The background contest doesn't specify the deadline for submitting a background, what's the deadline? On Apr 2, 2014 3:36 AM, "Walter Bender" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ==Sugar Digest== > > 1. Daniel Narvaez just released Sugar 0.101.6 (unstable). See [1] for > detailed notes on changes since Sugar 0.100. The tarfiles are > available at [2-4] and new test builds are being prepared (keep an eye > on [5]). We've entered Feature Freeze (which had been extended by > three weeks to enable us to land a few more features). Time to chase > down bugs. Tip-of-the-hat to Gonzalo Odiard, Martin Abente, and Manuel > Quiñones, who put so much effort into getting the last few features > over the hump. Also, an extraordinary number of new features were > contributed by our Google Code-in students: special kudos to Emil > Dudev, Ignacio Rodriguez, and Sam Parkinson. Finally, it was really > nice to see so many first-time contributors. > > 2. Gonzalo has made some videos demonstrating the new features in both > Sugar 100 [6] and Sugar 102 [7]. > > 3. We are reviewing Google Summer of Code applications. We had 35 > applicants this year. We'll know in a few weeks how many slots we get > from Google. > > 4. I traveled to Colombia a few weeks ago with Claudia Urrea to visit > a wonderful ANSPE project in Chia being run by Aura Mora [8]. Saw some > old friends (Sebastian Silva, Laura Vargas, and Sandra Barragán) and > made many new friends. The highlights for me were the two Turtle Art > workshops: one at the National University in Bogota and the other with > the children in Chia. > > 5. Claudia and Erik Blankinship joined me on a panel discussuion at > LibrePlanet 2014 [9]. The panel, which will be available online, was > "No more mouse: saving elementary education". > > :The lack of a mouse and the presence of "the mouse" are having a > detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt > tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of > young learners at a time in their development when "making" is > paramount. The "Disneyification" of media further erodes the > opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel > we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for > combating them. > > === In the community === > > 6. Sugar Camp #3 - Paris, hosted by Bastien Guerry, will be held from > 12-13 April in Carrefour Numérique - Cité des Sciences. For more > information, see [10]. > > 7. Claudia will be hosting a Learning Chat on Wednesday, 2 April, at > 10AM EST, 15 GMT. The guest speaker will be Gonzalo. Please join us at > irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. (These meetings will be held > regularly on the first Wednesday of each month.) > > 8. The Sugar Background Image Contest has begun. See [11] for details. > > === Tech Talk === > > 9. I wrote a new activity while I was in Colombia: Word Cloud [12] is > a simple activity for generating word clouds from text. > > 10. Another new activity worth mentioning is Flappy [13] by Alan > Aguiar. Enjoy. (I cannot get past the first gate.) > > === Sugar Labs === > > 9. Please visit our planet [14]. > > ---- > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes > [2] > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz > [3] > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz > [4] > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz > [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing > [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw > [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0 > [8] > http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia > [9] http://libreplanet.org/2014/ > [10] http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html > [11] http://contest.sugarlabs.org > [12] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734 > [13] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731 > [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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