[Colombia] [sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-10-06

Mon Oct 6 17:41:09 EDT 2008

Hola

Les reenvio el resumen semanal de las Actividades de SugarLabs.

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> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM
> Subject: [sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-10-06
> To: community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Cc: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, sugar List <sugar at lists.laptop.org>
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>
> === Sugar Digest ===
>
> 1. Peer-to-peer editing: After my call last week for a social-networking
> site for peer-to-peer editing, I was directed by Joshua Pritikin to the Peer
> Editing Exchange (http://peeredit.us/).
>
> I tried it out and got good and timely feedback regarding my copy (a Letter
> to the Editor):
>
>  What would Josh Billings say about Gov. Palin?
>
>   The great American humorist Josh Billings once said: "The problem
>  ain't what you don't know, it's what you know that just ain't
>   so." Governor Palin has Billings's Billings' folksy charm. But charm,
> but gosh darnit, darn it,
>   her problems include both what she don't know and what she knows
>  that ain't so.  McCain has shown reckless judgment in choosing her as a
>   VP candidate. It may get him elected, but since we will live with
>  this decision long after the election, it weighs ominously on the
>   prospects of a McCain administration.
>
> Alas, the Globe didn't publish my letter.
>
> The workflow is reasonable, but ideally, it would be integrated into a blog
> tool chain where the "Publish" button us replaced with a "Send to Editor"
> button. What is the best free software blog tool?
>
> 2. Narrative: Bryan Barry and Michael Stone have initiated a discussion
> about inadequacies in the Sugar tool chain (See
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-October/008863.html and
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-October/008864.html).
>
>  Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to
>   manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for
>  learning.—Bryan Barry
>
>  This statement seems to me both indisputable and damning; if true, it
>   strikes to the core of the claim that Sugar is appropriate for learning.
>  —Michael Stone
>
> I questioned the dichotomy between manipulating narratives and modes for
> discovery. When I think about Sugar, I think about its providing a
> scaffolding for discovering, expressing, critiquing, and reflecting.
> Manipulating narrative seems to cut across all of these area (as does
> collaboration). We don't yet support (natively) much in the way of
> organizing data to make an analysis or argument. But it seems overstated
> to say that these deficiencies mean Sugar is not appropriate for learning.
> There is certainly a paucity of lesson plans developed around Sugar to help
> teachers answer the question of how one best leverages the Sugar toolkit for
> learning. And undoubtedly, there is a dearth of readily packaged and
> categorized content. But I don't see these as fundamental flaws in Sugar as
> much as a place where more effort needs to be invested; Sugar is reaching a
> point of maturity where such investments make sense. Sugar is an appropriate
> component of what needs to be a larger learning ecosystem.
>
> 3. Trying Sugar at school: Caroline Meeks and I went to a computer lab at a
> Boston public school to see what constraints we might encounter in using
> some of the various LiveCD and LiveUSB efforts underway. Our goal of is to
> make it easy for teachers to try Sugar in situations where the school
> computers are locked down or cannot be reimaged. Another use case is for
> children to use Sugar at school and at home using a LiveUSB in cases where
> 1-to-1 solutions are not available: the USB key "becomes the Sugar
> computer".
>
> They school had a room full of Compaq Pentium 4 "EVO" desktops with 256M of
> DRAM. We tried a variety of LiveCDs (with and without Sugar). Bottom line:
> we have a ways to go before we have a turnkey solution. We had trouble
> running most of the distributions we tried (with and without Sugar). Puppy
> Linux was the most promising in that it boot consistently and seemed stable
> running as a LiveCD.
>
> Sebastian Dziallas has built a slimmer version of the Fedora/Sugar Live
> spin and is working on getting it integrated into a Windows-based installer.
> We look forward to trying it.
>
> 4. Nepal evaluation: A summary of a formative evaluation of OLPC Project
> Nepal is online (See http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/321).
> Uttam Sharma, a doctoral student at at the Department of Applied Economics
> at the University of Minnesota carried out the evaluation, which has
> suggestions for how to improve the Sugar/one-to-one laptop deployment
> process.
>
> 5. Pythagoras: There is a nice summary of the various approaches to
> exploring the Pythagorean theorem in TurtleArt, Etoys, and Dr Geo (See
> http://patricioacevedo.blogspot.com/2008/09/logo-la-etoys.html).
>
> 6. Sugar logo: I've updated the wiki with the new logo (thanks to Christian
> Schmidt). We had asked by OLPC to stop using the XO logo—a request we have
> complied with.
>
> === Community jams, meet ups, and meetings ===
>
> 7. Meeting schedule: I've set up a public Google calendar for scheduling
> Sugar meetings. Please see http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Meetings for
> links to the XML, iCal, and HTML versions of the calendar, or search for
> "Sugar Labs meetings" from the Google calendar interface. If you'd like
> write permission on the calendar, please send me an email.
>
> 8. Spanish book sprint: We'll be holding a translation sprint for the Sugar
> FLOSS Manual in Lima, Perú on 20, 21 October at the Universidad San Martin,
> Faculta de Ingeniería. (Av. La Fontana - Urbanización Santa Patricia -
> Distrito: La Molina) Please contact Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <dirakx AT
> gmail.com> for more details.
>
> 9. Traduction de la documentation: Samy Boutayeb reports that OLPC France
> has launched a French localize project (See
> http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Accueil#Projets).
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 10. Gconf: Simon Schampijer has been working to moving to gconf (
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/) to store the Sugar settings. Memory
> consumption looks good from a first glance. The old profile will be
> converted on update and the old profile API will be kept around during the
> transition phase.
>
> 11. Activity updates: There are updates available for:
>
> Jukebox-2.xo
> ImageViewer-2.xo
>
> === Sugar Labs ===
>
> 12. Self-organizing map (SOM): Gary Martin has generated another SOM from
> the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Image:2008-Sept-27-Oct-3-som.jpg).
>
> -walter
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