[Sugar-devel] welcoming the new Sugar Labs oversight board members

[Rishabh Thaney]

Sounds like a good idea, you mean for the activities mentioned in the
previous mail?

I will be exploring more activities listed on the HOC website, and come up
with more ideas to implement ours.

Interested people can also join, would be fun working on this :)

On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 12:19 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We'll need to write up a "Teacher's Guide" for each activity.
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:47 PM Rishabh Thaney <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 7:48 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:00 AM Rishabh Thaney <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the update, Walter and congratulations to all the newly
>>>> elected members.
>>>>
>>>> I would also like to help Samson and Vipul with outreach.
>>>> Would also like to share that we recently hosted an 'hour of code' with
>>>> the ACM student chapter of our college in which we went to a school and
>>>> taught basic programming to the students of 5th grade.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if Sugar Labs also participates in the ACM Hour of code
>>>> which takes place every year.
>>>> Would also like to discuss the possibility of partnering with Code.org
>>>> and to see if we can list an activity here:
>>>> https://hourofcode.com/in/en/learn
>>>>
>>>> Which I believe would help in outreach and supporting a bigger cause as
>>>> well.
>>>> I would request everyone to please share any relevant inputs on this.
>>>>
>>> I've watched with dismay over the years as we have gone from summer of
>>> code to month of code to week of code to day of code to hour of code. That
>>> said, I know nothing about marketing and obviously this is a good outreach
>>> opportunity.
>>>
>>> Ideas:
>>> (1) Sugar on RPi install party
>>> (2) Sugar on a Stick install party
>>> (3) Write your first interactive paint program in Turtle Blocks
>>> (4) Write your first song in Music Blocks
>>> (5) Do X, Y, or Z with a Sugarizer activity.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for these insights, I think we can list most of these as
>> interactive modules here:
>> https://hourofcode.com/in/en/learn
>>
>> So that people conducting more such programs can also be provided with
>> our resources which can be used for the HOC.
>>
>> Though, will have to check how to go about with listing them and are
>> there any guidelines that need to be followed.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Happy holidays!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thx
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> Rishabh
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks & best regards
>>>> Rishabh Thaney
>>>> +91.999.909.3117
>>>> rishabhthaney at gmail.com
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>>>>
>>>> regards.
>>>
>>> -walter
>>> --
>>> Walter Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
>>>
>> --
>> Thanks & best regards
>> Rishabh Thaney
>> +91.999.909.3117
>> rishabhthaney at gmail.com
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>>
>>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
>
-- 
Thanks & best regards
Rishabh Thaney
+91.999.909.3117
rishabhthaney at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
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