Documentation Team/Book Sprint

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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

Boston / Cambridge
One Laptop per Child offices
1 Cambridge Center, 10th floor
  • Space for 25+ people
  • Two conference rooms, break off areas, projectors, wifi, power and kitchen
Austin, Texas
Anne investigating

Date

late August (tentative proposal 16-23)

Scope of documentation for sprint

Audience: kids, parents, and teachers. End-users, basically.

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)

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.