<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font face="arial" size="2">Hello Agustin from the US :)</font><br><br><font face="arial" size="2">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Sun, 9/23/12, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez <i><aguz@sugarlabs.org></i></b><font face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br>From: Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez <aguz@sugarlabs.org><br>Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18<br>To: "Gonzalo Odiard" <gonzalo@laptop.org><br>Cc: "James Simmons" <nicestep@gmail.com>, "iaep" <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, "Sugar-dev Devel" <sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org>, community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org, "S. Daniel Francis"
<francis@sugarlabs.org><br>Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 3:16 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1804981809">Hi, everybody.<br>Like Daniel, I'm from Uruguay and I feel identified with the Walter message.<br>I'm fourteen years old, and I started using sugar when I was ten, when I receive my XO was the first time that I used linux and it liked me a lot.<br>
<br>About the young programmers:<br>I was a student of Flavio Danesse, and he taught me a lot</div><div id="yiv1804981809"><br></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">We need to 'clone' this person, we need more who can do what he is doing!</span><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div id="yiv1804981809"><br></div><div id="yiv1804981809"> but for obvious reasons I had to appeal the internet to found more information, where the most are in english, for me it wasn't a problem, because I have learned english.</div></blockquote><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Yes, access to the internet, a laptop and free time are VERY important in the global world and provides access to the largest library, but sadly 90% of the text
is in English. But now there is more in other languages, and even better, almost anyone of any age can write a web page to add Spanish (or other langauge) text.</span><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div id="yiv1804981809"><br>
But the most of the children in Latin America hasn't this luck, and they find it difficult to program.<br><br>About sugar and the teachers:<br>Unfortunately, when I was in primary school, no teacher was concerned with explaining how to use my XO, and the "logical sugar activities", such as Turtle Art and Scratch, but luckily their interfaces are very intuitive.</div><div id="yiv1804981809"><br></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">That was the goal of Sugar Labs, to make it easy to use, its great that you agree and they need more kids to help them make it better.</span><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div id="yiv1804981809"><br>
And when I started the high school was the same, no teacher was interested in the XO, except Mr. Flavio Danesse :)</div><div id="yiv1804981809"><br></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">That is sad, more teaacher need to see what he is doing in High Schools.</span><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div id="yiv1804981809"><br></div><div id="yiv1804981809"><br>For this reason the most of my classmates, only use their XO to browse in Facebook and other social networks.<br><br></div></blockquote><div id="yiv1804981809" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; ">That is useful, but its not as educational as learning about python or reading about world news or science or animals or something more about your interests or your </div><div id="yiv1804981809"
style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; ">future. Unless you are using facebook to talk about science and news and books.<br></div><div id="yiv1804981809" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; "><br></div><div id="yiv1804981809" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; ">Thanks you for your great effort to explain how the XO is helping and how you use it.</div><div id="yiv1804981809" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; ">-Kevin</div><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div id="yiv1804981809">Regards,<br>Agustin Zubiaga<br>
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