errata: 7. The next Turtle Art Day event will be a workshop at Prospect Hill Academy in Somerville. Caroline Meeks is hosting the event.
-walter On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > ==Sugar Digest== > > 1. September was an exciting month. We held the first Sugar Youth > Summit in Montevideo, organized by Daniel Francis and Jose Miguel > Garcia and generously hosted by ANEP. The event featured a day-long > symposium and series of workshops, including ones on Turtle Art, > Butia, and how to write a Sugar activity. One teacher who attended the > Turtle Art workshop exclaimed that she could not believe the progress > she made. > > The event was attended by youths from Uruguay and Paraguay and > educators and developers from as far away as Nicaragua and Colombia. > We had an Argentine contingent as well. > > The symposium and workshops were held on Software Freedom Day. Given > the number of Python programmers in attendance, it occurred to me that > we should petition the city of Montevideo to rename itself Monty > Python (after whom the language was named) for Software Freedom Day > each year. > > The day before the symposium Gonzalo Odiard, Mariana Herrera, Jose > Miguel, and I visited a school for children with special needs. As a > result, during the code sprint that followed the symposium, we wrote > three new activities that have their content and user interface > tailored to the school's population. Lorena Paz from Argentina, also > in attendance, resurfaces a number of issues around accessibility that > we will consider in the coming months as well. > > Coincident with the weekend of hacking was a robo-Sumo contest at > FING. It was a good opportunity to spend time with Andres Aguirre and > Alan Aguiar of Butia fame and to recruit some new talent. Several of > the more competitive kids joined us in the workshops. They took a > special interest in Turtle Blocks 3D, one of the Google Summer of Code > projects that is coming into its own. > > Gonzalo and I also got a chance to meet with a group of teachers > conviened by Jose Miguel at his office at ANEP. These teachers are > engaged in various project-based learning initiatives across the > country. Really good work -- utilizing the computer as a tool to > enhance authentic inquiry by the children. I look forward to continued > interactions with them. > > 2. At the workshop, Martin Abente presented the initial plans for > Sugar 104. (Martin has generously offered to be the release manager.) > The new features under consideration can be found at [1]. > > We'll be discussing these features in an online meeting on 2 October > at 13 UTC. Please join us on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. > > 3. I've been working on polishing up the Turtle Blocks 3D code over > the past few weeks. There are a number of improvements from where we > (Anubhav and I) left things this summer. Notably, the interface > between Turtle Blocks and Blender is much richer. You can export .OBJ > files from Turtle and import them into Blender and export .OBJ files > from Blender and import them into Turtle. Currently I am working on > adding a 3D cursor, which I designed and rendered in Turtle Blocks 3D > itself. See [2] for a preview. > > 4. I've been working on a new activity similar to the Portfolio > activity that is geared towards reflection. Like Portfolio, it draws > upon Journal items that have been starred. It also allows the user to > create reflections unrelated to any Journal items. The presentation is > quite different from Portfolio, which is modeled after a slide show. > Reflect is more like a stream, similar to the news feeds in Facebook > and Google+. The stream supports comments and attaching media, and it > can be searched by #tags. A preview is available at [3]. Feedback most > welcome. > > 5. It is time to begin preparing for the annual Sugar Labs Oversight > Board election (AKA SLOBs). Four (4) seats are open (due to staggered > seat terms) for election / re-election to the Sugar Labs Oversight > Board for 2013-2014, those of Daniel Francis, Gonzalo Odiard, Adam > Holt, and Claudia Urrea. Please let me know if you are interested > running for one of our board seats and also, please add your self to > the candidates' wiki page [4]. Also, since only members receive > ballots, please be sure to sign up for membership by following the > instructions in the wiki [5]. Finally, we need help running the > election itself. Please contact me (or Luke Faraone) if you are > interested in helping. > > === In the community === > > 6. Several of us will be in the Bay Area for the Google Summer of Code > summit in late October. In conjunction with that event, we'll be > holding a code sprint to look at the collaboration stack. If > > 7. The next Turtle Art Day event will be a workshop at the ??? School > in Summerville. Carolyn Meeks is hosting the event. I've been busy > making Sugar-on-a-Stick USB keys to give the kids. (I'm using Ruben > Rodriguez's Trisquel TOAST image [6], which has an up-to-date copy of > Turtle Blocks.) > > We are also planning a Turtle workshop in San Francisco in October. > > === Tech Talk === > > 8. Lionel Laské recently announced the fourth version (0.4) of > Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar for any device [7]. Sugarizer reproduces > the main features of Sugar in HTML5/JavaScript. It is available from a > browser or as an Android application. Lionel presents Sugarizer in a > talk at SugarCamp Paris [8]. > > 9. Sebastian Silva and Laura Vargas recently announced that > 20000 > children are now using Sugar Network. Tip of the hat to Aleksey Lim > who has been working diligently behind the scenes on the project. > > === Sugar Labs === > > 10. Please visit our planet at [9]. > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > -- > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Feature_List > [2] http://github.com/Anubhav-J/turtleart.git > [3] http://github.com/walterbender/reflect.git > [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates > [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership > [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast > [7] http://sugarizer.org > [8] > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvdma_sugarcamp-3-sugarizer-what-if-sugar-could-be-on-every-device_school > [9] http://planet.sugarlabs.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Lista olpc-Sur [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur
