Documentation Projects

What Exists

There are many incomplete and somewhat obsolete manuals for the laptop:

Getting Started

Getting Started was a project started at OLPC by Walter Bender. It has gone through multiple versions, been fractured, re-assembled, translated and distributed a number of times.

• Getting Started as a Word document [1]
• Getting Started in HTML [2]
• Getting Started as a PDF [3]
• Getting Started at the SugarLabs wiki [4]

FLOSS Manuals

• FLOSS Manuals started in Word, moved to Google Docs, moved to Author-it, moved to wiki.laptop.org. Writing by college students, Todd Kelsey, Emily Kaplan, Anne Gentle, Adam Hyde, with much editing work from Kelly Holcomb; time-intense translation support on the wiki.laptop.org copies by Micheal Cooper

http://en.flossmanuals.net/OLPC_simple

Simplified User Guide

• Simplified user guide same starting story as the FLOSS Manuals version, but an earlier version of the content at FLOSS manuals, with intentions of synching the two by using Floss Manual's API for inclusion of Floss version on the wiki.laptop.org page

Support FAQ

• Support FAQ and associated pages

Started by Support Gang, enhanced by Kate from Yale, see offspring:

Assorted Offspring

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ/es
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/olpc/XOSupportFAQ.pdf
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang/RTFM

Competing FAQ's

• Uruguay FAQ, translated from ES to EN by User:Nlee & CBigenho (available in both .doc & .pdf)
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Official_OLPC_FAQ
• http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/FAQ
• http://laptopgiving.org/en/faq.php
• http://laptop.org/faq.en_US.html
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ask_OLPC_a_Question
• RTFM's from Support Gang (form letters / FAQ for email response)

Activity Handbook

• Activity Handbook is documentation for activity developers by Christoph and OLPC Austria.

"The purpose of the activity handbook is to provide you with all the information you need in order to get started with software development for the OLPC XO."

• • Chapter One of Christoph's guide is Introduction to Sugar, a general introduction to the Sugar Learning Environment.

Sugar Almanac

• Sugar Almanac is a detailed guide to the Sugar API for activity developers.

Deployment Guide

• Deployment Guide

Localized Documents

These are documentation projects that were originated in

Peruvian Guide

• Peruvian Guide (actual book!)

Link Needed

Ciebal Manual / Guide (Uruguay)

• Uruguayan Guide (actual book!)
• "Ceibal in the society of the 21st century" (Uruguay) goes well beyond just-a-manual:

http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-june-th-27th-we-launched-book-ceibal.html

Obsolete Manuals

Nortel LearnIT's ~B2 Manual

• Nortel LearnIT's How to Use Your XO Laptop

XO Guide

• https://dev.laptop.org/~sj/.library_pages/xo-guide/bundle_index.html

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Demo Notes

Demo notes

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What is happening

• Sugar Labs is working on creating documentation for Sugar. They are working with the current FLOSS manuals documentation team and are planning a content sprint in late August.

• OLPC is interested in providing a first boot introduction documentation for XO users. With the upcoming G1G1 specifically in mind. This is being worked on by Seth on the OLPC side. There is a help activity by Marcos which uses HulaHop to display help content written in html.

• There has also been talk on the OLPC side about implementing a help feature for activities. A help.html file would be required for activities.

Documentation in Upcoming Builds

8.1.2

The current build is 8.1.1 (probably 708 still being tested). The next release in the current stream is 8.1.2 (711). This will likely contain an activity that is a repackaging of the getting started guide. It won't run on first boot, and in worst case scenario will get shipped with G1G1.

8.2.2

The next release after that is 8.2.0. That is going to be based on the joyride UI. Also Fedora is rebased from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9. This will contain a on first boot help activity. The plan is for OLPC and Sugar Labs to work together on this documentation.