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 21st, 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)

Copy of Current User Manual

A copy of the current User Manual as it appears in the Help Activity can be found at: http://laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/

Suggestions for Additional Chapters

• Localization (Registering, Forking, Translating, Adding and Deleting Chapters, Changing Graphics and Images)
• Tam Tam (What are the Tam Tam Activities, How to Use Each, Where to find lessons, songs, and other resources) Caryl will welcome help!
• Gnome (What is Gnome? Switching to Gnome and Back to Sugar, Using Gnome, Gnome Applications, Resources for More About Gnome and Its Applications)
• Etoys (Cherry Withers will work on this online)

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.
• retain the current chapter format in terms of length and general content. Use links to refer to more in depth resources.

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