etc. :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
>>
>
> I'll arrange for a room on the 21st, *before* the summit 5pm
> Registration/reception/Meet n Greet just in case we need space for
> this. Tentatively, 9AM to 5PM at the same location  - 835 market St.,
> San Francisco, CA.
>
> There is talk of those who will be staying past the summit (Oct 24,
> 25) and will possibly wrap up discussions, work on projects, etc. for
> which we'll see if we can get a meeting room for those days as well
> (although Mon/Tue tend to be super busy).
>
> cheers,
> Sameer

-- 
Christoph Derndorfer

editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]

e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu