7. One of the first decisions the new board will be making is whether
or not Sugar Labs should apply for GCI 2017. I am hopeful that the
board will see the merits of the program and give a green light to
apply again this year. If we do apply, I will be looking for mentors,
project ideas, and a co-administrator. Please contact me if you are
interested.
I'm in as well.
On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 1:15 PM, Martin Abente Lahaye
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote:
It has been a long time since I last wrote a Sugar Labs community new blog. I
got tied up with my day jobs: starting a new design college from scratch and
launching a new research center at MIT. (And, frankly, I was a bit depressed
following the deaths of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert.) I have a breather on
both fronts and given all of the Sugar activity of late, I am inspired to do
some writing.
1. A footnote from Google Code-in 2015. Ezequiel Pereira, one of the
grand-prize recipients from Sugar Labs was recently acknowledged by Google for
discovering a security bug. He got some nice press, e.g., [1, 2]. In one
article [3], he was quoted as saying: "Homework is boring. Looking for bugs is
fun.” Ezequiel is one of a generation of children in Uruguay who grew up with
Sugar. It is nice to hear the occasional word about their accomplishments.
2. We just wrapped up Google Code-in and Outreachy 2017. We had 9 interns
supported by Google and 1 Outreachy intern. You can read about their
accomplishments in their blogs [4] and in the meeting logs [5] (every Monday
from May through August). Highlights from the summer include a new,
easy-to-maintain activity portal and a new www.sugarlabs.org, both going live
soon. Also of note: a new Sugar image for Raspberry Pi, some new apps, GTK3
ports, a Sugarizer dashboard, and a major overhaul of Music Blocks.
Tip of the hat to our mentors: Abhijit Patel, Cristina Del Puerto, Devin
Ulibarri, Hrishi Patel, Ignacio Rodriguez, José Argüello, Lionel Laské, Matias
Baez, Michaël Ohayon, Samson Goddy, Samuel Cantero, and Tony Anderson. Lionel
help me adminsister the program again this year. It is nice to note that many
of the mentors are fomer GCI participants.
Cristina, Michaël, and Samson will be representing Sugar Labs at the annual
mentor summit at Google in October. (For those of you who have been following
the saga of Samson's visa, I am happy to say that he was approved!)
:claps: :claps: :claps:
3. I was invited to represent Sugar Labs at the Plan Ceibal 10th anniversary in
Montevideo a few months ago. It was great to see children still using Sugar 10
years after the first deployment in a small school in the Florida Department.
It was also an opportunity to catch up with many old friends and Sugar
contributors, including Ignacio, Andres, Alan, Jose Miguel, Guzman, etc. I am
not sure if my talk is on line, but I wrote a paper based on the talk which is
available for download [6].
4. Lionel just announced a new release of Sugarizer (v0.9). See [7] for all of
the details.
5. James Cameron is working towards the release of Sugar 0.111, our first new
release in nearly one year. It is mostly planned as a maintenance release.
6. There are only a few more days left (15 Sept.) to register as a candidate
for the Sugar Labs oversight board. Please consider joining the board as we
need some fresh voices and perspectives. See [8] for details. You also have
until 27 Sept. to register as a member in order to be given a vote in the
election. See [9] for details.
7. One of the first decisions the new board will be making is whether or not
Sugar Labs should apply for GCI 2017. I am hopeful that the board will see the
merits of the program and give a green light to apply again this year. If we do
apply, I will be looking for mentors, project ideas, and a co-administrator.
Please contact me if you are interested.
regards.
-walter
----
[1] https://thenextweb.com/google/ 2017/08/10/highschool-
security-research-google-data/ #.tnw_5BETRGWT[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/
2017/08/10/schoolboy_google_ bug_bounty_http_host/[3] http://abcnews.go.com/
Lifestyle/google-awards- uruguay-high-school-student-
10k-finding/story?id=49249604[4] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/
Summer_of_Code[5] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/ sugar-meeting/meetings[6]
http://www.um.es/ead/red/54/ bender.pdf[7] http://sugarizer.org[8]
https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ Oversight_Board/2017-2019- candidates[9]
https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ Sugar_Labs/Members
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labshttp://www.sugarlabs.org
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