> Finally, a few projects worth mentioning: Also I want to add few more "things" :) * The Sugar Labs promo video [1] * The new feature in Speak, the user can load a Image and create her own "face" [2] * The new Dropbox webservice [3] * The new help pages [4]
I want to say 'thanks' to the mentors, we have done a lot of work, they should be very exhausted! :) as GCI 2013 student [and also 2014 student], this year was better, we got new students, now some of these are 'friends'. This year, like last, we tried to help new students :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRReDdoW9g&feature=youtu.be [2] https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5140598474407936 [3] https://github.com/ignaciouy/dropbox-webservice [4] https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed Also, my english is still poor :) Ignacio Rodríguez SugarLabs at Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/SugarLabs/187845102582> 2015-01-21 22:18 GMT-02:00 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>: > == Sugar Digest == > > In schools, all hardware and software bestow agency on one of three > parties: the system, the teacher, or the learner. Typically, two of > these actors lose their power as the technology benefits the > third. Ask a group of colleagues to create a three-column table and > brainstorm the hardware or software in your school and who is granted > agency by each. Management software, school-wide grade-book programs, > integrated learning systems, school-to-home communication packages, > massive open online courses (MOOCs), and other cost-cutting > technologies grant maximum benefit to the system. Interactive > whiteboards, worksheet generators, projectors, whole-class > simulations, plagiarism software, and so on, benefit the > teacher. Personal laptops, programming languages, creativity software, > cameras, MIDI keyboards, microcontrollers, fabrication equipment, and > personal web space primarily benefit (bestow agency to) the > learner. -- Gary Stager > > 1. Google Code-In. Wow. Finally a chance to catch my breath. Seven > intense weeks: 60 students completed more than 300 tasks for Sugar > Labs. The impact on Sugar Labs was even greater this year than in the > previous years we have participated: more diversity among the > participants, the mentors, the tasks, and a spirit of collaboration > while striving for excellence prevailed throughout the contest. Thanks > to Google and Stephanie Taylor for giving us this opportunity, to the > contestants who not only did great work but taught me a thing or two > along the way, and the mentors and community members who manned the > IRC channel 24/7. > > I want to acknowledge the Top Ten+ from whom we will be selecting our > finalists this week (results announce in early February): > > Ignacio Rodríguez, Daksh, samdroid, cristian99garcia, Ezequiel > Pereira, svineet, Gtrinidad, Jas Park, Rafael Cordano, Richar, Sergio > Britos, Aishmita Kakkar, Gabriel Lee, et al. > > Also, some mentors (and community members) deserve special > recognition: Andrés Aguirre, Daniel Francis, Gary Servin, Gonzalo > Odiard, James Cameron, Jorge Ramirez, Mariah Villarreal, Rajul, > Rodrigo Parra, and Martin Abente Lahaye. > > Finally, a few projects worth mentioning: > > * Turtle Blocks JS plugins (Ignacio, samDroid, Daksh) [1] > * Turtle Blocks guides (Jas Park) [2] > * Activity reviews (Gabriel Lee) [3] > * Dasher app (Cristian Garcia) [4] > * Enhancements to Physics (Svineet) [5] > * Sugar bugs squashed (Ezequiel) [6] > * Butia Measure (Gtrinidad) [7] > * Simple scrolling interface for Sugar (Rafael) [8] > and much much more. > > 2. As mentioned above, we have a number of new Turtle Blocks plugins > (for both the Python and Javascript versions) as a result of Google > Code-in. One of the more interesting inspirations for plugins comes > from mashape.com, a repository of APIs for everything from translation > services to a bicycle theft alert system. As Sugar becomes more > web-friendly, we can take advantage of web services and also > facilitate our users to craft their own tools and services. It is fun > and empowering. > > === In the community === > > 3. The Free Software Foundation has put together a nice video on the > core ideas behind Free Software. See [9] > > === Tech Talk === > > 4. Xevents [10] is a TurtleBlocks plugin that makes it easy to design > different types of accessibility interfaces through a variery of > physical sensors types. It is being developed at FING by Andrés > Aguirre and Alan Aguiar and was the focus of some of the Google > Code-in work of Rafael Cordano. > > 5. For you OLPC XO 4 users, James Cameron has been working on enabling > the second processor. He reports "about 38% improvement. For CPU tasks > like rendering, alt/tab, kernel compiles, the improvement is somewhat > more than 38%. For single threaded tasks that rely on memory > bandwidth, performance is lower because the memory controller is > shared between two cores." When asked how it impacts Sugar, he said > "it feels faster and more responsive." > > 6. Martin has announced the tarballs for the last 0.103.x UNSTABLE > release of Sugar before 0.104 STABLE. (We delayed the release a few > weeks in order to take advantage of all of the bug fixes coming in > from Google Code-in.) With this release we reach the API, UI and > String freeze [12]. > > * > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.103.2.tar.xz > * > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.103.2.tar.xz > * > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.103.2.tar.xz > * > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.103.2.tar.xz > * > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.103.2.tar.xz > > It's time to switch focus on updating translations, everyone can > contribute through or new Pootle instance [13]. We have time until > February 13, before the 0.104.0 STABLE release. > > === Sugar Labs === > > 5. Please visit our planet at http://planet.sugarlab.org > > --- > > [1] https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/blob/master/plugins.md > [2] http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksIntroductoryManual.pdf > and > http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksAdvancedBlocksManual.pdf > [3] > https://gabrielleedhs.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/reviewing-an-activity-from-sugar-labs-story-activity/ > [4] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4764 > [5] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193 > [6] > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5809933962444800?id=5741031244955648 > [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYGOnlaTuTk > [8] > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5784136845361152?id=5717271485874176 > [9] https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/FSF30-video/FSF_30_720p.webm > [10] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xevents > [11] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/12297 > [12] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap > [13] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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