What is the plan for the Activities manuals? -walter
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Anne Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Seth > I want to confirm a few details with you - > > Is the format HTML, zipped into a zip file renamed to .xol? > Does it need a manifest file as well in the .xol file? > Do I just upload it to the wiki? > What time of day do you need it by? > Is there any additional format you need? > > Thanks, > Anne > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hey everybody, Thank you all so much for participating in the >> BookSprint. This manual looks great and is going to be a huge help. >> >> As far as packaging this book goes, we need to finalize updates by Friday >> or the changes wont make it into the shipped manual on the XO. So please >> make the most important updates quickly. >> >> After Friday there is still going to be a huge need for ongoing >> documentation. Keep up the excellent work everybody! >> >> All the best, >> Seth Woodworth >> >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Anne Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> Having had a nice 3-day weekend to recover from the high-energy week of >>> the BookSprint, I wanted to give you some ideas for maintenance of the >>> manuals going forward. >>> >>> Daniel's review of the manuals was extremely helpful and I believe we've >>> incorporated all his suggestions. If you only have time to read and write up >>> notes, sending an email to the Library list is a good way of getting your >>> suggestions to the writers. Or, as Adam Hyde suggested, make the changes >>> yourself, but if you simply don't have time for that, an email listing your >>> review comments is perfectly acceptable. >>> >>> Documentation in some organizations is an integral part of the >>> development process, and you can log and track bugs against the >>> documentation. The OLPC Trac system can do this to a point, but there is a >>> lot of signal to noise there for writers to keep up with. I'd personally >>> prefer that you use the FLOSS Manuals wiki system to either go ahead and >>> make the changes yourself, or comment on the chapter that you have >>> suggestions for, or email your comments to either me or this list. >>> >>> As the maintainer, I'll be keeping an eye on all changes and all comments >>> to the manuals. We've already got a good comment from someone saying that >>> since the networking chapter addresses 8.2, how about creating another >>> chapter for the 6nn and 7nn deployments that are active today? With FLOSS >>> Manuals remix capability, this request seems do-able. I'd like to hear >>> commentary on that from this group though. >>> >>> For additional concepts that you do not feel are covered in the manuals >>> but are not "bugs" technically with the manual, please post to this Library >>> list so that me or one of the other community writers can find a way to >>> incorporate it. >>> >>> I believe my role going forward is a central person for doc requests, but >>> I do want to build redundancy in the system so I'm not the only resource >>> available for doc. >>> >>> Thanks all for your contributions last week, and I look forward to >>> continued improvement as we go forward. >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Library mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
