[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Kathy,

this should get you started: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software

Do note though that me and David spent 3 hours on Friday afternoon just 
to get ejabberd running on a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Your millage 
may vary but just be aware that it's definitely not a 1-click 
installation process.

Hope that helps,
Christoph

Kathy Pusztavari schrieb:
> Walter, is there a link on how to set up a school server?
> 
> -Kathy
> 
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> Cc: IAEP SugarLabs; Sugar Devel
> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21
> 
> ===Sugar Digest ===
> 
> 1. Five Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2009. We are
> excited about all five proposals; our only regret is that we were unable to
> accept any more of the promising proposals we received.
> Thank you to everyone who participated in the selection process-the feedback
> on the proposals from the community has been especially of great value.
> 
> To all of those who were not selected this year, we appreciate your efforts
> and hope that you will be able to find time to participate in the Sugar Labs
> community in some fashion this summer. We hope you'll reapply next year.
> 
> To those of you who were selected this year, both mentors and students,
> let's converge on a regular weekly meeting time in IRC to exchange notes on
> progress and problems. Individual teams should, of course, make arrangements
> for regular meeting times as well. In general, let's continue to hang out on
> #sugar, so that the developer community can stay abreast of what is
> happening.
> 
> Kudos to Jamison Quinn for organizing our GSoC efforts and seeing to all of
> the details. Finally, thanks once again to Google for this opportunity.
> 
> Student: Lucian Branescu Mihaila
> Project: Webified
> Mentor: Walter Bender
> 
> Student: Sascha Silbe
> Project: Version support for Sugar datastore and Journal
> Mentor: Jameson Quinn
> 
> Student: Felipe Lopez Toledo
> Project: Karma + Activities
> Mentor: Bryan Berry
> 
> Student: Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
> Project: Adding Print Support to the XOs
> Mentor: Andres Ambrois
> 
> Student: Benjamin Schwartz
> Project: Decentralized Asynchronous Collision-free Editing with Groupthink
> Mentor: Assim Deodia
> 
> 2. Caroline Meeks and I spent last Saturday at the Waltham YMCA where we
> exercised Sugar on a Stick with children and their parents visiting the Y
> for Healthy Kids Day. (I had to leave early to meet to attend to some sewer
> problems-don't ask.) All in all, it was a great day.
> 
>>From the technical point of view, Sugar on a Stick lived up to its billing.
> We were able to get all but one of the mismatched castaway PCs to boot, even
> some of which would not boot into Windows XP. (The one machine that did not
> boot would not power on at all-not something we could fix with software.) We
> did have one machine with an invisible cursor, but otherwise it ran fine.
> Sound worked on every machine that had speakers. We were able to assign
> static IP addresses and every machine was able to connect to the Internet.
> However something was preventing collaboration to work: we could see each
> other, but not share activities or interact with other users connected to
> jabber.sugarlabs.org. We have some debugging to do. Ideally, we would have
> brought a school server in to assign IP addresses, which would have assured
> that at least local collaboration worked.
> 
> Caroline will be writing up detailed notes on the children's use of Sugar
> throughout the day. The way things were organized, parents and children were
> dropping in to the room at any time during the day. We had in the room
> anywhere from two to six children, as young as two and as old as seven or
> eight, while I was there. They went right to the machines without any
> introduction to Sugar. Most of the machines were either already running an
> activity or had the Home View visible.
> Popular activities included Memorize, where some children went so far as to
> design their own games, Jigsaw Puzzle, Turtle Art, Speak, Write, and Mini
> Tam Tam.
> 
> While hardly a typical classroom setting, things went quite well with this
> somewhat haphazard introduction to Sugar: the children were engaged, as were
> their parents. However there was not time enough for them to discover or
> exploit features such as the Journal. And since collaboration was not
> working, all of the interactions were solo.
> Undoubtedly there is some more scaffolding we can provide children and
> parents new to Sugar. (We've already had some follow-up discussions on how
> to best integrate examples into activities and how to make the views and
> frame more readily discoverable on non-OLPC-XO hardware.)
> 
> ===In the community===
> 
> 3. Lionel Laske announced that OLPC France will organize with Sugar Labs the
> first Sugar Camp in Europe in Paris on May 16. Sign up at
> http://sugarcamp.eventbrite.com/. Several workshop will be organized all
> around the day: technical, pedagogical and documentation. The full agenda is
> not closed so do not hesitate to submit a workshop proposal.
> These events are fully free, thanks to AFUL and GDium.
> 
> There will also be a Sugar meeting on the 17th (See
> [[Marketing_Team/Events/MiniCamp_Paris_2009]]) where we will be discussing
> initial plans for Sucrose 0.86.
> 
> ===Tech Talk===
> 
> 4. Christian Marc Schmidt led a discussion of potential 0.86 improvements to
> the UI in a Design Team meeting this past weekend.
> Together, we came up with a list of design goals to possibly include in our
> development schedule for 0.86, with concrete tasks to be accomplished in
> advance of SugarCamp. Christian added a meeting summary on the wiki, along
> with a link to the transcript:
> [[Design_Team/Meetings]]
> 
> 5. Gary Martin and Aleksey Lim released a new version of
> [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078 Labyrinth] Paola
> Bruccoleri, a teacher from Uruguay has already tried the new version and
> written a small tutorial about how to create mind maps with it (See
> http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Imagen:Labyrinth6-Tutorial.pdf).
> Aleksey also released a new version of Record (See
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4081).
> 
> 6. In response to a discussion on IRC this week, we will experiment with
> some mini Developer tutorials, with the goal of sharing techniques on
> activity development. I'll launch the series with a brief session on
> keyboard shortcuts this week on #sugar on irc.freenode.net following
> Thursday's weekly developer meeting.
> 
> ===Sugar Labs ===
> 
> 7. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on the
> IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:Image:2009-April-11-17-som.jpg]]).
> 
> -walter
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