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Our mission is to provide the Sugar community with high quality documentation, including user manuals, programming references, and tutorials.
Our mission is to provide the Sugar community with high quality documentation, including user manuals, programming references, and tutorials.
== BookSprint August 2008 ==
== BookSprint August 2008 ==
FLOSS Manuals is planning a BookSprint for the last week of August in Austin, TX, to put together separate but combinable (remixable) manuals for Sugar and the hardware it may run on, such as the XO.  
FLOSS Manuals held a BookSprint during the last week of August in Austin, TX; together, we wrote separate but combinable (remixable) manuals for Sugar, individual Sugar Activities and the hardware it may run on, such as the XO.  


Attendee listing (fluid and changing) is at http://flossmanuals.net/donate.
Please see the [http://flossmanuals.net/Sugar '''Sugar Manual'''].


''Arrival/Departure plans''
The manuals for a number of Sugar Activities are now published (including manuals for [http://en.flossmanuals.net/write_activity '''Write'''], [http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal '''Terminal'''], [http://en.flossmanuals.net/chat '''Chat'''], [http://en.flossmanuals.net/browse '''Browse'''], [http://en.flossmanuals.net/record '''Record'''], and [http://en.flossmanuals.net/turtleart '''TurtleArt''']). Please help us improve these manuals by going to http://en.flossmanuals.net/write where the editable versions reside. Note that we are including tutorials and notes to parents and teachers as part of the documentation effort. Helping expanding these sections would be greatly appreciated.
    Brian Jordan (activities/sugar/Pygame hacker, OLPC intern exploring 3rd World deployment)
      Arr AUS 12:25PM TUE Aug 26
      Dep AUS 5:05PM THU Aug 28


    Adam Holt (100-person support gang founder & coordinator)
Those who participated include: Adam Hyde, Anne Gentle, David Farning, Mikus Grinbergs, Brian Jordan, Adam Holt, Janet Swisher, Morgan Collett, Yama Ploskonka, David Cramer, Emily Kaplan, Faisal Anwar, Christoph Derndorfer, Sandy Culver, Aaron Konstam, and the Sugar community.
      Arr AUS 11:10AM SAT Aug 23
      Dep AUS 6:35AM SAT Aug 30


    Walter Bender (former president of software and content at OLPC, writer of Getting Started at laptop.org/start, Sugar Labs affiliate)
Many thanks also to www.motive.com, our hosts in Austin.
      Arr AUS morning Sun Aug 24
      Dep AUS morning Fri Aug 29
 
    Adam Hyde (founder of FLOSS Manuals)
      Arr AUS 10:30AM Sat, Aug 23
      Dep AUS Sun, Aug 30
 
    David Farning (Sugar Labs affiliate and community builder)
      Arr AUS 7:21pm Sat, Aug 23, 2008
      Dep AUS 6:00am Sat, Aug 30, 2008
 
''Accomodations ''
 
The venue has changed from Outernet to Motive - their address is:
 
12515 Research Blvd
 
Austin, TX 78759
 
www.motive.com
 
There's a hotel within walking distance, Extended Stay America, at
12424 Research Blvd, Austin, TX, (512) 219-6500 where attendees are staying. There is breakfast served at the hotel.
 
Since I'm not having much luck convincing Austinites that picking people up at the airport is great fun with many benefits, it
looks likely that you all should use the Super Shuttle (www.supershuttle.com) or Capital Metro's airport routes (www.capmetro.org/riding/airport.asp) rather than get picked up. Taking or sharing a cab is also an option.
 
''Using FLOSS Manuals''
 
If you're not familiar with the FLOSS Manuals interface, you might
want to take a look at this screencast for an overview/starter guide
http://www.screencast.com/t/wHSXac3b43.
 
''XO Hardware for the Sprint''
 
I've got a spreadsheet set up with the names of all the XOs we can use
at the BookSprint. I have 8 now and Mikus will do the updates (I
already requested dev keys on all of them.) Here's the published
version: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjAQh2AGJq8cooRMaUwKlWg.
I can add everyone as collaborators next week once we get all the data
filled in, so when updates are done to a machine, the writer can just
update the spreadsheet.
 
''Schedule''
 
Sunday 11:00 AM Goal setting session at the hotel (Changed from 3:00 because Adam Holt has a prior meeting that afternoon.)
 
Sunday 7:00 PM Mozart's meetup with the XO-Austin user group
 
Monday 9:00 AM Anne meeting in the hotel lobby to walk over to Motive
 
Tuesday lunch Riata Bar & Grill - Austinites welcome
 
Wednesday late afternoon - some Rest & Relaxation such as Barton Springs? Segway Tour?
 
Noon CST daily con call for status updates
 
Typical daily schedule will be approximately 9:30am - 6:00pm CST. We can't stay later every day, but on Monday we can stay late as long as you let Anne know so that she can tell the security personnel when everyone expects to leave (8 or 9 at the very latest it sounds like).
 
=== Remote participation ===
We're going to do our best to allow remote participants to take part in the event.  We will be holding a daily phone call in the afternoon for all participants.  [[User:Seth|Seth]] will be available at OLPC's office as a direct contact for unanswered questions, or if one of the (Cambridge) development team needs to be reached.
 
Noon CST daily con call for status updates
 
Remote contributors:
* [[User:Seth|Seth]]
* Greg Dek
* Christoph
* David Cramer
* Emily Kaplan
 
Unconfirmed:
* Faisal Anwar (tentative)
* Robert Nagle
* Scott Nesbitt
* Belinda Lopez


== User Manuals ==
== User Manuals ==