On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 15:09, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > ==Sugar Digest== > > 1. Microsoft To Open Source Windows > [http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/72690] was the April Fools > Day spoof announcement that got more press, but Sam Greenfeld's spoof > is a lot less obvious and a lot more engaging (See the email thread: > Possible XO Graphics Optimization Technique > [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-April/031679.html]). > > 2. I have been fielding input regarding the 4th Grade Math project > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team) and the Sugar math collection > [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/math]. There > are still some missing activities, but it is by-and-large a rich list. > Next, we need to fill in the table correlating the activities with the > curricula goals (Please contribute at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/Resources/Curriculum_Chart). > > 3. Compare the relative interest of XO and Justin Bieber in Uruguay > [http://www.google.com/intl/es-419/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/uy.html] > and Mexico > [http://www.google.com/intl/es-419/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/mx.html]. > While there is obviously a vast difference in access to XOs between > the two countries, it raises the question of whether we can use > measures such as these as an indicator of how access to computing > changes culture, and it suggests another tool we can use in assessing > impact. > > ===In the community=== > > 4. Sugar will be at Linux Tag (See > [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2011]]). > > ===Help Wanted=== > > 5. Chris Leonard sent a note to the Localization list requesting help > transferring strings to Glucose 0.92. Please see his email > [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/localization/2011-April/002879.html] > for details. > > ===Tech Talk=== > > 6. Dextrose 2.0 has been released. Many thanks to Ceibal, Educa > Paraguay, Activity Central, and the Sugar community (See > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/Dextrose).
The link is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose (missing 'go') > > 7. While OLPC continues its work on XO 1.75, an ARM-based version of > the laptop, community members have been experimenting with Sugar on > other ARM platforms. William Schaub has Sugar running on a Genesi > Efika MX smartbook [http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/]and Samy > Boutayeb has Sugar running on the Toshiba AC100 > [http://salaliitto.com/~gildean/ac100/wiki/phh/]. > > ===Sugar Labs=== > > Visit our planet [http://planet.sugarlabs.org] for more updates about > Sugar and Sugar deployments. > > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Anish | [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
