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OS Version

We're primarily documenting OS 11.3.0 / build 883 / Sugar 0.94.

Status of Work

• Empty
• Draft
• Review
• Final

(0) Introduction (Christoph, Holt)

• About this Manual [D]
  • Updating this Manual; other versions
• About OLPC [D]
• About Sugar [D]
  • version in this manual
• How to Volunteer (Holt, Ed, Nancie) [D]
  • Upgrading your volunteer experience
• Note on getting Support (cf. 4. Support)

(1) Hardware (George, Sameer)

• Getting Started [R]
• Opening the XO [R]
• Starting the XO [D]
• Ports [D]
• Keyboard [D]
• Maintenance / Caring for your XO [D]
• Battery / Charging [D]
  • consider new content in the Support, Safety section of http://booki.flossmanuals.net/xo-users-manual-rev-2011/_edit/

    --FGrose 16:42, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

  • Note on Unbricking/Reflashing (cf. Support)
• Repair and Disassembly Guide [human-readable link to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Disassembly]
• XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 Specifications [D]

(2) Core Software (Christoph)

• OS Version and Updating (cf. Support) [E]
• About the User Interface (Sandra) [E]
• Home View [R]
• Activity View [E]
• Neighborhood View + Connecting to the Internet [R]
• Group View [R]
• The Frame [R] (Nancie, Christoph)
• Journal [R]
• My Settings (Christoph & Ed, WAS: Personalizing Sugar) [D~R]
• GNOME [R]
• XS school server (George & Sameer) [R]
  • Note on finding the XS version and updating (cf. Support)

(3) Activities (Walter)

• What is an Activity (Sandra) [R]
• Launching Activities (Sandra/skierpage) [R]
• Switching Activities (Christoph) [R]
• Exiting Activities (Sandra) [R]
• Collaborating (Ed) [R]
• Finding and Installing Activities (ref. Support 4)
  • Note on updating Activities (cf. Support)

• Browse (Cherry Withers) [R]
• Calculate (Ed) [R]
• Chat (Sandra) [R]
• Dimensions (Walter) [R]
• Discovery (Mokurai [Ed]) [R]
• FotoToon (video:Mark. text: CBigenho) [E]
• Labyrinth (Fernando Comenzana /Uruguay, CBigenho will translate)[E]
• Measure (Tony F) [R]
• Memorize (Sandra) [R]
• Paint (TonyF)
• Pippy (George) [R]
• Portfolio (Walter) [R]
• Record (video:Mark) [E]
• Read (Sandra) [R]
• Terminal (Ed) [R]
• Tam Tam (CBigenho, Harriet) [R]
• Turtle Art (Walter, Ed, Sandra) [R]
• Write (Laura) [D]
• XoEditor (Walter) [R]
• Paint (no need to include developers info) (TonyF) [R]

• Activity Sampler [D] with 2~3 sentence summaries for as many Activities as possible (also to be used for w.s.o, git, etc.)
  • suggestion: taking current descriptions from ASLO (Ed?)

(4) Network (George)

• Give Me the Internet (George) [D]
• Getting Connected (George) [D]
• Troubleshooting Connectivity (George) [D]

(5) Support (Holt, Nancie)

• Upgrade all your Software (Holt, Nancie) [R]
  • Finding your Sugar version; update other versions
• How to Unbrick, Change language: keyboard and OS (ref Section 2) [E]
• How to Install and Update Activities (Christoph) [E]
• Getting Support (Holt, Nancie) [R]

(x) Appendices

• Keyboard Shortcuts (Sandra) [E]
• Glossary (Ed) [D]
• Credits (incl. 2008 contributors) (Christoph) [E]
• Other OS options: PuppyXO, DebXO (SJ) [E]

FANTASIES BELOW

Topics with nobody confirmed responsible:

• eToys -> MAYBE Cherry Withers
• Labyrinth (Fernando Comenzana /Uruguay)
• ... (?)
• BE Quizzes (elise@whatisbe.com Elise Moussa)