<div dir="ltr">Hello all, <div><br></div><div>It was indeed an interesting summit. Not just because it was my first time in America, but i was able to meet with Michael and Cristina. Both of them was awesome, we all supported and discuss Sugar to some folks in other organizations.</div><div><br></div><div>I was able to meet with some folks on <a href="https://www.oppia.org/splash">Oppia</a>(an Open Source Project where alot of educators hangout out and create educational content), they are really interesting in making collaboration with Sugar Labs and i believe it will be really awesome.</div><div><br></div><div>I was able to follow up Wolfgang from Catrobat at the Life Long Kindergarten Group in at the MIT Media Lab. We discussed how Catrobat project can be introduced in Sugar and Sugarizer. </div><div><br></div><div>Right now, i am still in Boston for some personal visits. I met with the Scratch team and we discussed about Scratch 3.0 coming to Sugar and Sugarizer. I already introduced Andrew (lead developer of the scratch 3.0) into Sugar development team. He is on the mailing list(sugar-devel) and making some research around sugar and sugarizer.</div><div><br></div><div>I also met with Bernie and Raúl. Unfortunately i didn't meet with Sameer and OLPC SF team, there was fire around San Francisco which was really bad.</div><div><br></div><div>Just as Michael mentioned, we meet people(Karen and Brett) from SFC and some projects under SFC too.</div><div><br></div><div>i will be heading back to Nigeria soon, but overall the Mentor summit was fun and wonderful, it gave me the opportunity to meet with Cristina and Michael(Both wonderful people).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Samson <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Michaël Ohayon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mohayon75@gmail.com" target="_blank">mohayon75@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Hi everyone !</span><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Last week was the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit '17 in Sunnyvale.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Cristina, Samson and I had the luck to represent Sugar Labs !</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">The summit is an unconference (Open-space conference, attendants do the sessions).</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">The event started Friday ~6pm and ended Sunday ~4pm.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">You can find the session schedule here : </div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-of-events/saturday-session-schedule" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr>2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-<wbr>of-events/saturday-session-<wbr>schedule</a> and here : <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/2016gsocmentorsummit/schedule-of-events/sunday-session-schedule" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/<wbr>site/2016gsocmentorsummit/<wbr>schedule-of-events/sunday-<wbr>session-schedule</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">We had the opportunity to chat with many other participants (300+) from all other the world and their nice projects.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">There was a lightning talk session where I pitched about our participation in GSoC.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Samson and I have been recorded by Google to give feedbacks and hints to students.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">If I had a chat to mention: Wolfgang from Catrobat who is making Pocket Code - <a href="https://www.catrobat.org/" target="_blank">https://www.catrobat.org/</a> (<wbr>Free educational apps for children and teenagers)</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">This was a very nice talk. We talked about what is Pocket Code and how it could be learned by teachers and integrated in our Sugarizer tablets deployment.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">We also met with people from the Software Freedom Conservancy and other related orgs. A small video has been shooted with everyone.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">To sum things up, It was a very nice summit with nice people and cool projects !</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">I'm joining a few photos to this mail : <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9I_5zzdPhgvM1R1YklvSU84N0k?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/<wbr>drive/folders/0B9I_<wbr>5zzdPhgvM1R1YklvSU84N0k?usp=<wbr>sharing</a></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Have a nice day everyone,</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Michael</div></div>
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