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Book(let) Sprint: Updating Walter Bender's 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 -- including interactive mouseovers -- in one fast weekend sprint!
http://laptop.org/start
Time & Place
Weekend of March 27/28, 2010
9am to 7pm (both days!)
Arlington Career Center
(1+ mile W. of the Pentagon)
816 S. Walter Reed Dr
Arlington, Virginia
http://apsva.us/careercenter/
NEEDS!
- Inkscape/Gimp/Photoshop experts
- Javascript experts
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
Community Coordination
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 be arranged to 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) to see if anything's possible!
