Two questions: 1). I cannot find the Request To Be A Mentor form on the Google Code-In site. I have a Gmail account so it looks like account-wise I'm all set.
2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? James Simmons On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]>wrote: > == Sugar Digest == > > 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate > in Google Code In [1]. We join, among others, our colleagues at Fedora > et al., in soliciting the participation of high-school (and in our > case, middle-school) students to work on projects during a six-week > sprint beginning on November 26. This is a great chance for the youth > who have been so instrumental in our growth over the past year to show > off their talents to the world (and two of them will hopefully win a > trip to visit Google). Please help Chris Leonard and me finalize the > project and mentor lists over the next few days. (We are offering > coding projects, documentation and training projects, outreach, > quality assurance, and user interface, so even if you are not a > developer, you likely have some skills to devote to the Code In. > > NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the > Request to be a Mentor form. > > NOTE TO COMMUNITY: Please add to our task lists [2] and please recruit > participants. > > 2. I am in transit back to Boston from a 3-day trip to Chihuahua, > Mexico. I gave a lecture on Sugar at Campuslink 2.0, the annual tech > conference at UACH. I had a lot of fun with the faculty and students > and even managed to squeeze in a short tutorial on hacking Sugar on my > way to the airport this morning. I am looking forward to growing > participation in the Sugar community. (Note to CJL: they are very > interested in providing Rarámuri language support for Sugar.) > > 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board > early next month. In anticipation of the election, I urge you to sign > up for membership in the Sugar community. You need not be a software > developer to join: contributions come in many forms, including: > teaching, documenting, promoting, supporting, etc. (Note: there is no > membership fee.) So, if you are not already a member, please sign up > at [3] before 23 November. > > "If you're wondering whether you meet the requirements, if you're a > teacher using Sugar in your classroom, regularly reading mailing > lists, or have discussed Sugar in IRC, you probably do." > > If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open > to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the > membership committee with any questions before 7 December. > > 4. Irma Alvarez has completed Fructose (and Dextrose) translations of > Sugar into Quechua. Next up: the Honey strings. > > === In the community === > > 5. The python-joven (Python youth) community has been busy. A number > of Sugar and GNOME-related workshops were given last week: > > * Introduction to Gtk 3 (Ignacio Rodriguez and Flavio Danesse) > * Game Development on glucose (Ezekiel Pereira) > * My text editor for GNOME (on gtk 2) (Cristian Garcia) > * Sugar (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) > * Playing with python on my phone (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) > * A media player on Gstreamer 1.0 (Flavio Danesse) > * A Client Server program (Flavio Danesse) > > 6. Worth a read: a blog from a new Sugar community member [4] > > === Tech Talk === > > 7. The latest Butia project by Nicolas Furquez and Rafael Sisto is > pretty cool: [5]. > > === Sugar Labs === > > Visit our planet [6] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. > > ---- > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012 > [3] > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership > [4] > http://jutanclan.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-laptop-per-child-here-we-go.html?spref=fb > [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9ZhQYIwVg&feature=relmfu > [6] 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 >
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