Sharing Walter's end of year digest for those interested<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Walter Bender</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 4 January 2011 03:48<br>Subject: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-01-03<br>To: <a href="mailto:community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org">community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>Cc: iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, Sugar-dev Devel <<a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
<br><br>== Sugar Digest ==<br><br>1. I have been struggling with my end-of-the-year summary; I have<br>always been more interested in looking forward than looking<br>backward. Nonetheless:<br><br>The numbers tell some of the story of 2010: we have almost 2-million<br>
users, including 100% of the children of Uruguay; we had almost<br>5-million downloads from our Activity portal; we released Sugar<br>versions 0.88 and 0.90. The most telling number is 12, the<br>age of our youngest contributor.<br>
<br>As Sugar matures, we are entering a new phase where more of the<br>activity is in the hands of our user community. While we debated how<br>best to get teachers engaged, the teachers themselves have started<br>reaching out to each other and to us. While we debated how best to<br>
mesh our development cycle with the needs of OLPC and the distros, the<br>deployments put together their own builds, meeting their own needs.<br><br>As with any project, we have had some churn. Tomeu Vizoso and<br>Sebastian Dziallas have moved on to other projects; others are<br>
increasing their engagement: Marco Pesenti Gritti is back. Simon<br>Schampijer and Sascha Silbe are taking over responsibility for<br>Glucose; Peter Robinson is the new Sugar-on-a-Stick lead; Tom Gilliard<br>is advancing our efforts around virtual machine support. We have a<br>
renewed engagement with the OLPC association in Miami, a group<br>dedicated to the original vision of the project. Activity Central and<br>Seeta are among the commercial enterprises offering Sugar support. We<br>have some prolific new activity developers, notably ChristferR and<br>
Mulawa. I would be remiss in not mentioning the on-going contributions<br>of Aleksey Lim, who is touching every corner of the project. The Sur<br>community has increased its activity and presence in global<br>community. We have a board member from the South, weekly debates on<br>
pedagogy in Spanish, led by Claudia Urrea, keep us focuses on our<br>mission. Meanwhile, Gary Martin has taken on the bulk of the design<br>burden. We'd be no where without the time spent by Daniel Drake and<br>Bernie Innocenti efforts at deployments. And Bernie and Dogi keep our<br>
infrastructure running. Of course, there are literally 1000s of others<br>contributing to Sugar development and Sugar deployments. Your efforts<br>are making a difference.<br><br>Other 2010 events of note:<br><br>The first Sugar twins: The Sugar community just got larger: Pablo<br>
Flores and Micaela Acosta had twins, Nacieron Facundo and Sasha, born<br>on 27 December.<br><br>The first Sugar couple: Sebastian Silva and Laura Vargas met as<br>volunteers and were married this fall.<br><br>I'll do the "leadership thing" and blog about ‘Here’s what we’re going<br>
to do. Here’s how we’re going to do it. Here’s why we’re going to do<br>it.’ some time in January. Meanwhile, thank you for the great effort<br>and great accomplishments of 2010.<br><br>===Sugar Labs===<br><br>Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past few weeks of discussion<br>
on the IAEP mailing list.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Dec-24-Jan-01-som.jpg" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Dec-24-Jan-01-som.jpg</a> (37 emails) <br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Dec-18-24-som.jpg" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Dec-18-24-som.jpg</a> (16 emails)<br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Dec-11-17-som.jpg" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Dec-11-17-som.jpg</a> (46 emails) <br><br>Visit <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://planet.sugarlabs.org</a> for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments.<br>
<br clear="all">-walter<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Walter Bender<br>Sugar Labs<br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br><br>
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