We're in day two of our Etoys book sprint! Please spend time with us in the Etoys chat channel to help motivate everyone. Usually book sprints are done in person, so we're using our chat channel as a way to spend time together. It's a great way to meet other Etoys enthusiasts and help the writers at the same time. There are two ways to visit our chat channel . . . 1) visit http://chat.squeakland.org and put your nickname in place of "squeaker###". Simply type messages at the bottom of the screen and click Enter. 2) download and install an...

We just had our kick-off audio chat for the book sprint. It is wonderful to have so many great people working together on the Etoys manual! For now, we start writing at FLOSS Manuals Etoys . if you have any questions or want to discuss, try the IRC and start your question with @help ... In case everyone has finally gone to sleep, check out the book sprint page on our wiki or send an email to rita@squeakland.org We will have our next audio chat tomorrow, December 8 at 3 pm EST, 12 PST....

Squeakland will have 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. 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...