[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-04-02

[Anish Mangal]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 15:09, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> ==Sugar Digest==
>
> 1. Microsoft To Open Source Windows
> [http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/72690] was the April Fools
> Day spoof announcement that got more press, but Sam Greenfeld's spoof
> is a lot less obvious and a lot more engaging (See the email thread:
> Possible XO Graphics Optimization Technique
> [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-April/031679.html]).
>
> 2. I have been fielding input regarding the 4th Grade Math project
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team) and the Sugar math collection
> [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/math]. There
> are still some missing activities, but it is by-and-large a rich list.
> Next, we need to fill in the table correlating the activities with the
> curricula goals (Please contribute at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/Resources/Curriculum_Chart).
>
> 3. Compare the relative interest of XO and Justin Bieber in Uruguay
> [http://www.google.com/intl/es-419/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/uy.html]
> and Mexico [http://www.google.com/intl/es-419/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/mx.html].
> While there is obviously a vast difference in access to XOs between
> the two countries, it raises the question of whether we can use
> measures such as these as an indicator of how access to computing
> changes culture, and it suggests another tool we can use in assessing
> impact.
>
> ===In the community===
>
> 4. Sugar will be at Linux Tag (See
> [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2011]]).
>
> ===Help Wanted===
>
> 5. Chris Leonard sent a note to the Localization list requesting help
> transferring strings to Glucose 0.92. Please see his email
> [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/localization/2011-April/002879.html]
> for details.
>
> ===Tech Talk===
>
> 6. Dextrose 2.0 has been released. Many thanks to Ceibal, Educa
> Paraguay, Activity Central, and the Sugar community (See
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/Dextrose).

The link is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose (missing 'go')

>
> 7. While OLPC continues its work on XO 1.75, an ARM-based version of
> the laptop, community members have been experimenting with Sugar on
> other ARM platforms. William Schaub has Sugar running on a Genesi
> Efika MX smartbook [http://steubentech.com/~talon/Efika-MX/]and Samy
> Boutayeb has Sugar running on the Toshiba AC100
> [http://salaliitto.com/~gildean/ac100/wiki/phh/].
>
> ===Sugar Labs===
>
> Visit our planet [http://planet.sugarlabs.org] for more updates about
> Sugar and Sugar deployments.
>
>
> -walter
> --
> Walter Bender
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