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Getting Started on the XO-1.5
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March 27 Saturday: Whiteboard TOC, Fact check, Rewrite, Dinner!
March 28 Sunday: Screenshots, Mouseover Finalization & Translation    
Come and join our DC Community Book Sprint!


Book(let) Sprint: Updating Walter Bender's Snazzy December 2007 "GETTING STARTED" guide...for OLPC's new [XO-1.5]

We invite you to join the OLPC/Sugar community, as we overhaul & beautify these dozen HTML pages critical to so many newcomers around the world -- including interactive mouseovers -- all in one fast weekend sprint:

http://laptop.org/start

If the Amish community can raise a barn in 2 days, so can we!

Time & Place

Weekend of March 27/28, 2010
9am to 7pm (both days!)

Arlington Career Center
(1+ mile W. of the Pentagon)
816 S. Walter Reed Dr
Arlington, Virginia
http://apsva.us/careercenter/

NEEDS!

  • Inkscape/Gimp/Photoshop experts
  • Javascript experts
  • Certified Grannies

Tools

Beyond Walter's pioneering work, and FLOSSmanuals.net which we won't be using this time, we draw deep inspiration in the following Clean, Helpful documentation and (especially!) open source tools:

http://openoffice.org
http://book.schooltool.org
http://sphinx.pocoo.org
http://kompozer.net
http://atlassian.com/software/confluence

Community Coordination

Mailing List:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library

Live Chat:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat (that's #olpc-help on irc.freenode.net)

Phone:
Live calls will be arranged to bring tactile contact with (active!) remote participants

Attendees

  • Beth Santos
  • Luke Faraone
  • Jeff Elkner
  • Mike Lee
  • Kevin Cole
  • Adam Holt
  • Seth Woodworth
  • Chris Leonard?
  • Sameer Verma?
  • Christoph Derndorfer (remote)
  • please add your name AND favorite HTML page from http://laptop.org/start that you want to edit+modernize!

Accommodations / Offers / Requests

Contact Adam Holt (holt @ laptop.org) to see if anything's possible!