Very interesting!!! I need to to know about all these new works, projects, and meetings, so please send to my mail as usual to [email protected]. Thanks, Susana Punta del Este Maldonado URUGUAY
2014-10-01 13:46 GMT-03:00, Walter Bender <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Lista olpc-Sur [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur
