[Sugar-devel] New activity proposal

[Abhishek Tanwar]

Hello everyone,

How would it be to develop an activity for both sugar and sugarizer which
can help the students to learn different mathematical tricks to improve
their calculation speed?


For example:
Let us find (x5)²
Step 1: Think of the number next to x.
Step 2: x * number next to x
Step 3: Put 25 at the end of the answer.
Answer = Step 2 (concat) 25

Find (45)² =?
Step 1: 45 * 45 = ...25
Step 2: 4*(4+1) = 4*5 = 20 [here number next to 4 is 5(not adjacent but
after 4)]

Hence the answer will be 2025

I would appreciate your feedback.
Thank you
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal review request

[James Cameron]

Thanks Yash,

We have a draft shared on our dashboard with your name.

Application Review begins soon.  For exact time in your timezone, see
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

You are welcome to work further on the proposal, or on right fit.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC#right-fit

Remember to mark the proposal as final.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:42:16AM +0530, yash jindal wrote:
>  I am posting my proposal for the project: "Improve and maintain 25 sugar
> activities ".
> Please do provide your valuable feedback.
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Thank you

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal Review Request

[James Cameron]

Thanks Ayush,

We have a draft shared on our dashboard with your name.

Application Review begins soon.  For exact time in your timezone, see
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

You are welcome to work further on the proposal, or on right fit.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC#right-fit

Remember to mark the proposal as final.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:34:47PM +0530, ayush nawal wrote:
> Thanks
> 
> I have updated my timeline as per the changes made by google.
> 
> I will be submitting it with the 'final' status on the dashboard soon.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:29 AM James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Ayush,
> 
> Thanks for the invitation.
> 
> Application Review Period begins on 1st April under the full program
> timeline, see
> [2]https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline
> 
> As I'm a mentor for the project idea, I don't think I should review
> your proposal until then.  Reviewing early would be unfair to any
> other students, because I would become familiar with your proposal.
> 
> Mentors who are not associated with the project idea, and other
> community members, may review and comment as they wish.  You've had a
> comment from Aniket, and that's great.
> 
> You can also review your own proposal; look through GSoC guides, our
> GSoC/README.md, our project ideas page, and previous projects.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:52:23PM +0530, ayush nawal wrote:
> > A gentle reminder for the proposal I posted a few days ago.
> >
> > Please review whenever you get time.
> >
> > Regards 
> > Ayush
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:12 PM ayush nawal <[1][3]
> ayushnawal...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     G'day,
> >
> >     Sharing my project proposal for Improve and Maintain 25 Sugar
> Activities. 
> >
> >     Followed the Sugar Labs template on GitHub and posted
> the proposal on 
> >     GSoC's dashboard too.
> >
> >     Requesting for a review.  Any suggestions will be helpful.
> >
> >     Thanks and regards
> >     Ayush
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:[4]ayushnawal...@gmail.com
> 
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:qu...@laptop.org
> [2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline
> [3] mailto:ayushnawal...@gmail.com
> [4] mailto:ayushnawal...@gmail.com
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal for review : Debian Advocacy for Sugar

[James Cameron]

Thanks Shaan,

We have a final proposal on our dashboard with your name.

Application Review begins soon.  For exact time in your timezone, see
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

You are welcome to work further on the proposal, or on right fit.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC#right-fit

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:54:05AM +, shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I have just finished writing my proposal, request the community to provide
> their valuable feedback on the same.
> 
> Best,
> Shaan

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing GSOC proposals

[James Cameron]

Thanks Jui,

We have two drafts shared on our dashboard with your name.

Application Review begins soon.  For exact time in your timezone, see
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

You are welcome to work further on the proposals, or on right fit.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC#right-fit

Remember to mark the proposals as final.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:09:40PM +0530, Jui Pradhan wrote:
> Hello,
> Attaching the GSOC DRAFT proposals (as pdf) for project ideas-
> - Improve and Maintain 25 Sugar Activities
> - Port to Python 3
> 
> Any suggestions, critical comments or ideas are welcome. Kindly go through and
> do let me know if I have missed something I should have added or added
> something that is not relevant to the project idea.
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Jui Pradhan

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Re: [Sugar-devel] [Music Blocks] A general question regarding a functionality

[Anindya Kundu]

Thanks. I think it'll be really helpful if you could do that.


*Anindya Kundu*

*BTech, 6th Semester*
*Dept. of Information Technology*

*Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur*



On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 21:50, Walter Bender  wrote:

> It is done by some ugly queue management, timeouts, and events. The
> relevant code is all in logo.js. I can walk you through it if you want.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:42 AM Anindya Kundu 
> wrote:
>
>> I want to know how Music Blocks implements concurrent execution of
>> multiple start blocks.
>>
>> As far as I know JavaScript doesn't support multi-threading. So, I can't
>> think of how it could be implemented. What am I missing?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> *Anindya Kundu*
>>
>> *BTech, 6th Semester*
>> *Dept. of Information Technology*
>>
>> *Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur*
>>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [Music Blocks] A general question regarding a functionality

[Walter Bender]

It is done by some ugly queue management, timeouts, and events. The
relevant code is all in logo.js. I can walk you through it if you want.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:42 AM Anindya Kundu 
wrote:

> I want to know how Music Blocks implements concurrent execution of
> multiple start blocks.
>
> As far as I know JavaScript doesn't support multi-threading. So, I can't
> think of how it could be implemented. What am I missing?
>
> Regards.
>
>
> *Anindya Kundu*
>
> *BTech, 6th Semester*
> *Dept. of Information Technology*
>
> *Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur*
>
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[Sugar-devel] [Music Blocks] A general question regarding a functionality

[Anindya Kundu]

I want to know how Music Blocks implements concurrent execution of multiple
start blocks.

As far as I know JavaScript doesn't support multi-threading. So, I can't
think of how it could be implemented. What am I missing?

Regards.


*Anindya Kundu*

*BTech, 6th Semester*
*Dept. of Information Technology*

*Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur*
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal Review Request

[ayush nawal]

Thanks

I have updated my timeline as per the changes made by google.

I will be submitting it with the 'final' status on the dashboard soon.


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:29 AM James Cameron  wrote:

> Hello Ayush,
>
> Thanks for the invitation.
>
> Application Review Period begins on 1st April under the full program
> timeline, see
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline
>
> As I'm a mentor for the project idea, I don't think I should review
> your proposal until then.  Reviewing early would be unfair to any
> other students, because I would become familiar with your proposal.
>
> Mentors who are not associated with the project idea, and other
> community members, may review and comment as they wish.  You've had a
> comment from Aniket, and that's great.
>
> You can also review your own proposal; look through GSoC guides, our
> GSoC/README.md, our project ideas page, and previous projects.
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:52:23PM +0530, ayush nawal wrote:
> > A gentle reminder for the proposal I posted a few days ago.
> >
> > Please review whenever you get time.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ayush
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:12 PM ayush nawal <[1]ayushnawal...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > G'day,
> >
> > Sharing my project proposal for Improve and Maintain 25 Sugar
> Activities.
> >
> > Followed the Sugar Labs template on GitHub and posted
> the proposal on
> > GSoC's dashboard too.
> >
> > Requesting for a review.  Any suggestions will be helpful.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Ayush
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:ayushnawal...@gmail.com
>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Studying Online - The Conversation

[Anindya Kundu]

Yeah, I think I agree with you. There is a possibility of segmentation of
the community.

As far as mail is concerned, the replies do get grouped with the original
mail (like this one perhaps), so I think it is fine.

Just got to get used to it. :)


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On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:51, James Cameron  wrote:

> Thanks Anindya,
>
> We have debated real-time chat quite a bit.
>
> At minimum we offer IRC, Internet Relay Chat.  However, unlike what
> you may be used to it does not provide persistence or history unless
> you set up a relay or server instance.  Channel #sugar on network
> freenode.
>
> Also, we tend not to have enough people interested in keeping IRC
> alive with discussion.
>
> Mail is best, and can be near real-time.
>
> We also have a meeting logging robot on the #sugar-meeting channel.
>
> Mentors may offer alternatives for specific projects, but if that
> happens further segmentation of community will occur.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:32:30PM +0530, Anindya Kundu wrote:
> > Hello James,
> >
> > Similar things have been implemented here in India as well. We too are
> having
> > video conference classes on Zoom and other communication on Google
> Classroom.
> >
> > With respect to GSoC, I don't know it there is a norm of chats, but I
> think it
> > could really help to have one on one chats between the students and
> mentors
> > over mails in certain situations.
> >
> > Chat gives a more real-time feel and I think it can be useful if there
> needs to
> > be a bidirectional conversation. Platforms like Slack and Telegram can
> be used.
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, 11:20 am James Cameron, <[1]qu...@laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > This article published by The Conversation is a useful summary for
> > Australian university students starting online learning under
> pandemic
> > physical distancing regulations.
> >
> > [2]https://theconversation.com/
> >
>  
> studying-a-uni-course-online-here-are-4-tips-to-get-yourself-tech-ready-134549
> >
> > Some of the technologies, test methods and etiquette rules may be
> > useful for GSoC students.
> >
> > It will be up to your mentors on a project to choose contact methods
> > and frequency of contact.
> >
> > --
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> >
> > [1] mailto:qu...@laptop.org
> > [2]
> https://theconversation.com/studying-a-uni-course-online-here-are-4-tips-to-get-yourself-tech-ready-134549
> > [3] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> > [4] mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
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>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Studying Online - The Conversation

[James Cameron]

Thanks Anindya,

We have debated real-time chat quite a bit.

At minimum we offer IRC, Internet Relay Chat.  However, unlike what
you may be used to it does not provide persistence or history unless
you set up a relay or server instance.  Channel #sugar on network
freenode.

Also, we tend not to have enough people interested in keeping IRC
alive with discussion.

Mail is best, and can be near real-time.

We also have a meeting logging robot on the #sugar-meeting channel.

Mentors may offer alternatives for specific projects, but if that
happens further segmentation of community will occur.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:32:30PM +0530, Anindya Kundu wrote:
> Hello James,
> 
> Similar things have been implemented here in India as well. We too are having
> video conference classes on Zoom and other communication on Google Classroom.
> 
> With respect to GSoC, I don't know it there is a norm of chats, but I think it
> could really help to have one on one chats between the students and mentors
> over mails in certain situations.
> 
> Chat gives a more real-time feel and I think it can be useful if there needs 
> to
> be a bidirectional conversation. Platforms like Slack and Telegram can be 
> used.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, 11:20 am James Cameron, <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote:
> 
> This article published by The Conversation is a useful summary for
> Australian university students starting online learning under pandemic
> physical distancing regulations.
> 
> [2]https://theconversation.com/
> 
> studying-a-uni-course-online-here-are-4-tips-to-get-yourself-tech-ready-134549
> 
> Some of the technologies, test methods and etiquette rules may be
> useful for GSoC students.
> 
> It will be up to your mentors on a project to choose contact methods
> and frequency of contact.
> 
> --
> James Cameron
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:qu...@laptop.org
> [2] 
> https://theconversation.com/studying-a-uni-course-online-here-are-4-tips-to-get-yourself-tech-ready-134549
> [3] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [4] mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Studying Online - The Conversation

[Anindya Kundu]

Hello James,

Similar things have been implemented here in India as well. We too are
having video conference classes on Zoom and other communication on Google
Classroom.

With respect to GSoC, I don't know it there is a norm of chats, but I think
it could really help to have one on one chats between the students and
mentors over mails in certain situations.

Chat gives a more real-time feel and I think it can be useful if there
needs to be a bidirectional conversation. Platforms like Slack and Telegram
can be used.

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, 11:20 am James Cameron,  wrote:

> This article published by The Conversation is a useful summary for
> Australian university students starting online learning under pandemic
> physical distancing regulations.
>
>
> https://theconversation.com/studying-a-uni-course-online-here-are-4-tips-to-get-yourself-tech-ready-134549
>
> Some of the technologies, test methods and etiquette rules may be
> useful for GSoC students.
>
> It will be up to your mentors on a project to choose contact methods
> and frequency of contact.
>
> --
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[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2020 Proposals progress #3

[James Cameron]

Thank you to students so far.  We have twenty-two (22) proposals on
our dashboard.

We have eight proposals with status "final";

- Port Sugarizer activities to Sugar,

- Sugar App Store For Python 3 Activities,

- Model–View–Controller refactoring for Music Blocks,

- Sugarizer Knowledge Activity Pack (qty 2),

- Sugarizer Game Activity Pack (qty 2),

- Sugarizer School Portal,

We have fourteen proposals with status "draft shared";

- Port Sugar and core activities to Python 3,

- Improve and Maintain 25 Sugar Activities,

- Resolve 100 issues in Music Blocks (qty 3),

- Music Blocks JavaScript Export,

- New Science themed Activities,

- Sugarizer Knowledge Activity Pack (qty 2),

- Sugarizer Game Activity Pack (qty 5),

There are 20 students.  By cross-checking the submission e-mail with
our mailing list, seven students have not subscribed.

Many of the proposals have not been shared on our mailing list, which
means there has been no opportunity for contribution by or
collaboration with the rest of the Sugar Labs community.  Remember
that the dashboard is only accessible to mentors.

Some of the proposals are from students who have not made any
contributions on GitHub to any of our projects, or have made only a
brief trivial contribution.  They have not demonstrated capability and
may not have appreciated the culture of an open source community.

Not sure if you are doing the optional things that we value?  Please
read; https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC#right-fit

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