Just saw the note below on the library list - which reminded me that the Etoys part of the "kids guide" is a bit sparse:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simplified_user_guide#EToys
Can we start real Etoys documentation now that the UI should be reasonably stable and feature-complete?
Should we make the Quick Guides accessible on the Web?
Also, did Alan work on the OLPC-Etoys book in the mean time?
- Bert -
Begin forwarded message:
From: Samuel Klein sj@laptop.org Date: December 4, 2007 20:51:18 GMT+01:00 To: Seth Woodworth seth@isforinsects.com Cc: OLPC content/software library discussions library@laptop.org, Anne Gentle annegentle@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OLPC library] XO end-user doc status update
Let's get back to this. We're trying to freeze the interface strings for the next library release this weekend; and to stop adding any new content bundles or documents next Friday; that leaves a bit of time for refining a beautiful manual.
I'd aim for two formats : pdf for everyone / for the web; and XO- html, to ship on the laptops : formatted to be comfortably readable in ebook- mode on the XO (with reasonable page breaks, looking decent in both portrait and landscape mode).
SJ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Seth Woodworth wrote:
Anne,
My background is in Pre-press and Desktop Publishing software. I would be more than happy to take the guide and make a print quality pdf out of it. Actually I volunteered a while back to do so and I never heard anything.
Where would you like to start?
Seth Woodworth
On Nov 27, 2007 8:52 PM, Samuel Klein sj@laptop.org wrote:
Hello Anne,
Thanks for the update. As for the photo license -- they are currently under cc-by-sa 2.0 from Flickr. Christina, your photos are still fab after all these months -- please confirm that we can use them on our cc-by wiki and in other docs.
A few other people have noticed very slow wiki response; while it has been fine from within Boston; I wonder if our colo has had bad connectivity to part of the country.
I'm still seeking a page layout person with Word expertise to get a nice square manual that Lulu.com could easily print.
For the Author-it materials : let's make a PDF of what is there tomorrow, and see how it looks. I'll put you in touch with the group that does our other layouts re: the layout. And I have some online-safety materials to share as well. Teacher materials will be showing up in reports from the field and in collections more rapidly as the first phase of trials ends.
Library mailing list Library@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
There is this:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SqueakEtoysReference#To_Start_Etoys_on_the_XO
needs a bit of updating but there's some good information here.
-- Kim
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Just saw the note below on the library list - which reminded me that the Etoys part of the "kids guide" is a bit sparse:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simplified_user_guide#EToys
Can we start real Etoys documentation now that the UI should be reasonably stable and feature-complete?
Should we make the Quick Guides accessible on the Web?
Also, did Alan work on the OLPC-Etoys book in the mean time?
- Bert -
Begin forwarded message:
From: Samuel Klein sj@laptop.org Date: December 4, 2007 20:51:18 GMT+01:00 To: Seth Woodworth seth@isforinsects.com Cc: OLPC content/software library discussions library@laptop.org, Anne Gentle annegentle@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OLPC library] XO end-user doc status update
Let's get back to this. We're trying to freeze the interface strings for the next library release this weekend; and to stop adding any new content bundles or documents next Friday; that leaves a bit of time for refining a beautiful manual.
I'd aim for two formats : pdf for everyone / for the web; and XO- html, to ship on the laptops : formatted to be comfortably readable in ebook- mode on the XO (with reasonable page breaks, looking decent in both portrait and landscape mode).
SJ
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Seth Woodworth wrote:
Anne,
My background is in Pre-press and Desktop Publishing software. I would be more than happy to take the guide and make a print quality pdf out of it. Actually I volunteered a while back to do so and I never heard anything.
Where would you like to start?
Seth Woodworth
On Nov 27, 2007 8:52 PM, Samuel Klein sj@laptop.org wrote:
Hello Anne,
Thanks for the update. As for the photo license -- they are currently under cc-by-sa 2.0 from Flickr. Christina, your photos are still fab after all these months -- please confirm that we can use them on our cc-by wiki and in other docs.
A few other people have noticed very slow wiki response; while it has been fine from within Boston; I wonder if our colo has had bad connectivity to part of the country.
I'm still seeking a page layout person with Word expertise to get a nice square manual that Lulu.com could easily print.
For the Author-it materials : let's make a PDF of what is there tomorrow, and see how it looks. I'll put you in touch with the group that does our other layouts re: the layout. And I have some online-safety materials to share as well. Teacher materials will be showing up in reports from the field and in collections more rapidly as the first phase of trials ends.
Library mailing list Library@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
Etoys mailing list Etoys@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/etoys
etoys-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org