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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Alba Susana Ferreyro Bologna < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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