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<noinclude>{{TOCright}}[[Category:Activities|Help]]</noinclude>[[Image:activity-help.svg|left|link=http://laptop.org/manual/]] http://laptop.org/manual/ | [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051 Activity Library] | [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help Source] | [http://en.flossmanuals.net/xo Floss Manual] | [http://dev.laptop.org/query?component=help-activity&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority OLPC Trac tickets]

=Goals of the Help Activity=

==Goals of the Help Activity==

# Provide users with easy access to documentation and manuals

# Provide users with easy access to documentation and manuals

# Let people understand that Sugar is a Community Project and that we would like their help

# Let people understand that Sugar is a Community Project and that we would like their help

# Invite users to join the community by asking a question

# Invite users to join the community by asking a question

# Make visible the fact that we are real people

# Make visible the fact that we are real people

==User Experience==

==User Experience==

a web page.  We'll need to explain to them that they can't use it if

a web page.  We'll need to explain to them that they can't use it if

they are offline.

they are offline.

If we get into any sort of dialog with the question we should invite

If we get into any sort of dialog with the question we should invite

them to subscribe to IAEP and to help the community.

them to subscribe to IAEP and to help the community.

==Nice to Have Features==

==Nice to Have Features==

* Look up what version of Sugar they are running and point them to the appropriate manual for that version.

* Look up what version of Sugar they are running and point them to the appropriate manual for that version.

*: If the Browse activity's home page were part of Sugar then it could link to the appropriate local file://  and/or online URLs. This home page could either be static and updated with each Sugar release; or it could dynamically built from a template as it was in the OLPC OS releases, and detect if the user has local help pages. -- [[User:Skierpage|Skierpage]] 04:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

*: If the Browse activity's home page were part of Sugar then it could link to the appropriate local file://  and/or online URLs. This home page could either be static and updated with each Sugar release; or it could dynamically built from a template as it was in the OLPC OS releases, and detect if the user has local help pages.  You can also detect in JavaScript if a local file:// URL exists, [http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/show_help.html here's some code]. -- [[User:Skierpage|Skierpage]] 04:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

==Next Steps==

==Next Steps==

*: The content is currently managed on http://flossmanuals.net , which uses TWiki for editing and version history. You can go to http://en.flossmanuals.net/remix and make a Sugar 0.84 manual from the Sugar/8_4 manual items.  I believe this is how someone (Sj?) loaded the HTML into http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help/repos/mainline/trees/master/help -- [[User:Skierpage|Skierpage]] 05:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

*: The content is currently managed on http://flossmanuals.net , which uses TWiki for editing and version history. You can go to http://en.flossmanuals.net/remix and make a Sugar 0.84 manual from the Sugar/8_4 manual items.  I believe this is how someone (Sj?) loaded the HTML into http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help/repos/mainline/trees/master/help -- [[User:Skierpage|Skierpage]] 05:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

==OLPC Help activity ==

==Resources==

[[OLPC:release 8.2.0]] ships with the [[olpc:Help activity]].  This is a dedicated browser that shows pages describing the XO-1 laptop and its software including Sugar version 0.82.  This activity is hosted at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help and its material comes from community editing at http://flossmanuals.net.

[[OLPC:release 8.2.0]] ships with the [[olpc:Help activity]].  This is a dedicated browser that shows pages describing the XO-1 laptop and its software including Sugar version 0.82.  This activity is hosted at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help and its material comes from community editing at http://flossmanuals.net.

 

[[Category:Activities]]

* French version [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4195 Helpfr], [[Activities/Helpfr]] in Sugar 0.84