[Sur] Sugar Digest 2014-10-01

Mie Oct 1 15:36:50 EDT 2014

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> Very interesting!!!
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> 2014-10-01 13:46 GMT-03:00, Walter Bender <walter.bender en gmail.com>:
> > errata:
> >
> > 7. The next Turtle Art Day event will be a workshop at Prospect Hill
> > Academy in Somerville. Caroline Meeks is hosting the event.
> >
> > -walter
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender en gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> ==Sugar Digest==
> >>
> >> 1. September was an exciting month. We held the first Sugar Youth
> >> Summit in Montevideo, organized by Daniel Francis and Jose Miguel
> >> Garcia and generously hosted by ANEP. The event featured a day-long
> >> symposium and series of workshops, including ones on Turtle Art,
> >> Butia, and how to write a Sugar activity. One teacher who attended the
> >> Turtle Art workshop exclaimed that she could not believe the progress
> >> she made.
> >>
> >> The event was attended by youths from Uruguay and Paraguay and
> >> educators and developers from as far away as Nicaragua and Colombia.
> >> We had an Argentine contingent as well.
> >>
> >> The symposium and workshops were held on Software Freedom Day. Given
> >> the number of Python programmers in attendance, it occurred to me that
> >> we should petition the city of Montevideo to rename itself Monty
> >> Python (after whom the language was named) for Software Freedom Day
> >> each year.
> >>
> >> The day before the symposium Gonzalo Odiard, Mariana Herrera, Jose
> >> Miguel, and I visited a school for children with special needs. As a
> >> result, during the code sprint that followed the symposium, we wrote
> >> three new activities that have their content and user interface
> >> tailored to the school's population. Lorena Paz from Argentina, also
> >> in attendance, resurfaces a number of issues around accessibility that
> >> we will consider in the coming months as well.
> >>
> >> Coincident with the weekend of hacking was a robo-Sumo contest at
> >> FING. It was a good opportunity to spend time with Andres Aguirre and
> >> Alan Aguiar of Butia fame and to recruit some new talent. Several of
> >> the more competitive kids joined us in the workshops. They took a
> >> special interest in Turtle Blocks 3D, one of the Google Summer of Code
> >> projects that is coming into its own.
> >>
> >> Gonzalo and I also got a chance to meet with a group of teachers
> >> conviened by Jose Miguel at his office at ANEP. These teachers are
> >> engaged in various project-based learning initiatives across the
> >> country. Really good work -- utilizing the computer as a tool to
> >> enhance authentic inquiry by the children. I look forward to continued
> >> interactions with them.
> >>
> >> 2. At the workshop, Martin Abente presented the initial plans for
> >> Sugar 104. (Martin has generously offered to be the release manager.)
> >> The new features under consideration can be found at [1].
> >>
> >> We'll be discussing these features in an online meeting on 2 October
> >> at 13 UTC. Please join us on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting.
> >>
> >> 3. I've been working on polishing up the Turtle Blocks 3D code over
> >> the past few weeks. There are a number of improvements from where we
> >> (Anubhav and I) left things this summer. Notably, the interface
> >> between Turtle Blocks and Blender is much richer. You can export .OBJ
> >> files from Turtle and import them into Blender and export .OBJ files
> >> from Blender and import them into Turtle. Currently I am working on
> >> adding a 3D cursor, which I designed and rendered in Turtle Blocks 3D
> >> itself. See [2] for a preview.
> >>
> >> 4. I've been working on a new activity similar to the Portfolio
> >> activity that is geared towards reflection. Like Portfolio, it draws
> >> upon Journal items that have been starred. It also allows the user to
> >> create reflections unrelated to any Journal items. The presentation is
> >> quite different from Portfolio, which is modeled after a slide show.
> >> Reflect is more like a stream, similar to the news feeds in Facebook
> >> and Google+. The stream supports comments and attaching media, and it
> >> can be searched by #tags. A preview is available at [3]. Feedback most
> >> welcome.
> >>
> >> 5. It is time to begin preparing for the annual Sugar Labs Oversight
> >> Board election (AKA SLOBs). Four (4) seats are open (due to staggered
> >> seat terms) for election / re-election to the Sugar Labs Oversight
> >> Board for 2013-2014, those of Daniel Francis, Gonzalo Odiard, Adam
> >> Holt, and Claudia Urrea. Please let me know if you are interested
> >> running for one of our board seats and also, please add your self to
> >> the candidates' wiki page [4]. Also, since only members receive
> >> ballots, please be sure to sign up for membership by following the
> >> instructions in the wiki [5]. Finally, we need help running the
> >> election itself. Please contact me (or Luke Faraone) if you are
> >> interested in helping.
> >>
> >> === In the community ===
> >>
> >> 6. Several of us will be in the Bay Area for the Google Summer of Code
> >> summit in late October. In conjunction with that event, we'll be
> >> holding a code sprint to look at the collaboration stack. If
> >>
> >> 7. The next Turtle Art Day event will be a workshop at the ??? School
> >> in Summerville. Carolyn Meeks is hosting the event. I've been busy
> >> making Sugar-on-a-Stick USB keys to give the kids. (I'm using Ruben
> >> Rodriguez's Trisquel TOAST image [6], which has an up-to-date copy of
> >> Turtle Blocks.)
> >>
> >> We are also planning a Turtle workshop in San Francisco in October.
> >>
> >> === Tech Talk ===
> >>
> >> 8. Lionel Laské recently announced the fourth version (0.4) of
> >> Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar for any device [7]. Sugarizer reproduces
> >> the main features of Sugar in HTML5/JavaScript. It is available from a
> >> browser or as an Android application. Lionel presents Sugarizer in a
> >> talk at SugarCamp Paris [8].
> >>
> >> 9. Sebastian Silva and Laura Vargas recently announced that > 20000
> >> children are now using Sugar Network. Tip of the hat to Aleksey Lim
> >> who has been working diligently behind the scenes on the project.
> >>
> >> === Sugar Labs ===
> >>
> >> 10. Please visit our planet at [9].
> >>
> >> -walter
> >> --
> >> Walter Bender
> >> Sugar Labs
> >> http://www.sugarlabs.org
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Feature_List
> >> [2] http://github.com/Anubhav-J/turtleart.git
> >> [3] http://github.com/walterbender/reflect.git
> >> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates
> >> [5]
> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership
> >> [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast
> >> [7] http://sugarizer.org
> >> [8]
> >>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvdma_sugarcamp-3-sugarizer-what-if-sugar-could-be-on-every-device_school
> >> [9] http://planet.sugarlabs.org
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Walter Bender
> > Sugar Labs
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