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Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

{ Posted on Oct 13 2008 by annegentle }

Tags : curation, DITA, information, information architecture, Linux, OLPC, Sugar, wiki, wikipedia
Categories : DITA, social media, techpubs, wiki

[caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Scissor-style information slicing"][/caption] A photo of old school remixing - printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. :) This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called ...Read More »

BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

{ Posted on Jul 26 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, fedora, free software, manuals, RedHat, Sugar, writing, XO, XO laptop
Categories : blogging, OLPC, techpubs

I've been busy lately working on plans for a Floss Manuals BookSprint. A BookSprint is a week-long concentrated effort of technical writers getting together to create a manual for free, libre open source software products. BookSprints are like a workshop ...Read More »

Audience considerations – writing technical doc for kids, parents, and teachers for One Laptop Per Child

{ Posted on Oct 18 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : emulate, laptop.org, OLPC, one laptop per child, Sugar, technical writing, user analysis, XO
Categories : techpubs

I've recently (read:last week) learned that there is active recruiting going on for end-user documentation for One Laptop Per Child. The OLPC project, as it is also known as, is Nicholas Negroponte's education project that hoped to build a US$100 ...Read More »