User talk:Inkyfingers/Getting Started(1)

FLOSS Manuals

Please explain why we link to a separate download for .pdfs when they are available at FLOSS Manuals? --FGrose 10:49, 5 December 2011 (EST) I archived them a while ago when the web page for floss manuals was not working. (Spare local location of .pdf's) satellit_ 9:57, 5 December 2011 (PST) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals

OK. I suggest we treat it as a spare location rather than the preferred location, because, unless the backup is a mirror automatically tracking FM changes, it is a fragile storage arrangement. Bernie can advise on this.

It might be handy to have a Floss Manuals page in our wiki, which could provided a custom list of links to their .pdfs (along with a footnote about the backup location). For example,

--FGrose 14:49, 5 December 2011 (EST)

I did not know about those. I included the directory of .pdf to illustrate how to download a file from a known directory. The exercise was quite illuminating for my tester. --Inkyfingers 18:41, 5 December 2011 (EST)

I can see the technical improvement that has been made to Getting_Started/Explore#Configuration. However please could you review User:Inkyfingers/Getting_Started(1), which I have adjusted, bearing in mind that my presentation is almost-a-tutorial and tries to avoid links off-site. I have also preferred to avoid hiding links that go off-site. My reasons are to avoid distraction, simplicity, and orientation.

I think it is interesting to share that pre-production I followed How to present Sugar. As my idea developed /Presentation was aimed at parents ( my children), and /Explore at very young new learners, (their children). I then edited out some more "clunky" parts to try to avoid addressing any reader in a pejorative way and out of self-consciousness! I notice I have completely removed any sense that a parent can follow /Presentation in their own time while the child could work through /Explore unsupervised. I am not an Adobe fan but I find a .pdf presentation useful because its stability aids orientation.

In my experience well written copy addressed to an eight year old can be understood by most adults and participating children, and easily speed read by an expert.