[FM Discuss] FM, OLPC, and SugarLabs

[David Farning]

Thanks for your great manuals.

As you have probably heard, One Laptop Per Child is spinning off Sugar
the User Interface face for the XO to Sugar Labs.

I was wondering if FM would be interested in working with Sugar Labs to
create manuals for Sugar and its various activities.

Working with Sugar Labs, as a volunteer, is an interesting experience.
Every other oss project I worked on because I found their product useful
to me personally.  Sugar, with its focus on elementary education, is a
bit different.  You don't get a charge out of seeing the feature you
worked make it into a release.  Instead, the joy comes from reading
about the success of deployments.

I see two obvious advantage to Sugar Labs.  1. The creation of great
manuals.  2. FM is a great community based method of creating documents.

To a large extent the split between OLPC and Sugar Labs is a result of
the tensions between formal hierarchy and community.  For a full
discussion take a look at http://www.olpcnews.com/ .

I think working with Sugar Labs can help FM in a few ways.  1.  Writing
manuals for Sugar meets all of the motivation on
flossmanuals.net/about .  2.  Sugar and OLPC are world changers and you
can be part of that change.  3.  Sugar has a huge audience.  OPLC is
currently shipping Sugar and Intel is preparing a product.  So, we can
introduce many potential writers and translators to FM.    

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Thanks
Dfarning