[IAEP] What can I do in an hour? (was: An interesting project I stumbled across)

[Frederick Grose]

To all:

If you have a free hour you want to contribute, please find a wiki page (
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/) that interests you--and could be improved with
something you know or could explain more clearly.

It's simple to click the edit tab button, and enter some new text or links,
or whatever you want.  Don't worry about making a mistake with the
formating, others will come along to fix things up.

If you don't want to edit the page directly, each page has a matching
'discussion' page, which you can reach by clicking the 'discussion' tab
button at the top.  These pages are meant to collect reader comments and
questions relevant to the parent page.  See for example,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki.

Remember to click the 'Watch' tab button so you will be notified of changes
to the page.  When you register your email with you account name, you can
also click the 'prefs' (preferences) link at the top right of any page, and
then, on the 'Watchlist' tab page, you can set a preference to add any page
you edit to your personal watchlist.

If you want to enter whole new content pages, there are some guidelines at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team/Guide/Page_Creation.  There are
instructions there for experimenting with new pages in you personal
'User_talk:' section of the wiki.

By this means, you can share and collaborate on whole projects in the Sugar
Labs fields of interest, like Ed Cherlin's
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks

Some of our wiki pages are meant to collect new ideas:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Request_New_Features
or questions:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_help#Help_Requests:
or problems:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Submit_Bugs/Problems

Please take a hour to explore the wiki, learn what's there, and then
consider what's missing.
At your next opportunity, enter that missing piece!

It's your collective intelligence and contributions that make wikis work
well.

Thank you,              --Fred


On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:

> Caroline,
>
> "What can a volunteer do" is a good general question. I have been
> lurking on this list for a while, and I am still looking for some
> SHORT tasks (1 hour or so) someone completely new could do. The
> problem with most tasks is hours of preparation they seem to require
> before they even start making sense. Maybe I missed some noob tasks,
> too, because I could not tell them among others.
>
>
> Cheers,
> MariaD
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
> http://www.naturalmath.com social math site
> http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath future math culture email group
> http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations
>
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