Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Volunteer help wanted: Elections officer, marketing, story-telling, and more

Hi Sandra, Yes, please, send over any you have -- short form or long form is ok, but I think 3-5 paragraphs is a "sweet spot". Cheers! Devin Sandra Thaxter:    I would do some stories for marketing... On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM Devin Ulibarri wrote: Dear Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Volunteer help wanted: Elections officer, marketing, story-telling, and more

he computer a functioning Sugar environment and rewrote some of my old Activities in Python 3 to work on that, but for now he's mostly interested in learning Flight Gear and playing games like Tux Kart and Sopwith. James Simmons On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 9:16 AM Devin Ulibarri wrote:

[Sugar-devel] Volunteer help wanted: Elections officer, marketing, story-telling, and more

Dear Sugar community members, Sugar Labs is growing, and we need volunteer help with various tasks. To help keep track of the various roles and tasks where help is needed, I created the following page on our wiki: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Help_Wanted Some of the roles that I'd like to

[Sugar-devel] An OLPC update this Friday 19:00 UTC (3pm Eastern), live online

Hi all, I wanted to share something I think others on these lists may be interested in. This Friday, Sugar Labs is hosting a conversation with Lylian Peraza, Vice President of Project Development at OLPC, to hear what they're up to now, as well as their plans for the future. The event will

Re: [Sugar-devel] I would like to help with translating

Hi Joshua, First of all, thank you so much for volunteering! There are different projects with different ways of pulling in translations. The one that I'm most familiar with is Music Blocks. If that project interests you, I can help. You could, for example, read the English

Re: [Sugar-devel] Learn to Make Games with Gameeky" starting in 30 minutes

Hi, And the software itself can be found here: https://flathub.org/apps/dev.tchx84.Gameeky Devin Devin Ulibarri: Hi, For anyone on this list interested in learning to make games, we invite you to watch in just under 30 min. Here's the link: https://youtube.com/live/vLiCumKjofc?feature

[Sugar-devel] Learn to Make Games with Gameeky" starting in 30 minutes

Hi, For anyone on this list interested in learning to make games, we invite you to watch in just under 30 min. Here's the link: https://youtube.com/live/vLiCumKjofc?feature=share Best, Devin -- Learn more: https://sugarlabs.org Help us grow:

[Sugar-devel] "Sugar Labs: Past, Present, and Future" | Upcoming Sugar Labs Event this Friday, May 3 at 19:00 UTC

Hi all, We're hosting a [series of events][1] this month as part of our very [first fundraiser][2] since achieving 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. To kick things off, the first event will be a discussion of "Sugar Labs: Past, Present, and Future". Sugar Labs founder Walter Bender will be

[Sugar-devel] Interested in sharing your work for LibrePlanet 2024?

-- Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 2E0E CE75 F816 2B40 7D66 6767 8797 38E6 D644 0D57 What's GPG? Seehttps://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ for more info. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-d

[Sugar-devel] Celebrating forty years of the GNU Project: "Hackday" on October 1, including Music Blocks workshop

://www.fsf.org/events/gnu40/ * Switzerland event on September 27: https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/ * Registration https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1=127 Cheers! Devin -- Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 005D 0372 4A11 C08A 5A35 3D2C 906D B6E3

[Sugar-devel] Music Blocks on most recent episode of Sustain Podcast

https://podcast.sustainoss.org/194 Recorded from the FOSSY conference. First live musical performance on the show. Enjoy! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Song contest for Software Freedom Day | Entries Due before Oct 1

explicitly on that page. Entries due before October 1. Best, Devin -- Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 005D 0372 4A11 C08A 5A35 3D2C 906D B6E3 98AA 6CF6 What's GPG? See https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/

Re: [Sugar-devel] Congressional app challenge

Chihurumnaya Ibiam: Seems appealing, seems it's an american thing but if we can apply that'll be great. I think the idea would be to promote it to eligible students in the SL community, so that they can apply if they want to. I think that it's probably fine to submit an app created in

[Sugar-devel] Congressional app challenge

Hi, This may be worth doing. https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CAC-2023-Educator-Flyer1.pdf The "high notes": Create an app, register by 9/30/23, submit by 11/1/23. Anything created after 11/1/22 is fair game. For middle and high school students. Best,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Music Blocks in the Playstore (Walter Bender)

Hi Favour and Sumit, Please let us know the status of this. The Google Play page says that MB was last updated "Oct 1, 2020." But Walter seems to think that that version always points to the main branch. Is that true? Is there anything else that might need to be updated? At the moment, I don't

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal Review for Maintenance/bug fixes for Music Blocks 3

Hi, Mohit Gupta: > Hello everyone, I'm Mohit. I am sharing my draft proposal for > the Gsoc Sugar MusicBLock project and looking for reviews and guidance from > the mentors. I read it. Thanks for sending. I think it looks fine. More importantly, you submitted PRs. Best, Devin

[Sugar-devel] Scale"Next Generation track returns in March with sessions by K-12 students"

Hi, Thought this might be of interest: https://socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/events/scale-kids Reference: https://hostux.social/@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza/109372717106167960 Best, Devin -- Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation Join the

[Sugar-devel] Chance to give a talk at LibrePlanet 2023 | Also nominate for this year's free software awards

/community/libreplanet-2023-remember-to-submit-your-session-by-november-2 Hope this info helps! Devin -- Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation Join the FSF and help us defend software freedom: https://my.fsf.org/ US government employee? Use CFC cha

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Help with Music Blocks Wikipedia Page?

Hi All, I have been receiving some help with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Music_Blocks ...which is encouraging. If anyone has any edits or suggestions, please let me know. Again, the language must be neutral and the sources need to be as a) neutral, b) third party, c) substantial (not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Music Blocks in Peru

Hi Walter, Perhaps you can give a report at the July 8th SLOBs meeting? Devin On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 09:03 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > Not sure it merits discussion at the SLOB meeting, but I wanted to > give everyone a heads up that the ministry of education in Peru will > be distributing on the

[Sugar-devel] New Blogs about Music Blocks

Hi All, New blog about Music Blocks GSoC progress. https://musicblocks.net/2020/06/14/gsoc-progress-scale-degree-vs-nth-mo dal-pitch/ by aviral https://musicblocks.net/2020/06/13/scale-degree-progress/ by devin (cannot have a lazy mentor who does not also write blogs) Many new features!!!

[Sugar-devel] FYI: GCI is discontinued

Hi, Members of the GCI Mentors mailing list received this message today from Stephanie T. of Google. Some of you may not be on that list, but interested to know so I am copying it here. Thanks to everyone for all their efforts (and hacking) over the years for GCI with SL! > Hi GCI Mentors and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community Bonding Period: Scale Degree Design Proposal

Hi All, Aviral is doing great work. Our strategy has been for him to fix more straightforward bugs related to key/mode while we work together on a design for the less trivial ones. An average of 4 days a week, he has been getting a 30-60 minute music theory lesson as well so that he can better

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly Progress: Scale Degree vs n^th Modal Pitch

.  > > Each group meeting was followed by a meeting with my mentor [ Devin > Ulibarri ], except for Tuesday.  > We made significant process on octave calculation issue, entirely > revamping the whole process and are close to resolving it. This > should be done by this the end of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly Progress Blogs of GSoC

Hi Aviral, If you want, and if it is agreeable to James, you may write on musicblocks.net, which I maintain. Just let me know, and I can give you an account with credentials. Best, Devin On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 19:56 +0530, Aviral Gangwar wrote: > Hello James, > > Could you please help me out with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Libreplanet talk in an hour

From the FSF: > > > > Following O'Brien in the "Freedom" room of the conference were > > Devin > > Ulibarri and Walter Bender of Sugar Labs, who gave an overview > > of the > > project's developers, teachers, and students coming together t

[Sugar-devel] Libreplanet talk in an hour

in practice Speakers: Devin Ulibarri Walter Bender Cheers! Devin ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel] Proposal: moving "assisting mentors" back to role for GSoC 2020

Hi, I expect that the project "## Music Blocks Scale Degree vs n^th Modal P itch" would be near impossible without my assistance.  Also, my resume is never benefited thus far from any of these things. I have never gotten a job from putting these things on a resume. The "problem" is that I identify

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mascot for sugar

So far, we have turtle (turtle blocks) and mice (music blocks). Maybe a sugarcube? (that would be kind of silly, but who knows?) On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 23:31 +0300, Srevin Saju wrote: > Sugarlabs needs a mascot to welcome new users of the sugar desktop, > This can be an important part of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Poll Results Oversight Election 2019-21

Hi, I do not think we should meet today because we do not have enough time to reach consensus for a meeting time today. I will not be able to meet this Weds at the scheduled time. I could meet any Monday of the month at 8pm UTC In general, 8pm-10pm UTC is going to cause a lot of conflicts with my

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contributing to Open Source

On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 15:26 -0800, Raghav Aggarwal wrote: > Can you tell me how do i get started in Sugarlabs for GSOC.? You are a bit early. You can do three things: 1. Join us in IRC at #sugar on freenode 2. Look for issues to help us with on Github (communicate with us on IRC and/or here for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Stand at FOSDEM [1-2 February]

Hi Vipul, Thanks for all this. On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 19:18 +0530, Vipul Gupta wrote: > Thanks, James, I went through the logs. I concur with the views put > forward by MrBIOS and Samson. I think conferences help.  They most certainly can. As a new org, with a new set of responsibilities, what

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI 2019 mentor

On Sat, 2019-11-30 at 16:36 +0530, Sarthak gupta wrote: > I want to be a mentor for GCI 2019 at Sugarlabs (Someone, please correct me if I am wrong) I think that it is too late to be officially in the system for GCI 2019 Mentoring. However, please keep in touch and stay involved. And, of course,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI 2019 Announced

On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 07:32 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > Without users opening issues, we don't have an easy queue of work to > shovel into this. > > I'm watching as many repositories as possible, but nothing much is > coming in.  Not just Sugar, also the same on Sugarizer and Music > Blocks.  

Re: [Sugar-devel] Meeting Notes from Monday's GSoC Intern Group Meeting

On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 08:19 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > Meeting Bot was down, so I posted the notes in the wiki: Thanks for this -- I thought it was just me... > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2019/Meeting_Notes/19- > 08-19 In response to: > sparsh0204, Don't worry about

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC meeting log

On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 13:24 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > Please see http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2019- > 07-08T16:32:13 I am sorry that I missed the meeting, but I read the logs -- thank you. I also read http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2019-07

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC meeting log

Hi, Sorry I had to leave early. I ended the meeting just now. http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2019-06-24T16:38:06 Many thanks! Devin On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 13:17 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > Not sure this got properly logged, so here is the transcript: >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Music Blocks at Libre Planet

Hello, An update on: On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 21:36 -0400, Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Also, an article that I wrote for the FSF (https://fsf.org) bulletin > (a > bout the same project discussed in the talk) is set to be published > and > sent out very soon. I will forward it once it is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Music Blocks at Libre Planet

On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 21:36 -0400, Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Here is a video of the talk: > https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/lp-2019-lightning-talks > / Also, FYI, the portion of the video where I talk begins at ~36:30 and en

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] GCI summit travel

Hi, +1 from me. Please take some photos and write a blog post about it. Devin On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 19:33 -0700, Alex Perez wrote: > +1 from me, we should arrange to meet up while you are here. Is the > summit in Mountain View? > > Walter Bender wrote on 5/28/19 7:07 PM: > > I've been selected by

[Sugar-devel] Music Blocks at Libre Planet

Hi, I did a talk about Music Blocks at this years' Libre Planet. Here is a video of the talk: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/lp-2019-lightning-talks/ Here are the slides: https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2270/2019-03- 24_Lightning_Talk_v2.pdf Also, an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Outreach Plans 2019 - PyCon Cleveland (Tony Anderson)

On Sat, 2019-05-11 at 22:53 +0200, Lionel Laské wrote: > You could find it: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarizer_Saint-Ouen > _deployment Thanks for this! I look forward to reading more. Especially interested in the kinds of projects that teachers and students are doing.

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2019; Selection of Mentors and Projects

On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 21:49 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > But I think any project worth the effort would benefit from input > from a variety of perspectives: coding, design, UX, testing, etc. I > don't know of anyone in my experience (40+ years of software > development projects) who can do all of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

Hi, This was my experience: * I came into SugarLabs community at the time that this migration was beginning to happen. * I started a GH account because that is where I was told the software was being maintained. * I have continued to "go with the flow" and work via GH although I have come to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

Hi, Apologies for sending this so late. This is my simple trip report from the summit: https://musicblocks.net/ 2018/11/11/devin-represents-sugar-labs-at-gsoc-mentor-summit/ Also, this is the slideshow from the presentation I gave during one of the days of lightning talks: 

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] welcoming the new Sugar Labs oversight board members

On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 08:23 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > * Devin and I head to Japan to run some Music Blocks workshops in > early January as part of an ongoing effort to reach elementary > schools throughout the country. It has been going really well so far > and I have high hopes that this

[Sugar-devel] Announcement of the Candidacy of Devin Ulibarri

Hi All, Please see my announcement for candidacy. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2018-2020-candidates/Devi n_Ulibarri I kept it short and simple. Thanks to the SL member who encouraged me to become a candidate. > Devin Ulibarri teaches as faculty for the Preparatory and Continu

Re: [Sugar-devel] new GCI task added

On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 00:34 +0530, Avinash Bharti wrote: > Hello there, > I have just added a new GCI task, Please have a look :) > https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/tasks/6301105756569600/ I do not know much about Sugar Social, but your idea seems good. Will defer to others. Cheers!

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org applications open September 6-17 - contest begins October 23rd for students

Hi, Certainly. Devin On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 00:02 +0100, Glide wrote: > Would love to participate! > > Cheers. > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:14 PM James Cameron > wrote: > > I'm looking forward to it. > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:09:50PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > >  > > > Note that

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC'18 Final Report - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 18:47 +0530, Riya Lohia wrote: > Here is the link to my final report : https://medium.com/gsoc18-with- > sugar-labs/gsoc18-final-report-3c1daf9c98e9 > Please share your valuable suggestions. I find this link to work for me: https://medium.com/gsoc18-with-sugar-l

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Regarding Music Blocks for GSoC

James Cameron: > I'd like to see Music Blocks in these places; > > - Fedora SoaS, > > - Sugar Live Build, or Debian, > > - Sugarizer, > > - activities.sugarlabs.org > +1 and at some point in the future, a python version would be awesome (starting from the python Turtle Blocks)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Regarding Music Blocks for GSoC

Sumit Srivastava: > Hello everyone! > > How important is music blocks for Sugar Labs? It is important. It draws upon the past (i.e. LOGO, TurtleArt/Blocks, little known "MusicBox") as well as pointing to the future (i.e. time inherent to music adds a new dimension). It also aims to integrate

[Sugar-devel] For those interested in helping with Music Blocks | Goals and Timeline

Calling all interested in helping with Music Blocks === There are some high priority phases in the next few months. For those interested in contributing to Music Blocks[1], please read the following as it details our current goals. [1] Music Blocks

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] [SLOB] workshop travel motion

om >Japan who >> is familiar with all of the specialized music terms so for the >moment, we >> are in good shape. (Devin also translated the guide into Japanese.) >> >> -walter >> >>> >>> cjl >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8

[Sugar-devel] Initial Blog Articles of Travels within Japan

Hi, Below are links two the first two articles of my travels within Japan, introducing Music Blocks to various groups. https://musicblocks.net/2018/01/02/translation-of-yokohama-science-frontier-blog-article-of-devins-visit-on-12-16-2017/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Claudia Urrea

Welcome! Devin Samson Goddy: > Welcome Claudia!! > > On Dec 2, 2017 11:11 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > >> I am very please to be able to announce that, by a unanimous decision, >> Claudia Urrea has been appointed to fill the Sugar Labs oversight board >> seat vacated

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs 2017-2019 Oversight Board Election Results

Samson Goddy: > c...@cs.cornell.edu and samsongo...@gmail.com. but it is more likely to be > the first email. Nothing from either of those emails on my end, BTW. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs 2017-2019 Oversight Board Election Results

James Cameron: > Thanks, but it doesn't have to be in your spam folder for it to have > been filtered. Filtering happens at multiple points, not only your > mail hosting provider. My guess is that it was filtered before > reaching your provider. Thanks for the tip. My "provider" is the server

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs 2017-2019 Oversight Board Election Results

Samson Goddy: > Sorry, if you didn't get any ballot. But i am unsure what went wrong > because i am certain all mails was sent. I do not see it in inbox or spam... > But my question is, why am i hearing this now? you should have complained > and i will work with you to figured out what happened.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs 2017-2019 Oversight Board Election Results

James Cameron: > I've checked, and both Devin and Thomas are on the list of members. > > The ballot was sent by mail. > > We should all know that mail is unreliable because of spam filtering. It is not in my spam. > Mail about how to vote was posted to iaep@ mailing list. Not all > members

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs 2017-2019 Oversight Board Election Results

>> http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_43bce0510 >> f5844e6=f44b973fcb4a90b2 >> >> For more information about the Condorcet Internet Voting Service, see >> http://civs.cs.cornell.edu >> >> >> Many thanks to Claudia Urrea, Sean

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs 2017-2019 Oversight Board Election Results

are available at the following URL: >> http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_43bce0510f5844e6=f44b973fcb4a90b2 >> <http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_43bce0510f5844e6=f44b973fcb4a90b2> >> >> >> For more information about the Condorcet In

Re: [Sugar-devel] 2017 Goals for Sugar Labs

Walter Bender: > * Stand-alone projects such as Music Blocks have merit as long as they > maintain both a degree of connection with Sugar and promote the values of > the community. It is not certain that these projects will lead users > towards Sugar, but they do promote FOSS and Constructionist

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

Sachithra Dangalla: > Just to be clear, is it something like this? I think that is correct. Walter? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

Sachithra Dangalla: >> *0 and 1 can could also represent a larger or smaller interval than >> > equaltemperament as long as -1<0<1<2<3<4 > In the above, what does -1 mean? I'm assuming it's a condition to check if > any number should be greater than -1. Is that so? I mean that -1 is

[Sugar-devel] Proposals: MusicBlocks (Outreachy and GSoC)

Hi, I have been moving and currently do not have Internet at the new place. Would those who would like their proposals read over please send their proposals as an attachment (not Google Docs). That would be most convenient for me. (and cc Walter as well) When I do have Internet, I sometimes do

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Sun, 2017-03-26 at 16:46 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > After mapping the frequencies, the next focus has to be on > transformations such as adding half-steps, intervals and mode - as > Walter said on a previous mail. But I still have a lot to figure out > about them. Or will they be

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 14:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > (Question for Devin: What naming convention do we use if there are > more than 12 half-steps? Do you mean "by default"? > I guess we just use pitch number?) Pitch Number is a good option to have (that is why I recommend to have pitch

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 20:48 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > I wonder if it cannot be a bit more simple in that you could > define the number of steps in a key/mode by simply the number > of define frequency blocks in the clamp? and maybe you don't > need to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 14:28 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > I came up with the following simple activity diagram(attachment 1) to > capture what happens when the user defines a temperament. By > incorporating the comments and Devin's mockups in the GitHub issue[1] > I came up with a mockup

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 13:25 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > Mode is a new term to me and I'm still reading about it ([1] and [2]). > I'm finding it hard to understand the relationship between temperament > and mode or their implementations, any advice on it would be great. Is > mode already

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 14:31 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > That seems like the correct approach to me in terms of the internals. > The tricky bits then come into play when we start applying different > types of transformations, such as adding half-steps, generating > intervals, etc. Plus, there may

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 00:36 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > I went through some of the temperaments available in order to get an > idea about the types of temperaments that can be added to Music > Blocks. According to [1] the temperaments that could be added are: > 1. Equal

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2017 proposal

On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 23:18 +0530, Melnita Dabre wrote: > I noticed that the existing website is deployed on WordPress. Do I > have to make a site that is deploy-able on WP? No. It is not necessary that it is on Wordpress. You can if you want, but it is not necessary. If you have a creative idea

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2017 proposal

On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 20:23 +0530, Melnita Dabre wrote: > 1. The expected results for the project mentions creation of a > website. What kind of a website is expected? Any type of website is okay as long as it takes the user through the various important features of Music Blocks as well as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 15:48 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > When applying to Outreachy, is submitting an application through > Outreachy application process sufficient? For GSOC Sugar Labs have a > proposal template but there is no such template for Outreachy is it? > (Apart from the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Testers/Bug-Reporters/Patcher-uppers: Music Blocks v1 Testing to Begin

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 07:29 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote: > Hi, > > > The provided link is a download link to a spreadsheet. So the sheet > will be updated in our local machines. Is there an online sheet of it > so that what is recorded is shared to all? Anyone with the following link and

[Sugar-devel] Call for Testers/Bug-Reporters/Patcher-uppers: Music Blocks v1 Testing to Begin

[This message is for anyone interested in helping out with Music Blocks] Hi, We are on to the next phase for Music Blocks! Basically, we need to test all **current** features--and combinations of features to identify corner cases. If there are problems, we need to report them on GitHub and fix

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy project participation

Hi, I am a mentor for this--I help with the music part of things (Walter helps with the coding). Please start by finding some bugs that are at an appropriate challenge level for you: https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues Also, have you tried Music Blocks (MB)? We also recommend

Re: [Sugar-devel] (no subject)

On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 12:33 +0100, adwumi ogunbiyi wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2017 12:22, "adwumi ogunbiyi" > wrote: > Hello my name is ibraheem ogunbiyi Pleased to meet you. I am Devin and I help out with the Music Blocks (www.musicblocks.net -- links to code etc

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Outreachy

Walter Bender: > That said, I > will also do my best to raise at least some of the funds from external > sources. I can apply to this (for Music Blocks) if the group agrees it would be helpful: http://www.nefa.org/creative-city-grant January 2017 Cycle Deadline: Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Re: [Sugar-devel] SL GSoC proposal text

Utkarsh Tiwari: > I think we need to correct the answer to this question - "If your org > has applied for GSoC but not been selected, select the year". > > Shouldn't we mention only those years in which we were not selected? I think that what was sent to us was a copy/paste of original

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2017

Dear wonderful SLOB members, Please approve of the motions for Sugar's participation in GSoC. Thanks! Devin Dave Crossland: > I can't imagine any objections - GCI and GSOC seem to be a key input to the > project :) > > > > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interested in contributing to Sugar Labs

Kartik Gupta: > I am a final year B.Tech student doing CSE major from IIIT Delhi. I have > contributed to open source previously and would like to contribute to Sugar > Labs for GSoC 2017. I am proficient in Python and Javascript. Frontend and > Design is my forte and I would like to contribute on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code 2017

Walter Bender: > Anyone interested in either being a > mentor or an administrator? I am interested in being a mentor. I probably will not have time for administrator this summer. My goal is to finish the summer with a completely functional, stable (and fun, of course) Music Blocks, which I

Re: [Sugar-devel] New activity

Tony Anderson: > Naturally, a concern with Mario Bros. is that it is proprietary. I did not mean to say that they work on Mario Bros. They could hack on SuperTux. It is both familiar and different. https://supertuxproject.org/download.html > Generally, side scrollers are easier to implement >

Re: [Sugar-devel] New activity

This thread is making me think: Right now there is a bit of a nostalgia tech fad (e.g. original mario bros for iPad) .../that/, by itself is kind of boring. What would be much cooler is... CODE-YOUR-OWN! We can encourage adults to code their own versions of the classic games that they loved.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newcomer - need mentor for contribution

On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:11 +0530, soumya vadlamannati wrote: > New to sugar labs and looking to contribute. Can i be assigned a mentor who will help me pick a project? I am good with python and javascript. Take a look at Music Blocks. I am working on that with Walter B. Music Blocks code is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

On 05/27/2016 11:16 AM, Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Having no license, if someone accidentally downloads and uses the code > without express permission, since the default US copyright law would > have it "All Rights Reserved" it puts the people who have access to the > co

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

On 05/27/2016 09:03 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 27 May 2016 at 08:59, Devin Ulibarri <devin@ulibarri.website > <mailto:devin@ulibarri.website>> wrote: > > Notice from the ethics article that one big deal with GitHub is it > allows developers to uploa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

On 05/27/2016 08:55 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > I think its pretty clear that Github's business model _depends_ on it > hosting the world's libre licensed code: That's how they get developers > into their conversion funnel. Notice from the ethics article that one big deal with GitHub is it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

(I found this in my drafts folder and am sending it out. I know a decision was made about this, but am sending for continued reference.) On 05/16/2016 11:13 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone want to discuss any more objections with me, or can I > migrate the issue tracking to Github

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 08:06 +1000, Sam P. wrote: > But you just posted the twitter password on the public, archived, > sugar-devel mailing list. Please reset the password. Question: On these group mailings (this is "mailman", I think) is there a way to make an automatic header/footer appended to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

On 04/04/2016 12:35 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Here is why: > 1. Control. The community would be able to do what they wish with their > data. (the other benefits really come from this one) > > > Most of the data on Github servers, and all the data that is uploaded to > the servers

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

Hi, I have been following this thread. These are my two cents. If it were me, I would have opted to keep everything on a server within Sugar Labs' community's control. Here is why: 1. Control. The community would be able to do what they wish with their data. (the other benefits really come from

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2016-03-25

Walter, Thank you for this! I noticed my name, so feel need to reply (below): On 03/25/2016 04:30 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > It occured to me afterwards that one simple call to action would be > for every member of the Free/Libre Software community to adopt a > teacher (or be open to being

[Sugar-devel] Answer to Question RE: Music Blocks' Rhythm Rulers Widget

A student has asked: > Could you please elaborate what you mean by "generating the Rhythm > block that is in the matrix palette to produce the resultant sound". A > Rhythm block takes "the no. of notes" and "the note value" as > arguments to generate the corresponding "rhythm blocks in the pitch

Re: [Sugar-devel] What is the "free pitch slider" widget? [Music Blocks GSoC]

On 03/24/2016 05:47 PM, Yash Khandelwal wrote: > How do you run the packaged source code on mobile? APK is here: https://f-droid.org/repo/eu.flatworld.android.slider_3.apk ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] What is the "free pitch slider" widget? [Music Blocks GSoC]

Direct link to packaged source code (same code that I am running on my phone that gave me the idea initially): https://f-droid.org/repo/eu.flatworld.android.slider_3_src.tar.gz On 03/24/2016 09:50 AM, Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Hi, > > Many are asking what is the "free pitch

[Sugar-devel] What is the "free pitch slider" widget? [Music Blocks GSoC]

Hi, Many are asking what is the "free pitch slider" widget? Short answer: It should do the pretty much the same thing as this F-Droid App: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=slider=eu.flatworld.android.slider Source Code is available at:

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