[squeakland] Join our first book sprint!

Rita Freudenberg rita at squeakland.org
Fri Nov 20 10:10:02 EST 2009


Squeakland will it's first Book Sprint to create a Reference Manual for 
Etoys! Please join us online during the week of December, 7 to 
December12, 2009. The book will serve as

- the manual you can look up every part of Etoys,
- the documentation of what we commit to support in Etoys and
- the starting point for other, more elaborate materials.

For writing we intend to use FLOSS Manuals:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/

The manual will be available online (html and pdf format), and as a real 
book per print-on-demand. It will be licensed under MIT, so that we can 
also ship it within Etoys. We will work on it for a whole week from 
December, 7th until December, 12th. At this point, we are not planning a 
central in-person meeting, but the whole event will take place virtually 
on the internet. We will chat on an irc channel, and we will haveaudio 
chats every day to provide the opportunity for a talk. Of course, if you 
can organize a local meeting somewhere, that would be great!

You can find more information at
http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Book+Sprint

We will examine if we really need all the objects we currently have in 
the Etoys image. This documentation will be a list of all things our 
users can expect to be working fine in Etoys, we should leave out 
objects we will not support in terms of maintaining. That doesn't mean 
we will remove it from Etoys, but we will not include it in the 
documentation. So we really need developers to participate at least in 
the first discussion on December, 7 at 2 pm EST (which happens to be the 
time of the regular software meeting :).

To join the sprint, please put your name on the wiki

http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Book+Sprint

Greetings,
Rita

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Rita Freudenberg
Squeakland Foundation
http://www.squeakland.org



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