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

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Wed Sep 21 12:24:48 EDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>wrote:

> Speaking of which Rita, I know Kathleen worked on an excellent built-in
> Quick Guides for Etoys but should we have a section on the Help manual for
> Etoys like TurtleArt? I think it will be great but may be redundant.
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Rita Freudenberg <
> rita at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
>
>> Why not set up a book sprint for that? At the conference, you could put
>> aside the 2 hours (like Christoph suggested) to  plan and coordinate what
>> needs to be done on the documentation. A book sprint  can be done afterwards
>> online over the internet, we did this at Squeakland.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Rita
>>
>>
We do have two extra rooms this year that can be used for sessions such as
this one. Run with it!

Sameer

On Sep 21, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>> A update in the documentation would be great.
>> We finished implementation of new style toolbar in all the activities
>> included by default [1]
>> and the documentation is outdated.
>> I think we need clone the manuals, in fflossmanuals and do a 0.94 version.
>> May be is a long task to the summit, but if there are enough people, can
>> be done.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.3.0/Activities
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> As you know we are taking topic suggestions for the OLPC-SF summit. I
>>> thought I'd check
>>> here first if anyone's interested in doing a hack session on the Help
>>> Activity. I think it might have
>>> been a year since the last update? I know a lot of these activities are
>>> intuitive enough to be figured
>>> out by a child but a lot of folks do need a little help.
>>>
>>> For instance, I would love to see a short help guide on how to use
>>> TamTamJam/Mini (perhaps something
>>> that will result in a small tune composition at the end of it) since I've
>>> only been able to produce what many would consider
>>> noise with those Activities. Perhaps one small project in Physics? or
>>> help guide for Measure? SocialCalc? If we can do
>>> just one it will be great.
>>>
>>> Or is this all too much for an hour or two?
>>>
>>> Just checking,
>>> Cherry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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