[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Work Product Submission - Hosting Offer

2020-08-20 Thread James Cameron
GSoC has given Work Product Submission Guidelines; https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/work-product As an option, students working on Sugar Labs projects may also contribute to our GSoC repository as follows; 1. fork our repository; https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC 2. create

[Sugar-devel] GSoc 2020 Sugar Labs - First Evaluations are complete

2020-07-02 Thread James Cameron
All 18 evaluations have been completed. Thanks! -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Community Bonding Period

2020-05-27 Thread James Cameron
By 31st May we are to remove any students who "have not been actively involved in the community bonding period". Mentors: assess the student for community bonding, and let me know whether to keep students or remove them. An early start to coding with good progress is sufficient even if bonding

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar team meeting 11-May-20

2020-05-13 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the summary, Shaan. You did well, it was a long meeting. Other things that I mentioned were; - check that you are subscribed to the pkg-sugar-devel@ https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sugar-devel - although this is a GSoC 2020 project for Sugar Labs, much

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar team meeting 11-May-20

2020-05-11 Thread shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in
We met at 12:30 pm IST using Zoom. We had James, Jui, Saumya, and Shaan. James clarified Shaan's queries regarding the development environment to be used, what exactly was expected of his project, that it would primarily involve the testing of previously created packages. James spoke about

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Help Needed

2020-05-08 Thread James Cameron
Students are starting to get involved. This is great. But also a problem. We need Sugar Labs members and others to step up and join in. Discuss issues. Review pull requests. Test releases. Read daily reports. Make comments. Report problems. In other words, be part of your open source

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 first Sugarizer Game Activity Pack meeting

2020-05-06 Thread prakash ujjwal
I and my mentor Ashish had our first sugarizer game activity pack meeting at 3:00 PM IST today i.e. 6th May. We had a discussion on how to start the community bonding period , and how should we summarize meeting for mailing list, we finalized our weekly meeting time, and on an ui feature, exams.

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar team meeting

2020-05-06 Thread James Cameron
We met at 5pm IST using Zoom. We had James, Rahul, Jui, Saumya, and Shaan. We introduced ourselves. James spoke about what the meeting is for, when and how we should meet, how we should defer technical problems to GitHub or mailing list, and how we should summarise the meeting for the mailing

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Mentoring starts, Community Bonding Period

2020-05-05 Thread James Cameron
Welcome to the Community Bonding Period. This is a long post. Students; please continue to participate, make pull requests, raise issues, test software, in any limited time you have available. For more on what you can do, see my other post;

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar Labs Projects

2020-05-05 Thread dhruvmisra
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. I'm grateful to Lionel, James, Ashish and all other mentor and contributors I interacted with. So happy to be part of this great community. Hope to make the most it this summer.Thanks,Dhruv MisraOn 04-May-2020 11:42 pm, James Cameron wrote:Thanks to all

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar Labs Projects

2020-05-05 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for asking. For the community bonding period, you should react to your change in status from a "proposal student" to a "selected student", and the other changes like; 1. your membership of the Sugar Labs GitHub organisation, 2. your ownership of a software project, consisting so far of

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar Labs Projects

2020-05-05 Thread prakash ujjwal
Thanks. Very much excited to work on the project. Looking forward to working with sugar labs. Any advice for the community bonding or coding period would be appreciated. Regards Prakash Ujjwal On Tue, May 5, 2020, 2:36 PM shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in < shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in> wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar Labs Projects

2020-05-05 Thread shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in
Thank you for accepting my proposal, congratulations to all that got selected. Looking forward to working with my mentors and the organization. Again, thank you for the opportunity, feeling ecstatic. Best, Shaan Subbaiah On Monday, May 4, 2020, 11:42:47 PM GMT+5:30, James Cameron

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Sugar Labs Projects

2020-05-04 Thread James Cameron
Thanks to all the students who made proposals. Google Summer of Code have announced nine projects for Sugar Labs; * Prakash Ujjwal, Sugarizer game activity pack, mentor Ashish Aggarwal, * Dhruv Misra, Sugarizer knowledge activity pack, mentor Lionel Laské, * Nikhil Mehra, Sugarizer School

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Active Waiting

2020-04-30 Thread James Cameron
We have accepted nine student projects. Google will check everything they have to, and announce student projects on 4th May. We are to not communicate the decisions on projects until then, as the situation could change. Students: you are welcome to contribute while you wait. Mentors: remind

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Slot Requests

2020-04-23 Thread Lionel Laské
for their participation and motivation. Your contribution is always valuable for us. Regards. Lionel. Le jeu. 23 avr. 2020 à 07:39, a écrit : > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:33:37 +1000 > From: James Cameron > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 S

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Slot Requests

2020-04-22 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 06:47:59AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:39:39PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 03:26:07PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > > By 22nd April we are to make our slot request; the number of projects > > > we are willing to

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Slot Requests

2020-04-22 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:39:39PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 03:26:07PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > By 22nd April we are to make our slot request; the number of projects > > we are willing to run. > > Our slot request was minimum 9 maximum 11. GSoC team have

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Slot Requests

2020-04-21 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 03:26:07PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > By 22nd April we are to make our slot request; the number of projects > we are willing to run. Our slot request was minimum 9 maximum 11. GSoC team are processing slot requests, and will let us know within about a day how many

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Slot Requests

2020-04-16 Thread James Cameron
Hello mentors, We have many student applications, and many students have continued to contribute. By 22nd April we are to make our slot request; the number of projects we are willing to run. Running each project requires a mentor, and one or two backup mentors in case the mentor is unavailable.

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Proposals received

2020-03-31 Thread James Cameron
Thank you students. We received forty-nine (49) proposals on our dashboard. Two proposals were immediately ignored as they were unrelated to Sugar Labs. Our mentors will now review the proposals along with student contributions to Sugar Labs. We have until 22nd April to make our project slots

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Proposals progress #3

2020-03-30 Thread James Cameron
Thank you to students so far. We have twenty-two (22) proposals on our dashboard. We have eight proposals with status "final"; - Port Sugarizer activities to Sugar, - Sugar App Store For Python 3 Activities, - Model–View–Controller refactoring for Music Blocks, - Sugarizer Knowledge Activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar-devel] GSoc 2020 Proposal review request

2020-03-29 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Saumya, We have a draft shared on our dashboard with your name. Application Review begins in a few days. For exact time in your timezone, see https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline Yours is the first proposal to have chosen an idea of your own; it is not in our 2020

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Proposals progress #2

2020-03-24 Thread James Cameron
Thank you to students so far. We have nine proposals on our dashboard. We have three proposals with status "final"; - Port Sugarizer activities to Sugar, - Sugar App Store For Python 3 Activities, - Sugarizer game activity pack (#2), We have seven proposals with status "draft shared"; -

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020: Introduction

2020-03-23 Thread James Cameron
Welcome Goel, Thanks for asking for guidance, but we have already published guidance in several places and I don't think you've read and accepted it yet. https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/README.md I try to be strictly fair and transparent; I give any guidance to all students at

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020: Introduction

2020-03-23 Thread Aman Goel
Hello Everyone, I am Aman Goel, a sophomore from Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi, India currently pursuing B.Tech in Information Technology & Mathematical Innovations. I came across the project ideas - *Port Sugar and core activities to Python 3 & Debian advocacy for Sugar *and

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 (Knowledge Activity Pack) Proposal Review Request

2020-03-22 Thread Lionel Laské
Hi Dhruv, Good proposal with lot of information about how the activities will work and how you will do it. Few remarks: - Regarding Curriculum activity. About generation in PDF/Word/ODT you've miss the ODT part. I suggest you to take inspiration (or even retrieve code) from Write activity where

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020

2020-03-22 Thread Sumit Srivastava
Hi Ahmad, Music Blocks is a fork of Turtle Blocks JS, which is a derivative of Turtle Blocks, which is written in Python. MB <-- TB JS <-- TB <-- Python You can export Turtle Blocks code as Python code to directly run via python interpreter leveraging libraries like GTK. The aim is to provide

[Sugar-devel] GSOC 2020 application [Abdullahi]

2020-03-21 Thread abdullahi abdulkabir
Hello all, I am Abdullahi a fourth-year student of the university of Lagos I am really excited to want to participate to GSOC 2020 this year. I have been working on the Sugarizer Knowledge activity and finished the pawn activity. Here is my proposal:

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-21 Thread Rahul Bothra
Thanks. I _should_ be able to devote six hours per week for mentoring. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:37 AM James Cameron wrote: > Hello mentors, > > Stephanie wrote: > > > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and there is a lot of > > stress for everyone so we want everyone to be safe and

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Proposals progress

2020-03-20 Thread James Cameron
We have two proposals with status "draft shared" on our dashboard; - Resolve 100 issues in Music Blocks, - Sugarizer game activity pack. Neither of these have been shared with our mailing list, and the students have made no public contributions apart from GitHub. We have one additional draft

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-20 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Iqra. I've removed your name. Let us know if your situation changes. Stay well! On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 03:01:53PM +, IQRA MUHAMMAD wrote: > Hi , > > I won't be able to commit as a mentor for this year's google summer of code, > hence I can be removed from the mentor's list. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-20 Thread Carlos mauro
Hi Friends. I'll be available to commit my time to this year's gsoc. May be more during the weekend and the night. Best Regards. El vie., 20 mar. 2020 a las 5:21, Chihurumnaya Ibiam (< ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com>) escribió: > Hi Everyone, > > I'll be available to commit my time to this

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-20 Thread Chihurumnaya Ibiam
Hi Everyone, I'll be available to commit my time to this year's gsoc. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:07 AM James Cameron wrote: > Hello mentors, > > Stephanie wrote: > > > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and there is a lot of > > stress for everyone so we want everyone to be safe and

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Favour Kelvin
Hi James, I will be available to commit my time to this year GSoC On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:40 PM Peace Ojemeh wrote: > Hello, > > I am very much available to commit my time to this years' GSoC. > > Regards > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:07, Vaibhav Aren wrote: > >> Hi James, >> I will be able

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Peace Ojemeh
Hello, I am very much available to commit my time to this years' GSoC. Regards On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:07, Vaibhav Aren wrote: > Hi James, > I will be able to commit my time to this year's GSoC. > Looking forward to it. > > Yours Sincerely > Vaibhav Aren > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:33 PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Vaibhav Aren
Hi James, I will be able to commit my time to this year's GSoC. Looking forward to it. Yours Sincerely Vaibhav Aren On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:33 PM Samson Goddy wrote: > Hello James, > > I will be able to commit on this year's GSoC. > > > Regards > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:07 AM James

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Samson Goddy
Hello James, I will be able to commit on this year's GSoC. Regards On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:07 AM James Cameron wrote: > Hello mentors, > > Stephanie wrote: > > > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and there is a lot of > > stress for everyone so we want everyone to be safe and

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread IQRA MUHAMMAD
Hi , I won't be able to commit as a mentor for this year's google summer of code, hence I can be removed from the mentor's list. Regards, Iqra On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:07 AM James Cameron wrote: > Hello mentors, > > Stephanie wrote: > > > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC 2020 idea discussion

2020-03-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:07 PM Gaurav Punjabi wrote: > Hey everyone, > I'm Gaurav Punjabi, a 3rd Year CS Student from India. I'm looking forward > to apply for GSOC 2020 with sugar labs. I have gone through the ideas list > and I'm interested in the following 2 issues >1.

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Sumit Srivastava
Thanks James for sending the invite to me. Accepted. I hope that the Sugar family stays safe from COVID. Looking forward to some great projects. - Sumit On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:11 PM Ashish Aggarwal wrote: > I wanted to confirm that I will be available for GSoC 2020 for at least 6 > hours

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Ashish Aggarwal
I wanted to confirm that I will be available for GSoC 2020 for at least 6 hours per week . Regards On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, 11:37 James Cameron, wrote: > Hello mentors, > > Stephanie wrote: > > > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and there is a lot of > > stress for everyone so we want

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread Hrishi Patel
Yes, I will be available, for at least 6 hours a week. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:37 AM James Cameron wrote: > Hello mentors, > > Stephanie wrote: > > > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and there is a lot of > > stress for everyone so we want everyone to be safe and take care of > >

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 five month plans

2020-03-19 Thread James Cameron
Hello mentors, Stephanie wrote: > The world is certainly in upheaval right now and there is a lot of > stress for everyone so we want everyone to be safe and take care of > themselves and their families. This may mean priorities for some > mentors and org admins change and they may no longer be

[Sugar-devel] GSOC 2020 idea discussion

2020-03-18 Thread Gaurav Punjabi
Hey everyone, I'm Gaurav Punjabi, a 3rd Year CS Student from India. I'm looking forward to apply for GSOC 2020 with sugar labs. I have gone through the ideas list and I'm interested in the following 2 issues 1. Model–View–Controller refactoring for Music Blocks 2. Sugarizer School Portal Can

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 (Game Activity Pack) Proposal Review Request

2020-03-17 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Dhruv. Yours is the first proposal, well done. Please also submit on Google Summer of Code. Please also post as PDF here on mailing list. Google Docs can change, a document can disappear (making our archives useless), the export feature may be turned off, and we don't want to require

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 (Game Activity Pack) Proposal Review Request

2020-03-17 Thread Dhruv Misra
Hey there, I am submitting my GSoC 2020 Proposal for Sugarizer Game Activity Pack for review. Kindly suggest the necessary changes. I am sharing a link for comment access to the Google Docs file here:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2020

2020-03-09 Thread James Cameron
You could either; - upgrade to a later release, or - install a virtual machine. On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 08:14:20PM +0100, Massabe Lydiane wrote: > Hello James, > > I checked this repository; > [1]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/ubuntu.md > but there are no commands to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2020

2020-03-09 Thread Massabe Lydiane
Hello James, I checked this repository; https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/ubuntu.md but there are no commands to install sugar on my operating system which is Ubuntu 16.04. Please what can I do? Regards On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:52 PM James Cameron wrote: > For Sugarizer

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020

2020-03-09 Thread Lionel Laské
a solution for the Chess activity issue here: https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/issues/592 Regards. Lionel. Le dim. 8 mars 2020 à 22:41, a écrit : > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 02:23:40 +0530 > From: Abhishek Tanwar > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [Sugar-devel]

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020

2020-03-08 Thread James Cameron
Hello, Our mentors vary in their approach to communication. Lionel has explicitly invited direct mail, and we marked that on the ideas page. You can find Lionel's mail address on his GitHub profile. https://github.com/llaske If you feel it is important for others to see what you ask, then you

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC 2020

2020-03-08 Thread James Cameron
I'm not sure what you mean by installed sugarlabs. I've no specific beginner issues at the moment, sorry. It takes longer to write them down and answer questions than it does to fix them myself. You can search GitHub Issues and filter by org:sugarlabs instead of user:yourself. You can also

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2020

2020-03-08 Thread James Cameron
For Sugarizer please read the instructions at; https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer For Sugar on Ubuntu 20.04, please look at this archive thread; http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2020-February/057763.html For Sugar on older versions of Ubuntu, please read the documentation in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2020

2020-03-08 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Massabe Lydiane wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am Massabe Lydiane from Buea, Cameroon. > I am currently pursuing a bachelor  degree of engineering(electrical > engineering) in the university of Buea. I am really interested in > participating > in Gsoc

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020

2020-03-08 Thread Abhishek Tanwar
Hello, I am Abhishek Tanwar ,3rd year IT student from Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, New Delhi ,India .I started contributing to SUGARIZER about a month ago and I have make quite a few contributions towards Sugarizer repository. I am interested in 3 GSoC ideas which are as follows:

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC 2020

2020-03-08 Thread ayush nawal
Assuming that you have successfully set up a sugar development environment. It is strongly recommended to once go through the sugar-docs especially: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md After the setup, you can simply fork, clone and work on an activity you

[Sugar-devel] GSOC 2020

2020-03-08 Thread Saumya Mishra
Hello everyone, I am Saumya Mishra from UttarPradesh , India. I am currently pursuing Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) from PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology Jabalpur,Madhya Pradesh,India. I am really interested in participating in Gsoc this year

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2020

2020-03-08 Thread Massabe Lydiane
I just discovered that desktop setup that I downloaded for Sugarizer is for debian operating systems. Where can I find the setup for ubuntu versions. Regards On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 12:14 PM Massabe Lydiane wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am Massabe Lydiane from Buea, Cameroon. > I am currently

[Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2020

2020-03-08 Thread Massabe Lydiane
Hello everybody, I am Massabe Lydiane from Buea, Cameroon. I am currently pursuing a bachelor degree of engineering(electrical engineering) in the university of Buea. I am really interested in participating in Gsoc this year contributing this great organization. I have some programming

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Subscribers and Research

2020-02-08 Thread James Cameron
Welcome Harsith. Document "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" can be very helpful for overcoming being shy about mailing list. Document gives advice on what to check for before pressing "send". http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html We have 594 subscribers on the mailing list.

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Subscribers and Research

2020-02-07 Thread Harshith Pvs
Hello everyone! I'm Harshith, a CS undergrad from India. I'm writing this to introduce myself, as I felt this right opportunity after the previous mail from James about why we new guys subscribed. Basically, I was feeling shy to mail an entire malling list, as I'm new to this concept. Moreover,

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Subscribers and Research

2020-02-07 Thread James Cameron
G'day, In past 38 days we had 47 new subscriptions to the sugar-devel@ mailing list, an average of nine per week. Each of them were sent a personal signed copy of "How to get started as a Sugar Labs developer [v9]" or earlier. For eight of these, guessing what was happening but wanting to be

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 guidance

2020-02-03 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:51 PM Ridhish Jain wrote: > Hello, > I am Ridhish Jain, Full-stack web developer, UG at IIT Dhanbad. > I am a GSoC aspirant and would love to do GSoC in this organization. > I went through 2019 idea-list and found these projects interesting: > Platforms for Music