[Sugar-devel] Introducing myself

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Ricardo,
In order to evaluate these projects, we would need a detailed description
of what tasks are needed to do.
Welcome!

Gonzalo


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> My name is Ricardo Moran and this year I proposed myself as a GSoC mentor.
> Although I've already participated in previous years as a GSoC student and
> mentor for the ESUG organization, this would be my first time for the Sugar
> Labs community so I guess I should introduce myself.
> I'm 25 years old and I'm a programmer from Argentina. As probably
> everybody here I'm very interested in the use of technology for education,
> in my case I'm specially interested in the use of robotics in education. I
> work at a research center here in Argentina where we developed Physical
> Etoys (http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/), an
> extension of Etoys that allows kids to program robotic kits such as
> Arduino, Lego Mindstorms Nxt, DuinoBot (an argentinian version of Arduino),
> among others. I encourage all of you to try it, it's not perfect but I
> think it's pretty nice :)
>
> So for this GSoC I would like to help as a mentor for the following
> projects:
> - Physical Etoys XO bundle: I would really like to have Physical Etoys
> working on the Sugar platform so I proposed this project in order to
> finally finish the sugar port, which although it's on its way I haven't
> been able to finish it yet. I'm sure having another visual programming tool
> for robotics will be extremely beneficial to Sugar users, specially given
> the rise in popularity of robotics in education.
> - Etoys touch UI: For this project we want to redesign the Etoys UI in
> order to make it usable in a multitouch device. Even though this project is
> specific to Etoys I think it could be very important to the Sugar community
> considering the upcoming XO Touch model (and actually the use of tablets in
> education, which is currently very popular).
>
> Anyway, I'm very happy to participate and I hope we get a lot of succesful
> projects. Nice to meet you all :)
>
> Cheers,
> Richo
>
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Gonzalo Odiard

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