[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-30

[James Simmons]

Walter,

This was my write-up:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/MYOSA

I had eight sub-tasks in there, which included proposals for new chapters
and a couple of suggestions for the existing chapters, mostly involving
GTK3 porting.  I thought giving students the option of making their own
chapters would be a better incentive than the necessary drudgery of
updating the existing ones, which I can take on myself.  Since we are still
shipping the old GTK the existing book still works.  We could leave well
enough alone and add a chapter on migrating to GTK3 plus create new entries
in the Git repository with the code samples migrated.  I don't see updating
individual chapters as attractive tasks, and I don't think a student would
either.

I was more concerned that the Melange only shows this as one big task
rather than eight.

Again, if it turns out that GCI comes and goes and nobody chooses to work
on this I'll still work with anyone who wants to add a chapter to the book,
on his (or her) own terms, and buy them a printed copy of the book and ship
it to where they live.  That person will also get his picture on the back
cover and any other inducement I can reasonably offer.

James Simmons

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Perhaps we could break the editing update into chapters.
>
> -walter
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am wondering if I did the best possible job setting up my tasks for the
> > Google code-in.  Judging from
> >
> > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_org_tasks
> >
> > it looks like lots of small tasks are most attractive to potential
> students.
> > I wrote up a little page explaining some possible improvements, each one
> of
> > which could be considered a task, but on Melange it looks like updating
> the
> > book is considered one big task.  So I'm wondering if that needs to be
> > changed and how to go about it.
> >
> > Whether it as part of the Google code-in or not, I hope to work with the
> > Python Joven and others like them to make an improved version of MYOSA
> and
> > give them a shot at literary immortality.  It isn't fair for me to keep
> all
> > of it for myself.
> >
> > James Simmons
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> [6]
> >>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_org_tasks
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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