[Olpc-socal] Still Need DocSprint Helpers + Fun Reward For Reading!

[Kenneth Wyrick]

I'll participate. All of the olpc except one, that i use is on loan. i
will contact each of them this week to get them involved as well.

Hi Folks,


Read all…  surprise reward at the bottom!


Resounding response to my last email… no volunteers! None. Nada.  So I'll
try again. I know next weekend is a big family/church/temple holiday and
feast time, but if you have any spare time, OLPC really could use your
help with their "Doc Sprint." The event will actually run from Friday
April 6 to Tuesday April 10. People from all over the world will converge
in Boston to "hole up" for several days in the basement of OLPC
headquarters and work on a much needed update of the XO Users Manual.


Each day they will work from about 9-5 (EDT) then stop for fun, games, and
(probably) beer and pizza. While all these people will be cooped up in a
basement (maybe even without windows?), we can all be enjoying  our
beautiful California spring!


But, we can still help them out! You don't really have to write anything
for the manual (unless you want to). One important thing they need is help
with testing the manual.  Yes, it is just as important to test
documentation as it is the software itself, maybe even more important.
We can use folks with access to an XO-1 or XO-1.5 to try out the various
chapters and see if they make sense and are easy to follow.  This is
something you can also involve your children (or grandchildren, or
friend's children or friends) in doing. Chapters should be available and
ready for testing around 1pm (4 pm EDT) daily. You can do it anytime in
the afternoon or evening… just report the results so the writers can make
revisions starting around 6 am PDT (9 am EDT) the next morning. We could
even get together somewhere for pizza (beer optional)… maybe Saturday or
Monday evening.


If you can help, let me know… in fact, might as well let the whole list
know. Maybe it will be contagious! If you need to borrow an XO to do this,
you can ask Caryl, Danny, or Kenneth to arrange a check out from the SoCal
lending library.


Caryl


P.S. Your reward for reading: some fun links for today… careful!…. enjoy!


http://bit.ly/H2UDFx
http://gizmo.do/6aJoi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ
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