[squeakland] Join our first book sprint!

[karl ramberg]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Rita Freudenberg <rita at squeakland.org>wrote:

> 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
>
>

Great.
I'll try to do a little...
At least I will review :-)

Karl
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