[Colombia] [sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-09-08

Mon Sep 8 13:38:09 EDT 2008

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <
dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saludos a todos para los que han estado pendientes del desarrollo de sugar
> labs
> aca estan las noticias semanales de Sugar.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM
> Subject: [sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-09-08
> To: community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Cc: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar List <sugar at laptop.org>
>
>
> === Sugar Digest ===
>
> 1. Oversight Board: The Sugar Labs Oversight Board meet on Friday (See
> the minutes at
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/OversightBoard/Minutes#Friday_5_September_2008_-_14.00_.28UTC.29
> ).
> The bulk of the discussion was in regard to the formation of
> committees: David Farning will organize/liaison with the Membership
> committee; Greg Dekoenigsberg  will organize/liaison with the Events
> committee; Bernie Innocenti will organize/liaison with the
> Infrastructure committee; Simon Schampijer will organize/liaison with
> the Test committee; I will organize/liaison with the Deployment
> committee. Please contact us if you have interested in participating
> on one of these committees. The next meeting will be Friday, 19
> September at 14:00 UTC (10 AM EST) on irc.freenode.net
> #sugar-meeting—please join us.
>
> 2. Study on the impact of ICT on educational outcomes: I spent an hour
> on phone with Nitika Tolani-Brown, a Research Analyst with the
> International Development Program at the American Institutes for
> Research. She and her colleagues are "conducting a comprehensive
> analysis of reliable research undertaken to date on the deployment of
> low-cost ICT to support education goals around the world with an
> emphasis on the developing world. The purpose of the study is to
> increase understanding of the impact of ICT on educational outcomes in
> children and adults and, ultimately, to generate an innovative
> research agenda to address salient issues." We discussed Sugar Labs,
> its goals and the status of the various Sugar deployments around the
> world. They are keen to get more input for their report. Feel free to
> contact Nitika (ntolani-brown AT air.org) with your thoughts on
> "current projects as they relate to the use of ICT in educational
> settings within developing countries, any evaluations conducted on
> these projects (or evaluations of other projects that you may know
> of), as well as your perceptions on the challenges users and
> developers of ICT solutions face and the future of this field." Their
> report will be posted publicly towards the end of the calendar year.
>
> 3. Field reports: There have been some brief reports coming in from
> Sugar trials, notably Rodolfo Pilas's report on the olpc-sur list
> (http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-September/000614.html)
> and Waveplace blog (http://waveplace.com/news/blog/). Any and all
> feedback is enormously valuable: please speak up.
>
> 4. Regional Sugar development teams: There are several regional
> initiatives in the formative stages that are looking for feedback in
> terms of how to best structure themselves. In an effort to increase
> the level of participation in the developing world, it is being
> proposed to build local teams to work full time on the further
> development and support of Sugar as a vehicle both for advancing the
> opportunity for a quality education for the children of the region and
> to create a viable community around free and open-source software, a
> major movement internationally that is fueling innovative technology
> and economic growth, but that has yet to take root in much of the
> developing world. Local groups are seeking funding for three years,
> after which they expect to have a self-sustaining enterprise that also
> serves as a focal point for entrepreneurship and job creation. Any
> input on how to best structure such initiatives and from whence to
> seek funding would be appreciated.
>
> === Community jams and meetups ===
>
> 5. FUDCon Brno 2008: Christoph Derndorfer reports from Brno that Sugar
> Labs had a strong presence at FUDCon (attending were Tomeu Vizoso,
> Marco Pesenti Gritti, Simon Schampijer, Bernie Innocenti—freshly back
> after 2 1/2 months of volunteering at OLE Nepal—Daniel Jahre,
> Christoph Derndorfer, and Greg deKoenigsberg). A presentation which
> focused on the Sugar platform, Sugar Labs and especially how the
> Fedora community can support the ongoing efforts was held at
> Saturday's barcamp. In addition Tomeu, Marco, Simon and Bernie spent a
> lot of time refining the 0.84 roadmap and feature plan. There were
> also many lively discussions about the current state of Sugar / Sugar
> Labs and many ideas, plans and to-dos for the weeks and months ahead
> were written down. They will be posted on the IAEP mailing-list and
> appropriate places in the wiki once everyone has recovered from FUDCon
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008).
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 6. Sucrose: Simon Schampijer reports that the Sugar release team has
> released the 0.82.1 Sucrose stable release
> (http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.82.1). Owners
> of an XO can test it in in latest joyride or the stable 8.2 branch >=
> 758.
>
> 7. Sugarbot: Zach Riggle reports progress on Sugarbot, a GUI
> automation utility for the automating the testing of Sugar Activities.
> Sugarbot supports
> continuous integration with Buildbot, so that multiple platforms and
> host configurations may be tested seamlessly; developers can more
> readily perform regression testing on their Activities, enhancing
> reliability and efficiency. A screencast of Sugarbot is available
> (
> http://code.google.com/p/sugarbot/downloads/detail?name=ScreenCast2.mp4&can=2&q=#makechanges
> )
> ad the package is available (http://code.google.com/p/sugarbot/).
>
> 8. Beagleboard: Koen Kooi reports that the basics (sugar, sugar-base,
> sugar-toolkit, sugar-presence-services and sugar-artwork) are now
> running on the beagleboard (See
> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/sugar-running-ångström<http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/sugar-running-%C3%A5ngstr%C3%B6m>
> ).
>
> 9. X: Bert Freudenberg wrote the long-awaited X Activity (See
> org.laptop.wiki.XActivity and download it from
> http://wiki.laptop.org/images/b/b4/X-1.xo). Thus Sugar now supports an
> X11 desktop as an Activity that can run regular X11 applications.
>
> 10. Testing: There has been great feedback from various individuals
> and teams testing Sugar and Sugar Activities, including the
> "Wellington testers", Gary Martin, Douglas Ridgway, "Team Perú", and
> Mikus Grinbergs. Many thanks for your efforts.
>
> 11. FLOSS Manuals: The manuals for a number of Sugar Activities are
> now published (including manuals for Write, Terminal, Chat, Browse,
> Record, and TurtleArt). Please help us improve these manuals by going
> to http://en.flossmanuals.net/write where the editable versions
> reside. Note that we are including tutorials and notes to parents and
> teachers as part of the documentation effort. Helping expanding these
> sections would be greatly appreciated.
>
> === 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-August-30-September-5-som.jpg).
>
> -walter
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> Pero me gustaria resaltar el punto cuatro del comunicado que habla de como
> crear y sostener comunidades de desarrollo al rededor de sugar, en
> latinoamerica tenemos una gran oportunidad de apoyar y crear cosas para
> Sugar ya que aca se encuentran la mayor cantidad de laptops que lo utilizan.
> Se de algunos grupos que trabajan en paises como Argentina, Uruguay,
> Colombia Peru, Bolivia y tal vez otros que se beneficiarian mucho de este
> tipo de discusiones
>
> Como comunicarnos mejor?
> Como sostener los esfuerzos?
> Que tipo de desarrollos de contenidos y/o software y localizacion, se
> deberian apoyar?-
>
> Vamos a tener una reunion en el canal  # sugar-meeting a las 14 UTC de este
> miercoles, para mas informacion:
>
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/lang-es
>
>
> Esperamos a toda la gente que tenga ideas al respecto y que desee
> compartirlas.
>
>
> --
> Rafael Ortiz
>

-- 
Rafael Ortiz
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