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

[Martin Abente]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> Great video! Who is the author?
>

Impressive!!


>
> I would like to add:
> * Stamps and sounds in Paint activity
> * Dark theme in Terminal activity
> * Create a movie in Fototoon activity
> * View next and preview images in ImageViewer activity
> * See comic books in Read activity
> * Many improvements in the Irc activity
> * And many years old bugs killed in Sugar!!
>
> Excellent year, thanks to all who participated, and thanks to Stephanie
> and the Google Open Source team.
>

+1


>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Ignacio Rodríguez <ignacio at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> > 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
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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