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:
- XO manual (Introduction, Getting Started, Battery, Network, Support, Appendices): http://booki.flossmanuals.net/xo/_draft/
- Browse Activity Chapter: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/browse/_draft/_v/1.0/
- Write Activity Chapter: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/write-activity/_draft/:
- Record Activity Chapter: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/record/_draft/
- Turtle Art Activity Chapter: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/turtle-art/_draft/
- Sugar (What is Sugar section, Interface Chapter, Activities Chapter) : http://booki.flossmanuals.net/sugar/_draft/
The above chapters were originally in one larger Manual that is currently the Help Activity. Other early manual versions:
- 2008-9 version : http://en.flossmanuals.net/xo/_all/
- pdf of 2008 version : http://old.flossmanuals.net/XO/FM_XO_13Nov08.pdf
Existing manuals that are incomplete or not added to Help Activity:
- Chat: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/chat/_draft/
- Calculate Activity: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/calculate-activity/_draft/
- Memorize: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/memorize-activity/_draft/
- Measure: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/measure-activity/_draft/
- Paint Activity: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/paint-activity/_draft/
- Pippy Activity: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/pippy-activity/_draft/
- TamTam Jam Activity: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/tamtam-jam-activity/_draft/ (empty)
- TamTam Mini Activity: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/tamtam-mini-activity/_draft/ (empty)
- TamTam Synth:http://booki.flossmanuals.net/tamtam-synth-activity/_draft/ (empty)
- Terminal: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/terminal/_draft/
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)
- Christoph Derndorfer
- Caryl Bigenho (Will add a Tam Tam Chapter, but may need to complete after the summit)
- Edward Bigenho (Editing)
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