:O On Apr 17, 2014 10:48 AM, "Gonzalo Odiard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> As some of you may know, this week was the "Google Code In" winners > ceremony, > where Ignacio Rodriguez from Uruguay and Jorge Gómez López from El > Salvador, our finalists, > their parents and I on behalf of SugarLabs, > came to San Francisco. This is brief report, > to share the experiece with the community. > The event was perfectly organized, > with a excelent work from Stephanie Taylor, > and her team. They shown not only profesionalism, > but love by the project. > We participated with other 9 projects. > The event started the last Sunday at the night, > with a presentation of all the winners, and food. > Googlers gave us food, a lot of food, all the time :) > The Monday we had a visit to the Google campus, > with the official prizes ceremony, > and a talk from Chris DiBona, Director of Open Source at Google. > Later some Googlers gave us talks about the projects where they work, and > about their career. > All the talks were different, some more technical, > some more human, but all had good advices for the kids. > The Tuesday was a day to know the city, > we could choice between go to Alcatraz Island, > or to do a tour in Segway for the city. > The Segway are fun devices, and we had a little > training before doing the tour. Ignacio said the > Alcatraz excursion was very fun too. > Later we went to the Academy of Sciences, > (is like a giant museum but alive, have collections, > a beautifull aquarium, a planetarium, and so. > We had a "Behind the Scenes Tour", with a guide, > and the possibility of see places not opened to the public, > like the places where the researchers work. > Today was the last day, we went to Google offices in SF > and we had the possibility of present every one of our projects. > Later we went to San Francisco State University, > to meet Sameer Verma, who did a interview to > Jorge and Ignacio. > All the week was a very nice experience, we could talk face to face > with our students, students from other projects, > and other mentors. We interchanged experiences, > about how they manage GCI and GSoC contest, > and I tried to start contacts with other projects > related to us. In fact tomorrow I will visit the > Wikimedia offices (is amazing how many internet > companies and groups are in the SF area) > I will upload photos when return home, > just need do a selection, SF is a incredible place, > I took 1000 photos! > Sameer already shared photos from the OLPC SF > meeting the last Saturday, from my part, > I enjoyed participate in the meeting. > I talked about the features in Sugar 0.100 > and 0.102, the webactivities, > and other trends in Sugar development. > They shared the project they have, as the work in Pathagar and statistics > visualization. > I hope we can work more connected in the future, > SugarLabs and OLPC SF. > Regards, > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > SugarLabs - Software for children learning > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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