<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">Dear Community Members,<br><br>We are releasing the 6th version of SocialCalc on Sugar (<a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084</a> ) today. Nick Doiron has fixed key bugs and completed a feature request from Plan Ceibal project of Uruguay. Thanks Nick!</div>
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Main updates of the release -<br><br>
* It's possible to save and open files with the symbol;<br>
* Larger icons in the Edit menu;<br>
* One interface for the scatter plot / plot points option;<br>
* It's possible to include a mini-graph over the spreadsheet.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Please find the links on SocialCalc project below, and share your feedback <a href="http://seeta.uservoice.com/forums/23607-general/suggestions/262858-socialcalc-on-sugar?utm_campaign=Widgets&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=seeta.uservoice.com">here</a> .</div>
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<br><div>SocialCalc on Sugar page at Sugar Activities Catalogue -  <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084</a></div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Test URL</font> - <a href="http://www.socialcalcnet.appspot.com/" target="_blank">http://www.socialcalcnet.<span>appspot</span>.com/</a>            </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><font size="4">Videos</font> -</div><div><br></div><div>Training Video by Dan Bricklin - <a href="http://www.peapodcast.com/sgi/socialtext/sctraining1/" target="_blank">http://www.peapodcast.com/sgi/socialtext/sctraining1/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Guide for using Charting tools by Harvard University's Digital Literacy Project - <a href="http://vimeo.com/11886029" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/11886029</a></div><div><br></div><div>Feature Training Videos - </div>
<div><br></div><div>Localization of SocialCalc -<b> </b><a href="http://www.scalablec.com/videos/29/localization-feature-in-socialcalc-on-sugar" target="_blank">http://www.scalablec.com/videos/29/localization-feature-in-socialcalc-on-sugar</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Interoperability between SocialCalc and other spreadsheet formats -<b> </b><a href="http://www.scalablec.com/videos/28/interoperability-between-socialcalc-on-sugar-and-lotus-notes" target="_blank">http://www.scalablec.com/videos/28/interoperability-between-socialcalc-on-sugar-and-lotus-notes</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Video by OLPC France Community member - <a href="http://vimeo.com/5291250" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/5291250</a></div><div><br></div><div>Plan Ceibal OLPC Deployment Project, Uruguay - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7cPHg4XJKY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7cPHg4XJKY</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Source Code</font> - <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/socialcalc" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/socialcalc</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Installation Instructions</font> -</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/Installing" target="_blank">http://en.flossmanuals.net/<u></u>Sugar/Installing</a></div><div><br></div><div>Douglas Galbi's notes - <a href="http://purplemotes.net/2009/09/13/universal-social-access-to-data-and-calculation/" target="_blank">http://purplemotes.net/2009/09/13/universal-social-access-to-data-and-calculation/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Documents</font> -</div><div><br></div><div>1. <b>SocialCalc on Sugar </b>- <a href="http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html" target="_blank">http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-</a><a href="http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html" target="_blank">sugar.html</a></div>
<div>    <b>SocialCalcNet Collaboration - <a href="http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalcNet" target="_blank">http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalcNet</a></b></div><div><br>2. <b>SocialCalc on Sugar wiki page</b> - <a href="http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar" target="_blank">http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar</a><br>
<br>3. <b>Download pages</b> - the version #6 can be downloaded from <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084</a></div><div><br>
</div><div>4. <b>Guide for using Charting Tools</b> - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc</a></div><div><br></div><div>5. <b>Harvard University's Digital Literacy Project Deployment Page</b> - <a href="http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Digital_Literacy_Project" target="_blank">http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Digital_Literacy_Project</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Publications</font> -</div><div><br></div><div>"SocialCalc: A Spreadsheet Activity for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning", Manu Sheel Gupta, K.S. Preeti, Vijit Singh, Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, FECS 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., CSREA Press 2010, ISBN 1-60132-143-0, pp. 304-309  URL - <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/fecs/fecs2010.html" target="_blank">http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/fecs/fecs2010.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"Implementation of Private Cloud Computing using Integration of JavaScript and Python", K.S. Preeti, Vijit Singh, Manu Sheel Gupta, The Python Papers Monograph, The PyCon Asia Pacific 2010, Singapore Management University Download URL - <a href="http://ojs.pythonpapers.org/index.php/tppm/article/view/149/161" target="_blank">http://ojs.pythonpapers.org/index.php/tppm/article/view/149/161</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"Spreadsheet on Cloud - Framework for Learning and Health Management System", K.S. Preeti, Vijit Singh, Sushant Bhatia, Ekansh Preet Singh, Manu Sheel Gupta,  Proceedings of the EuSpRIG Conference "Spreadsheet Governance - Policy and Practice"  ISBN : 978-0-9566256-9-4</div>
<div><br></div><div>SocialCalc project has also been covered in important sections of the following conference papers - </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">"A March Towards Constructionism based on Storytelling, Gaming and Collaboration", Manu Sheel Gupta, Vijit Singh, Manjot Pahwa, The Fifth International Conference of Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) 2010, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">"Collaborating Towards Learning: Using Web 2.0 for Educational Idea Development", Krittika Adhikary, Manu Sheel Gupta, Ekansh Preet Singh, Swarandeep Singh, The Fifth International Conference of Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) 2010, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">Community work with FCC (Federal Communication Commission)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: arial; "><div style="font-size: small; "><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: small; "><font size="4"><span style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_your_telephone_company_rates_and_service_volumes" target="_blank">http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_your_telephone_company_rates_and_service_volumes</a></span></font></div>
<div style="font-size: small; "><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: small; ">Douglas Galbi's notes - <a href="http://purplemotes.net/2009/09/13/universal-social-access-to-data-and-calculation/" target="_blank">http://purplemotes.net/2009/09/13/universal-social-access-to-data-and-calculation/</a></div>
<div style="font-size: small; "><br></div><div style="font-size: small; ">Douglas Galbi is a Senior Commissioner at Federal Communication Commission (FCC). </div><div style="font-size: small; "><br></div><div style="font-size: small; ">
<br></div></span></span>Regards,</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Manu<br>
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