<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><b>(SoCal-OSSIE folks… read the Postscript)</b></div><div><br></div>Lionel and friends… you have done such a wonderful job! <div><br></div><div>I hope we can get lots of folks involved in sugarizing lots of the Sugar activities. <b>It would be great if someone could write a guide to doing that</b> for some of us who are "newbies" for this particular code. Maybe a little ebook similar to James Simmons FLOSS manual, "Make Your Own Sugar Activities." </div><div><br></div><div>I personally want to see the Memorize Activity Sugarized as it has huge educational value. As part of an Android app or available in a browser, it offers the chance for teachers and students to create custom games for studying simple facts for any level and/or subject area… language, math, history, geography, etc. You name it, it works!</div><div><br></div><div>I would love to help with this if someone else with a little more knowledge can point me in the right direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl</div><div><br></div><div><b>P.S. To SoCal-OSSIE folks… check this out!</b> </div><div><br></div><div>Maybe some of you will want to get involved in helping bring this excellent free, open-source, educational software (Sugar) to folks everywhere, whether or not they have access to an XO.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:25:26 +0200<br>From: lionel@olpc-france.org<br>To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; devel@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang@lists.laptop.org; UnleashKids@googlegroups.com<br>Subject: [support-gang] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.4 is available<br><br><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">Hi all,</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">I'm proud to announce the fourth version (0.4) of Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar for any device. </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"><a href="http://sugarizer.org" target="_blank">http://sugarizer.org</a></p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">To remind you, Sugarizer reproduce main features of Sugar in HTML5/JavaScript. Sugarizer also expose these features to allow running in a browser Sugar Web activities wrote for Sugar 0.100+.</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">Sugarizer is available from a browser or as an Android application.</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">New in this version:</p> <ul style="direction:ltr;"> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Three new activities:</span></li> <ul style="direction:ltr;"> <li style="vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">Tank Operation: a Tuxmath like activity,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="fr"> practice math facts in an arcade game,</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">TurtleJS: a TurtleArt like activity. A taste of TurtleArt for any device !</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">ChatPrototype: see below.</span></li> </ul> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Sugar compatibility: Sugarizer could now be used as a developer platform for Sugar-Web activity. So, developers could now develop Sugar activities only with a browser and a file editor. Resulting activities will work without any change on Sugar 0.100+.</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Improve Journal view: rename, delete and popup menu.</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Server collaboration: Sugarizer Server now allow each user to publish local journal content to the Server. Just go to the journal view and access to your private or to the shared journal zone. Plus, if you keep in mind your user id (in settings/server), you could use the same settings (name, color, language, private storage) from different computers.</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Presence API prototype: Sugarizer include a first prototype of Presence API and a Chat test activity. You could chat with all other users on the same server.</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Server connectivity to Client: The Android Client has capacity to connect to a Sugarizer Server. Just go to Server settings: check the connected checkbox and set your user id. You've now capacity to start your work on your PC then update it on your tablet !</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Improved Android experience: Lot of issues related to Android environment has been solved.</span></li> <li style="vertical-align:middle;" lang="en-US"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">API to server features: all server features are exposed as REST/JSON interfaces. So, developers could easily access to all server contents from any client (including, why not, the real Sugar journal).</span></li> </ul> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">Hope you'll enjoy it and you could say: "Yes, I want to Sugarize the world".</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">Do not hesitate to fork and contribute.</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> Lionel.</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US"> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" lang="en-US">P.S.: Thanks to Jorge (TurtleJS activity), Suraj (Presence and Chat prototype), Ignacio (Spanish translation) for their contribution to this version.</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;"><span lang="en-US">P.P.S.: For a visual demonstration of Sugarizer and this new version, you could see my talk at SugarCamp Paris #3 here: </span><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvdma_sugarcamp-3-sugarizer-what-if-sugar-could-be-on-every-device_school" target="_blank"><span lang="fr">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rvdma_sugarcamp-3-sugarizer-what-if-sugar-could-be-on-every-device_school</span></a></p> </div> <br>_______________________________________________ support-gang mailing list support-gang@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</div></div> </div></body> </html>