Documentation Projects
What Exists
Manuals lists complete substantial manuals for the project. There are other evolving, incomplete or 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 Sugar Labs 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/XO http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar_guide
Much of the work on the current set of manuals was done at the Austin Book Sprint Aug 24-29, 2008.
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team
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)
Sugar Almanac
- Sugar Almanac is a detailed guide to the Sugar API for activity developers.
Make Your Own Sugar Activities!
By Jim Simmons:
JAN 12th 2010 DRAFT!
JAN 21st 2010 DRAFT!
FEB 3rd 2010 DRAFT!
FEB 23rd 2010 near-final HTML
MCH 4th 2010 FINAL?
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.
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
Pashto & Dari Manual (2 official languages of Afghanistan)
- In PDF herein: OLPC Pakistan Activities
Obsolete Manuals
Nortel LearnIT's ~B2 Manual
- Nortel LearnIT's How to Use Your XO Laptop
XO Guide
- History? If you know more about this please fill out this section
Demo Notes
- Please fill in this section if you know about the Demo notes documentation
What is happening
- Sugar Labs is working on creating documentation for Sugar. They are working with the current FLOSS manuals documentation team.
- 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.
Past Releases
8.1.x
8.1.2 build 711 was released 2008-08-19. 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. 8.1.3 Build 714 was never released - pushed back to 8.2.0.
8.2.0
The current build is 8.2.0 Build 767 which was released 2008-10-14. That will use the revised Sugar UI that has been developed in joyride builds (Release_Notes/8.2.0 outlines the UI changes). Also Fedora is rebased from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9. This will contain an on first boot help activity. The plan is for OLPC and Sugar Labs to work together on this documentation.
See Release_notes
Upcoming Documentation & Community Book Sprints
11.3.1
OLPC Software Release 11.3.1 should be released well before our doc sprint expected Apr 6-10, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts!