<div dir="ltr">Hola Alba,<div>Podes hacer todas las preguntas que quieras enviando mail a <<a href="mailto:olpc-sur@lists.laptop.org">olpc-sur@lists.laptop.org</a>></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Alba Susana Ferreyro Bologna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:susanaferreyro20@gmail.com" target="_blank">susanaferreyro20@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Very interesting!!!<br>
I need to to know about all these new works, projects, and meetings,<br>
so please send to my mail as usual to <a href="mailto:susanaferreyro20@gmail.com">susanaferreyro20@gmail.com</a>.<br>
Thanks,<br>
Susana<br>
Punta del Este<br>
Maldonado<br>
URUGUAY<br>
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2014-10-01 13:46 GMT-03:00, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> errata:<br>
><br>
> 7. The next Turtle Art Day event will be a workshop at Prospect Hill<br>
> Academy in Somerville. Caroline Meeks is hosting the event.<br>
><br>
> -walter<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> ==Sugar Digest==<br>
>><br>
>> 1. September was an exciting month. We held the first Sugar Youth<br>
>> Summit in Montevideo, organized by Daniel Francis and Jose Miguel<br>
>> Garcia and generously hosted by ANEP. The event featured a day-long<br>
>> symposium and series of workshops, including ones on Turtle Art,<br>
>> Butia, and how to write a Sugar activity. One teacher who attended the<br>
>> Turtle Art workshop exclaimed that she could not believe the progress<br>
>> she made.<br>
>><br>
>> The event was attended by youths from Uruguay and Paraguay and<br>
>> educators and developers from as far away as Nicaragua and Colombia.<br>
>> We had an Argentine contingent as well.<br>
>><br>
>> The symposium and workshops were held on Software Freedom Day. Given<br>
>> the number of Python programmers in attendance, it occurred to me that<br>
>> we should petition the city of Montevideo to rename itself Monty<br>
>> Python (after whom the language was named) for Software Freedom Day<br>
>> each year.<br>
>><br>
>> The day before the symposium Gonzalo Odiard, Mariana Herrera, Jose<br>
>> Miguel, and I visited a school for children with special needs. As a<br>
>> result, during the code sprint that followed the symposium, we wrote<br>
>> three new activities that have their content and user interface<br>
>> tailored to the school's population. Lorena Paz from Argentina, also<br>
>> in attendance, resurfaces a number of issues around accessibility that<br>
>> we will consider in the coming months as well.<br>
>><br>
>> Coincident with the weekend of hacking was a robo-Sumo contest at<br>
>> FING. It was a good opportunity to spend time with Andres Aguirre and<br>
>> Alan Aguiar of Butia fame and to recruit some new talent. Several of<br>
>> the more competitive kids joined us in the workshops. They took a<br>
>> special interest in Turtle Blocks 3D, one of the Google Summer of Code<br>
>> projects that is coming into its own.<br>
>><br>
>> Gonzalo and I also got a chance to meet with a group of teachers<br>
>> conviened by Jose Miguel at his office at ANEP. These teachers are<br>
>> engaged in various project-based learning initiatives across the<br>
>> country. Really good work -- utilizing the computer as a tool to<br>
>> enhance authentic inquiry by the children. I look forward to continued<br>
>> interactions with them.<br>
>><br>
>> 2. At the workshop, Martin Abente presented the initial plans for<br>
>> Sugar 104. (Martin has generously offered to be the release manager.)<br>
>> The new features under consideration can be found at [1].<br>
>><br>
>> We'll be discussing these features in an online meeting on 2 October<br>
>> at 13 UTC. Please join us on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> #sugar-meeting.<br>
>><br>
>> 3. I've been working on polishing up the Turtle Blocks 3D code over<br>
>> the past few weeks. There are a number of improvements from where we<br>
>> (Anubhav and I) left things this summer. Notably, the interface<br>
>> between Turtle Blocks and Blender is much richer. You can export .OBJ<br>
>> files from Turtle and import them into Blender and export .OBJ files<br>
>> from Blender and import them into Turtle. Currently I am working on<br>
>> adding a 3D cursor, which I designed and rendered in Turtle Blocks 3D<br>
>> itself. See [2] for a preview.<br>
>><br>
>> 4. I've been working on a new activity similar to the Portfolio<br>
>> activity that is geared towards reflection. Like Portfolio, it draws<br>
>> upon Journal items that have been starred. It also allows the user to<br>
>> create reflections unrelated to any Journal items. The presentation is<br>
>> quite different from Portfolio, which is modeled after a slide show.<br>
>> Reflect is more like a stream, similar to the news feeds in Facebook<br>
>> and Google+. The stream supports comments and attaching media, and it<br>
>> can be searched by #tags. A preview is available at [3]. Feedback most<br>
>> welcome.<br>
>><br>
>> 5. It is time to begin preparing for the annual Sugar Labs Oversight<br>
>> Board election (AKA SLOBs). Four (4) seats are open (due to staggered<br>
>> seat terms) for election / re-election to the Sugar Labs Oversight<br>
>> Board for 2013-2014, those of Daniel Francis, Gonzalo Odiard, Adam<br>
>> Holt, and Claudia Urrea. Please let me know if you are interested<br>
>> running for one of our board seats and also, please add your self to<br>
>> the candidates' wiki page [4]. Also, since only members receive<br>
>> ballots, please be sure to sign up for membership by following the<br>
>> instructions in the wiki [5]. Finally, we need help running the<br>
>> election itself. Please contact me (or Luke Faraone) if you are<br>
>> interested in helping.<br>
>><br>
>> === In the community ===<br>
>><br>
>> 6. Several of us will be in the Bay Area for the Google Summer of Code<br>
>> summit in late October. In conjunction with that event, we'll be<br>
>> holding a code sprint to look at the collaboration stack. If<br>
>><br>
>> 7. The next Turtle Art Day event will be a workshop at the ??? School<br>
>> in Summerville. Carolyn Meeks is hosting the event. I've been busy<br>
>> making Sugar-on-a-Stick USB keys to give the kids. (I'm using Ruben<br>
>> Rodriguez's Trisquel TOAST image [6], which has an up-to-date copy of<br>
>> Turtle Blocks.)<br>
>><br>
>> We are also planning a Turtle workshop in San Francisco in October.<br>
>><br>
>> === Tech Talk ===<br>
>><br>
>> 8. Lionel Laské recently announced the fourth version (0.4) of<br>
>> Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar for any device [7]. Sugarizer reproduces<br>
>> the main features of Sugar in HTML5/JavaScript. It is available from a<br>
>> browser or as an Android application. Lionel presents Sugarizer in a<br>
>> talk at SugarCamp Paris [8].<br>
>><br>
>> 9. Sebastian Silva and Laura Vargas recently announced that > 20000<br>
>> children are now using Sugar Network. Tip of the hat to Aleksey Lim<br>
>> who has been working diligently behind the scenes on the project.<br>
>><br>
>> === Sugar Labs ===<br>
>><br>
>> 10. Please visit our planet at [9].<br>
>><br>
>> -walter<br>
>> --<br>
>> Walter Bender<br>
>> Sugar Labs<br>
>> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>><br>
>> [1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Feature_List" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Feature_List</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="http://github.com/Anubhav-J/turtleart.git" target="_blank">http://github.com/Anubhav-J/turtleart.git</a><br>
>> [3] <a href="http://github.com/walterbender/reflect.git" target="_blank">http://github.com/walterbender/reflect.git</a><br>
>> [4] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates</a><br>
>> [5]<br>
>> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership</a><br>
>> [6] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast</a><br>
>> [7] <a href="http://sugarizer.org" target="_blank">http://sugarizer.org</a><br>
>> [8]<br>
>> <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvdma_sugarcamp-3-sugarizer-what-if-sugar-could-be-on-every-device_school" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvdma_sugarcamp-3-sugarizer-what-if-sugar-could-be-on-every-device_school</a><br>
>> [9] <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://planet.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Walter Bender<br>
> Sugar Labs<br>
> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
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