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Hi, Walter<br>
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Currently for GSOC and GCI, we tell applicants to create a
development environment. I think that is a mistake. One of the great
strengths of Sugar is that it is it's own development environment.
For example, the design of Sugar is that Browse as an activity can
be installed directly as an xo bundle with a version number
independent of the Sugar version number. This, of course, has two
advantages - a new version of Browse can be used on earlier versions
of Sugar and the release of Sugar provides the ability to execute
Sugar activities but is not dependent on them.<br>
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GCI can be a great opportunity to develop a Sugar release which can
be installed on standard PCs and supported by Sugar Labs. Possibly
a Debian release supported by Sugar Labs would be most flexible. In
this case there could also be SD card images which work on models of
the Raspberry Pi. Such a release could be enhanced by users working
independently and then submitting their working changes for
incorporation in future official releases.<br>
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Tony<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/07/2016 10:25 AM, Walter Bender
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<div dir="ltr">Great news. Sugar Labs was once again accepted as
one of the organizations participating in Google Code In.
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<div>We have a few weeks to prepare. If you are interested in
being a mentor, please contact me and also please sign up at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://codein.withgoogle.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://codein.withgoogle.com">https://codein.withgoogle.com</a></a></div>
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<div>If you have project/task ideas, please send them my way or
add them to the wiki page at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2016#This_is_a_stub_for_25.2B_example_tasks_new_for_GCI_2016">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2016#This_is_a_stub_for_25.2B_example_tasks_new_for_GCI_2016</a>.</div>
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<div>As always, I am very much looking forward to GCI.</div>
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<div>regards.</div>
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<div>-walter<br clear="all">
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<div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br>
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