[somos-azucar] Fwd: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-06-01

[Yannick Warnier]

Gracias Walter,

Estoy sorprendido de ver que Digete sigue sin publicar su progreso de
ningún lado (uno tiene literalmente que llamar a alguien de Norte
América para enterarse de lo que están haciendo).

Advance es una empresa bastante grande en Perú (invierten miles y miles
de dólares en publicidad callejera y sus computadoras están presentes en
muchos supermercados, como se ve en su sitio web). Me pregunto cual es
su modelo de negocio con Sugar. Han compartido algo al respeto?
Integración, dices, pero integración para quien?

Saludos,

== English version ==

Thanks Walter,

I'm amazed to see how Digete continues to not publish their progress on
any side (you literally have to call for somebody from North America to
learn something about what they're doing).

Advance is quite a large business in Perú (they invest thousands and
thousands of dollars in street advertising and their computers are
present in many supermarkets, as you can see at the bottom of their
website). I wonder what their business model is with Sugar. Did they
share anything about that? Integration for whom?

Cheers,

Yannick Warnier
(SomosAZUCAR.org/Chamilo)


Le vendredi 01 juin 2012 à 21:15 -0500, Laura Vargas a écrit :
> Walter Bender (co-fundador de Sugar Labs) nos comparte información
> sobre su visita a Lima y a la región de Amazonas. Felicitaciones al
> equipo local de Escuelab y esperamos y auguramos mucho éxito en el
> taller. 
> 
> Queda a su disposición la wiki de la comunidad local y el blog de
> SomosAZUCAR para compartir la experiencia y/o los materiales que
> consideren.
> 
> Saludos a todos,
> 
> laura v.
> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org
> 
> [1] http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/P%C3%A1gina_principal
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender en gmail.com>
> Date: 2012/6/1
> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-06-01
> To: community-news en lists.sugarlabs.org
> Cc: iaep <iaep en lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar-dev Devel
> <sugar-devel en lists.sugarlabs.org>
> 
> 
> == Sugar Digest ==
> 
> 1. I am in Lima in transit to Amazonas, where I will be helping run a
> workshop for teachers. I had the opportunity to catch up with a few
> old friends from DIGETE, including Victor Castillo, Hernan Paches, and
> Rocio Flores. I also had a chance to see some exciting projects,
> including a nice collection of math activities developed by a
> Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería [1] in partnership with a private
> company, and some integration work by another local company, Advance
> Computer Corporation [2], which is distributing Sugar and GNOME on
> Fedora 16 across a variety of platforms. In their GNOME shell, they
> include Etoys and Scratch, and I pointed out that Turtle Art is also
> available.
> 
> The focus of the workshop will be to galvanize the teachers of the
> Amazonas region, to get them past the stage of just using the laptop
> to using the laptop for learning. We (a team from Sugar Labs, OLPC,
> DIGETE, and Escuelab) plan to engage the teachers in problem solving,
> where they learn to utilize Sugar to solve problems and to transfer
> these skills to their classrooms.
> 
> 2. For those of you who follow the coming and going of the Sugar Labs
> oversight board (SLOB), you know that we have been engaged in an
> on-going discussion about Local Labs [3]. The bottom line is that the
> structure we had envisioned when we created Sugar -- a loose
> federation of local labs working collectively towards a common goal --
> is not viable under the more constrained structure of our parent
> organization, the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). At the most
> recent SLOB meeting, we discussed new language [4-6] proposed by the
> SFC for the Sugar Labs wiki essentially declaring that '''Sugar Labs
> Local Labs are not officially endorsed by or affiliated with Sugar
> Labs or the Software Freedom Conservancy.''' These changes were
> approved by SLOB by a vote of 5 in favor, 2 opposed. I will be making
> changes to the Trademark [7] and Local Labs [8] pages in the wiki to
> reflect these changes.
> 
> There is an on-going discussion as to how Sugar Labs and/or a New
> Company might be able to support the efforts of the numerous
> unaffiliated volunteers, developers, and deployment specialists who
> have created Sugar and educate others on how to use it. But in
> essence, a formal, affiliated Local Labs model is off the table.
> 
> 3. Last weekend, I was on a panel about business and technology at my
> 35th college reunion. I brought up the theme of entrepreneurship,
> arguing that it was a necessary component of any plan for economic
> growth. I went further to suggest that we could better prepare
> children to be critical thinkers and intellectual risk takers and help
> to instill a culture of entrepreneurship. I was pretty much slammed by
> the rest of the panel, who consider entrepreneurship to be an
> exception, not the rule. I think some of the disagreement is one of
> scale. When I speak of entrepreneurship, I am not talking about $100
> billion IPOs. I am talking about small business. The titans of
> industry with whom I was debating seem to have no interest in small
> business -- perhaps because there is no money in it for Wall Street --
> but small business is where most jobs are created and, arguably, where
> most innovation occurs. There is little, if anything we can do to
> influence the big boys -- yes, they are by-and-large male and white --
> but we can learn to do our own thing and excel.
> 
> 4. Agustin and Daniel are at it again: This time they are writing an
> animation activity [9, 10]. While the current functionality is pretty
> simple -- you could do the same thing using a stack of Show blocks in
> Turtle Art [11] -- they intent to move in the direction of non-linear
> editing -- a distinct hole in the Sugar activity repertoire.
> 
> 5. Lionel Laské has written a "hello world" activity [12] using Enyo
> [13]. It includes all the boilerplate code that is needed to display
> an index.html inside a Sugar-activity canvas. You can put your own
> "payload" in the "data" directory found in the activity bundle.
> 
> === Sugar Labs ===
> 
> Visit our planet [14] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar
> deployments.
> 
> -walter
> 
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
> 
> ----
> 
> [1] http://www.uni.edu.pe/
> [2] http://www.advanceperu.com
> [3]
> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2012-05-30T21:08:10
> [4]
> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2012-05-30T21:08:10#i_2739410
> [5]
> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2012-05-30T21:08:10#i_2739421
> [6]
> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2012-05-30T21:08:10#i_2739445
> [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark
> [8] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs
> [9]
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gwyIysrnfoc
> [10] http://git.sugarlabs.org/animate
> [11] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt#Media_Palette
> [12] http://git.sugarlabs.org/enyo-test-activity
> [13] http://enyojs.com
> [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org
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