[FM Discuss] FM, OLPC, and SugarLabs

[David Farning]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:38 -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote:
> 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 progress(done?), and a rather outdated one in spanish back on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, et al.

Seth, I didn't realize that you were part of the FM community. I hope I
am not rehashing an old topic.

One of the things I am trying to start is documentation collaboration
between Sugar Labs and OLPC.  The basic idea was to create a
distribution agnostic set of documentation which individual distros can
cherry pick from to create their own documentation.  It seems that remix
has already solved that problem.

The next step is to figure out how to do this without reinventing the
wheel at every stage.  The best idea that I have come up with is using
an edited version of FM's OLPC manual as the official Sugar
documentation.

This would mean mirroring FM's sugar content on wiki.sugarlabs.org. In
return we could provide attribution to FM for the content, redirect all
edits and translations back to fm.net, and point potential writers to
the FM community.

thanks 
dfarning