Making a documentation sprint in April in Boston sounds good. However, it wouldn't solve most of OLPC-Australia problem, as they want to start training teachers for the new versions in March. <div><br></div><div>I wonder if some people from Australia, New Zeland and other Pacific countries may be interested in doing a documentation sprint before that... </div>
<div><div><br clear="all">Saludos, <br>Pablo Flores<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Now I always scheduled sprints/summits on civic/religious long
weeks/wkds in the past so the max peop could sneak out of their day
jobs, wouldn't a Passover Sprint "open to all" per the Jewish
tradition "<b>All who are hungry, come and eat</b>" just be perfect?<br>
<br>
In any case Nancie don't worry we won't make you cook or host...or
will we, hah ;)<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<br>
On 1/20/2012 7:15 PM, Nancie Severs wrote:
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<div><span>Hi Adam, and all,</span></div>
<div><span>Just a heads up: This year Passover is April 6 (seder
evening) and April 7 is the first day. Easter Sunday is
April 8. That's not a good weekend Adam. The weekend before
or after look ok though.</span></div>
<div><span>Nancie:)</span></div>
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<div>Nancie Severs
OLPC Support Volunteer<br>
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<hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b>
George Hunt <a href="mailto:georgejhunt@gmail.com" target="_blank"><georgejhunt@gmail.com></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
"Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:09 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Fixing activities
documentation for the new UI<br>
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<div>Two thoughts,<br>
<br>
If the get together was a week earlier, I could attend.<br>
<br>
For manipulating screen shots, the xophoto activity I did
might be useful (see
<a href="http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html" target="_blank">http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html</a>). It's a
little clunky, and didn't make it out of the sugarlabs
sandbox.<br>
<br>
The download is available at
<a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4377" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4377</a>.<br>
<br>
And early documentation is at
<a href="http://xophoto.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://xophoto.wordpress.com/</a><br>
<br>
Maybe, after being away from it for a year, I'll see ways
to make xophoto more user friendly, and useful for the new
tablet.<br>
<br>
George<br>
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<div>On Mon, Jan 16, 2012
at 8:02 AM, Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Clustering a book sprint
around (and including) the wkd of Apr 7/8 when several
including myself, Christoph, Nancie S. etc should be
in Boston, might make a ton of sense?<br>
<br>
But others should speak up if they have better ideas!<br>
<br>
As I'm spending a lot of time in Haiti these days and
lost track of the rich world's schedules, but will
happily join if Caryl/Christoph/Pablo/ALL driving
forward enthusiasm to make this real =)
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On 1/16/2012 6:44 AM, adam wrote:<br>
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hi Adam<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 01/16/2012 12:32 PM, Holt wrote:<br>
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Caryl Bigenho, Christoph Derndorfer, I &
others have been laying<br>
groundwork since Oct/SF but as we all know
this is Hell^h^h^h^hGod's<br>
thankless work :)<br>
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<br>
Can we bring this together with a focused doc
event? a 5 dayer to complete the work and move
it on to a new level?<br>
<br>
adam<br>
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Everyone who can pitch in taking screenshots
of critical/latest<br>
Activities is an absolute hero, particularly
for these Activities<br>
included in Release 11.3.0?<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.3" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.3</a><br>
<br>
Update our manual-refresh's wiki here please
if so, no matter how you<br>
choose to help!<br>
<br>
<a href="http://j.mp/xomanual" target="_blank">http://j.mp/xomanual</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh</a>
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On 1/16/2012 6:10 AM, adam wrote:<br>
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hi<br>
<br>
I would like to propose a doc summit for
sugar/olpc. Fm can facilitate<br>
a series of sprints to get everything up to
date. However we would<br>
need to work together to raise the funds to
make it happen. I am happy<br>
to put work into this from our side (FM) -
who can take the lead from<br>
Sugars side?<br>
<br>
adam<br>
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On 01/15/2012 03:13 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
wrote:<br>
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On 14 January 2012 07:02, Walter
Bender<<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Pablo
Flores<<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:pflores2@gmail.com" target="_blank">pflores2@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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Yesterday we discussed with Sridhar
Dhanapalan and other<br>
OLPC-Australia team<br>
people the impact of updating the
Sugar version on their<br>
deployment. One of<br>
the unforeseen impacts comes to the
documentation they have made for<br>
training their teachers, as it has
plenty of screenshots and videos<br>
that got<br>
outdated because of all the UI changes
made recently. This will<br>
bring an<br>
important amount of work for
updating...<br>
<br>
One of the things that could be very
helpful for them would be<br>
having the<br>
floss manuals updated. I took a look
at the manuals of "classic"<br>
activities<br>
and they weren't updated. It would be
great if some of the<br>
contributors who<br>
worked on those manuals could lend a
hand for having them updated.<br>
<br>
Looking further, I think there should
be some way for keeping the<br>
activities<br>
documentation updated, or at least
having a single place to see for<br>
each<br>
activity how much updated its
documentation is. Looking for ideas<br>
for having<br>
this done.<br>
<br>
Would it make sense including
documentation updating in the<br>
upstreaming<br>
process somehow?<br>
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<br>
Perhaps a coincidence? I was
corresponding with Adam this morning<br>
about the possibility of organizing a
sprint to update the Sugar<br>
manuals. I was going to put out a call
for a champion on the Sugar<br>
side to help organize it. Any takers?<br>
<br>
-walter<br>
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<br>
The discussion with Pablo was on the same
topic, so not just a<br>
coincidence.<br>
<br>
Our OS (based on Dextrose 3) is mostly
Sugar 0.94 as included in OLPC<br>
OS 11.3.1. We've made some changes, but
nothing too drastic. Updated<br>
documentation on Sugar 0.94 and its
activities would take us most of<br>
the way there.<br>
<br>
Sridhar<br>
<br>
<br>
Sridhar Dhanapalan<br>
Engineering Manager<br>
One Laptop per Child Australia<br>
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