David, et al,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Also, Anne tells me that there is a Farsi translation in progress(done?), and a rather outdated one in spanish back on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org">wiki.laptop.org</a>.<br><br>Seth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:33 AM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for your great manuals.<br>
<br>
As you have probably heard, One Laptop Per Child is spinning off Sugar<br>
the User Interface face for the XO to Sugar Labs.<br>
<br>
I was wondering if FM would be interested in working with Sugar Labs to<br>
create manuals for Sugar and its various activities.<br>
<br>
Working with Sugar Labs, as a volunteer, is an interesting experience.<br>
Every other oss project I worked on because I found their product useful<br>
to me personally. Sugar, with its focus on elementary education, is a<br>
bit different. You don't get a charge out of seeing the feature you<br>
worked make it into a release. Instead, the joy comes from reading<br>
about the success of deployments.<br>
<br>
I see two obvious advantage to Sugar Labs. 1. The creation of great<br>
manuals. 2. FM is a great community based method of creating documents.<br>
<br>
To a large extent the split between OLPC and Sugar Labs is a result of<br>
the tensions between formal hierarchy and community. For a full<br>
discussion take a look at <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/" target="_blank">http://www.olpcnews.com/</a> .<br>
<br>
I think working with Sugar Labs can help FM in a few ways. 1. Writing<br>
manuals for Sugar meets all of the motivation on<br>
<a href="http://flossmanuals.net/about" target="_blank">flossmanuals.net/about</a> . 2. Sugar and OLPC are world changers and you<br>
can be part of that change. 3. Sugar has a huge audience. OPLC is<br>
currently shipping Sugar and Intel is preparing a product. So, we can<br>
introduce many potential writers and translators to FM.<br>
<br>
I have subscribed to this mailing list.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Dfarning<br>
<br>
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