[Sugar-devel] 2 points of Sugar Labs business

[Daniel Narvaez]

Hi,

a bit off topic, but I suspect you are going to have a really hard
time to get latest sugar working on Fedora 15. sugar-jhbuild hasn't
been updated in a while and, well, to complete the migration to
gtk3/introspection we had to use cutting edge versions of the GNOME
modules which are not even packaged in a stable Fedora.

My suggestion would be to upgrade to Fedora 17 and use packages (it
won't be sugar 0.98, but it will be gtk3). Or install Fedora 17/Ubuntu
12.10 and use sugar-build.

Note that old activities shouldn't break when you install a recent
sugar, we kept the gtk2 toolkit for compatibility.

On 13 November 2012 16:33, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Now that I have seen Walter's latest e-mail I have a better understanding of
> what the Google code-in involves.  I would definitely like to get involved
> in this.  My Sugar coding skills are a bit rusty, and some things I may not
> be much help with.  For instance, the PyGame examples in the book all use
> sugargame, so I have no experience with olpcgames and converting from it.  I
> don't know from touch or accelerometer either.  My XO-1 and my development
> boxes have neither.  I have a box that runs  Fedora 15 but the Sugar
> supplied with that doesn't break any of my own Activities so I have to
> assume that it doesn't use Python 3 or GTK3+.  This means I'll need to
> install the latest sugar-jhbuild, etc.  So I'm not exactly ready to dive
> into all this, but I'll do what I can.
>
> James Simmons
>
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear James,
>>
>> I am contacting you about two distinct points of Sugar Labs business.
>>
>>
>> 1) Google Code-In task
>>
>> Would you please consider writing up and mentoring a task under the
>> Documentation section of our task list (perhaps creating a separate
>> wiki page linked from the task list) having to do with updating your
>> book "Making Your Own Sugar Activities" to include new information
>> about the world of GTK3+, olpcgames > sugargames switch, and other
>> "new bits" related to Sugar activity development (e.g. touch,
>> accelerometer, etc.).  The idea would be to describe the task(s) well
>> enough that a 13-17 year old Google Code in Participant could go
>> through and propose new or modified sections (for which you would act
>> as "editor-in-chief" determining inclusion.  Feel free to break the
>> task up into multiple tasks (e.g .by chapters or however you see fit).
>>
>>
>> 2)  You are aware that Sugar Labs is a member proejct of the Software
>> Freedom Conservancy and that we derive our 501(c)3 status from that
>> relationship as well as many other benefits with regards to
>> fundraising and legal administrivia.
>>
>> A new benefit that the SFC has offered offered to member projects is
>> the opportunity to link certain books listed on Amazon under the
>> Amazon affiliates program.  I'm guessing this involves getting a
>> specially formed link that gives Sugar Labs credit for a click-through
>> that results in the sale of said book, the end result being Sugar Labs
>> getting a donation from Amazon on each sale driven through such an
>> affiliate link.
>>
>> The SLOBs and SFC would like to ask your permission to include the
>> Amazon listing of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities" in that program,
>> and we would obviously share the special link created with you to use
>> to link Amazon purchases to "click-through" donation credits to Sugar
>> Labs via our accounts held by SFC.  We would most likely be creating a
>> special wiki page promoting those books included in the affiliate
>> program for Sugar labs, which would also include Walter's book:
>>
>>  http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Change-World-Social-Impact/dp/0230337317
>>
>> and others that we may include as we come to better understand the
>> rules about only listing books that have a specific affiliation with
>> the work of the project (e.g. we could not use random NYT
>> best-sellers).
>>
>> I know you give the book away and created the Amazon entry primarily
>> for visibility.  We would not ask you to make any changes in how you
>> promote access to your book (other than replacing any Amazon links you
>> provide with the special affiliate click through version).
>>
>> The work you have done in creating this book is in itself a great
>> donation to Sugar Labs, I do hope you will agree to leveraging it
>> further for whatever additional financial benefit the affiliate
>> linkage might provide from purchases via Amazon.
>>
>> Warmest Regards,
>>
>> cjl
>
>
>
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Daniel Narvaez