[IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:20:49PM +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki gardening :)
> 
> My feeling is that the wiki does not serve _New_to_Sugar_ users
> well.

+1

> Moreover as there is a lack of reliable first steps information, new
> content cannot be written referring back to such.
> 
> In general, I believe we need more content with screen shots aimed at
> _New_to_Sugar_ users, but they would be better delivered via slide show
> than scrolling pages.
> 
> New to Jekyll, I did not work out how to do a slide show in Jekyll and
> Markdown. Can anyone point to a site that does this successfully?
> 
> So I just ploughed on and generated content using Remark[1].
> 
> An alternative Sphinx-based, slide show effort is used in SoaS
> Loader[2], but the product became over-weight in detail. [...]

Programmers among us have let you down there; you've had to devote
many slides to a very complex install process.

	http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org

Now, install for Fedora 23 SoaS is just type "sudo liveinst" in
Terminal activity.

Future, Sugar could have a My Settings control panel which starts
"sudo liveinst" on demand.

That way your SoaS Loader would reduce to "click here, click there,
answer questions".

(Development of this feature would be made faster by respinning SoaS with
updated Sugar packages.  +CC linuxmodder from #sugar.)

> I am submitting, again, my concept of a gallery[3] by way of
> conversation.
> 
> Apropos wiki gardening, are there any views on what else is wrong with
> the wiki?
> 
> One serious problem is that using "Search" button indicates material
> which may be obsolete but unmarked as such.
> [3] http://inkyfingers.github.io/gallery/
> 
> 
> > Once https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/19 is merged,
> > I'll ask systems@ to create two A records that point the sugarlabs.org
> > domain to 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154, per
> > https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers
> > Dave
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James Cameron
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