Help Activity refresh

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

• Sugar 0.94 release notes
• OLPC OS 11.3.0 release notes

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/

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 -- will work online)
• Christoph Derndorfer
• Caryl Bigenho (Will add a Tam Tam Chapter, but may need to complete after the summit)
• Edward Bigenho (Editing)
• Tony Anderson