<HTML><BODY><br><br><br>Friday, February 27, 2015 2:07 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard <godiard@sugarlabs.org>:<br> <blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;"><div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div><div id="style_14250568710000000605_BODY"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Samuel for start this public discussion. I share some of your concerns,<div>and agree with your points.<div><br></div><div>I think we agree web activities is the way to move forward. We started to work on that </div><div>for Sugar 0.100, and that will provide us the possibility of run activities in any browser,</div><div>in android, and in Sugar at the same time. Need more work, but the basics is here.</div><div><br></div><div>Then we need implement/improve a cloud (or little server) solution, like Sugarizer,</div><div>or develop a way to provide a Journal in Android. I also think we need a </div><div>"educative social network" solution for Sugar. Is not 2007 anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>I honestly wonder what will we do with our Sugar python/fedora implementation.</div><div>Without funding, we can't maintain it. And deployments in general are not interested </div><div>in put money in Sugar, sadly. They are used to get the software for free with the XOs.</div><div><br></div><div>The true is that we lost the last 3 paid developers working on Sugar (walter, tch and me).</div><div>Someone who does not work on development could think you can replace 3 developers</div><div>working 8/10 hours/day by 30 developers working 1 hour/day, but does not work in that way. [1]</div><div><br></div><div>In my opinion, as Sugar Labs, if we want to be relevant, we need:</div><div><br></div><div>* Find a way to get funding/partners. Maybe we need someone with marketing skills,</div><div>and pay him/her a salary. (But for that we need money....) I am not a marketing guy </div><div>(this mail will confirm that), nor walter or others in the slobs. We have a marketing team,</div><div>but only work on press releases, and I am thinking in marketing in a broader way.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br>The problem with partners is that any partner who has established a history of making good decision will ask the same question Mr. Greenfeld asked to start this thread. If they get the same response Dr. Bender gave Mr. Greenfeld they take their money and go back home.<br><br>Several individuals such as Mr. Abente have suggested the importance of feedback. SugarLabs seems to have difficulty hearing feedback it does not like. Rather than investigate what to improve, the project tends to belittle the reporter's lack of knowledge or vision.<br><br>This has left Sugar as Dr. Bender's personal project.<br><br>It might be instructive to ask the simple question, "What type of project is Sugar?" <br><br><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;"><div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div><div id="style_14250568710000000605_BODY"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>* We need review our governance model. SLOBs works for the little decisions</div><div>(participate or not in GSoC or GCI, support a event), but is not working to take </div><div>strategic decisions. We can see how other communities are organized.</div><div>Two years without enough candidates to run the elections is a signal,</div><div>or the community is not here anymore, or does not care about SLOBs.</div><div><br></div><div>* Improve our communication internal and external. We have many communities inter related</div><div>(sugar-devel, iaep, olpc france, olpc sf, Unleash kids, somos azucar, etc, etc).</div><div>Everyone contribute in different ways to different parts in the ecosystem.</div><div>I wonder if we can improve communication and team work. </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry if my message sounds too negative. I already discussed these issues privately</div><div>but didn't find a solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_mythical_man-month" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_mythical_man-month</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br><div>On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asamuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am not necessarily discounting XOs; but several community members have said in the past they were not upgrading to the latest Sugar/OLPC OS versions. This is because newer versions tend to need more resources and run slowly on older XO models.<br></div><div><br></div>XOs may always be part of the community; but they are not necessarily going to be the centerpiece going forward.<br><br><div><br>The Oversight Board may have more information than what is publicly known.<br><br>But from the operational perspective, I would like to see:<br><ul><li>A clear succession plan for Sugar Labs and Sugar development. It is unclear to me if there still are developers who can fill in for each other if case someone needs to stop working on Sugar, or who will champion the project if Walter becomes unable to do so.<br><br></li><li><div>An assessment of what is the current Sugar community, and what we would like to see the community become.<br><br></div></li><li><div>Some sort of public plan depending on the above.<br><br></div></li><li>Focusing on what's really out there. Quoting 2 or 3 million XOs made since the beginning of OLPC is great for press releases. But this does not reflect how many are actively used by children.<br><br>Many XOs are broken, retired, in warehouses, etc. Apart from larger deployments which may have these numbers internally, I don't think anyone has collected the statistics.<br><br><div>This is like if Apple stated there are 500 million iPhones 'in the field' (sold) running iOS when in practice many people have broken their iPhones, replaced them with newer models, switched to a different brand...<br><br>Similar statistics could be taken for Intel Classmates and other things.<br><br></div></li><li>The ability to prove that Sugar is still relevant. Looking at the overlap between One Education's leadership and OLPC's historical structure, it is possible that the XO Infinity, when released, will become the new laptop being offered by both going forward.(*)<br><br>So I would not be surprised if the XO Infinity ran XO Learning or something similar with a new interface supporting "thousands of educational applications", was "easier and cheaper to develop for", had more conflicting terminology with Sugar, and some improvements for initial mistakes.<br><br>The use of similar icons and terms puts Sugar into a state like OLPC volunteers are with OLPC's corporations. Volunteers may claim to be part of a wider movement. But whenever the press has questions, they are going to hear the corporations' answers.<br><br>(*) An alternative they may try is to use OLPC as a way to drop past obligations, and use One Education to create a new brand. This, like the past few paragraphs, is pure speculation by me alone, and may not be the direction anyone goes.<br></li></ul><p><br></p></div></div><div><div><div><br><div>On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3awalter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't think Sugar Labs has lacked a long-term vision. It has been<br> since Day One to provide great tools for learning to children while<br> being hardware agnostic. That said, our tactics have been slowly<br> evolving as the market itself evolves. We launched Sugar Labs in early<br> 2008 when it was clear to some of us in the community that many<br> children would have access to computers other than the OLPC XO. We<br> wanted to reach those children, and indeed, many Sugar users run it on<br> netbooks such as the Intel Classmate. We've also continued to support<br> the XO as well. There are ~3 million XOs in the field, most of which<br> are still running Sugar as far as I know. (When I was in Nepal last<br> year, I saw Sugar running on machines built in 2007, a testament to<br> OLPC's hardware team. I am not sure why Sam thinks we need to discount<br> those machines or the kids using them.)<br><br> Over the ensuing years, we have also made efforts to reach out in<br> other ways, some more successful than others: Sugar has been ported to<br> virtually every major flavor of GNU/Linux. As a community, it has been<br> difficult to support all of those efforts, but some, such as Trisquel,<br> rival Fedora, where we still do our development, in terms of<br> stability. (We have lagged behind in our Ubuntu support; given its<br> popularity this has been a tactical mistake.) We also initiated the<br> Sugar on a Stick and Sugar in a virtual machine efforts, which opened<br> the door to getting a taste of Sugar on iOS and MS Windows platforms.<br> These products have matured and are well maintained. In anticipation<br> of the tablet bubble, we added touch support to Sugar; (it works, but<br> the good news is that most people serious about using tablets for<br> learning are also including keyboards these days.) Sugar also runs<br> nicely on Chromebooks, which are making some inroads into the<br> classroom.<br><br> And, as Lionel mentioned, already three years ago we began in earnest<br> an effort to support Javascript as a first order language in Sugar so<br> as to both invite a broader community of developers in and being to<br> offer Sugar activities to users of web browsers and Android<br> (eventually iPhone) devices. Lionel has expanded upon that effort to<br> try to offer the whole Sugar experience, not just individual<br> activities. This work is on-going and is the focus of our proposal to<br> Google Summer of Code 2015.<br><br> We have been able to enlist some new talent (and refocus some existing<br> talent) in the Javascript arena. For example, there have already been<br> (over the course of 4 months) almost 200 pull requests to the<br> Javascript version of Turtle Blocks from 15 contributors, half of whom<br> are new to Sugar.<br><br> And it is worth noting that 50% of the patches in the latest Sugar<br> release came from kids.<br><br> All of that said, our future is far from clear. OLPC and OLPC<br> deployments have been the largest source of funding, albeit erratic,<br> for Sugar development and maintenance. (We continue to get some<br> funding from Google, Trip Advisor, et al., but these $s are not<br> general funds for supporting developers and code maintenance.) It<br> seems that the OLPC well is running dry (We have a few proposals<br> circulating but none in hand at the moment.) We've gotten little<br> support from other hardware vendors, I believe in part because many of<br> them still see Sugar Labs as an extension of OLPC, with whom they were<br> competing.<br><br> So either Sugar Labs finds support for the core development team to<br> remain focused full-time on Sugar or we scale back our release cycle<br> to one that can be managed entirely by part-time volunteers.<br><br> There are opportunities out there: for example, partnering with some<br> of the classroom management solutions; finding funding for specific<br> programs, such as Turtle Blocks, and finding more hardware partners.<br> Meanwhile, we also need to keep Sugar relevant. I take the long view<br> there, in that I think the core pedagogical ideas in Sugar are sound<br> and that over time we'll be better situated to get these ideas into<br> the hands of learners. (For example, Android is becoming more<br> Sugar-friendly as it evolves.)<br><br> The Sugar Oversight Board agreed to host a summit on the future of<br> Sugar some time in the coming months. We've been doing some<br> preparatory work and hope to get something scheduled soon.<br><br> Meanwhile, let's keep kicking around ideas here.<br><br> regards.<br><br> -walter<br><div><div><br> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Lionel Laské <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3alionel@olpc%2dfrance.org" target="_blank">lionel@olpc-france.org</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > Hi Samuel,<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > Thanks to share your vision. I think you're right, SugarLabs lack of a clear<br> > long-term vision that we could share with all contributors. Hope that your<br> > mail we'll give us opportunity to share our thought on that.<br> ><br> > Here's mine.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > If Sugar want live, it can't be limited to a niche platform: neither the XO,<br> > neither a Fedora computer. I'm sure we're all convinced that the better<br> > platform for education is a computer but today all others decision maker in<br> > the world seems to think that it's a tablet or even a mobile.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > So the question is how we could answer to requests for these new platforms<br> > thought keeping our roots: an unique UI for children, a reflection tool<br> > (Journal), a collaborative platform (Presence) and the most important - free<br> > an open source contents.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > My point of view is that we must not invest time to think how we could be<br> > compliant with a new platform, we need to think in another way: how we could<br> > port Sugar on Any platform ? Any computer (from the bigger one to the tiny<br> > one: raspberryPI), any laptop, any tablet, any mobile.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > And the answer is simple: web technologies allow every device to run very<br> > complex software. It's the only solution to be compliant with any device.<br> > It's where we need to put our investments.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > It's why I've got a personal engagement on Sugar for the Web from years:<br> ><br> > First to allow Sugar activities to be written using web technologies. From<br> > Sugar 0.100 thanks to Sugar Web, every developer could write new Sugar<br> > activities using exclusively HTML5/JavaScript - without any line of<br> > Python/Gtk.<br> > Second to create a Sugar container for the web - named Sugarizer - that<br> > could host any Sugar Web activities and that reproduce the unique Sugar<br> > features: Sugar UI, Journal and Presence.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > Sugar for the Web is not the Sugar successor, Sugar for the Web is a way to<br> > do a transition from Sugar for the XO to an universal version of Sugar that<br> > could run on any device so that could be used by any children anywhere on<br> > the world.<br> ><br> > Most important with Sugar for the Web we don't leave alone our current base<br> > of Sugar users, with Sugar 0.100+: any new Sugar Web activities will be<br> > usable both on Sugar on "old" devices and Sugar on new devices.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > With Sugarizer and Sugar Web, Sugar for any device already exist. But to<br> > become a reality, we need to invest more on it:<br> ><br> > Have a clear roadmap of transition between "old" Sugar activities to Sugar<br> > Web activities.<br> > Convince a more important community to join us. Sugar is the better learning<br> > platform, with Sugar for the Web, it should be easy to convince other<br> > communities to help us. I think specifically to Mozilla because they have a<br> > clear engagement on web and open source and Google because of their wish to<br> > embrace education with Chrome. We need to ask help from them.<br> > Experiment: we need to start deployment as soon as possible to demonstrate.<br> > At OLPC France, we've got ambition to start a first experimental deployment<br> > of Sugarizer before the end of the year.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > All of us spent years on promoting the Sugar philosophy. We have the choice<br> > to look backward or look forward. My choice is clear: with Sugar for the Web<br> > I will give to every children the same opportunities I gave to XO users.<br> ><br> ><br> > Best regards from France.<br> ><br> ><br> > Lionel.<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> >><br> >> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:36:34 -0500<br> >> From: Samuel Greenfeld <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asamuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>><br> >> To: IAEP SugarLabs <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aiaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br> >> Subject: [IAEP] Planning for the future<br> >> Message-ID:<br> >><br> >> <CA+cAqjM7=<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3ahQOu47mHMr9AQtNBzKRmjDb00nxbzENnBO%252B1WKvdA@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">hQOu47mHMr9AQtNBzKRmjDb00nxbzENnBO+1WKvdA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br> >><br> >> Disclaimer: The following are my views, and not the views of my current or<br> >> past employers.<br> >><br> >> About a year ago, I privately expressed concern that Sugar needed to<br> >> ensure<br> >> it had long-term sponsorship and a long-term user base.<br> >><br> >> Since then, both the historical US-based OLPC organization and Sugar Labs<br> >> have not publicly said much about their long-term plans, with OLPC also<br> >> being rather closemouthed about the present.<br> >><br> >> Meanwhile contributors silently leave. It is hard to justify volunteering<br> >> when you don't know who will benefit besides mysterious "customers."<br> >><br> >> Everyone seems happy to cite their past successes. No one corrects the<br> >> press when they report stale information in their favor.<br> >><br> >><br> >> There is no shame in being a smaller project. But we need to ask the hard<br> >> questions. With Sugar, getting users and developers for a niche platform<br> >> is a problem. With OLPC, everyone seems to love repeating the 2 or 2.5<br> >> million number for laptops historically shipped. Rarely is it asked how<br> >> many XOs been shipped in the past year or are in active use & where.<br> >><br> >> Sugar & OLPC need to come up with long-term strategies. While there is<br> >> nothing public I have seen stopping One Education's XO Infinity from<br> >> running Sugar, I haven't seen anything stopping it from running anything<br> >> else. It is also unclear how much One Education is willing to engage with<br> >> the historical Sugar & OLPC communities (or how much they can tell us at<br> >> this time).<br> >><br> >><br> >> Historically there have been many philosophical questions like "Does there<br> >> need to be a physical machine?" and "Have we succeeded if every child has<br> >> a<br> >> computer, but from someone else?"<br> >><br> >> I do not believe Sugar or OLPC is down for the count. But in order to<br> >> engage One Education, governments, and other educational groups, both<br> >> Sugar<br> >> and the historical OLPC structure need to have plans to transition to the<br> >> future. Otherwise these plans will be written for us.<br> >><br> >> I suspect I know how things will end; but I wish it was not happening<br> >> though silence.<br> >><br> >> ---<br> >> SJG<br> >> -------------- next part --------------<br> >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br> >> URL:<br> >> <<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/attachments/20150223/bc9915cb/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/attachments/20150223/bc9915cb/attachment-0001.html</a>><br> >><br> >> ------------------------------<br> >><br> >> Message: 2<br> >> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:31:23 -0300<br> >> From: Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agodiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>><br> >> To: Sora Edwards-Thro <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>><br> >> Cc: Chris Leonard <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3acjl@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">cjl@sugarlabs.org</a>>, grassroots<br> >> <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agrassroots@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">grassroots@lists.laptop.org</a>>, olpc-open<br> >> <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aolpc%2dopen@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">olpc-open@lists.laptop.org</a>>,<br> >> Aaron Borden <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aadborden@live.com" target="_blank">adborden@live.com</a>>, olpc-sf<br> >> <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aolpc%2dsf@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org</a>>,<br> >> iaep <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aiaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, Nick Doiron<br> >> <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3andoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>><br> >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting<br> >> Message-ID:<br> >><br> >> <CAJ+iPVSKb3puCeQc57Kc3TUA4Df1=<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aAkVtwdPT0abj%2daQrUHYqA@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">AkVtwdPT0abj-aQrUHYqA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br> >><br> >> Only a English version is available right now.<br> >><br> >> There are another activity with a older version in French, but the last<br> >> version is from 2009<br> >> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4195" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4195</a><br> >><br> >><br> >><br> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>><br> >> wrote:<br> >><br> >> > Gonzalo, if a French translation exists and it's easy to include both it<br> >> > and the English translations when making the templates, that would be<br> >> > great. But if there's only room for one language, please have it be<br> >> > English.<br> >> ><br> >> > Thanks!<br> >> ><br> >> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agodiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>><br> >> > wrote:<br> >> ><br> >> >> Thanks Nick.<br> >> >><br> >> >><br> >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Nick Doiron <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3andoiron@mapmeld.com" target="_blank">ndoiron@mapmeld.com</a>><br> >> >> wrote:<br> >> >><br> >> >>> I believe the official language code is HT<br> >> >>> On Feb 23, 2015 9:09 AM, "Gonzalo Odiard" <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agodiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>><br> >> >>> wrote:<br> >> >>><br> >> >>>> I can create the templates to do the translation and sent to you.<br> >> >>>> Or I can upload and you can translate them online.<br> >> >>>> The process is a little different than with the pottle server used to<br> >> >>>> translate activities,<br> >> >>>> but the idea is the same.<br> >> >>>> I need the localization code you are using to Haitian Creole<br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>> Gonzalo<br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro <<br> >> >>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>> wrote:<br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>>> Good to see it's been updated! I look forward to checking it out to<br> >> >>>>> see what content we're using in Haiti that it's missing. We've been<br> >> >>>>> using<br> >> >>>>> our customized course guide<br> >> >>>>> <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haiti_Course_Guide" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haiti_Course_Guide</a>> to help teachers<br> >> >>>>> design lesson plans, but materials that provide a basic overview of<br> >> >>>>> the<br> >> >>>>> activities themselves would also be helpful. How would I go about<br> >> >>>>> helping<br> >> >>>>> with translation efforts into Haitian Creole?<br> >> >>>>><br> >> >>>>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Gonzalo Odiard<br> >> >>>>> <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agodiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a><br> >> >>>>> > wrote:<br> >> >>>>><br> >> >>>>>> A little unrelated, but could be useful. The new version of Help<br> >> >>>>>> activity added information about more activities,<br> >> >>>>>> including many you named.<br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051</a><br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>> Help activity content can be translated if you or other are<br> >> >>>>>> interested.<br> >> >>>>>> Actual content is based in the work of many volunteersin this list,<br> >> >>>>>> and more content can be easily added.<br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>> Gonzalo<br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro <<br> >> >>>>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>> wrote:<br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>> Thanks for passing that on, Gonzalo! (note to self: when embarking<br> >> >>>>>>> on a project, first go to Sugar Labs and search extremely-relevant<br> >> >>>>>>> terms<br> >> >>>>>>> like "Story" instead of just assuming the stuff you've seen / used<br> >> >>>>>>> before<br> >> >>>>>>> is the only stuff that exists).<br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>> I like the open-endedness of Story. It also looks like it might<br> >> >>>>>>> not<br> >> >>>>>>> be hard to modify the images it's using - kids could nominate<br> >> >>>>>>> different<br> >> >>>>>>> pictures, or you could take examples from stories the class had<br> >> >>>>>>> read.<br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<br> >> >>>>>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agodiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>> You can add Story<br> >> >>>>>>>> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4565" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4565</a><br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Sora Edwards-Thro <<br> >> >>>>>>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>> wrote:<br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> Hello all,<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> We're looking for programming help on student writing software;<br> >> >>>>>>>>> hope some OLPC SF folks can become involved! I'm over on the<br> >> >>>>>>>>> East Coast,<br> >> >>>>>>>>> but I can join in over Skype / respond to questions via email if<br> >> >>>>>>>>> folks are<br> >> >>>>>>>>> interested.<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> Here are some more details:<br> >> >>>>>>>>> Unleash Kids recently received recognition<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://www.unleashkids.org/blog/" target="_blank">http://www.unleashkids.org/blog/</a>> for our iloominate<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://iloominate-haiti.herokuapp.com/edit" target="_blank">http://iloominate-haiti.herokuapp.com/edit</a>> app (shout-out to<br> >> >>>>>>>>> Caryl Bigenho for her input and Mike Dawson, whose Ustad Mobile<br> >> >>>>>>>>> project was<br> >> >>>>>>>>> also recognized). The app helps teachers write books<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/lascahobas-workshops-final-review/" target="_blank">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/lascahobas-workshops-final-review/</a>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> for beginning readers by recommending easy words; now we're<br> >> >>>>>>>>> shifting our<br> >> >>>>>>>>> focus to supporting student writers.<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> There are already several excellent writing activities for the<br> >> >>>>>>>>> Sugar, which we're including as we design lessons for a summer<br> >> >>>>>>>>> writing<br> >> >>>>>>>>> workshop for our XO projects in Haiti:<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> -Labyrinth<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078</a>>, a<br> >> >>>>>>>>> mindmapping activity that gets kids thinking<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://www.unleashkids.org/2013/07/31/story-activity-continued-and-the-results/" target="_blank">http://www.unleashkids.org/2013/07/31/story-activity-continued-and-the-results/</a>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> about how to lay out their ideas on paper<br> >> >>>>>>>>> -Fototoon<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4253" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4253</a>>,<br> >> >>>>>>>>> comic-book style creations; a perpetual favorite<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/first-week-of-classes/" target="_blank">https://projectrive.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/first-week-of-classes/</a>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> -Newspaper <<a href="http://seeta.in/j/products/37.html" target="_blank">http://seeta.in/j/products/37.html</a>>, an example of<br> >> >>>>>>>>> how templates can enable kids<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://blog.unleashkids.org/2013/08/01/journal-mission-of-hope/" target="_blank">http://blog.unleashkids.org/2013/08/01/journal-mission-of-hope/</a>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> to explore new formats<br> >> >>>>>>>>> -Prompt<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="http://olpc-yokwe.tumblr.com/post/39897602954/prompt-activity" target="_blank">http://olpc-yokwe.tumblr.com/post/39897602954/prompt-activity</a>>,<br> >> >>>>>>>>> literally just presents students with a random image from a<br> >> >>>>>>>>> library for<br> >> >>>>>>>>> them to write about...proof that simple stuff can be powerful<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> We want to supplement these great activities with some new<br> >> >>>>>>>>> stuff,<br> >> >>>>>>>>> based on teacher recommendations. A lot of the focus will be on<br> >> >>>>>>>>> creating<br> >> >>>>>>>>> templates and scenarios that kids can use as inspiration - for<br> >> >>>>>>>>> example, we<br> >> >>>>>>>>> can present the kids with a scene of people talking, where the<br> >> >>>>>>>>> speech<br> >> >>>>>>>>> bubbles aren't filled in, and ask them to fill in the speech<br> >> >>>>>>>>> bubbles.<br> >> >>>>>>>>> That's one of many ideas for an effective tool.<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> We also hope to make use of the XSCE schoolserver installed<br> >> >>>>>>>>> on-site to enable the kids to collaborate and share the finished<br> >> >>>>>>>>> products<br> >> >>>>>>>>> with one another.<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> Our most dire need is help with the programming, but we also<br> >> >>>>>>>>> welcome input on any and all aspects.<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> Thank you everyone!<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> Sora Edwards-Thro<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Aaron Borden<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aadborden@live.com" target="_blank">adborden@live.com</a>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> wrote:<br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Hello,<br> >> >>>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Saturday,<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> February 14th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Market<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Street, Room 597 (the fishbowl).<br> >> >>>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Our meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month.<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Everyone is<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be discussing<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> the<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> latest in OLPC events and give updates on our local (and<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> global)<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> builds to<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> play around with, too. Please post with any additional agenda<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> items.<br> >> >>>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/325843320953044/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/325843320953044/</a><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Google+<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/crf7g4e84aag78ssn761danaj8s" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/events/crf7g4e84aag78ssn761danaj8s</a><br> >> >>>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> --<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Aaron Borden<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> Human and Hacker<br> >> >>>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> >> >>>>>>>>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aIAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> >> >>>>>>>>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> >> >>>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________<br> >> >>>>>>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> >> >>>>>>>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aIAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> >> >>>>>>>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> >> >>>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>> --<br> >> >>>>>>>> Gonzalo Odiard<br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning<br> >> >>>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>>><br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>> --<br> >> >>>>>> Gonzalo Odiard<br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning<br> >> >>>>>><br> >> >>>>><br> >> >>>>><br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>> --<br> >> >>>> Gonzalo Odiard<br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning<br> >> >>>><br> >> >>>> _______________________________________________<br> >> >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> >> >>>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aIAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> >> >>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> >> >>>><br> >> >>><br> >> >>> _______________________________________________<br> >> >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> >> >>> <a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aIAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> >> >>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> >> >>><br> >> >><br> >> >><br> >> >><br> >> >> --<br> >> >> Gonzalo Odiard<br> >> >><br> >> >> SugarLabs - 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