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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 Spanish, French, Portuguese, Creole and 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! Like the Amish, we aim to KISS (keep it simple, stupid) by retaining the Clean/Helpful/Minimal look & feel that Walter Bender has created.
Time & Place
Weekend of March 27/28, 2010
9am to 7pm (both days!)
Arlington Career Center: http://apsva.us/careercenter/
816 S. Walter Reed Dr
Arlington, Virginia
(1+ mile W. of the Pentagon)
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
Please apply for an XO-1.5 if you will be actively contributing, thanks!
Community Coordination
Join our library@lists.laptop.org 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 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) and Mike Lee (curiouslee @ gmail.com) to see if anything's possible!