Chris, Now that I have seen Walter's latest e-mail I have a better understanding of what the Google code-in involves. I would definitely like to get involved in this. My Sugar coding skills are a bit rusty, and some things I may not be much help with. For instance, the PyGame examples in the book all use sugargame, so I have no experience with olpcgames and converting from it. I don't know from touch or accelerometer either. My XO-1 and my development boxes have neither. I have a box that runs Fedora 15 but the Sugar supplied with that doesn't break any of my own Activities so I have to assume that it doesn't use Python 3 or GTK3+. This means I'll need to install the latest sugar-jhbuild, etc. So I'm not exactly ready to dive into all this, but I'll do what I can. James Simmons <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Chris Leonard <<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear James, I am contacting you about two distinct points of Sugar Labs business. 1) Google Code-In task Would you please consider writing up and mentoring a task under the Documentation section of our task list (perhaps creating a separate wiki page linked from the task list) having to do with updating your book "Making Your Own Sugar Activities" to include new information about the world of GTK3+, olpcgames > sugargames switch, and other "new bits" related to Sugar activity development (e.g. touch, accelerometer, etc.). The idea would be to describe the task(s) well enough that a 13-17 year old Google Code in Participant could go through and propose new or modified sections (for which you would act as "editor-in-chief" determining inclusion. Feel free to break the task up into multiple tasks (e.g .by chapters or however you see fit). 2) You are aware that Sugar Labs is a member proejct of the Software Freedom Conservancy and that we derive our 501(c)3 status from that relationship as well as many other benefits with regards to fundraising and legal administrivia. A new benefit that the SFC has offered offered to member projects is the opportunity to link certain books listed on Amazon under the Amazon affiliates program. I'm guessing this involves getting a specially formed link that gives Sugar Labs credit for a click-through that results in the sale of said book, the end result being Sugar Labs getting a donation from Amazon on each sale driven through such an affiliate link. The SLOBs and SFC would like to ask your permission to include the Amazon listing of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities" in that program, and we would obviously share the special link created with you to use to link Amazon purchases to "click-through" donation credits to Sugar Labs via our accounts held by SFC. We would most likely be creating a special wiki page promoting those books included in the affiliate program for Sugar labs, which would also include Walter's book: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Change-World-Social-Impact/dp/0230337317" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Change-World-Social-Impact/dp/0230337317</a> and others that we may include as we come to better understand the rules about only listing books that have a specific affiliation with the work of the project (e.g. we could not use random NYT best-sellers). I know you give the book away and created the Amazon entry primarily for visibility. We would not ask you to make any changes in how you promote access to your book (other than replacing any Amazon links you provide with the special affiliate click through version). The work you have done in creating this book is in itself a great donation to Sugar Labs, I do hope you will agree to leveraging it further for whatever additional financial benefit the affiliate linkage might provide from purchases via Amazon. Warmest Regards, cjl </blockquote></div>