[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-30

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> “Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all,
> but do not doubt yourself.”
> (Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent;
> doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.)
> -André Gide
>
> It has been a very exciting week. (You may have noticed, I don't often
> use adverbs, but "very" was called for given all that has happened.)
>
> 1. Simon Schampijer announced the release of Sugar 0.98. This is a
> major milestone for Sugar Labs as it is the first release that takes
> touch seriously. It also incorportates many improvements to the GTK3
> port. The Sugar Developer Team deserves a resounding celebatory cheer
> of thanks for a their effort. Read the release notes here [1]. (Note
> that OLPC has been incorporating Sugar 0.98 in their 13.1 series of
> builds, available for download here [2] to run on XO hardware.)

It will also appear in the next nightly build of SoaS v8, I'll provide
a link when it's available.

> 2. Google Code-In [3] began on Monday. We have 22 mentors [4], 40
> students [5], and 79 out of 132 tasks already completed [6]. (More
> tasks are coming on-line soon.) The contest runs for 6 weeks, so it is
> not too late to sign up as a mentor [7] and to recruit students to
> participate [8]. Some highlights include new tutorials for Turtle Art,
> using Sugar in a Virtual Machine, and using Sugar on a Stick; a new
> feature: load a background image on the home screen; and numerous
> patches in support of internationalization. Some of the usual suspects
> are making their usual outstanding contributions, while some new
> talent is also emerging. Thanks to everyone (mentors, students, and
> Google) for participating.

I'd be interested in what's happening on SoaS.

> 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board
> early next month. If you are interested in running for one of the open
> board seats, open to any community member, please contact me or the
> membership committee with any questions *before* 7 December.
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 4. Aleksey Lim announced the Sugar Network 0.7 development release.
> See [9] for details on how to try it.
>
> === Sugar Labs ===
>
> Visit our planet [10] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments.
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.98/Notes
> [2] http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/
> [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012
> [4] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_orgs_mentors
> [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org_scores/google/gci2012/sugarlabs2012
> [6] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_org_tasks
> [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Mentors
> [8] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Students
> [9] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network#Try_it
> [10] http://planet.sugarlabs.org
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