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User:DanKrejsa

2010-03-01T18:23:48Z

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==Projects==

* [[Spock]]

User:Bert

2010-03-01T18:22:50Z

Pmv2: moved User:Bert to Walter is a wanker 8: Walter is a wanker

email: bert at freudenbergs.de

irc: bertf at FreeNode (#sugar, #olpc-de)

Bert Freudenberg is a freelancing Software Engineer based in Magdeburg, Germany. From 2006-2008 he was contracted to port the Squeak Etoys learning environment to Sugar. Bert still voluntarily maintains the Sugar version of Etoys.

User talk:Garycmartin

2010-03-01T18:22:32Z

Pmv2: moved User talk:Garycmartin to Talk:Walter is a wanker 7: Walter is a wanker

Fascinating! Great work, very helpful.

Thanks,

[[User:Gregorio|Gregorio]] 13:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

:Thanks Gregorio, glad you like the SOMs (now moved to a [[Sugar Labs/SOM|community page]]) --[[User:garycmartin|garycmartin]] 18:15, 14 Jul 2008 (BST)

User:Garycmartin

2010-03-01T18:22:32Z

Pmv2: moved User:Garycmartin to Walter is a wanker 7: Walter is a wanker

== Gary C. Martin ==

Gary C. Martin (gary at garycmartin dot com) is a freelance software developer based in Edinburgh/UK, with a focus on design, UI/HCI, analytics, and information visualisation. His external homepage is over at http://www.garycmartin.com/.

===Todo===

* Back port old toolbar support for [[Activities/Write|Write]]
* New toolbar support for [[Activities/Physics|Physics]]
* Test and use Wade's SugarGames (replacement for un-maintained OlpcGames pygame wrapper)
* Misc Activity maintenance/development (Clock, Labyrinth, Maze, Physics, Write, Calculate, Moon)
* ...lots more

===Ongoing===

* Weekly [[Sugar Labs/SOM#It.27s_An_Education_Project_Mailing_List|Self Organising Map]] (SOM) generation for the IAEP mailing list
* [[Design_Team|Design Team]] member
* [[Activity_Team|Activity Team]] co-co-ordinator
* Sugar testing, feedback, and trac reports (access to an XO-B4, two XO-1s and various virtual machine environments in Mac OS X)

===Done===

* SVG toolbar icons for [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Calculate Calculate], and other misc SVG work (Image Viewer, some Sugar UI elements)
* [[Marketing_Team/BoothBanners|Banners and Poster]] work for the Marketing Team
* Adopted [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/clock Clock] (by Pierre Métras) an Activity for learning to tell the time
* Sugar port of [[Activities/Labyrinth|Labyrinth]] Activity for creating mind-maps (with much help from tomeu and alsroot)
* Work on [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/physics Physics] to help polish, and tidy up the UI. See its [[Activities/Physics|wiki page]] for more details.
* Various [[Education Team/Evaluation_Studies|SOMs]] for educational related papers people post (I'll try to map texts linked/posted there)
* Some more [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_Papers research paper SOMs] over on wiki.laptop.org
* Icon set for the Sugar [[Sugar_Labs/Getting Involved|Getting Involved]] page
* Monthly [[Sugar Labs/SOM#Sugar_Mailing_List| Self Organising Map]] (SOM) generation for the Sugar-devel mailing list
* [[Activities/Moon|Moon]] Activity showing Moon phase and eclipse visualisation

User talk:Alsroot/trash/Object Bundles

2010-03-01T18:21:28Z

Pmv2: moved User talk:Alsroot/trash/Object Bundles to Talk:Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Object Bundles: Walter is a wanker

What about metadata properties with binary values such as the previews? [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]] 08:50, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

* Any field in METADATA file can have _file suffix, in that case content of this field(substring w/o _file suffix) will be fetched from file inside of the bundle; so in case of preview, METADATA could have field "preview_file=<file-inside-of-the-bundle>"

Already considered having each property in its own file like we have in the current DS layout: [[Development_Team/Datastore_Rewrite]]? [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]] 09:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

dunno, for hand made bundles(like libraries) I guess its not very useful, for system made bundles(while uploading Journal objects for example) there is no critical difference between all-metedata-items-as-files and METADATA-and-some-fields-from-files

User talk:Alsroot

2010-03-01T18:21:27Z

Pmv2: moved User talk:Alsroot to Talk:Walter is a wanker 6: Walter is a wanker

Hello alsroot! I love the new pages you are making. A small request: if you can find a way to compress your edits into a smaller #, perhaps with frequent use of the 'preview' button when you're the only one editing a page, that makes it easier for [[special:recentchanges|RC]]-geeks like me to follow what's happening on the wiki! Rock on, [[User:Sj|+sj]] [[User Talk:Sj|<font color="#ff6996">+</font>]] 15:34, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
* yeah, useful idea, maybe that's because I'm used to all time saving while writing code :)

User:Alsroot/trash/Unified Objects

2010-03-01T18:21:27Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/trash/Unified Objects to Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Unified Objects: Walter is a wanker

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== Preamble ==

Major ideas of this proposal.

''NOTE''
# This sections talks not about bundles(activity or content) but about Activities and Content themselves.
# Proposal differentiate Journal(as "storage") and Journal View(as view on "storage")

==== Activities as Journal Objects ====

Separation all objects to verbs and nouns can be failed in some cases - and moreover its failed when sugar is used for purposes that it was designed for - Create, Reuse, Share.

This CRS scheme works(more or less at present) for content since we have Journal to store objects, but what about Activities?

We should encourage people CRS theirs activities as well. Only one but - current sugar cannot work with many versions installed. At the same time this multi versioning is cornerstone of CRS activities since we have(should have) many versions of one particular activity installed on the same box. And these versions could include "home made" activities not only "official" ones. User should have possibility to treat all these versions(of one activity) effectively to CRS them.

==== Journal Objects is a 1st class Objects as well ====

[[Unified Bundles]] shows that Content(.xol) are the same level Objects as Activities. We could also extrapolate this idea to regular Journal Objects - it should mean user could have access to Activities, Content and Journal Objects from the same place.

==== More relevant View(s) of Journal ====

Having all these Objects user should have more powerful View to threat them. See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal%2C_reloaded Journal reloaded] and [[Design_Team/Designs/Journal#01|Journal mockups]] for proposals. Moreover we could emulate "classical" Home and Journal Views.

==== Summarising ====

Instead of having:
* Activity bundles(.xo in Journal)
* Content bundles(.xol in Journal)
* Activities(from Home View and placed to /usr or ~/Activities)
* Content(in meaning of [[Unified Bundles]])
* Journal Objects(from old Journal View)

We could have only Objects in Journal(in terms of "storage" not Journal View). And operate these Objects in one unified way - Create(or copy existed) in Journal, Reuse(Change) them in Journal and Share Journal Objects.

== Implementation ==

* [[Features/Object Bundles]]
* [[Features/Activity Objects]]
* [[Features/Unified Browser for Objects]]
* [[Features/Object Collections]]
* [[Features/Peer to Peer Objects Sharing]]
* [[Activities/Library]]

==Pro==

With this scheme accepted user will have unified interface to all
objects(and theirs versions) - content(generated by activities or
downloaded from the internet) and activities(downloaded, transfered from
friends and home made).

We could treat ASLO(Activity Library) as a Objects Library and encourage
people share theirs objects(not only activities) via
activities.sugarlabs.org(objects.sugarlabs.org? or library.sugarlabs.org?)

==Contra==

Well, it couldn't solve multi versions issue for activities out of the box,
but I'm strongly for having *only one* storage for content versions and
activities versions(since we could treat current activity as a source(noun)
to produce new activity).

==Going further==

==== Sugar integration with http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ ====
* upload to ASLO all kinds of Objects not only Activities
* common Tags
* common Objects(links to ASLO objects in Tags View)
* easy way to post objects to ASLO
* Objects updater which uses Activity Library as a source of updates

==== System activities could be stored in Journal as well ====
* main purpose - we should encourage user to change all activities(including system ones)
* physically these .xo could be stored in /usr/share but user should have access to them from the Journal(Tags View)
* basic system activities could be installed by default while first creating of .sugar instance

==== Sugar Infection ====
Auto migration of activities before joining to session which uses another version of activity

==== Sets of Objects ====
To support [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/540 meta bundles]

User:Alsroot/trash/Thumbs View in Journal

2010-03-01T18:21:27Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/trash/Thumbs View in Journal to Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Thumbs View in Journal: Walter is a wanker

#REDIRECT [[Activities/Thumbs View in Journal]]

User:Alsroot/trash/Object Bundles

2010-03-01T18:21:26Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/trash/Object Bundles to Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Object Bundles: Walter is a wanker

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== Summary ==

* package Journal objects to bundles to preserve sugar related metadata
* support composite Journal objects e.g. in case of library bundles instead of having .xol in Journal and unpacked files in ~/Library, all library files will be represented by one Journal entry, could be opened in Browse(''[Metadata]/mime_type'' should be text/html for that purpose) and could be transformed back to .xo on demand(e.g. for uploading library in Browse's pick-file field).
* Object Bundles exist only out of sugar (after uploading to the Journal .xo will be removed)

== Owner ==

* Name: [[User:alsroot| Aleksey Lim]]
* Email: [[Special:Emailuser/alsroot|send an email]]

== Current status ==

* Targeted release:
* Last updated: Mon Jul 27 05:31:42 UTC 2009
* Percentage of completion: 75%

== Detailed Description ==

This feature is a first approach to unified format for all types of bundles(in 0.86 it will support only Journal entries and new library bundles).

Object bundle should have ''METADATA'' file in the top directory of .xo bundle.

=== METADATA file ===

This file is in [http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html INI] format which describes how to setup bundle.

Object bundle can be installed to Journal in two forms.

* '''Each file from bundle as separate Journal entry'''<br>files from bundle will be unpacked and installed as separate Journal entries, bundle itself will be removed(similar to .xoj)<br>final Journal entries can have ''activity'' field, so they are regular Journal entries that imported to Journal(w/o ''activity'' field) or created by activities(with ''activity'' field)<br>''METADATA'' should contain ''[Entry]'' sections for each Journal entry<br>if bundle has more then one entry, sections should be parted by different suffixes e.g. ''[Entry2]'', ''[Entry.additional]'' etc.

* '''Composite Journal entry'''<br>bundle will be installed as a composite object i.e. as a directory of packaged to the bundle files that are represented by one Journal entry<br>final Journal entry can't have ''activity'' field<br>''METADATA'' should contain only one ''[Bundle]'' section

METADATA file can have one or several sections(depends on installation method) that describe metadata fields of final entry(ies) in Journal.

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Field
! Flags
! Notes
|-
| ''entry''
| mandatory
| if bundle is composite, ''entry'' defines access point to composite object (e.g. index.html for library bundles);<br>otherwise it defines file which will be installed to Journal
|-
| ''mime_type''
| mandatory
| define metadata for final Journal entry
|-
| ''uid''
| ignored
|-
| ''*''
| optional
| any [[Features/Plain_Query_Format#System_terms|system]], [[Features/Plain_Query_Format#Users_predefined_terms|users predefined]] and arbitrary Datastore field
|-
|}

Any field in ''METADATA'' file can have ''_file'' suffix, in that case content of this field(substring w/o ''_file'' suffix) will be fetched from file inside of the bundle.

== Benefit to Sugar ==

This feature is a first approach to unified format for all types of bundles.

Current implementation is similar to [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_entry_bundles .xoj] bundles except that:
* it uses INI format instead of json(to make it more user-editing friendly)
* any field's value could fetched from file inside of the bundle
* supports multi-object bundles

== Scope ==

* deprecate .xol bundles
* deprecate [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_entry_bundles .xoj] bundles
* provide unified format for metadata file in .xo bundles which should support
** activities, former .xo bundles (0.88)
** libraries, former .xol bundles (0.86)
** journal entries, former .xoj bundles (0.86)
* make Browse upload object bundles when the server says so
* in an ideal implementation, composite feature should come from Datastore, but since DS has been extensively hacked in 0.86-0.88 cycles, for the first time, it could be a part of shell code

==== Implementation ====

* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/objectbundle sugar]
* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/objectbundle sugar-toolkit]
* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/objectbundle Browse]

Example of PHP code which could be used on server side to unpack object bundles to get metadata (like title, description, preview etc.)

require_once('Archive/Zip.php');

function rmtree($dir) {
$dir = "$dir";

if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
while (FALSE !== ($item = readdir($dh))) {
if ($item != '.' && $item != '..') {
$subdir = $dir . '/' . "$item";
if (is_dir($subdir))
rmtree($subdir);
else
unlink($subdir);
}
}
closedir($dh);
rmdir($dir);
}
}

function unbundle($bundle) {
$zip = new Archive_Zip($bundle);

$tmpdir = tempnam('/tmp', 'sugar');
if (file_exists($tmpdir))
unlink($tmpdir);
if (!mkdir($tmpdir)) {
return null;
}

$out = $zip->extract(array('add_path' => $tmpdir, 'by_name' => array('METADATA')));
if (empty($out)) {
rmtree($tmpdir);
return null;
}

$metadata = parse_ini_file($out[0]['filename'], true);
if (!$metadata) {
rmtree($tmpdir);
return null;
}

$result = array();

foreach ($metadata as $section => $items) {
if (!(substr($section, 0, 5) == 'Entry' || $section == 'Bundle'))
continue;
foreach ($items as $name => $value) {
if (substr($name, -5) == '_file') {
$name = substr($name, 0, -5);

$out = $zip->extract(array('add_path' => $tmpdir, 'by_name' => array($value)));
if (empty($out)) {
rmtree($tmpdir);
return null;
}

$value = file_get_contents($tmpdir.'/'.$value);
}
$result[$name] = $value;
}
break;
}

rmtree($tmpdir);
return $result;
}

// example usage of unbundle() function

$bundle = 'foo.xo';
$metadata = unbundle($bundle);

if (!$metadata)
echo 'Can not open '.$bundle."\n";
else
foreach ($metadata as $name => $value)
echo $name.'='.$value."\n";

== How To Test ==

How to test non-composite objects:
# Create a new TurtleArt activity
# Upload the new entry to the SL wiki using Browse
# Use Browse to download the entry back to Journal
# Resume it from Journal

How to test composite object (unfortunately [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1101 #1101] prevents uploading bundles with library to wiki):
# Download any .xol bundle
# Activate it(it should be opened in Browse)
# Upload Journal entry with library to SL wiki using Browse
# Download .xo with library and open it

== User Experience ==

We could have HTTP servers(see [[Features/Server Objects Sharing]]) that request .xo files, in that case Browse will provide object bundle for chosen(in ObjectChooser) Journal entry otherwise Browse will upload raw Journal entries.

== Dependencies ==

Fructose dependencies.

== Contingency Plan ==

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

== Documentation ==

* [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg06874.html Email thread]
* [[Unified Bundles]]
* [[User:Alsroot/trash/Unified Objects | Unified Objects]]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_entry_bundles Journal entry bundles]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bundle_concepts Bundle concepts]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manifest_Specification#Contents_Manifests MANIFEST specification]

== Release Notes ==
''The Sugar Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. An Example is [[0.84/Notes]]. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.''

== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]

User:Alsroot/trash/Frame Panels

2010-03-01T18:21:25Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/trash/Frame Panels to Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Frame Panels: Walter is a wanker

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[[Category:Feature|Unified Browser for Objects]]</noinclude>





== Summary ==

Treat frame as a containers(upper, left, right and bottom) for predefined or custom components i.e. having GNOME panels analog in sugar.

== Owner ==

* Name: [[User:alsroot| Aleksey Lim]]
* Email: [[Special:Emailuser/alsroot|send an email]]

== Current status ==
* Targeted release: 0.88
* Last updated: Thu Jul 9 00:36:45 UTC 2009
* Percentage of completion: 0%

== Detailed Description ==

The major reason is to let activities like FileShare or Chat special UI representation in shell's interface. It could be also useful if user wants fast access to some activities like Journal replacements.

Any of four panels could be stuck i.e. let user see its components all time.

=== Predefined components ===

* rings switch
* activities list
* clipboard
* users list
* sources list
* network component
* notification area

== Benefit to Sugar ==

* let users more freedom to organize sugar shell how they want
* provide to activity developers a way to integrate theirs activities to shell UI(useful for activities that work in background and requires some kind all-time-present indicator in UI)
* having stable API for panel components, activity developers have more freedom and aren't stuck to core releases e.g. Network activity/component(analog of NM widget in GNOME) could support several sugar releases and previous release sugar users will benefit from last Network component.
* previous sugar release users will benefit from last updates of predefined components as well

== Scope ==

* affects Journal code in sugar package

== UI Design ==

* all of four frame panels could be stuck
* manage components, way to add-new/remove/move components
* components could have shell level key shortcuts

== How To Test ==

''In progress..''

== User Experience ==

* sugar frame as a regular GNOME panels

== Dependencies ==

Existed glucose dependencies.

== Contingency Plan ==

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

== Documentation ==

* [[Design Team/Proposals/Journal]]

== Release Notes ==

''In progress..''

== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]

User:Alsroot/trash/Activity as a regular Journal Object

2010-03-01T18:21:25Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/trash/Activity as a regular Journal Object to Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Activity as a regular Journal Object: Walter is a wanker

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== Summary ==

Use Journal objects to represent activities.

== Owner ==

* Name: [[User:alsroot| Aleksey Lim]]
* Email: [[Special:Emailuser/alsroot|send an email]]

== Current status ==

* Targeted release: 0.88
* Last updated: Fri Nov 27 21:28:31 UTC 2009
* Percentage of completion: 0%

== Detailed Description ==

The major reason for this feature is eliminating confusion when:
* theres are activities(in Home view) and activity bundles(in Journal)
* user can remove bundle from Journal and activity will be preserved(and vise versa)
* activities could not have bundles in journal(were deleted or its a system wide activity), so user can't copy activity(e.g. to share it via USB stick) using regular shell workflow(Journal) and should be aware of stuff like Terminal

Feature declares:
* every activity which is accessible in sugar has Journal entry
** for activity came from bundles, entry will have .xo's metadata(timestamp, title etc)
** for system wide activities, based of /usr directory properties
* there is strong linkage between activity in Home view and journal entry, removing activity in one place, removes it from another
** in fact, Home view could be treated as a predefined set(with query terms to show only activities) of Journal entries which is viewed in Home [[Features/Journal Plugins|plugin]]
* reflect on system wide activities update, Journal entry's metadata will be changed with keeping only one object per activity
* reflect on uploading to Journal new .xo version of existed activity, could be:
** follow the same forkflow like with system activities, remove previous .xo from Journal or even do not store uploaded .xo at all, on upload, unzip it to ~/Activities and follow system activities way(entry which represent activity)
** storing in Journal several versions of the same activity(including system) and on clicking on particular version in Journal, if it its not installed, ask user to upgrade/downgrade activity(to ~/Activities directory) and then start

== Benefit to Sugar ==

* feature eliminates confusion, e.g. in case of removing activities, when there are activities(in Home view) and .xo bundles in the Journal(that could be absent - .xo deleted, system activity)
* let users, that are not experienced in command line applications, copy existed activity(even system) just by draging Journal(or Home) entry to USB source
* since all activities have Journal representation, keep useful information in entry fields(time of installing activity, additional info in description etc.)
* so, it simplifies situation - user all time has in mind that he is working with the same object(activity) but from different views(Home or Journal)

== Scope ==

* sugar

== UI Design ==

Nothing.

== How To Test ==
''This does not need to be a full-fledged document. Describe the dimensions of tests that this feature is expected to pass when it is done. If it needs to be tested with different hardware or software configurations, indicate them. The more specific you can be, the better the community testing can be.''

''Remember that you are writing this how to for interested testers to use to check out your feature - documenting what you do for testing is OK, but it's much better to document what *I* can do to test your feature.''

''A good "how to test" should answer these four questions:''

* ''What special hardware / data / etc. is needed (if any)?
* ''How do I prepare my system to test this feature? What packages need to be installed, config files edited, etc.?
* ''What specific actions do I perform to check that the feature is working like it's supposed to?
* ''What are the expected results of those actions?''

== User Experience ==

* there is strong linkage between activities in Home view and Journal entries, in fact Home view is just a predefined view [[Features/Journal Plugins|plugin]] to browse activity Journal objects
* user can operate with system activities or activities woth removed .xo bundles(in existed workflow) from Journal, e.g. copy them to USB stick

== Dependencies ==

Glucose dependencies.

== Contingency Plan ==

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

== Documentation ==

* [[User:Alsroot/trash/Unified Objects | Unified Objects#Activities_as_Journal_Objects|Unified Objects]]
* [[Features/Object Bundles]]
* Email threads
** [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg10708.html Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88]
** [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg07572.html multiple activity versions installed simultaneously]
** [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg06944.html Activity as regular objects proposal]

== Release Notes ==
''The Sugar Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. An Example is [[0.84/Notes]]. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.''

== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]

User:Alsroot/trash/Activity Objects

2010-03-01T18:21:24Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/trash/Activity Objects to Walter is a wanker 6/trash/Activity Objects: Walter is a wanker

#REDIRECT [[User:Alsroot/Features/Activity as a regular Journal Object]]

User:Alsroot/test

2010-03-01T18:21:24Z

Pmv2: moved User:Alsroot/test to Walter is a wanker 6/test: Walter is a wanker

{|
| __NOTOC__
|}

This page lists known Sugar activities which are in development or have started
development.<br>'''See''' [[#Legend|status legend]] at the bottom of this page.

NOTE: if you know that project is orphaned/unmaintained, please mark it by '''orphaned'''/'''unmaintained''' tags
if you are (co)maintainer/contributor, please add youself to contacts column(link to user page is preferable)

==Activities==

Other activity lists which need to be merged into this page:
* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_queries

{| class="wikitable sortable" valign="top" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!
! URL
! Description
! Contacts
! Status
! Notes
|-
|
==== ====
|[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/3dpong 3dpong]
|3D pong game
|Wade Brainerd
|Dead
|Renamed to bounce, see below.
|-
|
==== ====
|[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/MIDI-file-player MIDI-file-player]
|performs MIDI files
|Greg Thompson
|
|
|-
|
==== ====
|[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/assimilate assimilate]
|A flashcards based activity
|Urko Fernandez
|
|
|-
|
==== ====
|[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/analyze-activity Analyze]
|Analyze is an Activity that displays your XO's networking,
|Eduardo Silva
|
|
|-
|
==== ====
|[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ruler Ruler]
|Screen-based measuring device.
|Mitchell Charity
|
|No source tarball; Hardware specific in that the scale of the ruler is hardcoded to the XO resolution and screen size.
|-
|

==== ====
|[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Scratch Scratch]
|Visual programming environment.
|
|State unknown.
|No source tarball; Hardware specific in that the scale of the ruler is hardcoded to the XO resolution and screen size.
|}

==Notes==

===Turtle Art issues===

When we fold in Turtle Art with Sensors, we'll have to make sure that proper python math packages are loaded (previously, we were using numeric):

from numpy.oldnumeric import *
from numpy.fft import *

:Turtle Art with Sensors has been folded into Turtle Art as per Version 25. However, the pitch sensor doesn't work because there is no real_fft in numpy.fft. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 20:29, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

===Block Party===

Was this activity superceded or just overlooked? [[User:Tony37| Tony]]

==Legend==
* '''Migrated''' The activity Git repository has moved to git.sugarlabs.org.
* '''works''' The activity was tested and is known to work.
* '''polished''' This activity is in good shape, that is to say it is in active use or should be.
* '''unfinished''' This activity has been started but is not quite ready to be seen by users.
* '''dead''' The activity is not likely to reach a usable state and we are ignoring it.
* '''cool''' Someone thinks this activity has good potential and would be worth checking out by the Activity Team.
* '''deprecated''' Activity should be replaced by a different one.
* '''xoonly''' activity works only on XO due to software/hardware preferences (XO screen resolution, etc.)
* '''unpackage''' various packaging related issues
* '''orphaned''' author is not interested in project, feel free to take it in your hands
* '''unmaintained''' there is lack of human resources to maintain, feel free to be a co-maintainer
* Add more tags here.

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==Hi==
My name is Aleksey Lim, I am a volunteer for SugarLabs.

==Roadmap==
* support ALTLinux packages
** full-functional Sugar environment (fructose, useful honey activities, jabber connections, etc.)
** Russian localization
** support Sugar in School and Terminal(LTSP) branches of ALTLinux
* support Gentoo sugar ebuilds

==Todo==

Life in sugar! - support full time being online in sugar
* Collab mode for Library activity which should be sugar client for library.sugarlabs.org
* bot to organize chat rooms, so there will be persistent Chat instances where people can chat
* check notification system in shell if it works well in "all time being in sugar" workflow
* create [[Collab_mockup|Collab]] activity
* bot to have persistent Collab instance

=== Done ===

* package GCompris-9 for ASLO and for regular 0install usage
* package http://www.geogebra.org

=== Postponed ===

* put [[Community/Distributions/Saccharin|Saccharin]] distribution to usable state
* rewrite Record from scratch to use simple gst scheme and subwindows less UI

=== Going further ===

* standalone mode for activities thus more close merge sugar with other education software e.g. ASLO could be not just portal of sugar activities but portal of education software(non-sugar users could run particular activity w/o need to install sugar)

==Contacts==
* [[Special:Emailuser/alsroot|Email me]]

==Resources==
* [[Deployment Team/jhconvert|Tool to generate sugar packages]]
* [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Sugar on Gentoo overlay]]
* [[Community/Distributions/ALTLinux|Sugar on ALT Linux]]
* http://www.gentoo.org/
* http://en.altlinux.org/

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User:Dfarning

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==David Farning==
I am a new contributor to Sugar Labs.

====Interests====
* Community Building

====TODO====
* Fix or remove link "About Sugar Labs" in the bottom CC/MediaWiki bar
* Start the BugSquad
* Write api documentation tutorial
* Work on Wiki infrastructure
* Clean up wiki translation infrastructure
:#ifexist broken in current implementation ([[User:Dfarning|dfarning]] 18:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC))

====Inprogress====

*Establish relationship with educational spins
**Skolelinux
**Edubuntu
**Fedora edu

*Outreach to educational communities.
*Outreach to embedded communities.

*Create activities.sugarlabs.org based on addons.mozilla.org.
**Initial a.m.o patchset is pending review by Mozilla

====email====
dfarning@gmail.com

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Please leave messages here, or on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:Sj the olpcwiki].

== Wiki barn-raising ==

I think it would be very helpful to harmonize certain functional elements between the Sugar Labs wiki and the OLPC wiki so that usage of certain devel-specialized wiki-text elements transfers easily from one to the other. I'm making a first pass at templates (and some categories) via facilitated copy-paste (see [[User:Cjl/Sandbox]]). Thanks for the pointer to PyWikibot-building, which I'll study, but probably not master usefully anytime soon.

A more experienced Wikipedian (''hint, hint'') should tackle plugins and extensions as listed on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki OLPC Wiki], especially '''traclink''', '''iframe''', do you know anyone that could handle that? [[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 18:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
: moved to [[Wiki Team]] on advice of Dfarning...
:: Thanks! [[User:Sj|+sj]] [[User Talk:Sj|<font color="#ff6996">+</font>]] 16:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

== re- Arduino ==

Thanks and glad to have you here!. [[User:RafaelOrtiz|RafaelOrtiz]]

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sj is Samuel Klein : [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sj @olpc] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj @en:wp]</div>

:On openness and solving problems in education: ''Openness will be our greatest and most lasting strength. If we shy away from it now it will never return.''

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a gentle introduction... nice --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 01:06, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

== COVER IMAGE ==

=== C is for collaboration ===

Collaboration is a first-order Sugar experience: the interface always shows the presence of other learners who are available for collaboration all the time, not just when connected to the Internet. Students and teachers dialog with each other, support each other, critique each other, and share ideas. In designing your activity, you should consider how the collaboration might enhance the experience. Collaboration can range from sharing objects to real-time multi-pointer interaction. Pick the degree of collaboration that best meets your activity's learning (and entertainment) goals.

=== V is for "view source" ===

Sugar accommodates a wide variety of users with different levels of skill in terms of reading and language and different levels of experience with computing. Sugar is easy to approach, yet it does not put an upper bound on personal expression. The learner is able to peel away layers and go deeper and deeper, with no restrictions. This allows the direct appropriation of ideas in whatever realm the learner is exploring: music, browsing, reading, writing, programming, or graphics. The source code of every activity is viewable through the system-wide view-source mechanism (Fn-space on an OLPC-XO-1; Alt-Shift-V on all computers). Think about other ways in which you can encourage the user to modify your activity. Look at TamTam, TurtleArt, Memorize, and Browse for inspirations.

=== R is for reflection ===

The Sugar “Journal” records each learner's actions: what they create and how they create it. It serves as a place for reflection and assessment of progress—the basis of a portfolio. Think about what object and meta-data your activity stores in the Journal. How can those data help the learner reflect upon their work.

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Love it (DoI spoof) - I've often wanted to make a mad-libs-style Declaration of Independence, as I've already, on two separate occasions, done this type of surgery on it and found it very amenable to it (there is nothing new...).
[[User:MartinDengler|MartinDengler]] 12:26, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
:I think it is a testament to the brilliance of it's (original) author that it is so adaptable and that it's voice is still potent, I can only lament that of late, the U.S. Constitution does not seem to have held it's own in quite the same manner. *sigh* [[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 03:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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{|- border="0" cellpadding="4"
|Founder, [http://www.earthtreasury.org/ Earth Treasury], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business. See [[User:Mokurai/Plans and Essays|Plans and Essays]].

Mokurai volunteers at OLPC and Sugar Labs as a volunteer coordinator, localization administrator ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khmer Khmer] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kreyol Kreyòl]), and general knoker (an especially Yiddish know-all, the kind who did math homework in pen), based on

* his training as a mathematician, classroom teacher, amateur musician and linguist, philosopher, and Buddhist priest
* plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode and Free Software.

|[[Image:Cherlin-xo.jpg|Ah haz teh bestest toyz]]
|}

==Vision==

End Poverty at a Profit all around by educating children to collaborate and not be helpless.

==Quotes==
*Epictetus - "Only the educated are free."
*Aristotle - "All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses."
[[User:Mokurai/Quotes|More quotes]]

==Mission==

The mission is whatever planning, funding, research, development, and deployment is needed to make that happen, with a focus on Management by Exception in order to keep on top of what is needed in changing circumstances and make sure that nothing gets missed that we must have.

Sugar Labs has the Sugar software as its main focus, but needs to work with others on the rest of the mission. We should raise substantial funding to support these substantive projects, up to the point at which they can become self-sustaining, in the manner of the Grameen Group of companies.

These are the principal elements of the mission today. More will appear.

* Extend the OLPC and Sugar Labs work with evidence-based education research, curriculum development, and the redesign of textbooks, taking maximum advantage of software on the XO, and of the best research that we can find or carry out on how children learn, and what is of greatest value for them to learn.

* Engineer appropriate solutions for electricity and Internet connections in even the poorest and most remote villages in every target environment, in collaboration with university Schools of Engineering, Engineers Without Borders, and others, in order to maximize the usefulness of XOs to children everywhere.

* Work with microfinance organizations to place these electricity and Internet solutions along with XOs. The intention is to jump-start local economies by selling modest amounts of surplus power and bandwidth, and thereby raise the money to pay off the original loans and make further investments.

* Create an R&D consortium to further all of these goals and whatever else turns out to be necessary. We know that issues of economics, governance, social attitudes, and sustainability are important. What do we need to know, and how can we come to know it? What can we learn from the children themselves, and from teachers, parents, and others?

* Tap into Barack Obama's plans to increase global development aid by $25 billion annually, including a $2 billion Global Education Fund; into the UN Millennium Development Goals program; Make Poverty History; and all of the other initiatives that share our vision, even if they don't know it yet.

* Save as many languages and cultures as possible from extinction by teaching the children how to record them.

* Link children, schools, and communities together around the world in a safe manner for collaborative development.

* Teach children how to create sustainable international businesses together using their new knowledge and skills.

==Current Projects and Partners==

OLPC and Sugar Labs, of course, within the scope of their own missions to provide hardware, software, content, and teacher training materials. In each case, the intention is to expand to a comprehensive, integrated program including infrastructure, education, community development, and economic opportunity. Volunteers, donors, and partners welcome.

By country
* Ghana
** Nana's House (school and orphanage), computers, Internet, and accessories for students and teachers
** Winneba Linux Users Group, Linux+Sugar Installfests
** Catch IT Young youth computer training
** University of Education, Winneba, research, curriculum, teaching materials, localization
** OneVillage Foundation Ghana, Winneba wireless broadband project
* Nigeria
** Fantsuam Foundation microfinance project and Cisco Network Academy
* Kenya
** Asante Foundation Maasai schools and cultural preservation
* Uganda
** Bunabumali Good Shepherd Orphanage and School, computers, accessories, electricity, Internet
** Mt. Elgon coffee growers co-operative equipment and training
** School programs and the rest
* Tanzania
** Mt. Kilimanjaro coffee growers co-operative equipment and training
** School programs and the rest

Components
* Interactive [[Education Team/Creating textbooks|digital textbooks]], with Lots of partners.
* Free computers for schools, two per pupil: one at school, one at home. Possibly Computers4Africa
* Flash drives for carrying software and work, so that students can use them on any computer
* Electricity generation and storage, Engineers Without Borders
* Broadband Internet, OVF Ghana
* Microfinance, Fantsuam Foundation
* Economic opportunity, education program to be developed at EduForge, social entrepreneurial investors welcome.

==Analysis==

The following is as much a prediction as a set of goals. Much of this will happen regardless of us. We can make those parts happen sooner, and more effectively. The other parts have to do with the new ideas that we are discovering and shaping together, particularly integrated
development that includes the economy, the social structure of society, and spiritual growth. The only project that I know of that
currently does this is the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka, which I commend to your study and, if possible, participation.

===Preliminary===

For several years I have been seeing a gradual coming together of many strands in development toward the possibility of an integrated
strategy that can be replicated worldwide. After the initial stage, it should all become self-sustaining in the manner of the [http://www.grameen-info.org/ Grameen Bank, Grameen Phone], and the like, and thus independent of the usual sources of non-profit funding. Here are the leading strands.

* [http://www.unicttaskforce.org/welcome/ ICT4D], including newly powerful mobile phones, computers, and Internet at prices that make sense in even the poorest and most remote villages, given the promise of economic growth to enable paying back costs.

** One Laptop Per Child, for many reasons, including a rethinking of curricula, textbook content, and publishing models. Scarcity of information is no longer the limiting factor in education. Electronic publications still take effort and time to write, but the reproduction cost on the Internet is nearly nil. Governments will soon realize that they don't have to buy textbooks. They can contract for writing textbooks and other materials with the proviso that the government, or we should say the public, owns the copyright. We can take advantage of [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access Open Access] publishing throughout this process, and of a century of discoveries in how children really learn. Currently XOs are $198 each, with $75 versions promised for 2010. [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1 GiveOneGetOne] is to start up again in November.

** [http://www.wimaxforum.org/home/ WiMax] and other broadband technologies that can provide Internet to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deployed_WiMAX_networks whole countries] (90-95% coverage) for $10 per person installed.

** [http://www.iconnect-online.org/News/iconnectnews.2006-06-30.8848332576 Fiber optic cables] for every country in Africa. There is one installed on the West Coast, two being laid on the East Coast, and [http://allafrica.com/stories/200807210866.html four more promised]. [http://www.ugabytes.org/nod/?q=node/351 Rwanda] and the other dozen landlocked countries in Africa are making deals with their neighbors for overland links. Some regions in Central Asia may take a little longer.

** New satellite launches that promise both to break the current cartel pricing in Africa, and to link Africa directly to South America, the Middle East, and Asia, not just by multihop through Europe.

** [http://ai.africanews.com/site/list_message/8123 African banks] that are now in a position to start creating a continent-wide network and to roll out electronic banking.

** [http://www.isde5.org/ Global GIS initiatives] dealing with mapping critical poverty issues: environment, water, agriculture, climate, health, and much more.

* The many organizations working on renewable electricity for villages, among them [[User:Mokurai/Earth Treasury|Earth Treasury]], [http://www.ewb.org/ Engineers Without Borders], and the [http://www.jhai.org/ Jhai Foundation].

* Many organizations rolling out vastly improved health services to whole countries and in a few cases to the entire world. This includes the [http://www.rotary.org/en/serviceAndFellowship/Polio/Pages/ridefault.aspx Rotary International eradication of polio]; [http://www.rbm.who.int/ anti-malarial bednets] wherever needed; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis#Treatment_and_control free medication for River Blindness]; low-cost AIDS medication (largely due to the [http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-hiv-aids-initiative Clinton Foundation]); practical methods for [http://www.pih.org/issues/tb.html treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis] (MDR-TB); [http://www.microinsurancecentre.org/UI/Home.aspx microinsurance]; Free Software for health, such as [http://www.openMRS.org/ OpenMRS]; and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health health education] through One Laptop Per Child.

* More than 100,000 of the million and more NGOs of the world now connected with each other through [http://www.wiserearth.org/ Wiser Earth].

* Barack Obama's [http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/Fact_Sheet_Foreign_Policy_Democratization_and_Development_FINAL.pdf plan to double US Foreign Aid], and redirect it to much more efficient methods (toward helping the poor, not just subsidizing US agriculture, manufacturing, and consulting). This includes a $2 billion annual Global Education Fund.

* The microfinance movement's casting about for the next big challenge. I predict village electricity and Internet along with school computers, and I am working on alliances toward that end.

Sugar Labs has taken over software development for the OLPC XO. Walter Bender of Sugar Labs is putting together a research consortium to
tackle problems in education, and I am assisting in recruiting, and in problem definition. My program is not of the usual kind, where we know
what subjects we mean to tackle.

My version of the mission is: Whatever turns out to be needed. My self-appointed task is to find the holes in current programs, and fill them, first with my own efforts and second by recruiting others to do the work, research further solutions, and plan where we might go next. Among the critical tasks are village electricity and Internet, redesigning curricula and textbooks, and bringing all of this together into target communities with microfinance, with a flexible, integrated business plan for whole societies to advance societal infrastructure (education, health, clean water, and other essentials), and the private sector (sole proprietorships, sustainable international companies, producer and consumer co-operatives), and shared values.

It is no longer practical to impose the illusion of shared values on a society. They must grow out of the situation. The report on OLPC's early [http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/ethiopia.pdf effects in Ethiopia] gives a glimpse into where we are going. Within a few months, in a highly traditional society that has valued teaching politeness and obedience over subject matter in schools, and where asking questions of a teacher was considered insulting, the XO and its software have opened up a new, collaborative relationship between teachers and students. This is in no small part attributable to the collaborative nature of the XO's Sugar and other software. Access to the information riches of the Internet is another important factor. See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_Papers Academic Papers] on the OLPC Wiki for this and other recent reports.

There is more, but that will do to begin with.

===General Consequences===

* We are looking at the possibility of ending poverty as we know it within a generation, except in the most repressive countries (Burma and North Korea are the most likely, but a few others might possibly regress).

* We are doing this by means that promise far freer markets, with

** Market access for all, at least for electronic markets, including easy entry and exit

** General availability of essential economic information, including the price of almost anything right up to the moment

** General availability of production technologies, except where embargoes linger (Cuba, Burma, Syria, Iran, North Korea and a few others)

In short, these and a few other points add up to the closest approximation to the economic ideal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition Perfect Competition] ever seen, worldwide. We can confidently predict the largest explosion of productivity and prosperity ever seen, and at some point the end of the continual search for ever-more-benighted denizens of ever-poorer countries to ship jobs off to. The existence of wage differentials between countries is conclusive proof that their market relations are not free.

* A complete communications network, in which every person will have the means to connect with any other person who answers the phone.

* Directories and social network sites that enable everybody to find the right people to do business with and make alliances with for any economic, social, spiritual, or political purpose.

* We can confidently predict an explosive growth of civil society organizations worldwide, among other things.

==AKA ==
* Edward Mokurai Cherlin/[http://home.earthlink.net/~cherlinfamily/name.html Czerwin]
* גרשון בן יסעף
* Эдуард Георгеевич Черлын
* 장영구/張永久
* 法雲默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज
==Contact==
* [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]
* AIM chat: mokurai
* ICQ chat: 441484252
* 812 764 0552 New phone number in Indiana
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin LinkedIn profile]
* [http://www.wiserearth.org/user/cherlin Wiser Earth]
* Twitter: Mokurai
* [http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/edward.cherlin?ref=profile Facebook page]
* [http://mokurai.dailykos.com/ My Daily Kos Diary Entries]
* [http://flickr.com/photos/toepfer/2254179681/ At SCALE x6] Sixth SoCal Linux Expo
* [http://livingdirectory.net/FF/ Friendly Favors] I'm FF10136 - Edward Cherlin
* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury My Digital Earth wiki page]
* [http://globalchildparticipation.ning.com/profile/EdwardCherlin Global Child Participation]

==Background==

Mokurai has extensive experience in every aspect of computers, as a tech writer, editor, and publisher, global market analyst, and software developer. Previous work includes math software and textbooks, Computer Science papers, [http://www.openvoting.org/ Free Software for voting], [http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc31/program-d.htm#ses6_2 Unicode support on the XO], [http://www.cauce.org/ fighting spam around the world], and [http://unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/a345.html earlier anti-poverty projects]. He can sometimes get people to stop talking past each other and answer the ''real'' questions (though not necessarily [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Controversies Nicholas] %-[ ). See, for example,the [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1997Apr/0003.html IETF discussions on multilingual URIs].

When I wrote a guide for new Internet users at Newbie.Net, there were three questions I couldn't answer:

* How to stop spam. So I founded the [http://www.cauce.org/ Coalition Against UCE] (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
* How to view all languages correctly in browsers and other software. So I joined [http://www.unicode.org/ Unicode.org] and a number of Free Software projects dealing with [http://www.mozilla.org browsers], [http://www.unifont.org/ fonts], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_Layouts keyboard layouts], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Locales locales], and [http://www.pango.org/ rendering software] for screen display and printing, and the [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1997Apr/0003.html IETF standards process for multilingual URLs and URIs].
* How to get everybody on the Net. So here I am. I have previously worked on [http://www.barwn.org/ wireless networking], satellite internet, and the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simputer Simputer].

I'm contributing information on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries countries] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Languages languages] on the OLPC Wiki, including [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Vriting_Systems writing systems], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fonts fonts], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_Layouts keyboard layouts], sources of [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Literature literature], and other items of interest, and administering [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization localization] projects. I will be adding material on education and on the other impacts of the Laptop. It will have major effects in social development, [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health health], economic opportunity, politics, and other important areas.

==Contributions==
I started to work on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Publications OLPC documentation], but then I discovered that even more pressing needs were being ignored. So now I have appointed myself Shadow Chairman & CEO of OLPC. Don't tell Nicholas.

==Social Networks==

I'm on too many of these networks. If you want to connect with me, please use LinkedIn, Wiser Earth, or Flickr for photos.

* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin LinkedIn]
* Wiser Earth, in particular [http://www.wiserearth.org/user/cherlin my page] and [http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/c0517a0a7b8ec94f2440668e64eb667d the Sugar Labs page].
* [http://www.flickr.com/people/mokurai/ Flickr]
* [http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1574679 Goodreads] Share reading lists.

* [http://livingdirectory.net/display/my_profile.php?&new=1223677380&tab=profile Friendly Favors]
* [http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gxJ7c my.barackobama.com]
* [http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward_Mokurai_Cherlin/613831268 Facebook]
* [http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/profile/show/60147225135?pk=e4ec91d212c76a3d7ec3af84c82eb63df0bbebb9 Plaxo Pulse]
* [http://www.myspace.com/echerlin MySpace]
* [http://twitter.com/Mokurai Twitter]
* [http://www.naymz.com/search/edward/cherlin/2035203 Naymz]
* [http://www.grouply.com/member.php/cherlin Grouply]

==Wikis==

There are too many of these, too.

* Here, of course
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai OLPC]
* Frequent contributor to [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]
* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury ISDE5] (International Symposium on Digital Earth)
* [http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage Python] PyCon Bid Chair for SF Bay Area, 2010
* [http://impeach.wikia.com Impeachment Wiki] Founder
* [http://www.obamapedia.org/ Obamapedia Wiki]
* [http://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Finnegans Wiki]

==Generalist==

Buddhist priest, software developer, market researcher, technical writer, Peace Corps volunteer, cook, goatherd, music teacher...

I edited the [http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_9919,00.html Geode processor manuals] for National Semiconductor, before they sold the product line to AMD. (The [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_Specification Laptop contains an AMD Geode processor.])

Languages: [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hebrew Hebrew], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/German German], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Latin Latin], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Russian Russian], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/French French], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Swahili Swahili], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Korean Korean], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Japanese Japanese] [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chinese Chinese], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sanskrit Sanskrit], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pali Pali], [http://www.perseus.org/ Classical Greek], [http://www.lojban.org/ Lojban], [http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html Klingon]

Programming languages: [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/APL APL], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LISP LISP]/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29 Scheme], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FORTH FORTH], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL4 SNOBOL], FORTRAN, COBOL, Algol, [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Java Java], C, C++, Pascal, [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Smalltalk Smalltalk], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python Python], scripting languages. And I'm learning [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Squeak Squeak].

[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Unicode Unicode]

Free/[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Source Open Source] Software: [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/i-apl/ I-APL], [http://openvoting.org/ Open Voting Consortium], others

[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Math Math]

[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Science Science] Check out [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Astronomy Picture of the Day] and the world's biggest telescopes, for [http://icecube.wisc.edu/ neutrinos] and [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/ gravity waves].

Co-founder of global anti-spam organization, [http://www.cauce.org/ The Coalition Against UCE (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)]

Music: [http://www.yale.net/yaleband/ycb/index.html Yale Concert Band] and [http://www.yale.net/yaleband/ypmb/index.html Marching Band], clarinet; First Prize, Classical, in first-ever Foreigner's Korean Music contest of the [http://www.heraldm.com/english/sub-company_e02.asp Korea Herald] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayageum gayageum]; [http://www.slavyanka.org/ Slavyanka Russian Chorus]; [http://www.lgsrec.org/classes.php?catid=1&subcatid=2820 Music Around the World] pre-school multilingual music program; banjo, recorders, spoons, piano, harpsichord, dumbek

[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simputer Simputer]: Simple, inexpensive, multilingual computer for poor people

Village [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Telemedicine telemedicine] over [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless wireless]

Science Fiction: John Brunner would have loved the OLPC project if he had lived to see it. Check out ''Stand on Zanzibar'' (includes national development projects in fictional countries), ''The Shockwave Rider'' (integrated disaster recovery and sustainable communities), ''The Sheep Look Up'' (environmental catastrophe), and ''The Stone that Never Come Down'' (What if people couldn't ignore information they have?).

[http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html Geek code] GAT d-- s+:+ a+++ C++ UL++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N+++@ o+ K++ M+ b+++ e+++ h---- r+++ w--- APL++++ House, MD+++

Basic level in Korean, Chinese, Swahili, Japanese, Spanish, German<br>
Intermediate level in Russian, French

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