<div dir="ltr">Great video! Who is the author?<div><br></div><div>I would like to add:</div><div>* Stamps and sounds in Paint activity</div><div>* Dark theme in Terminal activity</div><div>* Create a movie in Fototoon activity </div><div>* View next and preview images in ImageViewer activity </div><div>* See comic books in Read activity </div><div>* Many improvements in the Irc activity </div><div>* And many years old bugs killed in Sugar!!</div><div><br></div><div>Excellent year, thanks to all who participated, and thanks to Stephanie</div><div>and the Google Open Source team.</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Ignacio Rodríguez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ignacio@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">ignacio@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">> <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:</span><div><br></div></span><div>Also I want to add few more "things" :)</div><div>* The Sugar Labs promo video [1]</div><div>* The new feature in Speak, the user can load a Image and create her own "face" [2]</div><div>* The new Dropbox webservice [3]</div><div>* The new help pages [4]</div><div><br></div><div>I want to say 'thanks' to the mentors, we have done a lot of work, they should be very exhausted! :)</div><div>as GCI 2013 student [and also 2014 student], this year was better, we got new students, now some of these are 'friends'.</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">This year, like last, we tried to help new students :)</span></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRReDdoW9g&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRReDdoW9g&feature=youtu.be</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5140598474407936" target="_blank">https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5140598474407936</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/ignaciouy/dropbox-webservice" target="_blank">https://github.com/ignaciouy/dropbox-webservice</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed" target="_blank">https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, my english is still poor :)</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Ignacio Rodríguez</div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/SugarLabs/187845102582" target="_blank">SugarLabs at Facebook</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-21 22:18 GMT-02:00 Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">== Sugar Digest ==<br>
<br>
In schools, all hardware and software bestow agency on one of three<br>
parties: the system, the teacher, or the learner. Typically, two of<br>
these actors lose their power as the technology benefits the<br>
third. Ask a group of colleagues to create a three-column table and<br>
brainstorm the hardware or software in your school and who is granted<br>
agency by each. Management software, school-wide grade-book programs,<br>
integrated learning systems, school-to-home communication packages,<br>
massive open online courses (MOOCs), and other cost-cutting<br>
technologies grant maximum benefit to the system. Interactive<br>
whiteboards, worksheet generators, projectors, whole-class<br>
simulations, plagiarism software, and so on, benefit the<br>
teacher. Personal laptops, programming languages, creativity software,<br>
cameras, MIDI keyboards, microcontrollers, fabrication equipment, and<br>
personal web space primarily benefit (bestow agency to) the<br>
learner. -- Gary Stager<br>
<br>
1. Google Code-In. Wow. Finally a chance to catch my breath. Seven<br>
intense weeks: 60 students completed more than 300 tasks for Sugar<br>
Labs. The impact on Sugar Labs was even greater this year than in the<br>
previous years we have participated: more diversity among the<br>
participants, the mentors, the tasks, and a spirit of collaboration<br>
while striving for excellence prevailed throughout the contest. Thanks<br>
to Google and Stephanie Taylor for giving us this opportunity, to the<br>
contestants who not only did great work but taught me a thing or two<br>
along the way, and the mentors and community members who manned the<br>
IRC channel 24/7.<br>
<br>
I want to acknowledge the Top Ten+ from whom we will be selecting our<br>
finalists this week (results announce in early February):<br>
<br>
Ignacio Rodríguez, Daksh, samdroid, cristian99garcia, Ezequiel<br>
Pereira, svineet, Gtrinidad, Jas Park, Rafael Cordano, Richar, Sergio<br>
Britos, Aishmita Kakkar, Gabriel Lee, et al.<br>
<br>
Also, some mentors (and community members) deserve special<br>
recognition: Andrés Aguirre, Daniel Francis, Gary Servin, Gonzalo<br>
Odiard, James Cameron, Jorge Ramirez, Mariah Villarreal, Rajul,<br>
Rodrigo Parra, and Martin Abente Lahaye.<br>
<br>
Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:<br>
<br>
* Turtle Blocks JS plugins (Ignacio, samDroid, Daksh) [1]<br>
* Turtle Blocks guides (Jas Park) [2]<br>
* Activity reviews (Gabriel Lee) [3]<br>
* Dasher app (Cristian Garcia) [4]<br>
* Enhancements to Physics (Svineet) [5]<br>
* Sugar bugs squashed (Ezequiel) [6]<br>
* Butia Measure (Gtrinidad) [7]<br>
* Simple scrolling interface for Sugar (Rafael) [8]<br>
and much much more.<br>
<br>
2. As mentioned above, we have a number of new Turtle Blocks plugins<br>
(for both the Python and Javascript versions) as a result of Google<br>
Code-in. One of the more interesting inspirations for plugins comes<br>
from <a href="http://mashape.com" target="_blank">mashape.com</a>, a repository of APIs for everything from translation<br>
services to a bicycle theft alert system. As Sugar becomes more<br>
web-friendly, we can take advantage of web services and also<br>
facilitate our users to craft their own tools and services. It is fun<br>
and empowering.<br>
<br>
=== In the community ===<br>
<br>
3. The Free Software Foundation has put together a nice video on the<br>
core ideas behind Free Software. See [9]<br>
<br>
=== Tech Talk ===<br>
<br>
4. Xevents [10] is a TurtleBlocks plugin that makes it easy to design<br>
different types of accessibility interfaces through a variery of<br>
physical sensors types. It is being developed at FING by Andrés<br>
Aguirre and Alan Aguiar and was the focus of some of the Google<br>
Code-in work of Rafael Cordano.<br>
<br>
5. For you OLPC XO 4 users, James Cameron has been working on enabling<br>
the second processor. He reports "about 38% improvement. For CPU tasks<br>
like rendering, alt/tab, kernel compiles, the improvement is somewhat<br>
more than 38%. For single threaded tasks that rely on memory<br>
bandwidth, performance is lower because the memory controller is<br>
shared between two cores." When asked how it impacts Sugar, he said<br>
"it feels faster and more responsive."<br>
<br>
6. Martin has announced the tarballs for the last 0.103.x UNSTABLE<br>
release of Sugar before 0.104 STABLE. (We delayed the release a few<br>
weeks in order to take advantage of all of the bug fixes coming in<br>
from Google Code-in.) With this release we reach the API, UI and<br>
String freeze [12].<br>
<br>
* <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.103.2.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.103.2.tar.xz</a><br>
* <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.103.2.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.103.2.tar.xz</a><br>
* <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.103.2.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.103.2.tar.xz</a><br>
* <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.103.2.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.103.2.tar.xz</a><br>
* <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.103.2.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.103.2.tar.xz</a><br>
<br>
It's time to switch focus on updating translations, everyone can<br>
contribute through or new Pootle instance [13]. We have time until<br>
February 13, before the 0.104.0 STABLE release.<br>
<br>
=== Sugar Labs ===<br>
<br>
5. Please visit our planet at <a href="http://planet.sugarlab.org" target="_blank">http://planet.sugarlab.org</a><br>
<br>
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<br>
[1] <a href="https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/blob/master/plugins.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/blob/master/plugins.md</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksIntroductoryManual.pdf" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksIntroductoryManual.pdf</a><br>
and <a href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksAdvancedBlocksManual.pdf" target="_blank">http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/TurtleBlocksAdvancedBlocksManual.pdf</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://gabrielleedhs.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/reviewing-an-activity-from-sugar-labs-story-activity/" target="_blank">https://gabrielleedhs.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/reviewing-an-activity-from-sugar-labs-story-activity/</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4764" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4764</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193</a><br>
[6] <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5809933962444800?id=5741031244955648" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5809933962444800?id=5741031244955648</a><br>
[7] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYGOnlaTuTk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYGOnlaTuTk</a><br>
[8] <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5784136845361152?id=5717271485874176" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2014/5784136845361152?id=5717271485874176</a><br>
[9] <a href="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/FSF30-video/FSF_30_720p.webm" target="_blank">https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/FSF30-video/FSF_30_720p.webm</a><br>
[10] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xevents" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xevents</a><br>
[11] <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/12297" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/12297</a><br>
[12] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap</a><br>
[13] <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
<span><font color="#888888"><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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IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>
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