[IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

[Sean DALY]

I consider this to be a fabulous initiative. Growing the Activity
ecosystem is very important for Sugar and OLPC and a handbook has been
a missing link.

I will speak with Christian about a homepage link and I even think we
should do a callout in our next press release, tentatively scheduled
for February 3, the day OLPC France will present the OLPC project (and
myself Sugar) to France's largest corporate foundations at L'Atelier
(http://www.atelier.fr/usages/3/07012010/one-laptop-per-child-ordinateur-veritable-revolution-pedagogique-39192-.html)

Thanks.

Sean


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on
> adding Text to Speech to your Activities.  I've also made various
> additions and corrections to the rest of it.  If you want to check out
> what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here:
>
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.21-18.33.56.pdf
>
> I'm going to start working on code samples for a Collaboration chapter
> next, and I want to do a chapter on debugging Sugar Activities after
> that.  I think Walter had developed some code to let you run Sugar
> Activities outside of the Sugar environment and that would be a good
> fit for the debugging chapter.  For collaboration I'm going to try to
> put together a sort of half-finished game called "Battle Royale Tic
> Tac Toe".  I'll also write about file sharing as used by Read Etexts.
>
> Once I have this material added I think I'll have enough to make it
> worth putting on the front page of the site.  That won't mean it's
> finished, but enough of it will be that the book could be considered
> complete.
>
> I welcome collaborators as well as editors on this.  There are many
> topics you could put in a book like this that I'm not qualified to
> write.
>
> I'm up to 87 pages now.
>
> James Simmons
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