[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

[Flavio Danesse]

Congratulations!

Next year it will celebrate the birthday of the son of pablo newcomer next
to your grandson.


Felicidades !!

El año que viene habrá que celebrar el cumpleaños del hijo recien llegado
de pablo junto al de tu nieto.


2012/9/18 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>

> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> 1. Bradley and Tony have ask us for a summary of Sugar Labs activity
> for the Software Freedom Conservancy annual report. It has been a busy
> year, with tremendous progress on the technical front, but also real
> in roads into better understanding how to deploy Sugar in a wide
> variety of contexts.
>
> ;GTK-3: The major technical effort over the past twelve months has
> been the transition to GNOME Toolkit 3. The developer team, lead by
> Simon Schampijer, has migrated Sugar to GTK-3 and in the process both
> made Sugar easier to maintain and also easier to support on devices
> such as the OLPC XO 4.0 Touch. This has been a community effort with
> contributions coming from engineers at OLPC, Activity Central, and the
> Sugar community at large.
>
> ;Sugar Activities: Our "app store" continues to grow, thanks in large
> part to contributions from Sugar users who have made the transition to
> Sugar developers. More than 10% of our apps were written by children
> who grew up with Sugar. Meanwhile, we are approaching eight-million
> downloads.
>
> ;The next generation of hackers: Not only are Sugar users becoming
> Sugar activity developers, they are also beginning to work on Sugar
> itself. A large part of the effort to migrate Sugar activities to
> GTK-3 has been accomplished by youths; and these same young hackers
> are submitting patches to the Sugar toolkit as well. They are
> full-fledge members of our community.
>
> ;Internationalization push: Internationalization push: Chris Leonard
> has led an effort to recruit and assist translation teams so that
> Sugar has better coverage in the mother tongues and indigenous
> languages of our users. Over the past twelve months, we have seen
> substantive progress in the languages of:
> :* Oceania:  Māori, Samoan (Gagana Sāmoa), Niuean (Vagahau Niue)
> :* Central and South America: Huastec (Tének), Xi'úi (Central Pame),
> Aymara (Aru), Quechua (Cusco-Collao)
>
> :These efforts have often included working with the local experts to
> establish glibc locales for their languages, which will facilitate
> further localization work on any Linux-based system.
>
> ;Sugar in the USA: While the majority of Sugar users are in Latin
> America and Africa, we are starting to make in roads into the United
> States. Programs like the ones led by Gerald Ardito have demonstrated
> the efficacy of Sugar within the US educational market. Larger-scale
> efforts by OLPC in Miami and Charlotte a driving growth.
>
> ;Teacher communities: Teachers are forming communities around Sugar to
> provide mutual support and to drive further pedagogical developments.
> They are using social media tools to form communities in which
> teachers and developers discuss problems and opportunities. Amazonas,
> Australia, et al. are leading the way.
>
> ;Local initiatives: We have back down from our formal "local labs"
> initiative, but not from working locally. There are strong local
> support teams in Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, etc., working on extending
> Sugar to support local needs.
>
> ;Sugar on a Stick: There have been more than 500,000 visits to the
> Sugar on a Stick page (a version of Sugar that will run on any
> x86-based computer that can boot from a USB stick).
>
> ;GNU/Linux distributions: Thomas Gilliard compiled a list of
> distributions that have seen significant advances in the past year.
> :* Sugar Network [1] (Aleksey Lim et al.)
> :: Fedora-14 based OLPC OS for XO laptops (i586)
> :: Ubuntu-10.04 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)
> :: Ubuntu-11.10 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)
> :: Ubuntu-11.04 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)
> :: Ubuntu-10.10 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)
> :* Trisquel [2] 5.0 and 5.5 (Ruben Rodríguez)
> :* openSUSE-EDU [3] (Jigish Gohil and Dram Wang)
> :* ARM [4] (Peter Robinson)
> :* Fedora 18 [5]
> :* Mageia [6]
>
> ;Community outreach: Sugar Labs provided support for several developer
> gatherings, including Sugar Camps in Lima Peru, Cambridge Mass, San
> Francisco CA, Prague Czech Republic, and GUADEC.
>
> 2. Isabelle Duston has created a database of images ([7]) that is
> intended to reduce the cost of creating educational apps in particular
> for literacy. Feel free to use these images in your Sugar activities
> and to contribute to the database. She is also launching an App
> Challenge (See [8]); Sugar activities qualify.
>
> 3. Edgar Quispe has finished 100% of Aymara for Fructose, a major step
> in supporting local languages in Peru. Quechua is also making rapid
> progress.
>
> === In the community ===
>
> 4. There are plans to hold the next OLPC SF summit in San Francisco
> the weekend of October 19-21. We are holding a Sugar Camp
> ''following'' the summit (Oct 22-24). Please register at [9].
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 5. Simon Schampijer announced the "I am a GTK+ 3 shell" release of
> Sugar and the Sugar toolkit (See [10]).
>
> 6. Daniel Drake announced that a new 13.1.0 development build is
> available (This one comes with the first development release of the
> GTK-3 port of Sugar and probably a fair number of bugs for you to help
> us find and solve.) See [11].
>
> 7. Thomas Gilliard reports at there is a new live CD of Sugar on
> openSUSE available that incorporates 0.96.2, the current "stable"
> version of Sugar. ([12], [13])
>
> === Sugar Labs ===
>
> Visit our planet [14] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments.
>
> === Personal Note ===
>
> On Monday, September 10, I became a grandfather. Looking forward to
> some Turtle Blocks fun with Theo Max [15] in a few years.
> -walter
>
> ----
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network
> [2] Trisquel http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/OpenSUSE#openSUSE_12.2-sugar_0.96.2
> [4]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#ARM
> [5] http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Alpha-RC3/
> [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mageia
> [7] http://www.art4apps.org/
> [8] http://www.educationappsforall.org
> [9] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012
> [10]
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.97.3.tar.bz2
> [11] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.1.0
> [12] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/OpenSUSE#openSUSE_12.2-sugar_0.96.2
> [13]
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dramwang:/images-unstable/images/iso/sugar.i686-0.3.0-Build1.2.iso
> [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org
> [15] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Image:TheoMax.jpg
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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