<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">> From: francis@sugarlabs.org</span><br><div>> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:42:37 -0300<br>> To: nicestep@gmail.com<br>> CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; community-news@lists.sugarlabs.org; walter.bender@gmail.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18<br>> <br>> 2012/9/19 James Simmons <nicestep@gmail.com>:<br>> > Walter,<br>> ><br>> > First, congrats on the grandchild.<br>> ><br>> > Second, I am intrigued by the statement that 10% of Sugar Activities were<br>> > written by children who grew up with Sugar. That is an incredible<br>> > accomplishment, and it makes me wish that the ASLO website had a Collection<br>> > of those Activities. If something like that existed I could see what kinds<br>> > of Activities they were doing, how many were programs written for other<br>> > environments using a Sugar wrapper, how many are purely Sugar Activities,<br>> > who the developers are, what Sugar features are they using and not using,<br>> > how popular the Activities are, etc.<br>> <br>> Hello James,<br>> I feel identified with what Walter described so I dare to answer. I'm<br>> from Uruguay and I'm thirteen years old. I'm one of the activity<br>> developers in transition to Sugar contributor. I don't know other<br>> young Sugar contributors outside Uruguay, so I'll tell you about the<br>> situation here.<br>> <br>> About one year ago, children made activities often as a hobbie, that<br>> activities had not a reasonable aim and they weren't very well<br>> integrated with Sugar.<br>> <br>> Some examples:<br>> Agubrowser by Agustin Zubiaga:<br>> This activity was based on webkit when Browse used python-hulahop (gecko).<br>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4419<br>> Sugar File Manager by Ignacio Rodríguez and me:<br>> Based on Sugar Commander and JAMexplorer, with some improvements.<br>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4494<br>> <br>> Actually, we make activities thinking in its utility, but our aim is<br>> still learn with what we do.<br>> I leave here some of the activities that make us feel proud:<br>> <br>> TerronesWeeper: A "mines" game for CeibalJAM!, the Uruguayan OLPC<br>> community, which is represented with a Terrón[1].<br>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/addon/4520<br>> <br>> Chart: Made with help of adults and now available at the official OLPC build.<br>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4534<br>> <br>> Graph Plotter: Mathematical function plotter.<br>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Graph_Plotter<br>> <br>> JAMath: Other game for CeibalJAM. I'm not sure, but I think this<br>> activity is only available in Spanish.<br>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4595<br>> <br>> Sorry if I forget other activities.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>One more of Cristhoper Travieso; Convert:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4597">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4597</a></div><div><br></div><div><br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Daniel.<br>> <br>> [1] http://ceibaljam.org/drupal/?q=node/741<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Sugar-devel mailing list<br>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel<br></div> </div></body> </html>