Documentation Team/Book Sprint

We are planning a book sprint this fall for create a user's guide for Sugar. Please add add you comment and concerns here or on the discussion page.

Location

 * Austin, Texas
 * Anne investigating

Date
25–29 August 2008

Scope of documentation for sprint
Audience: Basic Users Guide. Advanced Guide will follow after the Sprint

Draft Outline

Getting Started Guide for the file system, wireless connections, everything you do without Activities. Walter Bender has started with User:Walter/sandbox, which points out where the Floss Manual can be updated to be hardware-free (for example, his annotations with OLPC-XO-1-specific hints for keyboard shortcuts and specifics for the OLPC-XO-1 hardware). Updates should be made to http://en.flossmanuals.net/olpc_simple.

Getting Started with an Activity for specific Activities, such as Browse and Record. A starter manual for the Record activity can be found at http://en.flossmanuals.net/olpc_record. Priorities needed for which Activities to start first.

Recruited/invited writers (expect about 5-6 in person)

 * Austin, Texas
 * Anne Gentle
 * David Cramer
 * Janet Swisher


 * Boston, Ma
 * Seth Woodworth
 * Walter Bender


 * Illinois (Chicago area)
 * Mel Chua
 * Emily Kaplan


 * Other locations
 * Adam Hyde - Netherlands
 * David Farning - Wisconsin
 * Greg DeKoenigsberg - Raleigh NC
 * Robert Nagle - Houston
 * Ron Hale-Evans - Seattle

Vision
Create a users manual for Sugar.

Road Map
Below is a rough draft of a project schedule.


 * Week 1 - Target Date July 13. Define scope of document. Assign volunteers to specific tasks.
 * Week 3 - Target Date July 27. Deadline for outlines of chapters to be worked on at sprint.
 * Week 5 - Target Date Aug 25. Conduct sprint.
 * Week 6 - Editing and Translation Begins

The rest is based on the chosen release date for the spring release of Sugar.

...
 * Week 0 - Release Final documentation
 * Week -1 Final translation tarballs due
 * Week -4 Documentation freeze
 * Week -5 Book Sprint II