[Sugar-devel] welcoming the new Sugar Labs oversight board members

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 13:49:25 EST 2018


We'll need to write up a "Teacher's Guide" for each activity.

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:47 PM Rishabh Thaney <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 7:48 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:00 AM Rishabh Thaney <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Thanks for the update, Walter and congratulations to all the newly
>>> elected members.
>>>
>>> I would also like to help Samson and Vipul with outreach.
>>> Would also like to share that we recently hosted an 'hour of code' with
>>> the ACM student chapter of our college in which we went to a school and
>>> taught basic programming to the students of 5th grade.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if Sugar Labs also participates in the ACM Hour of code
>>> which takes place every year.
>>> Would also like to discuss the possibility of partnering with Code.org
>>> and to see if we can list an activity here:
>>> https://hourofcode.com/in/en/learn
>>>
>>> Which I believe would help in outreach and supporting a bigger cause as
>>> well.
>>> I would request everyone to please share any relevant inputs on this.
>>>
>> I've watched with dismay over the years as we have gone from summer of
>> code to month of code to week of code to day of code to hour of code. That
>> said, I know nothing about marketing and obviously this is a good outreach
>> opportunity.
>>
>> Ideas:
>> (1) Sugar on RPi install party
>> (2) Sugar on a Stick install party
>> (3) Write your first interactive paint program in Turtle Blocks
>> (4) Write your first song in Music Blocks
>> (5) Do X, Y, or Z with a Sugarizer activity.
>>
>
> Thanks for these insights, I think we can list most of these as
> interactive modules here:
> https://hourofcode.com/in/en/learn
>
> So that people conducting more such programs can also be provided with our
> resources which can be used for the HOC.
>
> Though, will have to check how to go about with listing them and are there
> any guidelines that need to be followed.
>
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>>
>>> Happy holidays!
>>>
>>
>> Thx
>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Rishabh
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks & best regards
>>> Rishabh Thaney
>>> +91.999.909.3117
>>> rishabhthaney at gmail.com
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>>>
>>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
>>
> --
> Thanks & best regards
> Rishabh Thaney
> +91.999.909.3117
> rishabhthaney at gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>
>

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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