[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2014-04-01

[Sai Vineet]

The background contest doesn't specify the deadline for submitting a
background, what's the deadline?
On Apr 2, 2014 3:36 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> ==Sugar Digest==
>
> 1. Daniel Narvaez just released Sugar 0.101.6 (unstable). See [1] for
> detailed notes on changes since Sugar 0.100. The tarfiles are
> available at [2-4] and new test builds are being prepared (keep an eye
> on [5]). We've entered Feature Freeze (which had been extended by
> three weeks to enable us to land a few more features). Time to chase
> down bugs. Tip-of-the-hat to Gonzalo Odiard, Martin Abente, and Manuel
> Quiñones, who put so much effort into getting the last few features
> over the hump. Also, an extraordinary number of new features were
> contributed by our Google Code-in students: special kudos to Emil
> Dudev, Ignacio Rodriguez, and Sam Parkinson. Finally, it was really
> nice to see so many first-time contributors.
>
> 2. Gonzalo has made some videos demonstrating the new features in both
> Sugar 100 [6] and Sugar 102 [7].
>
> 3. We are reviewing Google Summer of Code applications. We had 35
> applicants this year. We'll know in a few weeks how many slots we get
> from Google.
>
> 4. I traveled to Colombia a few weeks ago with Claudia Urrea to visit
> a wonderful ANSPE project in Chia being run by Aura Mora [8]. Saw some
> old friends (Sebastian Silva, Laura Vargas, and Sandra Barragán) and
> made many new friends. The highlights for me were the two Turtle Art
> workshops: one at the National University in Bogota and the other with
> the children in Chia.
>
> 5. Claudia and Erik Blankinship joined me on a panel discussuion at
> LibrePlanet 2014 [9]. The panel, which will be available online, was
> "No more mouse: saving elementary education".
>
> :The lack of a mouse and the presence of "the mouse" are having a
> detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt
> tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of
> young learners at a time in their development when "making" is
> paramount. The "Disneyification" of media further erodes the
> opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel
> we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for
> combating them.
>
> === In the community ===
>
> 6. Sugar Camp #3 - Paris, hosted by Bastien Guerry, will be held from
> 12-13 April in Carrefour Numérique - Cité des Sciences. For more
> information, see [10].
>
> 7. Claudia will be hosting a Learning Chat on Wednesday, 2 April, at
> 10AM EST, 15 GMT. The guest speaker will be Gonzalo. Please join us at
> irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. (These meetings will be held
> regularly on the first Wednesday of each month.)
>
> 8. The Sugar Background Image Contest has begun. See [11] for details.
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 9. I wrote a new activity while I was in Colombia: Word Cloud [12] is
> a simple activity for generating word clouds from text.
>
> 10. Another new activity worth mentioning is Flappy [13] by Alan
> Aguiar. Enjoy. (I cannot get past the first gate.)
>
> === Sugar Labs ===
>
> 9. Please visit our planet [14].
>
> ----
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes
> [2]
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz
> [3]
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz
> [4]
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz
> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing
> [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw
> [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0
> [8]
> http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia
> [9] http://libreplanet.org/2014/
> [10] http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html
> [11] http://contest.sugarlabs.org
> [12] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734
> [13] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731
> [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org
>
> -walter
>
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