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
OLPC offices (Boston)
yet unknown, Anne investigating (Austin)
Date
late August (tentative proposal 16-23)
Scope of documentation for sprint
Audience: kids, parents, and teachers. End-users, basically.
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)
Anne Gentle - Austin, Texas
Adam Hyde - Netherlands
David Farning - Wisconsin
Walter Bender - East coast
Greg DeKoenigsberg - Raleigh NC
Emily Kaplan - Illinois (Chicago area)
Robert Nagle - Houston
Janet Swisher - Austin
David Cramer - Austin
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 17. Conduct sprint.
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
... Any experienced release manager ready to flesh this out Roadmap.