<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Ignacio Rodríguez <<a href="mailto:ignacio@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">ignacio@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> 7. One of the first decisions the new board will be making is whether or not Sugar Labs should apply for GCI 2017. I am hopeful that the board will see the merits of the program and give a green light to apply again this year. If we do apply, I will be looking for mentors, project ideas, and a co-administrator. Please contact me if you are interested. Count me in as a co-administrator this year ;) </blockquote><div> </div><div>Yes. Perfect. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div class="h5"> On 9/12/17, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > It has been a long time since I last wrote a Sugar Labs community new blog. > I got tied up with my day jobs: starting a new design college from scratch > and launching a new research center at MIT. (And, frankly, I was a bit > depressed following the deaths of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert.) I have > a breather on both fronts and given all of the Sugar activity of late, I am > inspired to do some writing. > > 1. A footnote from Google Code-in 2015. Ezequiel Pereira, one of the > grand-prize recipients from Sugar Labs was recently acknowledged by Google > for discovering a security bug. He got some nice press, e.g., [1, 2]. In > one article [3], he was quoted as saying: "Homework is boring. Looking for > bugs is fun.” Ezequiel is one of a generation of children in Uruguay who > grew up with Sugar. It is nice to hear the occasional word about their > accomplishments. > > 2. We just wrapped up Google Code-in and Outreachy 2017. We had 9 interns > supported by Google and 1 Outreachy intern. You can read about their > accomplishments in their blogs [4] and in the meeting logs [5] (every > Monday from May through August). Highlights from the summer include a new, > easy-to-maintain activity portal and a new <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.sugarlabs.org</a>, both going > live soon. Also of note: a new Sugar image for Raspberry Pi, some new apps, > GTK3 ports, a Sugarizer dashboard, and a major overhaul of Music Blocks. > > Tip of the hat to our mentors: Abhijit Patel, Cristina Del Puerto, Devin > Ulibarri, Hrishi Patel, Ignacio Rodriguez, José Argüello, Lionel Laské, > Matias Baez, Michaël Ohayon, Samson Goddy, Samuel Cantero, and Tony > Anderson. Lionel help me adminsister the program again this year. It is > nice to note that many of the mentors are fomer GCI participants. > > Cristina, Michaël, and Samson will be representing Sugar Labs at the annual > mentor summit at Google in October. (For those of you who have been > following the saga of Samson's visa, I am happy to say that he was > approved!) > > 3. I was invited to represent Sugar Labs at the Plan Ceibal 10th > anniversary in Montevideo a few months ago. It was great to see children > still using Sugar 10 years after the first deployment in a small school in > the Florida Department. It was also an opportunity to catch up with many > old friends and Sugar contributors, including Ignacio, Andres, Alan, Jose > Miguel, Guzman, etc. I am not sure if my talk is on line, but I wrote a > paper based on the talk which is available for download [6]. > > 4. Lionel just announced a new release of Sugarizer (v0.9). See [7] for all > of the details. > > 5. James Cameron is working towards the release of Sugar 0.111, our first > new release in nearly one year. It is mostly planned as a maintenance > release. > > 6. There are only a few more days left (15 Sept.) to register as a > candidate for the Sugar Labs oversight board. Please consider joining the > board as we need some fresh voices and perspectives. See [8] for details. > You also have until 27 Sept. to register as a member in order to be given a > vote in the election. See [9] for details. > > 7. One of the first decisions the new board will be making is whether or > not Sugar Labs should apply for GCI 2017. I am hopeful that the board will > see the merits of the program and give a green light to apply again this > year. If we do apply, I will be looking for mentors, project ideas, and a > co-administrator. Please contact me if you are interested. > > regards. > > -walter > > ---- > > [1] > <a href="https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/08/10/highschool-security-research-google-data/#.tnw_5BETRGWT" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/08/10/highschool-security-research-google-data/#.tnw_5BETRGWT</a> > [2] > <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/10/schoolboy_google_bug_bounty_http_host/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/10/schoolboy_google_bug_bounty_http_host/</a> > [3] > <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/google-awards-uruguay-high-school-student-10k-finding/story?id=49249604" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/google-awards-uruguay-high-school-student-10k-finding/story?id=49249604</a> > [4] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code</a> > [5] <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings</a> > [6] <a href="http://www.um.es/ead/red/54/bender.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.um.es/ead/red/54/bender.pdf</a> > [7] <a href="http://sugarizer.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://sugarizer.org</a> > [8] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2017-2019-candidates" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2017-2019-candidates</a> > [9] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members</a> > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </div></div>> <<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a>> > </blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- <div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Walter Bender Sugar Labs</div><div><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"></a> </div></div></div> </div></div>