On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Sebastian Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Also today, > We'd like to share with the Sugar community our feeling of rejoice since > the objectives of the Sugar Camp Lima 2011 have been accomplished: > http://sugarcamp.somosazucar.org/ > > We're very grateful for the contribution of such a select team and very > proud to have contributed work to upstream projects.
Glad to hear that things have gone well. I know from IRC that Bernie and Chris have been giving their all. I have no doubt that other Sugaristas are working hard as well. Nice to see some .que and .aym strings landing. -walter -walter > > Hopefully we'll make it to your next digest :P > Sebastian > somosAZUCAR > Sugar Labs Peru > > El 20/11/11 00:04, Walter Bender escribió: >> >> == Sugar Digest == >> >> 1. The Learning Team held a discussion about the Portfolio activity >> this week, which prompted me to make some enhancements. One request >> was the ability to export your portfolio to a PDF file. It turns out >> that Cairo supports a PDF surface, making it really easy to export >> PDF. So one nice by product of moving Sugar activities to Cairo >> graphics -- which is a necessary step in our migration to GTK3 -- is >> that it will be much easier to enable activities to export files to >> the Journal for printing. The other feature I added was the ability to >> make voice annotations on each page in your portfolio. These voice >> notes are played back when the portfolio is viewed. They are also >> saved went the contents are exported to HTML. Alas, PDF does not >> support audio, as far as I know. Please try Portfolio [1] and give me >> feedback as to how I can improve it. >> >> 2. Monday is the deadline for new feature proposals for Sugar 0.96. >> There are a number of proposals that have already been submitted (See >> [2]). Gonzalo Godiard and I have aggregated a number of proposals >> concerning the Journal in a collector page [3]. These proposed >> features are a result of the past month of discussion with the >> Learning Team. Additional feedback on these and all of the new-feature >> proposal is most welcome. Please add to the discussion on the "Talk" >> page of each individual proposal. >> >> 3. I mentioned last week that I wrote a plugin for Turtle Blocks that >> adds a palette for creating models for the Physics activity. (Physics >> uses a 2D engine called Box2D [4].) I've made a few additions this >> week, including a block that creates a gear. Building a simple machine >> should be a bit easier than trying to use the tools exposed by >> Physics. Of course, there are limits to what one can do with a simple. >> Working directly with sensors may be a more productive approach. But I >> have to say, it is really fun to create Box2D models in Turtle Blocks. >> (See [5] for more details on how to load the plugin and run it.) >> >> It is difficult to strike a balance between giving the student a tool >> and giving the student the skills to make tools. I've wrestled with >> this quite a bit in Turtle Art over the years. Lately, I am leaning >> more towards exposing more functionality in the form of predefined >> blocks than asking that these blocks be built by the user. For >> example, I recently added blocks for getting mouse x,y coordinates, >> whereas before, I shipped Python code that could be loaded by the user >> to accomplish the same thing. Of course, View Source is still >> available. But where to draw the line is not obvious, at least to me. >> >> 4. Cherry Withers pointed out Mr Steve's Exploratorium Blog earlier >> this week, but I thought it merited mentioning it again (See [6]). >> >> === Sugar Labs === >> >> Gary Martin has generated SOMs from the past few weeks of discussion >> on the IAEP mailing list. >> >> 2011 Nov 5th - Nov 11 (80 emails) [7] >> >> Visit our planet [8] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. >> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Portfolio >> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features >> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Journal_features_for_0.96 >> [4] [http://box2d.org/ >> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt#Plugins >> [6] http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html >> [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2011-Nov-5-11.jpg >> [8] http://planet.sugarlabs.org >> >> >> -walter >> > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
