[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-10-18

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> 1. Daniel Drake has announced the second release candidate of the new OLPC
> software release [0], which incorporates the latest Sugar bits. You can
> download 'signed' images for testing from: [1-3]. The final release is
> scheduled for 1 November.
>
> 2. OLPC OZ runs a discussion website on yammer.com for teachers working with
> XOs in Australia. It is a nice source of feedback about Sugar and 1-to-1
> laptop deployments in general. Recently, there was a posting that referenced
> an OLPC News article about a lemon-battery project [4] by Sameer Verma.
> There was also a tip of the hat to Guzman Trindad, a teacher in Uruguay, who
> built a pulse meter [5]. I am not sure how OLPC News missed all of the other
> great work that Guzman has been doing [6] with Turtle Art and sensors [7]
> and also the work of Tony Forster [8], who blogs [9] regularly about various
> ways to engage children with simple sensor. His most recent posting is about
> using the accelerometer on the XO 1.75 as a seismograph. Check it out.
>
> 3. While Guzman and Tony have been using the built-in sensors and simple
> sensors plugged into the microphone port of the XO laptop, the Butia team in
> Uruguay has been augmenting the XO with an Arduino board. The latest video
> of their work is on YouTube [10]. Be sure to watch past the 'Schwarzenegger'
> robot to see the XO robot programmed in Turtle Art.
>
> 4. A few weeks ago, Team Sugarlabs participated in the Boston Hub on Wheels
> bicycle tour (See Team Sugarlabs [11]). Dogi road with an XO attached to his
> handlebars, but he wasn't running the Turtle Art odometer program.
>
> 5. We've passed six-million downloads on ASLO [12].
>
> === In the community ===
>
> 6. The SF Summit [13] is this coming weekend, 21-23 October.
>
> 7. The Prague Sugar Camp (Gtk3 Hackfest 2011 [14]) is next weekend, 28-30
> October.
>
> 8. Reminder: As a community member, it is important that your voice be
> heard. One mechanism is for you to participate in our upcoming election: We
> will be holding an election for three Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB)
> positions at the end of next month. If you are not already a ''member'' [15]
> of Sugar Labs, please send your name and an explanation of your contribution
> to Sugar Labs in an email to '''members at sugarlabs dot org'''. If you are
> a member, please consider being a candidate [16] for one of the SLOB
> positions.
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 9. Rob Savoye has managed to build Gnash for ARM. He has made RPMs for the
> XO 1.75 machine. To install his RPMs, add this .repo file to your XO:

We do actually already have gnash on ARM, it ships with the signed
release above :-)

Peter