Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer Of Code

[Walter Bender]

I echo Quozl's remark. Is this a Sugar or Sugarizer project. Also, I don't
understand what you are planning to do with Project Gutenberg. Maybe a
high-level block diagram of your design would help.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 12:55 AM Sanjay Srikanth 
wrote:

> Hello, this is Sanjay Srikanth and I have made my project proposal for the
> following problem statement: Add an AI chatbot to the Chat Activity.
>
> Here is the proposal attachment and I await your review and feedback.
>
> Thank you.
>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer Of Code

[James Cameron]

Hello,

Perhaps in your document the word Sugarizer should be Sugar?

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:24:40AM +0530, Sanjay Srikanth wrote:
> Hello, this is Sanjay Srikanth and I have made my project proposal for the
> following problem statement: Add an AI chatbot to the Chat Activity.
> 
> Here is the proposal attachment and I await your review and feedback. 
> 
> Thank you.
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer Of Code 2018

[divyanshu rawat]

Hi,
Thanks, Utkarsh for letting me know.
I will remember to do it next time,
‌Best
Divyanshu

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Utkarsh Tiwari 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the update Divyanshu. From next time please mention the date as
> well so as to avoid confusion for people from different time zones.
>
> Regards,
> Utkarsh Tiwari
>
> On Sat, May 5, 2018, 12:26 AM divyanshu rawat 
> wrote:
>
>> So, I Shivank and Anmol will be having our gsoc meeting for project port
>> to python 3 at 4:00 P.M IST tomorrow.
>> The meeting will take place at #sugar-meeting
>> All community members are invited to join as well.
>>
>> Best
>> Divyanshu
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 10:13 PM, Anmol Mishra 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> The link to my blog associated with my project is https://medium.com/
>>> anmolmishra-jiit/introduction-to-the-community-cc0416568ec2 .
>>> Anything you would like me to change, I will be happy to know.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Shivang Shekhar >> > wrote:
>>>
 Hi Anmol,

 Congratulations once again and looking forward to supporting you in
 this project.
 It may be possible that sometimes I am not available on IRC but to be
 sure you can reach me over mail at all times if you seek any help.
 All the best for the project and keep us posted.

 Cheers


 On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 11:22 PM Anmol Mishra 
 wrote:

> Hello,
> I am happy to have you as one of my mentors for the project for Google
> Summer Of Code 2018. I seek your guidance and help. I will update you with
> the blog associated with my project. You can find me under nickname
> "octamois" at #sugar and IRC.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
>
> --
> [image: Developer in progress]
> Anmol Mishra
> Student | Developer in progress
> M: +91 9990752180 <+91%209990752180>
> E: anmolmishra.j...@gmail.com
> [image: facebook]  [image:
> twitter]  [image: linkedin]
>  [image: github]
>  [image: snapchat-ghost]
> 
>
> --

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 *Mentor - Google Summer of Code 2018*

 *Co-Chair (WebVR Industry Committee) - VRAR Association*
 
 
 
  

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> [image: Developer in progress]
>>> Anmol Mishra
>>> Student | Developer in progress
>>> M: +91 9990752180 <+91+9990752180>
>>> E: anmolmishra.j...@gmail.com
>>> [image: facebook]  [image:
>>> twitter]  [image: linkedin]
>>>  [image: github]
>>>  [image: snapchat-ghost]
>>> 
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> *Divyanshu Rawat / Software Developer *
>> *divyanshu.r46...@gmail.com  / +41 779807546
>> / +91 8003856439*
>>
>> GSOC Mentor 2018 at Sugalabs, GCI 2017 Mentor at Sugar Labs
>> Stanford Scholar Initiative, *Harvard Innovation Labs, UnternehmerTUM
>> GmbH *
>> *www.divyanshurawat.me *
>>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer Of Code 2018

[Utkarsh Tiwari]

Hi,

Thanks for the update Divyanshu. From next time please mention the date as
well so as to avoid confusion for people from different time zones.

Regards,
Utkarsh Tiwari

On Sat, May 5, 2018, 12:26 AM divyanshu rawat 
wrote:

> So, I Shivank and Anmol will be having our gsoc meeting for project port
> to python 3 at 4:00 P.M IST tomorrow.
> The meeting will take place at #sugar-meeting
> All community members are invited to join as well.
>
> Best
> Divyanshu
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 10:13 PM, Anmol Mishra 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> The link to my blog associated with my project is
>> https://medium.com/anmolmishra-jiit/introduction-to-the-community-cc0416568ec2
>> .
>> Anything you would like me to change, I will be happy to know.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Shivang Shekhar 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anmol,
>>>
>>> Congratulations once again and looking forward to supporting you in this
>>> project.
>>> It may be possible that sometimes I am not available on IRC but to be
>>> sure you can reach me over mail at all times if you seek any help.
>>> All the best for the project and keep us posted.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 11:22 PM Anmol Mishra 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hello,
 I am happy to have you as one of my mentors for the project for Google
 Summer Of Code 2018. I seek your guidance and help. I will update you with
 the blog associated with my project. You can find me under nickname
 "octamois" at #sugar and IRC.

 Thanks and Regards


 --
 [image: Developer in progress]
 Anmol Mishra
 Student | Developer in progress
 M: +91 9990752180 <+91%209990752180>
 E: anmolmishra.j...@gmail.com
 [image: facebook]  [image:
 twitter]  [image: linkedin]
  [image: github]
  [image: snapchat-ghost]
 

 --
>>>
>>> *Shivang Shekhar*
>>>
>>> *Mentor - Google Summer of Code 2018*
>>>
>>> *Co-Chair (WebVR Industry Committee) - VRAR Association*
>>>   
>>> 
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> [image: Developer in progress]
>> Anmol Mishra
>> Student | Developer in progress
>> M: +91 9990752180 <+91+9990752180>
>> E: anmolmishra.j...@gmail.com
>> [image: facebook]  [image:
>> twitter]  [image: linkedin]
>>  [image: github]
>>  [image: snapchat-ghost]
>> 
>>
>> --
>
> *Divyanshu Rawat / Software Developer *
> *divyanshu.r46...@gmail.com  / +41 779807546 /
> +91 8003856439*
>
> GSOC Mentor 2018 at Sugalabs, GCI 2017 Mentor at Sugar Labs
> Stanford Scholar Initiative, *Harvard Innovation Labs, UnternehmerTUM
> GmbH *
> *www.divyanshurawat.me *
>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer Of Code 2018

[divyanshu rawat]

So, I Shivank and Anmol will be having our gsoc meeting for project port to
python 3 at 4:00 P.M IST tomorrow.
The meeting will take place at #sugar-meeting
All community members are invited to join as well.

Best
Divyanshu

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 10:13 PM, Anmol Mishra 
wrote:

> Hello,
> The link to my blog associated with my project is
> https://medium.com/anmolmishra-jiit/introduction-to-the-community-cc0416568ec2
> .
> Anything you would like me to change, I will be happy to know.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Shivang Shekhar 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Anmol,
>>
>> Congratulations once again and looking forward to supporting you in this
>> project.
>> It may be possible that sometimes I am not available on IRC but to be
>> sure you can reach me over mail at all times if you seek any help.
>> All the best for the project and keep us posted.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 11:22 PM Anmol Mishra 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am happy to have you as one of my mentors for the project for Google
>>> Summer Of Code 2018. I seek your guidance and help. I will update you with
>>> the blog associated with my project. You can find me under nickname
>>> "octamois" at #sugar and IRC.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> [image: Developer in progress]
>>> Anmol Mishra
>>> Student | Developer in progress
>>> M: +91 9990752180 <+91%209990752180>
>>> E: anmolmishra.j...@gmail.com
>>> [image: facebook]  [image:
>>> twitter]  [image: linkedin]
>>>  [image: github]
>>>  [image: snapchat-ghost]
>>> 
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> *Shivang Shekhar*
>>
>> *Mentor - Google Summer of Code 2018*
>>
>> *Co-Chair (WebVR Industry Committee) - VRAR Association*
>>   
>> 
>>  
>>
>
>
>
> --
> [image: Developer in progress]
> Anmol Mishra
> Student | Developer in progress
> M: +91 9990752180 <+91+9990752180>
> E: anmolmishra.j...@gmail.com
> [image: facebook]  [image:
> twitter]  [image: linkedin]
>  [image: github]
>  [image: snapchat-ghost]
> 
>
> --

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*divyanshu.r46...@gmail.com  / +41 779807546 /
+91 8003856439*

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Stanford Scholar Initiative, *Harvard Innovation Labs, UnternehmerTUM GmbH *
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2018

[Walter Bender]

We are still in the midst of wrapping up Google Code in -- almost 1200
students participating -- but we need to get moving quickly on Google
Summer of Code, as the application period closes on 23 January.

I've finished the boilerplate portion of the application and Devin Ulibarri
has agreed to be co-administrator this year.

* If you have interest in being a mentor this summer, please contact Devin
and me.
* If you have a project idea, please add it to the table in the wiki [1].
(If you are uncomfortable editing the wiki, feel free to email me.
* If you have any other suggestions/input, please share it with us and the
community.

regards and happy new year.

-walter


[1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2018

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit '17 Recap

[Samson Goddy]

Hello all,

It was indeed an interesting summit. Not just because it was my first time
in America, but i was able to meet with Michael and Cristina. Both of them
was awesome, we all supported and discuss Sugar to some folks in other
organizations.

I was able to meet with some folks on Oppia (an
Open Source Project where alot of educators hangout out and create
educational content), they are really interesting in making collaboration
with Sugar Labs and i believe it will be really awesome.

I was able to follow up Wolfgang from Catrobat at the Life Long
Kindergarten Group in at the MIT Media Lab. We discussed how Catrobat
project can be introduced in Sugar and Sugarizer.

Right now, i am still in Boston for some personal visits. I met with the
Scratch team and we discussed about Scratch 3.0 coming to Sugar and
Sugarizer. I already introduced Andrew (lead developer of the scratch 3.0)
into Sugar development team. He is on the mailing list(sugar-devel) and
making some research around sugar and sugarizer.

I also met with Bernie and Raúl. Unfortunately i didn't meet with Sameer
and OLPC SF team, there was fire around San Francisco which was really bad.

Just as Michael mentioned, we meet people(Karen and Brett) from SFC and
some projects under SFC too.

i will be heading back to Nigeria soon, but overall the Mentor summit was
fun and wonderful, it gave me the opportunity to meet with Cristina and
Michael(Both wonderful people).


Best Regards

Samson

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Michaël Ohayon 
wrote:

> Hi everyone !
>
> Last week was the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit '17 in Sunnyvale.
>
> Cristina, Samson and I had the luck to represent Sugar Labs !
>
> The summit is an unconference (Open-space conference, attendants do the
> sessions).
> The event started Friday ~6pm and ended Sunday ~4pm.
>
> You can find the session schedule here :
> https://sites.google.com/site/2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-
> of-events/saturday-session-schedule and here : https://sites.google.com/
> site/2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-of-events/sunday-session-schedule
>
> We had the opportunity to chat with many other participants (300+) from
> all other the world and their nice projects.
>
> There was a lightning talk session where I pitched about our participation
> in GSoC.
>
> Samson and I have been recorded by Google to give feedbacks and hints to
> students.
>
> If I had a chat to mention: Wolfgang from Catrobat who is making Pocket
> Code - https://www.catrobat.org/ (Free educational apps for children and
> teenagers)
> This was a very nice talk. We talked about what is Pocket Code and how it
> could be learned by teachers and integrated in our Sugarizer tablets
> deployment.
>
> We also met with people from the Software Freedom Conservancy and other
> related orgs. A small video has been shooted with everyone.
>
> To sum things up, It was a very nice summit with nice people and cool
> projects !
>
> I'm joining a few photos to this mail : https://drive.google.com/
> drive/folders/0B9I_5zzdPhgvM1R1YklvSU84N0k?usp=sharing
>
> Have a nice day everyone,
> Michael
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit '17 Recap

[Michaël Ohayon]

Hi everyone !

Last week was the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit '17 in Sunnyvale.

Cristina, Samson and I had the luck to represent Sugar Labs !

The summit is an unconference (Open-space conference, attendants do the
sessions).
The event started Friday ~6pm and ended Sunday ~4pm.

You can find the session schedule here :
https://sites.google.com/site/2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-of-events/saturday-session-schedule
and
here :
https://sites.google.com/site/2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-of-events/sunday-session-schedule

We had the opportunity to chat with many other participants (300+) from all
other the world and their nice projects.

There was a lightning talk session where I pitched about our participation
in GSoC.

Samson and I have been recorded by Google to give feedbacks and hints to
students.

If I had a chat to mention: Wolfgang from Catrobat who is making Pocket
Code - https://www.catrobat.org/ (Free educational apps for children and
teenagers)
This was a very nice talk. We talked about what is Pocket Code and how it
could be learned by teachers and integrated in our Sugarizer tablets
deployment.

We also met with people from the Software Freedom Conservancy and other
related orgs. A small video has been shooted with everyone.

To sum things up, It was a very nice summit with nice people and cool
projects !

I'm joining a few photos to this mail :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9I_5zzdPhgvM1R1YklvSU84N0k?usp=sharing

Have a nice day everyone,
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2017

[Devin Ulibarri]

Walter Bender:
> Anyone interested in either being a
> mentor or an administrator?

I am interested in being a mentor. I probably will not have time for
administrator this summer.

My goal is to finish the summer with a completely functional, stable
(and fun, of course) Music Blocks, which I believe is doable. I am
continuing efforts (testing charts, final mockups, etc) to try to set us
up for success in this endeavor.
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2017

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Charles  wrote:

> Hello Walter,
>
> I'm new to Sugar but have recently started working on contributions so
> Sugarizer and also to Sugar.  I would like to be involved in Sugar's GSOC
> this year as a mentor, or other.  I have the experience with Python and
> JavaScript, just not with Sugar all this time until now.  What is involved
> in being an administrator?
>

The admin role (we need two) is more about managing the logistics: ensuring
we are fulfilling all of our obligations as a participating organization in
terms of mentoring, reporting, etc.

-walter

>
> Thanks
> Charles Cosse
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Walter Bender 
> wrote:
>
>> We are still wrapping up GCI and already Google has announced that the
>> application window for Google Summer of Code [1] is open. Before I pursue
>> the possibility of Sugar Labs participating, I wanted to get a sense of the
>> opinion of the Sugar Labs community and the Sugar Labs oversight board.
>> Should I apply on behalf of Sugar Labs? Anyone interested in either being a
>> mentor or an administrator?
>>
>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>>
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>> 
>> [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2017

[Charles]

Hello Walter,

I'm new to Sugar but have recently started working on contributions so
Sugarizer and also to Sugar.  I would like to be involved in Sugar's GSOC
this year as a mentor, or other.  I have the experience with Python and
JavaScript, just not with Sugar all this time until now.  What is involved
in being an administrator?

Thanks
Charles Cosse

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Walter Bender 
wrote:

> We are still wrapping up GCI and already Google has announced that the
> application window for Google Summer of Code [1] is open. Before I pursue
> the possibility of Sugar Labs participating, I wanted to get a sense of the
> opinion of the Sugar Labs community and the Sugar Labs oversight board.
> Should I apply on behalf of Sugar Labs? Anyone interested in either being a
> mentor or an administrator?
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2017

[Walter Bender]

We are still wrapping up GCI and already Google has announced that the
application window for Google Summer of Code [1] is open. Before I pursue
the possibility of Sugar Labs participating, I wanted to get a sense of the
opinion of the Sugar Labs community and the Sugar Labs oversight board.
Should I apply on behalf of Sugar Labs? Anyone interested in either being a
mentor or an administrator?

regards.

-walter

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015

[Rohan Goel]

Dear Developers,

I am Rohan Goel ,  Computer Science undergraduate at BITS Pilani , India
and am interested in working for your organization in GSoC 2015. As I am a
beginner in open source coding , it would be great help if you guide me
where to start from. My primary language of interest is Python.



*Thanking You,*



*Rohan Goel*

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015

[Walter Bender]

Step 1 is to set up the developer environment (See developer.sugarlabs.org)
Step 2 is to start hanging out in our IRC channel.

regards.

-walter

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Rohan Goel rohangoel0...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Developers,

 I am Rohan Goel ,  Computer Science undergraduate at BITS Pilani , India
 and am interested in working for your organization in GSoC 2015. As I am a
 beginner in open source coding , it would be great help if you guide me
 where to start from. My primary language of interest is Python.



 *Thanking You,*



 *Rohan Goel*

 *Under Graduate, B.E. (Hons) Computer Science Birla Institute of
 Technology and Science, Pilani*
 *K.K Birla Goa Campus*
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Blog

[suraj ks]

Thanks for the input Walter and Manuel.
I've sent a mail to the planetmas...@sugarlabs.org
Awaiting confirmation.

And yes, I'll keep updating it as I progress.


On 16 July 2013 06:58, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:

 Having just gone through the process of writing my first JS Sugar
 activity, I think it would be good to document a few things that I
 found confusing. (Undoubtedly, much of my confusion stems from my
 unfamiliarity with JS.) Maybe you can add these tidbits, refined, to
 your blog:

 (1) It wasn't clear to me how to add new buttons to the toolbar. I needed
 to:
 * add the button to index.html
 button class=toolbutton id=new-button title=New/button
 * define the button style in css/activity.css
 #main-toolbar #new-button {
 background-image: url(../icons/new-button.svg);
 }
 * add the callback to js/activity.js
 var newButton = document.getElementById(new-button);
 newButton.onclick = function () {
 new_positions();
 }

 (2) I suspect this is usual stuff for JS programmers, but new to me: I
 used handlebars.js to define templates for some labels I wanted to
 position onto some graphics. Important for the dynamic allocation of
 elements that I use in many activities.
 * in index.html, I added a div to hold the elements I define from the
 template
 div id=labelDiv/div
 * in js/activity.js:
 // Create label elements for each of our dots
 template = Handlebars.compile(labelSource);
 var labelElem = document.getElementById(labelDiv);
 var html = template({labels:arrLabels});
 labelElem.innerHTML = html;

 (3) For my graphics, I used Easeljs [1]. Pretty straight forward.
 * Let me define graphical elements (i.e., sprites)
 * and a canvas for drawing

 -walter


 [1] http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS

 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM, suraj ks suraj.gilles...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I started writing a blog tracking the development of the my GSoC '13
 project
 
  Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5  here [1].
 
  Basically, I've summed up my understanding of the working of the
 framework.
 
  My initial plan was to post it on https://planet.gnome.org/ , but they
 seem
  to be very selective on what blogs are relayed on the channel.
  Since i started blogging very recently, I don't think I stand a chance of
  getting my blog posted there.
 
  It would be very helpful if someone from the community could relay it on
  planet.gnome.org.
 
  Will keep posting more stuffs in my blog as we progress.
 
 
  Cheers!
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Blog

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/7/15 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com:
 Having just gone through the process of writing my first JS Sugar
 activity, I think it would be good to document a few things that I
 found confusing. (Undoubtedly, much of my confusion stems from my
 unfamiliarity with JS.) Maybe you can add these tidbits, refined, to
 your blog:

 (1) It wasn't clear to me how to add new buttons to the toolbar. I needed to:
 * add the button to index.html
 button class=toolbutton id=new-button title=New/button
 * define the button style in css/activity.css
 #main-toolbar #new-button {
 background-image: url(../icons/new-button.svg);
 }
 * add the callback to js/activity.js
 var newButton = document.getElementById(new-button);
 newButton.onclick = function () {
 new_positions();
 }

 (2) I suspect this is usual stuff for JS programmers, but new to me: I
 used handlebars.js to define templates for some labels I wanted to
 position onto some graphics. Important for the dynamic allocation of
 elements that I use in many activities.
 * in index.html, I added a div to hold the elements I define from the template
 div id=labelDiv/div
 * in js/activity.js:
 // Create label elements for each of our dots
 template = Handlebars.compile(labelSource);
 var labelElem = document.getElementById(labelDiv);
 var html = template({labels:arrLabels});
 labelElem.innerHTML = html;

I would like to add this to sugar-docs.  Here is a pull request:

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/37

It adds a section First steps with subsections Adding a button to
the toolbar and Adding HTML content dinamically.

https://github.com/manuq/sugar-docs/blob/2180c25fbf829e2ffaa22a8a071b231323875184/activity.md#first-steps

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Blog

[suraj ks]

Hi,

I started writing a blog tracking the development of the my GSoC '13
project
Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5  here
[1]http://surajgillespie123.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/gsoc/
.
Basically, I've summed up my understanding of the working of the framework.

My initial plan was to post it on https://planet.gnome.org/ , but they seem
to be very selective on what blogs are relayed on the channel.
Since i started blogging very recently, I don't think I stand a chance of
getting my blog posted there.

It would be very helpful if someone from the community could relay it on
planet.gnome.org.

Will keep posting more stuffs in my blog as we progress.


Cheers!
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Blog

[Walter Bender]

don't forget to add it to planet.sl.o

-walter

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM, suraj ks suraj.gilles...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I started writing a blog tracking the development of the my GSoC '13 project

 Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5  here [1].

 Basically, I've summed up my understanding of the working of the framework.

 My initial plan was to post it on https://planet.gnome.org/ , but they seem
 to be very selective on what blogs are relayed on the channel.
 Since i started blogging very recently, I don't think I stand a chance of
 getting my blog posted there.

 It would be very helpful if someone from the community could relay it on
 planet.gnome.org.

 Will keep posting more stuffs in my blog as we progress.


 Cheers!
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code Blog

[Walter Bender]

Having just gone through the process of writing my first JS Sugar
activity, I think it would be good to document a few things that I
found confusing. (Undoubtedly, much of my confusion stems from my
unfamiliarity with JS.) Maybe you can add these tidbits, refined, to
your blog:

(1) It wasn't clear to me how to add new buttons to the toolbar. I needed to:
* add the button to index.html
button class=toolbutton id=new-button title=New/button
* define the button style in css/activity.css
#main-toolbar #new-button {
background-image: url(../icons/new-button.svg);
}
* add the callback to js/activity.js
var newButton = document.getElementById(new-button);
newButton.onclick = function () {
new_positions();
}

(2) I suspect this is usual stuff for JS programmers, but new to me: I
used handlebars.js to define templates for some labels I wanted to
position onto some graphics. Important for the dynamic allocation of
elements that I use in many activities.
* in index.html, I added a div to hold the elements I define from the template
div id=labelDiv/div
* in js/activity.js:
// Create label elements for each of our dots
template = Handlebars.compile(labelSource);
var labelElem = document.getElementById(labelDiv);
var html = template({labels:arrLabels});
labelElem.innerHTML = html;

(3) For my graphics, I used Easeljs [1]. Pretty straight forward.
* Let me define graphical elements (i.e., sprites)
* and a canvas for drawing

-walter


[1] http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM, suraj ks suraj.gilles...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I started writing a blog tracking the development of the my GSoC '13 project

 Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5  here [1].

 Basically, I've summed up my understanding of the working of the framework.

 My initial plan was to post it on https://planet.gnome.org/ , but they seem
 to be very selective on what blogs are relayed on the channel.
 Since i started blogging very recently, I don't think I stand a chance of
 getting my blog posted there.

 It would be very helpful if someone from the community could relay it on
 planet.gnome.org.

 Will keep posting more stuffs in my blog as we progress.


 Cheers!
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Walter Bender]

Congratulations to Casey, Erik, Rahul, Suraj, Kalpa, Marian, Anna, and
Akshit who are participating in Google Summer of Code this summer
working with mentors from Sugar Labs.

Details of their projects can be found on the Google website [1].

I'll be sending out an email regarding getting organized over the next
day or two.

To everyone who applied but was not selected, we appreciate your
effort and regret that we didn't have enough slots to accommodate your
projects. We welcome your participation regardless, so please join us
on IRC.

regards.

-walter

[1] 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Aneesh Dogra]

I'll be coming!


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Martin Abente 
martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote:

 See you all there :)


 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 I'll be there.
 Gerald


 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito 
 gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:




 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Remy DeCausemaker re...@civx.uswrote:

 I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
 --RemyD.


 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have
 a quick meeting Thursday evening on irc to discuss how we will get to our
 final decision on students. Would 6pm EST (22UTC) work for everyone? We
 need to keep this a private meeting for the moment, so let's agree to use
 #sugar-gsoc on irc.freenode.net?

 If you cannot attend, please send me any thoughts you'd like to share
 in advance.

 thanks.

 -walter


 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the
 next three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I
 don't know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so
 we are only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over
 the next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also
 to please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

 [1]
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Gerald Ardito]

Walter,

I am not going to be able to join. I completely agree with Gonzalo's list.

Gerald
On May 9, 2013 4:00 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:

 I will not be able to participate.
 Here are my votes:

 Open Video Chat Cross Platform Port (Casey DeLorme)

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/cdelorme/1

 Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard(Kalpa Welivitigoda)

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/callkalpa/24005

 SugarFramework_for_HTML_activities (Suraj)

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/suraj_gillespie/1

 I am unsure about the sharing site project two are very good:

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/argee/33002

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/axitkhurana/19002
 should be good if the candidates to mentor this task give opinion.

 Turtle Blocks Python export (Marion Zepf)
 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/mzepf/1

 Add recording to Music Keyboard activity (Anna Rudkovskaya)

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/anna_ru/1

 Implement Collaboration in Paint (prannoy)

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/prannoym/1

 Porting TamTam Suite to GTK3 (Hansel)

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/arastafiel/1

 Gonzalo


 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
 next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
 please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code - Slots assigned

[Aneesh Dogra]

Hello list,

We have been assigned 8 slots for Google summer of code. We have received
about 37 applications. Out of these around 20 applications are weak and we
don't really need to care about those. We have around 17 good enough
applications and we need to cut down that to 8.

I think the best thing would be to just discuss this over an IRC meeting.

I don't really know how is one supposed to setup a meeting and how the
timings are really decided. Maybe someone else can guide me on this?

We can host a meeting, invite all the possible mentors maybe even some
students to add something if you need to and then make our decisions. How
about it?

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code - Slots assigned

[Sebastian Silva]

Count me in!
Does the student get to decide who will mentor them when there is more 
than one mentor offering?

Regards,
Sebastian

El 08/05/13 01:35, Aneesh Dogra escribió:


Hello list,

We have been assigned 8 slots for Google summer of code. We have 
received about 37 applications. Out of these around 20 applications 
are weak and we don't really need to care about those. We have around 
17 good enough applications and we need to cut down that to 8.


I think the best thing would be to just discuss this over an IRC meeting.

I don't really know how is one supposed to setup a meeting and how the 
timings are really decided. Maybe someone else can guide me on this?


We can host a meeting, invite all the possible mentors maybe even some 
students to add something if you need to and then make our decisions. 
How about it?


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code - Slots assigned

[Samuel Greenfeld]

If you want to do anything public discussing the Summer of Code proposals,
you need to be careful while doing so.

Google does not want students notified of acceptance or rejection until
they announce it for every student on Monday, 27 May.

The tracking system is setup so Sugar Labs can draft acceptance and
rejection notices within it for the students without making that
information public.

At this point (although unlikely) the number of slots still can change.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Sebastian Silva
sebast...@fuentelibre.orgwrote:

  Count me in!
 Does the student get to decide who will mentor them when there is more
 than one mentor offering?
 Regards,
 Sebastian

 El 08/05/13 01:35, Aneesh Dogra escribió:

 Hello list,

 We have been assigned 8 slots for Google summer of code. We have received
 about 37 applications. Out of these around 20 applications are weak and we
 don't really need to care about those. We have around 17 good enough
 applications and we need to cut down that to 8.

 I think the best thing would be to just discuss this over an IRC meeting.

 I don't really know how is one supposed to setup a meeting and how the
 timings are really decided. Maybe someone else can guide me on this?

 We can host a meeting, invite all the possible mentors maybe even some
 students to add something if you need to and then make our decisions. How
 about it?

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Walter Bender]

As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have a
quick meeting Thursday evening on irc to discuss how we will get to our
final decision on students. Would 6pm EST (22UTC) work for everyone? We
need to keep this a private meeting for the moment, so let's agree to use
#sugar-gsoc on irc.freenode.net?

If you cannot attend, please send me any thoughts you'd like to share in
advance.

thanks.

-walter


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
 next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
 please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Remy DeCausemaker]

I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
--RemyD.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have a
 quick meeting Thursday evening on irc to discuss how we will get to our
 final decision on students. Would 6pm EST (22UTC) work for everyone? We
 need to keep this a private meeting for the moment, so let's agree to use
 #sugar-gsoc on irc.freenode.net?

 If you cannot attend, please send me any thoughts you'd like to share in
 advance.

 thanks.

 -walter


 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
 next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
 please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Remy DeCausemaker re...@civx.us wrote:

 I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
 --RemyD.


 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have a
 quick meeting Thursday evening on irc to discuss how we will get to our
 final decision on students. Would 6pm EST (22UTC) work for everyone? We
 need to keep this a private meeting for the moment, so let's agree to use
 #sugar-gsoc on irc.freenode.net?

 If you cannot attend, please send me any thoughts you'd like to share in
 advance.

 thanks.

 -walter


 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over
 the next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also
 to please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

I'll be there.
Gerald


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:




 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Remy DeCausemaker re...@civx.us wrote:

 I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
 --RemyD.


 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender 
 walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have a
 quick meeting Thursday evening on irc to discuss how we will get to our
 final decision on students. Would 6pm EST (22UTC) work for everyone? We
 need to keep this a private meeting for the moment, so let's agree to use
 #sugar-gsoc on irc.freenode.net?

 If you cannot attend, please send me any thoughts you'd like to share in
 advance.

 thanks.

 -walter


 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender 
 walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over
 the next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also
 to please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Martin Abente]

See you all there :)

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'll be there.
 Gerald


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  wrote:




 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Remy DeCausemaker re...@civx.us wrote:

 I will def be there. Congrats on getting additional slots :)
 --RemyD.


 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender 
 walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 As you probably have heard, we have 8 slots for GSoC. I'd like to have
 a quick meeting Thursday evening on irc to discuss how we will get to our
 final decision on students. Would 6pm EST (22UTC) work for everyone? We
 need to keep this a private meeting for the moment, so let's agree to use
 #sugar-gsoc on irc.freenode.net?

 If you cannot attend, please send me any thoughts you'd like to share
 in advance.

 thanks.

 -walter


 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender 
 walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over
 the next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also
 to please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Walter Bender]

We have just 24 hours to finish reviewing applications. Please take some
time to give a quick assessment of as many of the applications as you can
-- focus on the ones that you may be interested in mentoring, but also
please read any of the ones with reasonably high average ratings so as to
help us with the final culling.

regards.

-walter


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
 next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
 please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

 [1]
 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/dashboard/google/gsoc2013#proposals_submitted
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Walter,

I am trying to review these.
I applied as a mentor, but when I go to the dashboard link you posted
yesterday, I don't see any projects.
What should I do?
Thanks.
Gerald


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 We have just 24 hours to finish reviewing applications. Please take some
 time to give a quick assessment of as many of the applications as you can
 -- focus on the ones that you may be interested in mentoring, but also
 please read any of the ones with reasonably high average ratings so as to
 help us with the final culling.

 regards.

 -walter



 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
 next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
 please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote:

 Walter,

 I am trying to review these.
 I applied as a mentor, but when I go to the dashboard link you posted
 yesterday, I don't see any projects.
 What should I do?


Are you logged in? On your dashboard, there should be a link to
Proposals submitted to my
organizationshttp://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/dashboard/google/gsoc2013#proposals_submitted


-walter


 Thanks.
 Gerald


 On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 We have just 24 hours to finish reviewing applications. Please take some
 time to give a quick assessment of as many of the applications as you can
 -- focus on the ones that you may be interested in mentoring, but also
 please read any of the ones with reasonably high average ratings so as to
 help us with the final culling.

 regards.

 -walter



 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over
 the next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also
 to please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Walter Bender]

Sorry. I misread the email from Carol. We have more time for reviewing
applications. But we do need to decide on our amazing and desired
thresholds by tomorrow, so a first pass through the applications is
important. Thanks.

-walter


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 We have just 24 hours to finish reviewing applications. Please take some
 time to give a quick assessment of as many of the applications as you can
 -- focus on the ones that you may be interested in mentoring, but also
 please read any of the ones with reasonably high average ratings so as to
 help us with the final culling.

 regards.

 -walter



 On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
 three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
 know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
 only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

 Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
 next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
 please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
 ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

 Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
 * quality of the proposal
 * benefit to Sugar community
 * potential of the student to complete the task

 Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

 regards.

 walter

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Walter Bender]

Sugar Labs has 37 applications applications for GSoC. We have the next
three days to review the applications and rank them by preference. I don't
know yet how many slots we will get -- probably between 2 and 5, so we are
only going to be able to accept about one in ten applications.

Please, if you can please review as many applications as you can over the
next 48 hours and put your scores in the GSoC system at [1], and also to
please send to me, Gonzalo and Claudia any additional
ideas/thoughts/concerns, that would be very helpful.

Criteria you should consider in your reviews include:
* quality of the proposal
* benefit to Sugar community
* potential of the student to complete the task

Please feel free to ping me with any questions.

regards.

walter

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Walter Bender]

We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
[1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite project or sign on as
a co-mentor to an existing project. Also, feel free to help us refine
the descriptions on the pages. (I've added a bit of text to the end of
each project, describing how it benefits both Sugar and the student
working on the project. These blurbs need some refining.

The deadline is the 29th of this month, so please act in the next day or two.

-walter


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Jeff Elkner]

Wow, the list of proposals pretty well covers the things I'd like to
see happen as a classroom teacher!  I will be waiting with
anticipation for the Summer work to begin.

In order to contribute, I have a student this Summer who will be
completing his community college career studies certificate with a
course in Django application development.  I've already talked to him
about making something like a Turtle Blocks social networking site his
Summer project.  I see that is already one of the projects on the
list.  I'll be looking for help plugging him into this project as the
Summer approaches.

jeff elkner

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
 We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
 [1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite project or sign on as
 a co-mentor to an existing project. Also, feel free to help us refine
 the descriptions on the pages. (I've added a bit of text to the end of
 each project, describing how it benefits both Sugar and the student
 working on the project. These blurbs need some refining.

 The deadline is the 29th of this month, so please act in the next day or two.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Walter, 

I am looking over this list.
I am wondering about the requirements for a mentor.

Thanks.
Gerald


On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bender wrote:

 We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
 [1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite project or sign on as
 a co-mentor to an existing project. Also, feel free to help us refine
 the descriptions on the pages. (I've added a bit of text to the end of
 each project, describing how it benefits both Sugar and the student
 working on the project. These blurbs need some refining.
 
 The deadline is the 29th of this month, so please act in the next day or two.
 
 -walter
 
 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
 Walter,

 I am looking over this list.
 I am wondering about the requirements for a mentor.

(1) be a member of the community
(2) be willing to put in a few hours a week (a bit more time in the
beginning) keeping tabs of progress
(3) have some familiarity with the task at hand

We try to have multiple mentors per project both to lighten the load
and being more eyes and ears to the tasks.

-walter


 Thanks.
 Gerald

 On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bender wrote:

 We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
 [1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite project or sign on as
 a co-mentor to an existing project. Also, feel free to help us refine
 the descriptions on the pages. (I've added a bit of text to the end of
 each project, describing how it benefits both Sugar and the student
 working on the project. These blurbs need some refining.

 The deadline is the 29th of this month, so please act in the next day or
 two.

 -walter


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Martin Abente]

I just added my proposal, if anyone wants to join as co-mentor is welcome!

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
 gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
  Walter,
 
  I am looking over this list.
  I am wondering about the requirements for a mentor.

 (1) be a member of the community
 (2) be willing to put in a few hours a week (a bit more time in the
 beginning) keeping tabs of progress
 (3) have some familiarity with the task at hand

 We try to have multiple mentors per project both to lighten the load
 and being more eyes and ears to the tasks.

 -walter

 
  Thanks.
  Gerald
 
  On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
 
  We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
  [1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite project or sign on as
  a co-mentor to an existing project. Also, feel free to help us refine
  the descriptions on the pages. (I've added a bit of text to the end of
  each project, describing how it benefits both Sugar and the student
  working on the project. These blurbs need some refining.
 
  The deadline is the 29th of this month, so please act in the next day or
  two.
 
  -walter
 
 
  [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2013
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of code starts accepting org applications today!

[Alexandro Colorado]

*Google Summer of Code* is a global program that offers students stipends
to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source
community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

Mentoring Organization Applications Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of
Code 
2013!http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/03/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of code starts accepting org applications today!

[Rafael Ortiz]

Yep..

We need more proposals and mentors at:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2013

Cheers.


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:

 *Google Summer of Code* is a global program that offers students stipends
 to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source
 community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.

 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

 Mentoring Organization Applications Now Being Accepted for Google Summer
 of Code 
 2013!http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/03/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code (GSOC) important

[Walter Bender]

First, thanks to everyone who has proposed a project on our GSOC page
for 2012 [1]. We are still open to more ideas. (Note that adding a
project is not a binding commitment -- just a way to express your
interest.) We are still looking for co-mentors for most of the
projects. Please add your name if you think you could help with the
mentoring of any of the projects. (Note: there is no limit to how many
mentors we can have.)

*IMPORTANT*

All mentors must register on the GSOC website [2] before March 16. It
just takes a minute, but it is required for our application to be
considered complete. Our organization id is sugarlabs

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

regards.

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[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2012
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code (GSOC) important

[Jeff Elkner]

Any chance you could send us a direct link to the mentor registration
form?  I went looking for it, but quickly got lost in the wealth of
documentation there.

Thanks!

jeff elkner

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
 First, thanks to everyone who has proposed a project on our GSOC page
 for 2012 [1]. We are still open to more ideas. (Note that adding a
 project is not a binding commitment -- just a way to express your
 interest.) We are still looking for co-mentors for most of the
 projects. Please add your name if you think you could help with the
 mentoring of any of the projects. (Note: there is no limit to how many
 mentors we can have.)

 *IMPORTANT*

 All mentors must register on the GSOC website [2] before March 16. It
 just takes a minute, but it is required for our application to be
 considered complete. Our organization id is sugarlabs

 Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

 regards.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code (GSOC) important

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote:
 Any chance you could send us a direct link to the mentor registration
 form?  I went looking for it, but quickly got lost in the wealth of
 documentation there.

I am not sure how to find it. I think you just need to create an
account on Melange??? The documentation for GSOC is not exactly
friendly :(

In any case, I will ask on their irc channel and report back.

-walter


 Thanks!

 jeff elkner

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 wrote:
 First, thanks to everyone who has proposed a project on our GSOC page
 for 2012 [1]. We are still open to more ideas. (Note that adding a
 project is not a binding commitment -- just a way to express your
 interest.) We are still looking for co-mentors for most of the
 projects. Please add your name if you think you could help with the
 mentoring of any of the projects. (Note: there is no limit to how many
 mentors we can have.)

 *IMPORTANT*

 All mentors must register on the GSOC website [2] before March 16. It
 just takes a minute, but it is required for our application to be
 considered complete. Our organization id is sugarlabs

 Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

 regards.

 -walter

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code mentors

[Walter Bender]

We've accumulated a number of interesting projects here [1]. More are
welcome, but we are also seeking mentors. If you see a project you
would be interested in helping to mentor, please add your name next to
the Contact name as a Co-mentor. We can have as many mentors as we
want, so don't be shy.

regards.

-walter

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2012#Project_candidates

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Walter Bender]

It is that time of year again. We need to start soliciting
participants in Google Summer of Code [1, 2]. We also need to organize
our application to the program as a mentoring organization. Please
contact me if you are interested in participating as a coder, a
mentor, or administrator.

regards.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:

 It is that time of year again. We need to start soliciting
 participants in Google Summer of Code [1, 2]. We also need to organize
 our application to the program as a mentoring organization. Please
 contact me if you are interested in participating as a coder, a
 mentor, or administrator.

 regards.


In this stage is very important to have numerous ideas for projects in our
wiki.

Something similar to:

 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010

 -walter

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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Peter Robinson]

Hi All,

I can't remember if SL participates in the GSOC but I've noticed they're
starting to gear up for GSOC 2010 so it might be worthwhile starting to
think about it from the SL perspective.

Peter
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hello Peter.



On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,
 I can't remember if SL participates in the GSOC but I've noticed they're
 starting to gear up for GSOC 2010 so it might be worthwhile starting to
 think about it from the SL perspective.
 Peter

SL participated successfully in last year GSOC

More info here

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Andrés Ambrois]

On Tuesday 02 February 2010 03:20:52 am Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
 Hello Peter.
 
 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi All,
  I can't remember if SL participates in the GSOC but I've noticed they're
  starting to gear up for GSOC 2010 so it might be worthwhile starting to
  think about it from the SL perspective.
  Peter

See this mail for more info:

http://bit.ly/9hFpcb

In a nutshell:

We will begin accepting application from would-be mentoring organizations 
beginning March 8th at approximately 19:00 UTC, with applications closing on 
March 12th at 23:00 UTC. Students can apply between 19:00 UTC on March 29th to 
19:00 UTC on April 9th.

 SL participated successfully in last year GSOC
 
 More info here
 
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code
 
 
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis (Small Achievment)

[chirag jain]

Hi!!

I am Chirag Jain. I  am proposing for Speech Synthesis at GSoC 2009.
For more information and suggestions please visit:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis

Recently I have prepared a small code in python that can speak any
text selected anywhere in any window.

I have mentioned the code in my proposal also.

If you have any suggestions please mail me.

Attaching the source

Regards
Chirag Jain

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 From: Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com
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 This looks quite interesting. Have you looked at what Fedora is
 introducing with DeviceKit-power and fellows in Fedora 11. It would be
 interesting to see the similarities in features to help minimise
 duplication of effort and to piggy back off Redhat's development
 resources. They are using it to push alot of the functionality of
 gnome-power-manager lower down into the stack which in turn means any
 device such as servers/kde/whatever can make use of it. More details
 can be seen here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit

 Peter

 On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM,  p...@laptop.org wrote:
 hi --

 i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a
 reimplementation of much (but not all) of what ohmd does
 currently.

 i've thought for some time (and i believe cjb agrees) that ohmd
 is needlessly difficult to maintain and modify for our purposes
 on the XO. ?small improvements are difficult to implement
 quickly.

 since my heart is with more quasi-embedded systems than the XO's
 current incarnation, part of my goal was to do a rewrite which
 was not dependent on hald, dbus, or X11 -- power management
 should work well from a console screen, and be available even if
 none of those services is running.

 i call the service i wrote powerd. ?it gets user idle/active
 reports from the olpc-kbdshim daemon (which is watching all
 user keypress and touchpad activity in any case), and it gets
 reports regarding the hardware inputs (power button, lid and
 ebook switches, ac adapter status, battery level, etc) either
 from another small daemon that monitors /dev/input/event{0,1,2},
 or from /sys nodes directly.

 it basically recreates ohmd's dim after a bit, then sleep
 behavior, with some additions:

 ?- a power button splash screen: ?a second press of the power
 ? ? button invokes shutdown, simply waiting for a brief timeout
 ? ? invokes suspend, and any user activity cancels. ?(i even
 ? ? managed to kinda sorta convey all that with graphics. ?i'm
 ? ? sure every UI person that sees it will roll their eyes.)

 ?- configurable timeouts for screen dim and sleep. ?the dim
 ? ?level is configurable.

 ?- different power management behavior when on wall power vs.
 ? ?battery -- many laptop owners don't need to be miserly with
 ? ?power when running from an external source. ?powerd makes
 ? ?this behavior selectable.

 ?- different power behavior when in ebook mode (though detection
 ? ?may be unreliable -- i think the ebook switch suffers from
 ? ?some issues we previously noticed with the lid switch). ?this
 ? ?should let you configure things like a very short timeout until
 ? ?idle-suspend, and/or no screen dimming, when in ebook mode. ?(i
 ? ?find the frequent on/off nature of the backlight when reading
 ? ?in ebook mode to be a distraction.)

 

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

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chirag jain wrote:
 The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any
 ideas or suggestions please reply.

It sounds like a good plan to me.  On my XO, build candidate-801 (8.2.1),
I can easily do:

yum install xclip
[select some text]
xclip -o | espeak --stdin

All you have to do is wrap this up in a frame device, like the volume
control or battery meter, and you're done!

Bonus: reimplement using pygst, the gstreamer speak plugin, and pyx11 or
libX11, so that xclip isn't needed and you don't need to spawn a new
process every time.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote:
 Hi!!
 
 I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look at:
 
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis
 
 Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home
 button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text
 in current window and presses the speech button, the selected text is
 speaked out.
I'm sure we should expand this simple idea to full-featured support
of assistive technologies in sugar

 The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any
 ideas or suggestions please reply.
I've just started orca[1] and regular gnome-terminal.. and it doesnt
use any special buttons(in gnome-terminal) -- i think thats the way
sugar should follow.

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/orca/

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive
technology.  But having a buttonless mode is a good idea.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.orgwrote:

 On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote:
  Hi!!
 
  I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look
 at:
 
  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis
 
  Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home
  button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text
  in current window and presses the speech button, the selected text is
  speaked out.
 I'm sure we should expand this simple idea to full-featured support
 of assistive technologies in sugar

  The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any
  ideas or suggestions please reply.
 I've just started orca[1] and regular gnome-terminal.. and it doesnt
 use any special buttons(in gnome-terminal) -- i think thats the way
 sugar should follow.

 [1] http://projects.gnome.org/orca/

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech Synthesis

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:51:44PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
 This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive
 technology.  But having a buttonless mode is a good idea.
yeah looks like, but assistive technologies could be a good point 
for sugar-0.86 anyway :)

chirag:
did you see StarDict http://stardict.sourceforge.net/ -- this dictionary
(in fact only shell for dictionaries) could use TTS to speech selected text --
when you selected any text and pressed special key(or mouse button)
stardict would popup window with translation and use TTS to pronounce it,
you could use this method.. or just sugarize StarDict :)

 
 On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.orgwrote:
 
  On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote:
   Hi!!
  
   I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look
  at:
  
   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis
  
   Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home
   button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text
   in current window and presses the speech button, the selected text is
   speaked out.
  I'm sure we should expand this simple idea to full-featured support
  of assistive technologies in sugar
 
   The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any
   ideas or suggestions please reply.
  I've just started orca[1] and regular gnome-terminal.. and it doesnt
  use any special buttons(in gnome-terminal) -- i think thats the way
  sugar should follow.
 
  [1] http://projects.gnome.org/orca/
 
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[Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code proposal: Speech synthesis in core sugar (Chirag Jain)

[chirag jain]

Hi!!
I am an undergraduate student from Netaji Subash Insititute of
Technology, New Delhi. I am interested in the speech synthesis project
in GSoC.
My project aims at speech synthesis in core sugar. Means it will
provide a basic functionality to sugar by which any text can be speak
out. Not only this, my project also aims at providing a UI for the
configuration of speech.
This activity can be a great language learning tool for children of age 6-15.

I discussed a lot with alsroot, assimd and besmac on IRC. The main
points of discussion are:

1. The main aim of sugar in speech synthesis is to integrate the
speech in core sugar.

2. Integrating speech in core sugar means providing a speech generator
as a basic functionality in sugar. Thus if there is any window
containing a text is open in sugar then the selected text can be read
out by the application running behind.

3. The other aim is to develop a GUI for speech configuration which
will also act as a configuration mangement tool.

4. Now in this tool, basic facilities like changing the volume, pitch,
voice, accent, language etc can be included.

5. Accent acording to locale is yet another important feature that
sugar aims at in the speech synthesis. Espeak already provides
different accents for different languages.

6. Another nice idea that assimd suggested is a keyboard speaker.
Means whenever a user presses any of the key, the activity speaks it
out.

Some rough ideas of implementation:

7. There are two options for using a layer over TTS engine espeak, one
is a speech dispatcher which was the OLPC's last year GSoC project and
other is the gstreamer plugin espeak.

8. Both of these use espeak. Listen and Spell uses the speechd. But
when I discussed it with alsroot on IRC, he told me that using a
speechd is a bad idea becaue it has become a system daemon and
requires root privileges to work. Therefoe using gstreamer plugin is
the only and best idea.

9. Now to implement speech in sugar core is a tough task which is yet
to be worked out. But one idea is to use clipboard module which takes
care of copy paste in sugar. So using this module the entire selected
text can be sent to the speech activity that it can speak out.

10. For the keyboard speaker, we can simply store the keystrokes in a
file and then send the file to the speech generator.

11. The basic idea is to provide a read button in core sugar (like a
home button) which is always there. So that if a user selects any of
the text in the current window and presses the button it gets speak
out.

Issues:

12. How to provide karoke style coloring?

Although I am still working on it.If you have any nice idea or
suggestion then please do reply

Regards

Chirag
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[Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code proposal: Improvements in Listen and Spell (Chirag Jain)

[chirag jain]

Hi,

I am a second year computer science student at NSIT. I am looking to
participate in GSoC this year. I am interested in Listen Spell project. I am
in contact with its potential mentor Mr. Assim Deodia. Based on the
conversation and discussion with him I have created an idea list related to
listen and spell that can be implemented in the activity.

1. We can include a sub-activity called 'Fast Write'.
*'Fast Spell'
 *Activity will speak some random words for user entered time and of
user entered level. After speaking each word the user will get some time to
spell the word. The time can be   indicated by a decreasing counting the
seconds. If the user spells the word correctly in the stipulated time then
he will get some points. This activity can be extended to multiple XO's.
*

*2. Similar to above we can include a sub-activity called 'Test Time'.
*'Test Time'


*In this activity, a teacher can enter some words or paragraphs as a test
for students. Each student's XO will then slowly speak the word or the
paragraph for stipulated time and the student will have to spell the word.
Then a score based on how many correct words a student spells can be
generated.

3. *Add
*
We can let the user to add his own words in the dictionary. Not only a
student, but a teacher can also add some words in all the student's XO's
through his own XO.

4. *'Typing Tutor'

 *We can create a simple typing tutor in which the activity will speak
the paragraph and the student will have to spell. This will continue for
student entered time or can be a fixed. Now a score based on Words per
minute and accuracy can be generated.

The above ideas are very rough. The GUI can be like this:

 A menu displaying the sub-activities.
*1. Fast Spell

2. Test Time


3. Typing tutor

4. Add Words


*can be more

If you think that any of the idea is impractical or if u like to suggest
some new ideas then please do reply

Regards

Chirag  jain
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code?

[Mel Chua]

 2009/3/8 Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com:
  No definite agreement has been made, but in preliminary chats, it seems
  that both organizations agree that anything for XS or specific to XO
 hardware
  should go in OLPC, and everything else (general Sugar improvements,
  frameworks, or activities) should go in Sugarlabs.

 We discussed this at XO camp, and people from Sugar Labs were
 considering not supporting activity development and focusing on core
 sugar development.


This is correct.


 Has this changed? In general, do you expect that
 priorities for toolchain and activity development will be the same?


In general, sugar-core and toolchain development is a higher priority than
generative Activity development (Activities that lower the barrier to
Activity development). It's highly unlikely that non-generative Activity
development will be supported.


 I expect that many activity development and student projects
 interested in working with current schools will apply for both OLPC
 and Sugar Labs projects; they are welcome to apply to both, and those
 doing work relevant to Sugar should be encouraged to!  Applying to
 multiple GSOC groups is standard practice; students do not need to
 choose.  We had a couple of students last year who ended up working on
 OLPC related projects for other orgs.


Yup, I remember that. :) We talked with Cjb about shuttling relevant apps
back and forth as needed - what we're doing right now is setting up
guidelines that will hopefully minimize the amount of sorting that's needed,
then waiting for students to come in, then sorting. Double-apping is not a
problem.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code?

[Jameson Quinn]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:


 2009/3/8 Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com:
  No definite agreement has been made, but in preliminary chats, it seems
  that both organizations agree that anything for XS or specific to XO
 hardware
  should go in OLPC, and everything else (general Sugar improvements,
  frameworks, or activities) should go in Sugarlabs.

 We discussed this at XO camp, and people from Sugar Labs were
 considering not supporting activity development and focusing on core
 sugar development.


 This is correct.


 Has this changed? In general, do you expect that
 priorities for toolchain and activity development will be the same?


 In general, sugar-core and toolchain development is a higher priority than
 generative Activity development (Activities that lower the barrier to
 Activity development). It's highly unlikely that non-generative Activity
 development will be supported.


Honestly, this is news to me. (and I am the co-administrator of the
Sugarlabs program). If I had to articulate my view of our priorities, it
would be something like the following:

7-10 points: Key sugar core improvements. Long-standing, important gaps like
versioning or unit-tests at the high end of this.
6-9 points: Activity frameworks to open new forms of activity development
(in descending priority: javascript/AJAX, swf, improved PyGTK tools such as
Develop activity, mono or java)
4-8 points: Core activities: For instance, Nepal has expressed the need for
an improved Read.
3-6 points: Quality non-core educational activities: a physics sim or other
creative idea.
0-8 points: Proposal quality.

In other words, an excellent proposal from a highly-qualified student could
very well make the cut, even if it were a non-core activity.

Jameson (whose daughter likes colors)
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code?

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Jameson Quinn wrote:
 Honestly, this is news to me. (and I am the co-administrator of the
 Sugarlabs program). If I had to articulate my view of our priorities, it
 would be something like the following:
 
 7-10 points: Key sugar core improvements. Long-standing, important gaps like
 versioning or unit-tests at the high end of this.

As others have pointed out many times, the SoC projects that are least
likely to produce useful results are the ones that are the most ambitious.
 In particular, it is difficult to find SoC applicants who are ready to
make deep modifications to an existing codebase, or will be able to
architect complex software.  Remember, SoC applicants are mostly current
undergrads, so most have never participated in multi-person development
effort, or written anything larger than 1000 lines.

 0-8 points: Proposal quality.

Maybe this problem is wrapped up in Proposal quality.  If I were
designing a system to reflect my own internal judgment structure, I would
probably add another /multiplying/ factor, the estimated probability of
success (although I hope we can do selection without resorting to
numerical scores.)

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Google summer of Code?

[Jameson Quinn]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz 
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:

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 Jameson Quinn wrote:
  Honestly, this is news to me. (and I am the co-administrator of the
  Sugarlabs program). If I had to articulate my view of our priorities, it
  would be something like the following:
 
  7-10 points: Key sugar core improvements. Long-standing, important gaps
 like
  versioning or unit-tests at the high end of this.

 As others have pointed out many times, the SoC projects that are least
 likely to produce useful results are the ones that are the most ambitious.
  In particular, it is difficult to find SoC applicants who are ready to
 make deep modifications to an existing codebase, or will be able to
 architect complex software.  Remember, SoC applicants are mostly current
 undergrads, so most have never participated in multi-person development
 effort, or written anything larger than 1000 lines.


Agreed. However, I think that a relatively-skilled GSoC student could take
on one of the tasks I mentioned. Versioning could build on CScott's OLPCFS2,
which AFAIK works remarkably well; it really only needs an interface and
maybe a converter. Unit tests require a harness (and Sugarbot already
exists) and a couple of demo self-tests of the harness; the tests themselves
would be a separate story. Yet it is true, both of these would still be
ambitious, and would probably be scored down because of it.




  0-8 points: Proposal quality.

 Maybe this problem is wrapped up in Proposal quality.  If I were
 designing a system to reflect my own internal judgment structure, I would
 probably add another /multiplying/ factor, the estimated probability of
 success (although I hope we can do selection without resorting to
 numerical scores.)


I agree. The numbers are only a way of communicating, not a proposed system
for choosing.
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