[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2015-01-21

[Ignacio Rodríguez]

> Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:

Also I want to add few more "things" :)
* The Sugar Labs promo video [1]
* The new feature in Speak, the user can load a Image and create her own
"face" [2]
* The new Dropbox webservice [3]
* The new help pages [4]

I want to say 'thanks' to the mentors, we have done a lot of work, they
should be very exhausted! :)
as GCI 2013 student [and also 2014 student], this year was better, we got
new students, now some of these are 'friends'.
This year, like last, we tried to help new students :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRReDdoW9g&feature=youtu.be
[2]
https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5140598474407936
[3] https://github.com/ignaciouy/dropbox-webservice
[4] https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

Also, my english is still poor :)


Ignacio Rodríguez
SugarLabs at Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/SugarLabs/187845102582>

2015-01-21 22:18 GMT-02:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:

> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> In schools, all hardware and software bestow agency on one of three
> parties: the system, the teacher, or the learner. Typically, two of
> these actors lose their power as the technology benefits the
> third. Ask a group of colleagues to create a three-column table and
> brainstorm the hardware or software in your school and who is granted
> agency by each. Management software, school-wide grade-book programs,
> integrated learning systems, school-to-home communication packages,
> massive open online courses (MOOCs), and other cost-cutting
> technologies grant maximum benefit to the system. Interactive
> whiteboards, worksheet generators, projectors, whole-class
> simulations, plagiarism software, and so on, benefit the
> teacher. Personal laptops, programming languages, creativity software,
> cameras, MIDI keyboards, microcontrollers, fabrication equipment, and
> personal web space primarily benefit (bestow agency to) the
> learner. -- Gary Stager
>
> 1. Google Code-In. Wow. Finally a chance to catch my breath. Seven
> intense weeks: 60 students completed more than 300 tasks for Sugar
> Labs. The impact on Sugar Labs was even greater this year than in the
> previous years we have participated: more diversity among the
> participants, the mentors, the tasks, and a spirit of collaboration
> while striving for excellence prevailed throughout the contest. Thanks
> to Google and Stephanie Taylor for giving us this opportunity, to the
> contestants who not only did great work but taught me a thing or two
> along the way, and the mentors and community members who manned the
> IRC channel 24/7.
>
> I want to acknowledge the Top Ten+ from whom we will be selecting our
> finalists this week (results announce in early February):
>
> Ignacio Rodríguez, Daksh, samdroid, cristian99garcia, Ezequiel
> Pereira, svineet, Gtrinidad, Jas Park, Rafael Cordano, Richar, Sergio
> Britos, Aishmita Kakkar, Gabriel Lee, et al.
>
> Also, some mentors (and community members) deserve special
> recognition: Andrés Aguirre, Daniel Francis, Gary Servin, Gonzalo
> Odiard, James Cameron, Jorge Ramirez, Mariah Villarreal, Rajul,
> Rodrigo Parra, and Martin Abente Lahaye.
>
> Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:
>
> * Turtle Blocks JS plugins (Ignacio, samDroid, Daksh) [1]
> * Turtle Blocks guides (Jas Park) [2]
> * Activity reviews (Gabriel Lee) [3]
> * Dasher app (Cristian Garcia) [4]
> * Enhancements to Physics (Svineet) [5]
> * Sugar bugs squashed (Ezequiel) [6]
> * Butia Measure (Gtrinidad) [7]
> * Simple scrolling interface for Sugar (Rafael) [8]
> and much much more.
>
> 2. As mentioned above, we have a number of new Turtle Blocks plugins
> (for both the Python and Javascript versions) as a result of Google
> Code-in. One of the more interesting inspirations for plugins comes
> from mashape.com, a repository of APIs for everything from translation
> services to a bicycle theft alert system. As Sugar becomes more
> web-friendly, we can take advantage of web services and also
> facilitate our users to craft their own tools and services. It is fun
> and empowering.
>
> === In the community ===
>
> 3. The Free Software Foundation has put together a nice video on the
> core ideas behind Free Software. See [9]
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 4. Xevents [10] is a TurtleBlocks plugin that makes it easy to design
> different types of accessibility interfaces through a variery of
> physical sensors types. It is being developed at FING by Andrés
> Aguirre and Alan Aguiar and was the focus of some of the Google
> Code-in work of Rafael Cordano.
>
> 5. For you OLPC XO 4 users, James Cameron has been working on enabling
> the second processor. He reports "about 38% improvement. For CPU tasks
> like rendering, alt/tab, kernel compiles, the improvement is somewhat
> more than 38%. For single threaded tasks that rely on memory
> bandwidth, performance is lower because the memory controller is
> shared between two cores." When asked how it impacts Sugar, he said
> "it feels faster and more responsive."
>
> 6. Martin has announced the tarballs for the last 0.103.x UNSTABLE
> release of Sugar before 0.104 STABLE. (We delayed the release a few
> weeks in order to take advantage of all of the bug fixes coming in
> from Google Code-in.) With this release we reach the API, UI and
> String freeze [12].
>
> *
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.103.2.tar.xz
> *
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.103.2.tar.xz
> *
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.103.2.tar.xz
> *
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.103.2.tar.xz
> *
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.103.2.tar.xz
>
> It's time to switch focus on updating translations, everyone can
> contribute through or new Pootle instance [13]. We have time until
> February 13, before the 0.104.0 STABLE release.
>
> === Sugar Labs ===
>
> 5. Please visit our planet at http://planet.sugarlab.org
>
> ---
>
> [1] https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/blob/master/plugins.md
> [2] http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksIntroductoryManual.pdf
> and
> http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksAdvancedBlocksManual.pdf
> [3]
> https://gabrielleedhs.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/reviewing-an-activity-from-sugar-labs-story-activity/
> [4] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4764
> [5] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193
> [6]
> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5809933962444800?id=5741031244955648
> [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYGOnlaTuTk
> [8]
> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5784136845361152?id=5717271485874176
> [9] https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/FSF30-video/FSF_30_720p.webm
> [10] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xevents
> [11] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/12297
> [12] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
> [13] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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