Documentation Team/Notes/1.0

The idea is to provide Sugar 1.0 with up-to-date documentation, and remove out of date documentation and resources.

Schedule

Action Status Date
Join all documentation resources Current From February 1st 2013 to March 12th 2013
Sugar feature cycle begins
Time to purpose the ways to write and provide documentation.
Current Unknown
Writing
Time to have user guides for Sugar and its core activities.
Pending From March 12th 2013
Add your point here... Unknown Unknown
Sugar feature cycle closes
Deadline to purpose new ideas.
Coming Unknown.
Sugar 1.0 Release Candidate
Time to update documentation Screenshots.
Coming Waiting for Sugar 1.0 Release Schedule
Sugar 1.0.x bugfixed Release
All work is released.
Coming Waiting for Sugar 1.0 Release Schedule

Resources

There is multiple documentation, some out-of-date, and some being updated. These are the resources to join and create an only documentaton.

Title Status
Sugar FLOSS Manual Out of date since 2011
XO Manual (Sugar chapters) Sugar content deprecated
OLPC-SF Summit 2011 Work Not finished. Needs a very short update.
Activity specific chapters Incomplete. Will need a short update near the 1.0 release.
Sugar Tutorials Up-to-date. dd write to USB SAMPLE.iso of tutorial.pdf's (insert USB and open with write in sugar) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Tutorials.iso 5.3M
TurtleArt-Tutorials Turtle Art comes with many sample project. Below are more examples created by community members
Specific Activity Pages list of activity home pages:
Add your link here ...

Components to document

Sugar environment

  • Home View (List and favourites)
  • Frame
  • Control Panel
  • Mesh - Neighborhood and group view.
  • Journal

Basics - Sugar in Use

  • Opening, closing, saving data in Journal, collaboration, etc.

Activities

Feel free to add a core activity.

  • Core activity guides
    • Browse
    • Calculate
    • Chart
    • Chat
    • Dimensions
    • Etoys (Already documented by Squeakland, low priority)
    • Fototoon
    • Irc
    • Jukebox
    • Labyrinth
    • Measure
    • Memorize
    • Paint
    • Physics
    • Pippy
    • Portfolio
    • Record
    • Read
    • Scratch (Already documented, low priority)
    • Terminal
    • Tam Tam
    • Turtle Blocks
    • Wikipedia
    • Write

Multimedia content

  • Mute video/animation purposes
    • Add your purpose here
  • Videos with audio purposes
    Research about i18n.
    • Add your purpose here.

Writing format

The purpose is about using Mallard to have i18n support.

Activity documentation template

This template is used in wiki pages and modified to be a user guide provided optionally with each activity.

About Portfolio

Using Portfolio

  • The Toolbars
  • Saving to PDF

Learning with Portfolio

  • Samples of student work

Extending Portfolio