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OS Version

We're primarily documenting OS 11.3.0 / build 883 / Sugar 0.94.

Status of Work

• Empty
• Draft
• Review
• Final

(0) Introduction (Christoph, Holt)

• About this Manual [D]
  • Updating this Manual; other versions
• About OLPC [D]
• About Sugar [D]
  • version in this manual
• How to Volunteer [D] (Holt, Ed, Nancie?)
  • Upgrading your volunteer experience
• Note on getting Support (cf. 4. Support)

(1) Hardware (George, Sameer)

• Getting Started
• Opening the XO
• Starting the XO
• Ports
• Keyboard
• Maintenance / Caring for your XO
• Battery / Charging
  • consider new content in the Support, Safety section of http://booki.flossmanuals.net/xo-users-manual-rev-2011/_edit/

    --FGrose 16:42, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

  • Note on Unbricking/Reflashing (cf. Support)
  • Disassembly Guide
• Full Specifications Of

(2) Core Software (Christoph)

• OS Version and Updating (cf. Support) [E]
• About the User Interface (Sandra) [E]
• Home View [E]
• Activity View [E]
• Neighborhood View + Connecting to the Internet [E]
• Group View [D]
• The Frame [D]
• Journal [E]
• My Settings (Christoph & Ed, WAS: Personalizing Sugar) [E]
• Gnome [R]
• XS school server (George & Sameer) [R]
  • Note on finding the XS version and updating (cf. Support)

(3) Activities (Walter)

• What is an Activity [R] (Sandra)
• Launching Activities [R] (Sandra)
• Exiting Activities [R] (Sandra)
• Collaborating (Ed)
• Finding and Installing Activities (ref. Support 4)
  • Note on updating Activities (cf. Support)

• Browse (Cherry Withers) [R]
• Discovery (Mokurai [Ed])
• FotoToon (video:Mark. text: CBigenho)
• Record (video:Mark)
• Read (Sandra)
• Terminal [R] (Ed)
• Tam Tam (CBigenho, Harriet) [R]
• Turtle Art (Walter, Ed, Sandra)
• Write (Laura)
• Calculate (Ed)
• Chat [R] (Sandra)
• Pippy (George)
• XoEditor [R] (Walter)
• Portfolio [R] (Walter)

• Activity Sampler [E] with 2~3 sentence summaries for as many Activities as possible (also to be used for w.s.o, git, etc.)
  • suggestion: taking current descriptions from ASLO (Ed?)

(4) Support (Holt)

• Upgrade All Your Software (Holt) [D]
  • Finding your Sugar version; update other versions
• How to Unbrick, Change language: keyboard and OS (ref Section 2) [E]
• How to Install and Update Activities (Christoph) [E]
• Getting Support (Holt) [D]

(x) Appendices

• Keyboard Shortcuts (Sandra)
• Glossary (Ed)
• Credits (incl. 2008 contributors) (Christoph)
• Other OS optionsOther OS options: PuppyXO, DebXO (SJ)

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Topics with nobody confirmed responsible:

• eToys -> MAYBE Cherry Withers
• Labyrinth (?)
• Memorize (?)
• Measure (?)
• Paint (?)
• ... (?)
• BE Quizzes (elise@whatisbe.com Elise Moussa)