On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great video! Who is the author? > Impressive!! > > I would like to add: > * Stamps and sounds in Paint activity > * Dark theme in Terminal activity > * Create a movie in Fototoon activity > * View next and preview images in ImageViewer activity > * See comic books in Read activity > * Many improvements in the Irc activity > * And many years old bugs killed in Sugar!! > > Excellent year, thanks to all who participated, and thanks to Stephanie > and the Google Open Source team. > +1 > > Gonzalo > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Ignacio Rodríguez <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > 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 <[email protected]>: >> >> == 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!) >>> [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 >> > > > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > SugarLabs - Software for children learning > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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