[OLPC-SF] [support-gang] Help Activity Refresh during summit?

[Cherry Withers]

Thank you Bastien for carrying the torch. But what do we have here?! A new
help.xo maintainer perhaps GrannieB?!  :-)

Thank you everyone for engaging in this conversation! My goal was not a
lofty one. If all we can accomplish is to get the images updated and
transition into online book sprint later on like Rita has suggested I would
consider it a great start. I see 5-7 potential participants so far (If we
open it up as an online Flossmanuals session during the summit we can
possibly get more participants) I think we can possibly accomplish more than
just a "start" in a 2-3 hour session. I can probably coherently explain
Physics, SocialCalc, Etoys to a beginning user but like I said TamTams are
something I can't quite grasp. But what I did find in participating with the
writing of Etoys manual at Squeakland is that you learn a whole lot by just
working on documentation so I am willing to learn and cure my tone deafness
in the process if we pick TamTam to tackle just for the summit.

Having said all that...in the interest of full disclosure, I won't be
available on Friday for the summit which would actually be the perfect day
for this as Adam has suggested. Yes yes, I feel your collective scorn. :-(

So hopefully we can do this online or squeeze it in the other days (willing
to work on it till midnight on Saturday)?

Cheers,
Cherry






On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Folks!
>
> Lots of great ideas here.  I just looked at Bastien's slideshow again. Good
> insight into the basics of what will work and why.  Count me in on whatever
> is decided.
>
> Here's my "brain dump" on this subject: I do suggest that we might all
> pledge to look over at least a part of the existing documentation and note
> what is ok and what needs work or is outdated (like the screenshots).  Also,
> what needs to be added (the Tam Tams for example).  We should also make a
> list of all the available documentation in addition to the FLOSS manuals
> (example *XO en la Aula*). In SF we can get an outline and divvy up the
> work to do from afar later.  A dynamic platform that can constantly be
> updated would be nice. Will what we do be transferrable to the upcoming XO-3
> tablet?  It would be nice to make it easily adaptable so it would be...
> Bastien's plain text sounds good here.   Then, there is the problem of what
> to include and what to leave out???
>
> Should we start a page on google docs or somewhere to put what we find so
> we don't duplicate what we are doing?
>
> Caryl
>
>
>
> > From: bzg at altern.org
> > To: gonzalo at laptop.org
> > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:27:28 +0200
> > CC: olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> > Subject: Re: [support-gang] Help Activity Refresh during summit?
>
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm right now the (inactive) maintainer of Help.xo and I'm
> > willing to step down and give maintainership to someone else.
> >
> > Who is volunteering?
> >
> > I'm not a big fan of flossmanuals, but if it works, it works.
> >
> > Here are some thoughts on docs, based on what I quickly said
> > in Montevideo:
> >
> > http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-four-letters-word-of-floss-docs
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > --
> > Bastien
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