On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > == Sugar Digest == > > “Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, > but do not doubt yourself.” > (Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; > doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.) > -André Gide > > It has been a very exciting week. (You may have noticed, I don't often > use adverbs, but "very" was called for given all that has happened.) > > 1. Simon Schampijer announced the release of Sugar 0.98. This is a > major milestone for Sugar Labs as it is the first release that takes > touch seriously. It also incorportates many improvements to the GTK3 > port. The Sugar Developer Team deserves a resounding celebatory cheer > of thanks for a their effort. Read the release notes here [1]. (Note > that OLPC has been incorporating Sugar 0.98 in their 13.1 series of > builds, available for download here [2] to run on XO hardware.)
It will also appear in the next nightly build of SoaS v8, I'll provide a link when it's available. > 2. Google Code-In [3] began on Monday. We have 22 mentors [4], 40 > students [5], and 79 out of 132 tasks already completed [6]. (More > tasks are coming on-line soon.) The contest runs for 6 weeks, so it is > not too late to sign up as a mentor [7] and to recruit students to > participate [8]. Some highlights include new tutorials for Turtle Art, > using Sugar in a Virtual Machine, and using Sugar on a Stick; a new > feature: load a background image on the home screen; and numerous > patches in support of internationalization. Some of the usual suspects > are making their usual outstanding contributions, while some new > talent is also emerging. Thanks to everyone (mentors, students, and > Google) for participating. I'd be interested in what's happening on SoaS. > 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board > early next month. If you are interested in running for one of the open > board seats, open to any community member, please contact me or the > membership committee with any questions *before* 7 December. > > === Tech Talk === > > 4. Aleksey Lim announced the Sugar Network 0.7 development release. > See [9] for details on how to try it. > > === Sugar Labs === > > Visit our planet [10] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.98/Notes > [2] http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/ > [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > [4] > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_orgs_mentors > [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org_scores/google/gci2012/sugarlabs2012 > [6] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_org_tasks > [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Mentors > [8] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Students > [9] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network#Try_it > [10] http://planet.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
