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

Tony Anderson tony_anderson at usa.net
Mon Dec 24 01:56:36 EST 2018


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On 12/22/18 7:00 PM, Rishabh Thaney wrote:
> Sounds like a good idea, you mean for the activities mentioned in the 
> previous mail?
>
> I will be exploring more activities listed on the HOC website, and 
> come up with more ideas to implement ours.
>
> Interested people can also join, would be fun working on this :)
>
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 12:19 AM, Walter Bender 
> <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto:rishabhthaney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>         On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 7:48 PM, Walter Bender
>         <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>             On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 1:00 AM Rishabh Thaney
>             <rishabhthaney at gmail.com <mailto:rishabhthaney at gmail.com>>
>             wrote:
>
>                 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.
>
>
>
>                 Happy holidays!
>
>
>             Thx
>
>
>                 Best
>                 Rishabh
>
>                 -- 
>                 Thanks & best regards
>                 Rishabh Thaney
>                 +91.999.909.3117
>                 rishabhthaney at gmail.com <mailto:rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
>                 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>
>             regards.
>
>             -walter
>             -- 
>             Walter Bender
>             Sugar Labs
>             http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
>         -- 
>         Thanks & best regards
>         Rishabh Thaney
>         +91.999.909.3117
>         rishabhthaney at gmail.com <mailto:rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
>         https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Walter Bender
>     Sugar Labs
>     http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
> -- 
> Thanks & best regards
> Rishabh Thaney
> +91.999.909.3117
> rishabhthaney at gmail.com <mailto:rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
>
>
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