<div dir="ltr">The page will be updated soon.<div>The deadline is May 31th</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Sai Vineet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saivineet89@gmail.com" target="_blank">saivineet89@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">The background contest doesn't specify the deadline for submitting a background, what's the deadline?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Apr 2, 2014 3:36 AM, "Walter Bender" <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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==Sugar Digest==<br>
<br>
1. Daniel Narvaez just released Sugar 0.101.6 (unstable). See [1] for<br>
detailed notes on changes since Sugar 0.100. The tarfiles are<br>
available at [2-4] and new test builds are being prepared (keep an eye<br>
on [5]). We've entered Feature Freeze (which had been extended by<br>
three weeks to enable us to land a few more features). Time to chase<br>
down bugs. Tip-of-the-hat to Gonzalo Odiard, Martin Abente, and Manuel<br>
Quiñones, who put so much effort into getting the last few features<br>
over the hump. Also, an extraordinary number of new features were<br>
contributed by our Google Code-in students: special kudos to Emil<br>
Dudev, Ignacio Rodriguez, and Sam Parkinson. Finally, it was really<br>
nice to see so many first-time contributors.<br>
<br>
2. Gonzalo has made some videos demonstrating the new features in both<br>
Sugar 100 [6] and Sugar 102 [7].<br>
<br>
3. We are reviewing Google Summer of Code applications. We had 35<br>
applicants this year. We'll know in a few weeks how many slots we get<br>
from Google.<br>
<br>
4. I traveled to Colombia a few weeks ago with Claudia Urrea to visit<br>
a wonderful ANSPE project in Chia being run by Aura Mora [8]. Saw some<br>
old friends (Sebastian Silva, Laura Vargas, and Sandra Barragán) and<br>
made many new friends. The highlights for me were the two Turtle Art<br>
workshops: one at the National University in Bogota and the other with<br>
the children in Chia.<br>
<br>
5. Claudia and Erik Blankinship joined me on a panel discussuion at<br>
LibrePlanet 2014 [9]. The panel, which will be available online, was<br>
"No more mouse: saving elementary education".<br>
<br>
:The lack of a mouse and the presence of "the mouse" are having a<br>
detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt<br>
tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of<br>
young learners at a time in their development when "making" is<br>
paramount. The "Disneyification" of media further erodes the<br>
opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel<br>
we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for<br>
combating them.<br>
<br>
=== In the community ===<br>
<br>
6. Sugar Camp #3 - Paris, hosted by Bastien Guerry, will be held from<br>
12-13 April in Carrefour Numérique - Cité des Sciences. For more<br>
information, see [10].<br>
<br>
7. Claudia will be hosting a Learning Chat on Wednesday, 2 April, at<br>
10AM EST, 15 GMT. The guest speaker will be Gonzalo. Please join us at<br>
<a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> #sugar-meeting. (These meetings will be held<br>
regularly on the first Wednesday of each month.)<br>
<br>
8. The Sugar Background Image Contest has begun. See [11] for details.<br>
<br>
=== Tech Talk ===<br>
<br>
9. I wrote a new activity while I was in Colombia: Word Cloud [12] is<br>
a simple activity for generating word clouds from text.<br>
<br>
10. Another new activity worth mentioning is Flappy [13] by Alan<br>
Aguiar. Enjoy. (I cannot get past the first gate.)<br>
<br>
=== Sugar Labs ===<br>
<br>
9. Please visit our planet [14].<br>
<br>
----<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing</a><br>
[6] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw</a><br>
[7] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0</a><br>
[8] <a href="http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia" target="_blank">http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia</a><br>
[9] <a href="http://libreplanet.org/2014/" target="_blank">http://libreplanet.org/2014/</a><br>
[10] <a href="http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html" target="_blank">http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html</a><br>
[11] <a href="http://contest.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://contest.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
[12] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734</a><br>
[13] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731</a><br>
[14] <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://planet.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
<br>
-walter<br>
<br>
--<br>
Walter Bender<br>
Sugar Labs<br>
<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
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