[FM Discuss] FM, OLPC, and SugarLabs

[Seth Woodworth]

David, et al,

Anne Gentle's Simplified User Guide, created for OLPC, is almost entirely
hardware agnostic.  Anne is a professional technical writer and has put
countless hours into this project since January.  FM is also great because
if a chapter about Sugar on XO and a chapter on Sugar on X wanted to be
swapped, FM would do this handily.

Also, Anne tells me that there is a Farsi translation in progress(done?),
and a rather outdated one in spanish back on wiki.laptop.org.

Seth

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:33 AM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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