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

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Yannick Warnier
<yannick.warnier en beeznest.com> wrote:
> 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).

I am not sure that is a fair characterization. This was not the work
of DIGETE, it was the work of a private company. They were shoiwng the
work at an educational fair attended by DIGETE. Perhaps DIGETE was
behind their effort, but I have no idea. In any case, it was exciting
to see.

>
> 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?

The work was done independently of Sugar Labs, as far as I know, but
seems to respect our license.

regards.

-walter

>
> 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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