In my experience, most OLPC programs have created a manual<div>like that.. either because they build one, or because they modify </div><div>and existing one. </div><div><br></div><div>I would love to see more documentation and materials that promove </div>
<div>development in Sugar... how to modify, how to create one from scratch, </div><div>how collaborate with the community, etc. I may be wrong.. but is the</div><div>Create you own Sugar Activity enough? what other things can </div>
<div>complemente that one?</div><div><br></div><div>Claudia</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi All!<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm happy to say I have finally gotten back to work on my "Fun With Tam Tam<br>
> Mini" FLOSS manual after a hiatus (a So Cal word from the "industry")<br>
> brought on by all sorts of holiday and family distractions. There are a<br>
> number of other, unrelated, things folks have asked me to work on now, but I<br>
> figure if I don't get this done first, it will never get done. So…<br>
><br>
><br>
> I am currently working on learning to use the free Finale Notepad software<br>
> to generate simple samples of all the musical examples in the manual, put<br>
> into standard musical notation. This was suggested by my middle- schooler,<br>
> violinist, granddaughter when she reviewed the draft, way back in November.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I remember how those musicians among you who tried Tam Tam in my<br>
> mini-workshop at the SF summit found it confusing because you were used to<br>
> reading notes. I also found this with some second and third graders I<br>
> worked with in Montana who have had some music lessons. So… it will be<br>
> there for those who need it in a special Appendix. So far, I have done a<br>
> one octave C Major scale... woo-hoo!<br>
><br>
><br>
> I still will need to do some screen shots, but that should be fairly easy.<br>
><br>
><br>
> ***(Important) As soon as I finish the manual I will take excerpts and put<br>
> them into the new FLOSS manual update as a Tam Tam Mini chapter. I am hoping<br>
> someone will decide on the guidelines for these Activity chapters. There<br>
> should be a limit on the maximum number of pages for any single Activity so<br>
> we don't end up with any one being extremely long. We should ask folks to<br>
> include enough information for users to successfully begin to use the<br>
> Activity and then refer them to more information elsewhere (wiki, FLOSS<br>
> manual, web site, etc).<br>
<br>
</div></div>I think we can have individual manuals for each activity along with a<br>
short 1-2 pages in a collective manual for Sugar activities as a<br>
whole.<br>
<br>
-walter<br>
<div class="im">><br>
><br>
> I'll let you know when "Fun With Tam Tam Mini" is finished and ready for a<br>
> final review. I know there are several of you interested in using this in<br>
> some of your deployments so… just a little more time and it should be ready!<br>
><br>
><br>
> Grannie B (MA MusicEd)<br>
><br>
><br>
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