[Sugar-devel] Volunteer help wanted: Elections officer, marketing, story-telling, and more

[Devin Ulibarri]

Hi James,

It's helpful, yes, thanks again for sharing!

As a next step, I added it to 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jOVgY7PO0GzjkE2dsO2nfViC7DY5OVp_Qbe5zmZMBYE/edit 
so that it can go through a collaborative editorial process before 
publishing.

Cheers!

Devin

P.S. I found https://archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities -- 
I'm adding it to my list of stuff to share, plus linking it in your draft.

James Simmons:
> Devin,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but this 
> is my story:
>
> I started working with OLPC with the Give One Get One program back in 
> 2007. I was more interested in getting an XO laptop for myself than in 
> working for the project. I thought I could use the laptop to read 
> plain text books from Project Gutenberg. Kindles were very expensive 
> back then and this looked like a good alternative, and it was, but I 
> was disappointed to find out that the Read Activity provided only 
> worked with PDFs. I taught myself to program in Python, studied the 
> code for the Read Activity, and created  the Read Etexts Activity 
> which supported reading plain text files. I next decided I wanted to 
> have an Activity for reading comic books in CBZ format and created two 
> of them: View Slides and Read SD Comics.
>
> The best and maybe only way to learn how to create Activities at that 
> time was to study the code of existing ones. I'm a Systems Analyst so 
> that wasn't too bad for me but for teachers and their students it 
> wasn't great. Somehow or other in 2009 or 2010 I convinced myself to 
> write a proper manual, called /Make Your Own Sugar Activities!/ I did 
> this using the Floss Manuals website. I was fortunate enough to have a 
> very nice cover illustration done for me by Oceana Rain Fields, a 
> student participating in the Rural Design Collective's summer 
> mentorship program. The printed book was given out as a door prize at 
> one of the first OLPC conferences. The book was later translated into 
> Spanish by a team of Sugar Labs volunteers as /Como Hacer Una 
> Actividad Sugar/.
>
> I followed this up with a manual on obtaining, reading, and donating 
> free ebooks called /EBook Enlightenment/, with cover and interior 
> illustrations also provided by Oceana Rain Fields. To research this 
> book I donated books to archive.org <http://archive.org> and Project 
> Gutenberg and made a book scanning device of my own design for 
> photographing book pages. I also installed a local instance of the 
> Floss Manuals Booktype software and used it and some Linux OCR 
> software to finish a manuscript that I had abandoned back in the 
> nineteen eighties, about my experiences in the Hare Krishna movement, 
> which I renamed to /The Life And Times of Bhakta Jim/.
>
> I fell away from participating in Sugar Labs after that, but I 
> continued donating texts to archive.org <http://archive.org> and 
> Project Gutenberg and have been working on a Science Fiction novel 
> which I may one day finish.
>
> My participation in Sugar Labs never involved any work with actual 
> children, but recently I had the opportunity to introduce a nine year 
> old boy to Linux. I had intended to give his older brother (who was 
> studying computer programming in college) an old Linux desktop but his 
> brother decided that it should be his computer instead. I gave the 
> computer a functioning Sugar environment and rewrote some of my old 
> Activities in Python 3 to work on that, but for now he's mostly 
> interested in learning Flight Gear and playing games like Tux Kart and 
> Sopwith.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 9:16 AM Devin Ulibarri <devin at sugarlabs.org> 
> wrote:
>
>     Dear Sugar community members,
>
>     Sugar Labs is growing, and we need volunteer help with various tasks.
>
>     To help keep track of the various roles and tasks where help is
>     needed, I created the following page on our wiki:
>     https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Help_Wanted
>
>     Some of the roles that I'd like to highlight are:
>
>       * Elections Officer: Help run elections for Sugar Labs' board
>         members; This role will receive support from myself, as ED,
>         and the board.
>       * Website help: sugarlabs.org <http://sugarlabs.org> is a static
>         site, created with Jeckyll. We could use some help updating
>         it, improving it, and documenting a workflow
>       * New volunteers for our Marketing Team: Help us bring Sugar
>         Labs to the people!
>       * Sugar Labs stories: Did participating in the Sugar Labs
>         community have a positive impact on your life? If so, we'd
>         like to help you tell that story. Simply send an approx. three
>         paragraph draft, and we'll help you edit and publish it.
>       * Don't have any time for the above? Well, the easiest way to
>         support with your time is to follow us on social media and
>         share/boost our posts. Help us spread the word!
>
>     Best,
>
>     Devin
>
>
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