Posts Tagged ‘XO’

XO BookSprint instructions

{ Posted on Aug 25 2008 by annegentle }
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Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals wrote up these instructions for how to get involved with the BookSprint going on this week. I'm hoping to write blog entries that describe the planning sessions and surrounding practical advice for this type of ...Read More »

How do people converse about technical topics today?

{ Posted on Aug 22 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging, techpubs, wiki, writing
I have seen the eminent reinvention of technical documentation as we know it, which inspired me to begin chronicling my own observations and shifts in the field of communicating technical topics through conversation. One such revealing moment happened while I was ...Read More »

BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

{ Posted on Jul 26 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : OLPC, blogging, 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 »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Attracting girls to IT

{ Posted on Apr 21 2008 by annegentle }
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15% of people are from the northeast 15% of people left handed 15% of people in the world have no cell phone, or no Internet And... less than 15% of computer science majors are female. [1] This was the lead-in for the ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative

{ Posted on Mar 23 2008 by annegentle }
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I have been talking to SJ Klein regularly via email and phone for my work on the wiki pages and kid's user manual for the XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, so I was excited to hear him speak ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – BarCamp Austin III (BarCampAustin3)

{ Posted on Mar 10 2008 by annegentle }
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Steve Carl already wrote up his notes from BarCamp Austin and I enjoyed his viewpoint very much. This was only my second BarCamp experience, and this year, I decided to take the plunge and actually volunteer to present. Whurley was ...Read More »

SXSW Interactive starts today – pack your XO

{ Posted on Mar 07 2008 by annegentle }
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So many sessions that I want to attend, but at least sched.org lets me select more than one session at a time. Such an awesomely simple interface and login is so quick, just an email address and a password and ...Read More »

Austin, Texas – XO on the menu for lunch

{ Posted on Jan 14 2008 by annegentle }
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Our three XOs in a row We got the two other XO buyers that I know of in Austin for lunch last week - buyers of the One Laptop Per Child computer, called the XO laptop. Whurley and Mikus and I ...Read More »

XO doc and the journey to wiki-fied documentation

{ Posted on Dec 31 2007 by annegentle }
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Just wanted to give another update on the happenings in the end-user doc front from my neck of the woods. (Idioms sprinkled throughout!) I got an HTML copy to SJ and a second copy with an Index and some customizations on ...Read More »

The Rockley Blog – wiki’s delivery mechanisms

{ Posted on Dec 13 2007 by annegentle }
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I'm thoroughly enjoying the new Rockley Blog at http://rockley.com/blog/. I'm so glad Steve Manning and Ann Rockley are blogging, especially about wikis. I appreciated Steve's post "Wikis for Documentation" especially where he says that the delivery side is the weak point ...Read More »
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