Help Activity refresh

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A place to collect ideas, information, and resources for the planned refresh of the Help activity.

Schedule

Initial session tentatively scheduled for Friday October 28,2011 from 10AM to 5 PM at the Kleider home in Bolinas

Other sessions TBD

Current Help Activity Contents

  • Introduction (Introduction, About OLPC, What is Sugar, How to Volunteer)
  • Getting Started (Getting Started, Opening the XO, Ports, Battery Charging, Starting the XO, Keyboard)
  • Interface (About the User Interface, Home View, Activity View, Neighborhood View, Group View, The Frame, The Journal)
  • Activities (What is an Activity, Launching Activities, Switching Views, Collaborating, Exiting Activities, Installing Activities, Activity Sampler)
  • Network (Give Me The Internet, Connecting, Ad-Hoc Networking, Wireless Devices, Networking Hardware, Troubleshooting)
  • Record Activity (Introduction, Starting Record, Photos, Video, Audio, Starting Media, Things to Try, Wikimedia Commons)
  • Browse Activity (Introduction, What Is the Web, Starting Browse, Browse Web, Bookmarks, Changing the View, Sharing Links, Country Quiz, Search the Web, Using Wikipedia, Contribute to Wikipedia, Using Email)
  • Write Activity (Introduction, Starting Write, Collaborating, Peer Editing, The Basics, Group Story Telling, Letter to the Editor, Emailing a Document
  • Turtle Art (Introduction, Getting Started, Starter Commands, Pen Colors, Pen Commands, Try Turtle Art, Turtle Art Letters, Repeating Commands, Numbers and Commands, Shapes and Spectrum)
  • Support (How to Reflash, Powering of Your Laptop, Replacing, Backing Up, Getting Support)
  • Appendices (Keyboard Shortcuts, Personalizing Sugar, Glossary, Getting Support, Credits)

Resources

List of manuals and chapters:

The above chapters were originally in one larger Manual that is currently the Help Activity. Other early manual versions:


Existing manuals that are incomplete or not added to Help Activity:

Procedures on Porting/Assembling the Manual into Help Activity

Screenshots

  • "Alt + 1" key combination (on XOs)
  • post-processing with standard laptops and your tools of choice (Paint.Net (Windows) for me)
  • bring your XOs loaded with the latest 11.3.0 development builds since that's the easiest way to get Sugar 0.94
  • investigate whether using the advanced screenshot hack is a viable alternative

Ideas

  • keep localization in mind (see the corresponding thread from early October on Sugar-Devel, etc.

People

Please add your name if you're planning to contribute to the Help Activity Refresh.

  • Adam Holt
  • Cherry Withers (Addition of Etoys Chapter -- will work online)
  • Christoph Derndorfer
  • Caryl Bigenho (Will add a Tam Tam Chapter, but may need to complete after the summit)
  • Edward Bigenho (Editing)
  • Tony Anderson