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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Walter, <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I will try. I am moving on Feb 3 to
      Palawan. I'll try to get to it then. My principal concern re GSOC
      is to define projects with manageable scope - many of the past
      projects ended undelivered.</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Tony<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/21/19 3:10 PM, Walter Bender
      wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 3:44
            AM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org"
              moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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            rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Fascinating, I never
            thought the move to GitHub was ever going to<br>
            achieve all that.  It was to enable a shutdown of the
            unmaintained<br>
            gitorious instance at <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">git.sugarlabs.org</a>. 
            Which still hasn't happened<br>
            because it is still useful, in turn because this community
            hasn't the<br>
            time to do the necessary leg work to finish the move to
            GitHub.<br>
            <br>
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          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>I would be curious what is still on Gitorious that hasn't
            been migrated.</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>FWIW, my principle motivations for the move were (1) as
            James points out -- on less piece of infrastructure for us
            to maintain; and (2) GitHub for better or worse is much more
            familiar to and likely to be discovered by potential
            developers. I think GH has been a decent tool which requires
            minimal effort on our part. Not sure that the latter really
            amounts to too much.</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Re Tony's point about the ownership model, I don't see
            that anything we are doing suggests we don't want to
            continue to support individual contributions. I interpreted
            James's list not as a matter of ownership but rather a
            surfacing of what is actually happening re maintenance. In
            some sense, what is being articulated is the equivalent of
            the Fructose vs Honey nomenclature of the past where the
            core developers are saying: "These activities will be
            maintained. Cannot speak for everything else."</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>That said, I think Tony makes a great point re thinking
            about the pedagogical implications of our choices, which
            have had little if any input from the learning side of the
            house. Would be great to get more input to help us in regard
            to what is most valuable to our users (whether they know it
            or not). <a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-0"
              href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" tabindex="-1"
              moz-do-not-send="true">@Tony Anderson</a> would be great
            if you could rework you thoughts about Python into a GSoC
            idea.</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>regards.</div>
          <div><br>
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          <div>-walter</div>
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            In short, it has nothing to do with the tools, and
            everything to do<br>
            with contributors.<br>
            <br>
            I'll continue to focus on the activities I've got on my
            list.  That<br>
            doesn't mean I won't help with the other activities, but I
            won't<br>
            necessarily spend as much time with the others.<br>
            <br>
            On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Tony Anderson
            wrote:<br>
            > While it is marvelous to see some actual attention to
            the Sugar activities,<br>
            > this approach is the direct opposite of the logic
            behind the move of the<br>
            > activities to gitHub. This is a return to the G1G1
            model in which individuals<br>
            > develop, contribute and own activities. There can be no
            abandoned or orphaned<br>
            > activities in a community support model.<br>
            > <br>
            > It was recognized by Walter and others that there were
            two factors which made<br>
            > that ownership model unworkable. First, changes in
            Sugar software support such<br>
            > as the move to GTK3 made common changes to all
            activities necessary and,<br>
            > second, that many of the original contributors are no
            longer involved with<br>
            > Sugar.<br>
            > <br>
            > GitHub was touted as the way in which Sugar Labs as a
            community would support<br>
            > Sugar and its library of activities. However, in
            practice support for<br>
            > activities has become increasingly limited to a small
            number of ones selected<br>
            > for inclusion in the 13.2 series of builds.<br>
            > <br>
            > The Sugar activities library is made available to our
            users via ASLO.<br>
            > Unfortunately, there are activities with new versions
            in gitHub which have not<br>
            > been released to ASLO and thus are unknown to our
            users. There is even<br>
            > confusion over which 'github'. It has to be kept clear
            that developers can use<br>
            > any method they chose. What is controlled is the
            repository on gitHub. Any<br>
            > changes outside of the Sugar Labs github are invisible
            until they are submitted<br>
            > as a new version.<br>
            > <br>
            > Educational intent<br>
            > <br>
            > What I would like to see is a return to the founding
            philosophy of Sugar.<br>
            > Everyone is welcome to contribute. When you get 10
            lines of code working,<br>
            > submit your activity. Sugar is designed to provide all
            the software tools<br>
            > needed to develop activities in Sugar - no
            cross-development, containers, or<br>
            > virtual environments. Instead of requesting new
            contributors to demonstrate<br>
            > their technical proficiency by putting their name on
            the XO icon in the Home<br>
            > View, identify some real examples of changes that would
            improve Sugar. There<br>
            > are plenty available:<br>
            > <br>
            > Fix the icons on 'my settings' so they are visible
            instead of switching to<br>
            > gnome by clicking on the big toe.<br>
            > When you take a screenshot and switch to the Journal to
            give it a title, you<br>
            > must use the Frame to return, not the Activity key.<br>
            > The kids love the ability to customize their laptop
            with a background picture.<br>
            > Unfortunately this often makes the icons in the Home
            View invisible.<br>
            > Add Jupyter Notebook as a built-in capability of Sugar
            (possibly as a service<br>
            > of Browse).<br>
            > Help solve problems with a long list of activities
            (such as the lack of sound<br>
            > in Block Party).<br>
            > Find a way for Browse to support the css FlexBox.<br>
            > <br>
            > Stop using Pippy as a ceiling to our users learning to
            program in Python. They<br>
            > can work up to 'Make your own Sugar Activities'.  Start
            with the Hello World<br>
            > activity. Explain GTK and its benefits. PyDebug
            provides recipes for many<br>
            > common coding situations. Stop hiding the Terminal and
            Log activities - try to<br>
            > encourage them to become favorites. Soon we could see a
            new generation of<br>
            > user-programmers as we did in Uruguay.<br>
            > <br>
            > Along this theme, we should embrace the RPI and its
            compatriots as a way to<br>
            > make embedded computing tangible. It would not be
            difficult to connect such a<br>
            > device via the Ad Hoc network so that it could be used
            to transfer a program<br>
            > written on an XO to the device and execute it with the
            user seeing the results<br>
            > on LEDs (e.g. Sense Hat).<br>
            > <br>
            > Tony<br>
            > <br>
            > On 1/20/19 3:48 PM, Walter Bender wrote:<br>
            > <br>
            >     I noticed Dimensions fell off the list. I will take
            that one on as I think<br>
            >     it is of real value.<br>
            > <br>
            >     -walter<br>
            > <br>
            >     On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 8:44 AM James Cameron
            <[1]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
            > <br>
            >         Thanks.  So the list looks like;<br>
            > <br>
            >         # Walter Bender<br>
            > <br>
            >         * Music Blocks,<br>
            >         * Turtle Blocks JS,<br>
            > <br>
            >         # Rahul Bothra<br>
            > <br>
            >         * CowBulls,<br>
            >         * Flappy,<br>
            >         * Cedit,<br>
            >         * Polari,<br>
            > <br>
            >         # James Cameron<br>
            > <br>
            >         * Abacus,<br>
            >         * Browse (master),<br>
            >         * Browse (fedora 18 - webkit - v157.x),<br>
            >         * Calculator,<br>
            >         * Chart,<br>
            >         * Chat,<br>
            >         * Clock,<br>
            >         * Develop,<br>
            >         * Distance,<br>
            >         * Finance,<br>
            >         * Find Words,<br>
            >         * Fototoon,<br>
            >         * Fraction Bounce,<br>
            >         * Gears,<br>
            >         * GetBooks,<br>
            >         * Help,<br>
            >         * ImageViewer,<br>
            >         * Implode,<br>
            >         * Jukebox,<br>
            >         * Labyrinth,<br>
            >         * Letters,<br>
            >         * Log,<br>
            >         * Maze,<br>
            >         * Measure,<br>
            >         * Memorize,<br>
            >         * Moon (master),<br>
            >         * Moon (fedora 18 - gtk2 - v17.x),<br>
            >         * MusicKeyboard (master),<br>
            >         * MusicKeyboard (fedora 18 - csound - v8.x),<br>
            >         * Paint,<br>
            >         * Physics,<br>
            >         * Pippy,<br>
            >         * Poll,<br>
            >         * Portfolio,<br>
            >         * Read (master),<br>
            >         * Read (fedora 18 - webkit - v118.x),<br>
            >         * Record (master),<br>
            >         * Record (fedora 18 - gstreamer - v10x),<br>
            >         * SimpleEnglishWikipedia,<br>
            >         * Speak,<br>
            >         * StopWatch,<br>
            >         * Story,<br>
            >         * Terminal,<br>
            >         * TurtleBlocks,<br>
            >         * Words,<br>
            >         * Write,<br>
            > <br>
            >         On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:04:50AM -0500,
            Walter Bender wrote:<br>
            >         > I am actively maintaining Music Blocks and
            Turtle Blocks JS.<br>
            >         > I just haven't had the bandwidth to do
            much beyond that of late. That<br>
            >         said, I<br>
            >         > am happy to kibbutz on any of the
            activities which I used to<br>
            >         maintain.<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:11 AM Rahul
            Bothra <[1][2]<br>
            >         <a href="mailto:rrbothra@gmail.com"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rrbothra@gmail.com</a>>
            wrote:<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >     *<br>
            >         >     I am maintaining CowBulls and Flappy.<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >     I can take up cedit and Polari<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >     On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:53 PM James
            Cameron <[2][3]<br>
            >         <a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a>>
            wrote:<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >         Once we had a list of abandoned
            activities, where the<br>
            >         maintainer is<br>
            >         >         missing in action, not doing
            testing or releasing.<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >         Now, I propose the inverse; a list
            of activities with a<br>
            >         maintainer<br>
            >         >         testing and releasing.  It will be
            easier to maintain that<br>
            >         list.<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >         For myself, each of the Fructose
            activities, each of the<br>
            >         activities we<br>
            >         >         ship on OLPC OS.  I know Walter is
            looking after Music<br>
            >         Blocks.  Lionel<br>
            >         >         is looking after Sugarizer.  Are
            there any other developers<br>
            >         who are<br>
            >         >         maintainers?<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >         --<br>
            >         >         James Cameron<br>
            >         >         [3][4]<a
              href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
            >         >       
             _______________________________________________<br>
            >         >         Sugar-devel mailing list<br>
            >         >         [4][5]<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            >         >         [5][6]<a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            >         ><br>
            >         >   
             _______________________________________________<br>
            >         >     Sugar-devel mailing list<br>
            >         >     [6][7]<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            >         >     [7][8]<a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            >         ><br>
            >         > --<br>
            >         > Walter Bender<br>
            >         > Sugar Labs<br>
            >         > [8][9]<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            >         > [9]<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         > References:<br>
            >         ><br>
            >         > [1] mailto:[10]<a
              href="mailto:rrbothra@gmail.com" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true">rrbothra@gmail.com</a><br>
            >         > [2] mailto:[11]<a
              href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a><br>
            >         > [3] [12]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
            >         > [4] mailto:[13]<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            >         > [5] [14]<a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            >         > [6] mailto:[15]<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            >         > [7] [16]<a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            >         > [8] [17]<a
              href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
            >         > [9] [18]<a
              href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
            > <br>
            >         --<br>
            >         James Cameron<br>
            >         [19]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
            >         _______________________________________________<br>
            >         Sugar-devel mailing list<br>
            >         [20]<a
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            >     Walter Bender<br>
            >     Sugar Labs<br>
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            > References:<br>
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            > [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a><br>
            > [2] mailto:<a href="mailto:rrbothra@gmail.com"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rrbothra@gmail.com</a><br>
            > [3] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a><br>
            > [4] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
            > [5] mailto:<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            > [6] <a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            > [7] mailto:<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            > [8] <a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            > [9] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
            > [10] mailto:<a href="mailto:rrbothra@gmail.com"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rrbothra@gmail.com</a><br>
            > [11] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a><br>
            > [12] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
            > [13] mailto:<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            > [14] <a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            > [15] mailto:<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            > [16] <a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            > [17] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
            > [18] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
            > [19] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
            > [20] mailto:<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            > [21] <a
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              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
            > [22] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
            > [23] mailto:<a
              href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
            > [24] <a
              href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
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              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br>
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