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Oversight Board/2026-2027-candidates/Samson Goddy

2026-01-06T20:43:56Z

Samson Goddy: Added my candidacy

I am seeking re-election to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board for the 2026–2027 term to continue supporting Sugar Labs as a sustainable, community-led open-source organization. While my visibility in the last term was limited due to significant external open-source advocacy commitments, I am now in a position to be more active and hands-on in my board responsibilities.

I have served on the Sugar Labs Board through key transitions, including its move from Software Freedom Conservancy stewardship to independence. My focus has been on governance continuity, operational stability, and keeping Sugar Labs aligned with its mission of learner-centered, constructionist education.

Beyond Sugar Labs, I bring broad experience in open-source governance and community leadership. I am a board member of Open Source Collective, co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, and a long-time GitHub Star, with professional experience leading open-source and developer engagement programs globally.

If re-elected, my priorities include strengthening board governance, supporting contributors and educators across regions, and ensuring Sugar Labs remains financially and operationally sustainable while adapting to emerging technologies.

I would be honored to continue serving the Sugar Labs community.

User:Samson Goddy

2024-09-18T23:39:55Z

Samson Goddy:

'''Samson Goddy'''

Name: '''Samson Goddy'''

Country: '''Nigeria'''

IRC nickname: '''samsongoddy'''

IRC channel: #sugar

Linkedin ID: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Email ID: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org, samsongoddy@gmail.com

twitter ID : https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy

Oversight Board/2019-2021-candidates/Samson Goddy

2020-01-05T01:03:42Z

Samson Goddy: Created page with "=== About Me === My name is Samson Goddy, a Sugar Labs member since 2011 as a volunteer but officially 2013. I have been part of Sugar Labs due to my effort with the One Lapto..."

=== About Me ===
My name is Samson Goddy, a Sugar Labs member since 2011 as a volunteer but officially 2013. I have been part of Sugar Labs due to my effort with the One Laptop Per Child, growing up with Sugar Desktop was something I am always proud of. Sugar has always been special to me because it was the first desktop environment I used as a kid, and growing up with Sugar gave me a unique view of computational thinking.

I serve the community in many ways from contributing codes, helping to maintain membership committee, advocacy, and, of course, being part of the board since 2017. I will continue doing that, with or without the board membership
=== Vision ===

My vision is to make sure Sugar is usable, marketable, and deployable; I have been deploying Sugar to schools around Africa. Helped talk to School administrators about adopting Sugar.

Sugar Labs should be doing a lot around Outreach, I know we have great tools to share with the world, so I plan to continue my effort if elected to continue showing Sugar to new users. Without Outreach, we cannot justify new users, and most of the work will be in vain.

Part of my 2020 goal is to make sure we have standard marketing materials from a great website, to great tools (Sugar and activities) and great entry point for new members and users to come in. I know there is some technical demands, but the idea is to form a community educators with Sugar as a core.

=== Meetings ===

I have always tried my possible best to attend meetings, and I will continue to make it much better.

Google Code In 2019

2019-10-31T07:44:14Z

Samson Goddy: /* Mentors */ Added my name to the list.

<noinclude>[[Category:Trac Reference]][[Category:Idea]]
[[Category: GCI2019]]</noinclude>

Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below.

== Message to potential participants ==

It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.

Es importante que obtengas el permiso de tus padres para participar.

Please see the Contest Rules for Eligibility and Registration process.

https://codein.withgoogle.com/student-terms/

Also, you will likely need to set up the Sugar development environment. To do that and to further information about contributing to the project go to: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/how-can-i-help.md

Please don't hesitate to ask questions on our IRC channel (#sugar on irc.freenode.net) or on the sugar-devel list: sugar-devel AT lists.sugarlabs DOT org
(See [[Google_Code_In_2019#Getting_set_up_on_IRC|below]] for details regarding setting up an IRC account.)

== Why Sugar Labs is participating ==

Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.

== Some background from GCI ==

[See https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/getting-started]

===Open Source Fundamentals ===

You can contribute without being a coder!
You do not have to be a coder to contribute to open source. There are many different skill sets needed to help an open source community thrive:
;Documentation: If you are a good writer and enjoy attention to detail then you might want to contribute by writing or editing documentation. Documentation is a huge part of a successful open source project. Organizations need documentation to help attract new contributors as it helps them see what the codebase looks like and where things are and what the plan is for the project.
;Research: An organization may need help crunching numbers or sorting through pages of documents to better understand what the users want or need. There are many different types of tasks that students could work on that are very important to the health of the project.
;Outreach: If you have an outgoing personality and like being around and talking to people, take a look at the outreach tasks. Outreach tasks often include hosting meetups in your local community or creating a plan on how people around the globe can host a meetup about the project in their local communities.
;Training: You could create a YouTube video discussing a new feature of the project or maybe some basics on what the project does so people who haven’t heard about it can understand the project and get involved.
;User Interface: User interface can include many types of tasks including designing new aspects of a web page or creating a new logo for the project. It may also include various accessibility opportunities to help make the project easier for people who are blind.
;Other: If you have an idea that may help an organization, reach out to them and let them know! Sometimes the best task is one that the organization hasn’t even considered yet.
=== Collaboration===
Open source is not just about coding but working with other people to find the best solution. Being a part of the community is an essential part of success in Google Code-in. Mentors tell us every year that their best students were the ones who worked hard on their projects but also participated on IRC and helped answer questions other students had. Collaborate with the community and mentors on the #sugar channel in the irc.freenode.net network.

=== Quality over Quantity ===

It’s not about being the student who completes the most tasks, that only gets you to the top 10 to be reviewed, it doesn’t mean you will be a grand prize winner. We have had quite a few students who completed the most tasks for their organization yet were not named as Grand Prize Winners because they did everything solo and didn’t get involved in the community or think about the health of the project as a whole, they just kept completing task after task like a machine. If you actively participate in the community then you not only feel the camaraderie that comes with working as a team but you become committed to making the project better for everyone.

== Some basics about Sugar Labs and Sugar development ==

For some basics about the project, see [http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/docs/Learning-to-Change-the-World-Chapter-4.pdf Chapter 4 of Learning to Change the World].

{{:Google Code In 2018/background}}

== This is a stub for 25+ example tasks new for GCI 2019. ==

Note, more detailed task descriptions will be available once the contest begins.

=== Beginner tasks ===
# Install the Sugar development environment by following the instruction at [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html].
# Install Sugar in a virtual machine.
# Install Sugar packages on Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora.
# Install Sugarizer on a Raspberry Pi for use by nearby computers, tablets, or phones.
# Create an example program in Turtle Blocks (See [https://www.pinterest.com/walterbender/turtle-art/] for some ideas).
# Create an example program in Music Blocks.
# Create a simple machine in Physics.

=== General tasks ===
# Organize a Turtle Art Day (or Music Blocks Day) in your community (Outreach)
# Create a 60 second promotional video on Sugar and its community (Outreach)
# Host a Question and Answer (Q&A)/Information session about Sugar on Google Hangouts. (Outreach)
# DIY Sugar on a Stick||Organize and host a Sugar on a Stick party where you show people how to make their own Sugar on a Stick. (Outreach)
# Find an educator who is using open-source educational software to teach. Interview the educator about their experience as an educator and why they are using open-source software to teach. (Outreach)
# Write a blog post about your experience as a GCI participant for Sugar Labs. (Outreach)
# Create a 10-minute presentation celebrating at least three women within the Sugar community and/or the open-source community at large. (Research/Outreach)
# Gather information on who could benefit from using or knowing about Sugar. (Research)
# Find the resources that people are using throughout the world to learn about or teach Sugar Activities. (Research)
# Find the missing repo: we've lost track of the source repository of some Sugar activities: help us find them (Research)
# Wiki cleanup (Documentation)
# Music Blocks examples (Documentation/Training)
# Write a review about an Activity in Sugar. (Documentation)
# Create a unit tests for a JavaScript activity (Quality assurance)
# Test old Sugar activities and report any really obvious problems (Quality assurance)
# Refactor Turtle graphics to adopt look of Javascript version (Code: Python)
# write a Python/GTK version of Music Blocks
# Investigate CSound/Python version of Music Blocks (Code: Python)
# Resolve an open issue from https://github.com/sugarlabs/ (Code: Python)
# Plugin manager for Turtle JS (Code: Javascript)
# Add Lilypond import to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Write a Turtle plugin (Code: Javascript)
# Write a extruder in JavaScript to convert from SVG to STL for 3D printing. (Code: JavaScript)
# Write a slicer in JavaScript to convert between SL and GCODE for 3D printing. (Code: JavaScript)
# Resolve an open issue from https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ (Code: JavaScript)
# Port a Sugarizer activity to Sugar (Code: Javascript)
# Port an old Sugar activity to the most recent Sugar (Code: Python)

Mentors: please feel free to add more tasks and/or add yourself as a potential mentor to an existing task.

Tasks must fall within one of these five categories: [[#Documentation/Training]]; [[#Outreach/Research]]; [[#User Interface]]; [[#Quality Assurance]]; and [[#Code]].

== Mentors ==
;NOTES TO MENTORS:
:Please note that not all tasks are coding tasks so please consider participating even if you are not a coder (there are research, outreach, design, and documentation tasks as well).
:But also note that prior participation in the Sugar Labs community is a requirement for mentoring.

Send an email to one of the Org Admins (this year they are Walter and TBD). You will then receive an invitation by email.
Follow the instructions in the email to sign up as a Sugar Labs mentor.
:Please add yourself to the list below.
:Feel free to add new tasks to the table above.

Depending on the task, we will assign multiple mentors from our various development and support teams.

* Walter Bender - co-administrator
* Lionel Laske - co-administrator
* James Cameron - release manager
* Sumit Srivastava - Mentor for Coding, Design, and QA tasks.
* Jaskirat Singh - Mentor for Research, Documentation, Design and Testing tasks
* Vaibhav Aren - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation, Design and Testing tasks.
* Hrishi Patel - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation, Design and QA tasks.
* Amaan Iqbal - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation, Design, and Testing Tasks
* Pratul Kumar - Mentor for Coding, Beginner First Issues, Git and Github, Documentation.
* Vipul Gupta - Mentor for Research, Coding, Git and GitHub, Documentation, Design tasks.
* Rishabh Thaney - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation, Design and Testing tasks.
* Ashish Aggarwal - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation, Design, and Testing Tasks
* Favour Kelvin - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation and Testing Tasks
* Freddie Nicholson - Mentor for Coding (Sugarizer/Music Blocks), Research, Design, Documentation and Outreach Tasks
* Austin George - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation and Design Tasks
* Samson Goddy - Mentor for Coding, Research, Documentation , Testing Task, Design and Outreach.

Samson Goddy

2019-01-07T09:57:11Z

Samson Goddy:

==Samson Goddy==

Samson Goddy, love open source, Sugar user.

==Contact Information==

Twitter: http://twitter.com/samson_goddy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SamsonGoddy

Instagram: SamsonGoddy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Sugar Labs email: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org

main email: samsongoddy@gmail.com

home email: samsongoddy@hotmail.com

Marketing Team/Ambassadors

2019-01-05T23:05:38Z

Samson Goddy: /* Mission */

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A group of individuals that represent Sugar Labs. Creating more awareness and display Sugar Labs tools to the public. Ambassadors are responsible for the increase of Sugar Labs tools usage, including helping to bring more contributors to the community.

==Mission==
* Represent Sugar Labs as the best K-6 learning platform available to teachers, parents, and funders
* Spread the word about computer-assisted learning and ebooks; share information about computer-assisted learning and ebooks, what educators are doing, what works and what doesn't
* Visit schools and demonstrate Sugar to Learners and teachers, channeling feedback to Sugar Labs
* Found Sugar Local Labs in their communities
* Assist with documentation and translations
* Help recruit Sugar Labs contributors and Local Labs participants
* Liaise between other FLOSS organizations and the Sugar Labs community

* Represent Sugar Labs to the wider public
* Help spread the word about Sugar, Linux, and Open Source
* Be a point of contact for local community members and channel the feedback to Sugar Labs
* Help recruit project contributors
* Think of creative ways for promoting Sugar in your region

==Resources==
===Ambassadors===
===Pitch===
How to [[Marketing_Team/Pitches | pitch]] Sugar?
===Events===
Are you looking for an [[Marketing_Team/Events | event]] in your area?

Do you want to help [[Marketing_Team/Organizing_an_Event | organize]] an event?
===Misc===

== Subpages ==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/Marketing Team/Ambassadors}}

[[Category:Ambassadors]]
[[Category:Marketing Team]]
[[Category:Team]]

Marketing Team/Ambassadors

2019-01-05T23:02:24Z

Samson Goddy:

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A group of individuals that represent Sugar Labs. Creating more awareness and display Sugar Labs tools to the public. Ambassadors are responsible for the increase of Sugar Labs tools usage, including helping to bring more contributors to the community.

==Mission==
* Represent Sugar Labs as the best K-6 learning platform available to teachers, parents, and funders
* Spread the word about computer-assisted learning and ebooks; share information about computer-assisted learning and ebooks, what educators are doing, what works and what doesn't
* Visit schools and demonstrate Sugar to Learners and teachers, channeling feedback to Sugar Labs
* Found Sugar Local Labs in their communities
* Assist with documentation and translations
* Help recruit Sugar Labs contributors and Local Labs participants
* Liaise with OLPC grassroots associations

* Represent Sugar Labs to the wider public
* Help spread the word about Sugar, Linux, and Open Source
* Be a point of contact for local community members and channel the feedback to Sugar Labs
* Help recruit project contributors
* Think of creative ways for promoting Sugar in your region

==Resources==
===Ambassadors===
===Pitch===
How to [[Marketing_Team/Pitches | pitch]] Sugar?
===Events===
Are you looking for an [[Marketing_Team/Events | event]] in your area?

Do you want to help [[Marketing_Team/Organizing_an_Event | organize]] an event?
===Misc===

== Subpages ==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/Marketing Team/Ambassadors}}

[[Category:Ambassadors]]
[[Category:Marketing Team]]
[[Category:Team]]

Oversight Board

2018-12-15T11:12:41Z

Samson Goddy: /* The Oversight Board */

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{{TOCright}}

== Mission ==

{{:Oversight_Board/Mission}}

== The Oversight Board ==

The current oversight board members are:

* [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
* [[User:Llaske|Lionel Laské]]
* Devin Ulibarri
* James Cameron
* [[Samson Goddy]]
* Alex Perez
* Claudia Urrea

===Contacts===

* slobs AT lists.sugarlabs.org - A private list for the Oversight Board members; all emails that do not ask to be private (or are not obviously intended to be private) will be forwarded to the publicly archived IAEP list.
* ombudsman AT sugarlabs.org - A neutral party with whom anyone (member or non-member) may consult privately. The ombudsman will report to the Oversight Board and the community each month that a consultation occurs. [[User:Pescauriza | Patrica Escauriza]] is our Ombudsman. Feel free to contact her in confidence regarding any issues you may have with the oversight board or the community.

[[Category:Oversight board]]
[[Category:Contact]]

== Meetings ==

We meet on IRC at 20:00 UTC on the first Friday of each month (irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting).

{{:Oversight_Board/Next_meeting}}

=== Previous Meetings ===

Minutes from previous meeting can be found at [[Oversight Board/Minutes]].
Logs can be found at [http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings].

== Decisions ==

Board actions and decisions are found at [[Oversight Board/Decisions]].

== Additional roles within Sugar Labs==

The [[Oversight Board]] is responsible for appointing delegates with executive functions.
Any Sugar Labs [[Sugar Labs/Members|member]] can be appointed by the board. Existing
delegates include:

* <strike>[[Sugar Labs/Executive_Director|Executive Director]] (ED)</strike>
* [[Sugar Labs/Treasurer|Treasurer]]
* [[Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees#Membership_and_Elections_Committee|Membership and Elections Committee]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Ombudsman|Ombudsman]]

Coordinators are appointed independently by each SIG.

* [[Sugar Labs/Teams|Team Coordinators]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Projects|Project Managers]]
* [[Local Labs|Coordinators of Local Labs]]

The [[Oversight Board]] appoints one of its members as a liaison to each SIG.

== Former Board Members ==

We'd like to thank the follow former board members for their contributions:

* [[User:Marcopg|Marco Pesenti Gritti]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Gdk|Greg Dekoenigsberg]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Dfarning|David Farning]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]] (2008-2010)
* [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] (2008-2011)
* [[User:Alsroot|Aleksey Lim]] (2008-2012)
* [[User:Cjb|Chris Ball]] (2008-2012)
* [[User:SeanDaly|Sean Daly]] (2009–2010)
* [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] (2009-2011)
* [[User:Sebastian|Sebastian Silva]] (2010-2012)
* [[User:Gardito|Gerald Ardito]] (2013–2014)
* [[User:Francis|Daniel Francis]] (-2015)
* [[User:Cjl|Chris Leonard]] (-2015)
* [[User:Godiard|Gonzalo Odiard]] (-2015)
* [[Claudia Urrea]]
* [[User: Jmgarcia|José Miguel García]]
* Tony Anderson
* [[User:Laura_Vargas|Laura Vargas]] (2016-2017)
* [[User:Holt|Adam Holt]] (2017-2018)
* [[User:Sverma|Sameer Verma]] (2017 - 2018)
* [[User:Ignacio|Ignacio Rodríguez]] (2017 - 2018)

Ombudsman
* [[User:Bert|Bert Freudenberg]] (2008-2017)

== Subpages ==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{PAGENAME}}/}}

[[Category:Oversight board]]
[[Category:Governance]]

[[Category:Team]]

Oversight Board

2018-12-15T11:10:48Z

Samson Goddy: /* Former Board Members */

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{{TOCright}}

== Mission ==

{{:Oversight_Board/Mission}}

== The Oversight Board ==

The current oversight board members are:

* [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
* [[User:Llaske|Lionel Laské]]
* [[User:Sverma|Sameer Verma]]
* [[User:Holt|Adam Holt]]
* [[Samson Goddy]]
* [[User:Ignacio|Ignacio Rodríguez]]
* Claudia Urrea

===Contacts===

* slobs AT lists.sugarlabs.org - A private list for the Oversight Board members; all emails that do not ask to be private (or are not obviously intended to be private) will be forwarded to the publicly archived IAEP list.
* ombudsman AT sugarlabs.org - A neutral party with whom anyone (member or non-member) may consult privately. The ombudsman will report to the Oversight Board and the community each month that a consultation occurs. [[User:Pescauriza | Patrica Escauriza]] is our Ombudsman. Feel free to contact her in confidence regarding any issues you may have with the oversight board or the community.

[[Category:Oversight board]]
[[Category:Contact]]

== Meetings ==

We meet on IRC at 20:00 UTC on the first Friday of each month (irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting).

{{:Oversight_Board/Next_meeting}}

=== Previous Meetings ===

Minutes from previous meeting can be found at [[Oversight Board/Minutes]].
Logs can be found at [http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings].

== Decisions ==

Board actions and decisions are found at [[Oversight Board/Decisions]].

== Additional roles within Sugar Labs==

The [[Oversight Board]] is responsible for appointing delegates with executive functions.
Any Sugar Labs [[Sugar Labs/Members|member]] can be appointed by the board. Existing
delegates include:

* <strike>[[Sugar Labs/Executive_Director|Executive Director]] (ED)</strike>
* [[Sugar Labs/Treasurer|Treasurer]]
* [[Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees#Membership_and_Elections_Committee|Membership and Elections Committee]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Ombudsman|Ombudsman]]

Coordinators are appointed independently by each SIG.

* [[Sugar Labs/Teams|Team Coordinators]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Projects|Project Managers]]
* [[Local Labs|Coordinators of Local Labs]]

The [[Oversight Board]] appoints one of its members as a liaison to each SIG.

== Former Board Members ==

We'd like to thank the follow former board members for their contributions:

* [[User:Marcopg|Marco Pesenti Gritti]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Gdk|Greg Dekoenigsberg]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Dfarning|David Farning]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]] (2008-2010)
* [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] (2008-2011)
* [[User:Alsroot|Aleksey Lim]] (2008-2012)
* [[User:Cjb|Chris Ball]] (2008-2012)
* [[User:SeanDaly|Sean Daly]] (2009–2010)
* [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] (2009-2011)
* [[User:Sebastian|Sebastian Silva]] (2010-2012)
* [[User:Gardito|Gerald Ardito]] (2013–2014)
* [[User:Francis|Daniel Francis]] (-2015)
* [[User:Cjl|Chris Leonard]] (-2015)
* [[User:Godiard|Gonzalo Odiard]] (-2015)
* [[Claudia Urrea]]
* [[User: Jmgarcia|José Miguel García]]
* Tony Anderson
* [[User:Laura_Vargas|Laura Vargas]] (2016-2017)
* [[User:Holt|Adam Holt]] (2017-2018)
* [[User:Sverma|Sameer Verma]] (2017 - 2018)
* [[User:Ignacio|Ignacio Rodríguez]] (2017 - 2018)

Ombudsman
* [[User:Bert|Bert Freudenberg]] (2008-2017)

== Subpages ==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{PAGENAME}}/}}

[[Category:Oversight board]]
[[Category:Governance]]

[[Category:Team]]

Oversight Board/2018-2020-candidates

2018-11-12T21:35:13Z

Samson Goddy: /* Election */

==Election==

There are to be four (4) [[Oversight Board]] slots to be elected for the 2018-2020 period, currently held by Walter, Adam, Lionel, and Sameer.

==Candidates==

Candidates should create a Wiki entry at [[#Candidates|Candidates' Wiki submissions]], one entry per candidate, sharing their vision and motivation.

Candidates should read and understand the terms of the [[Sugar_Labs/SFC_Fiscal_Agreement|Software Freedom Conservancy Fiscal Agreement]], because such terms bind our behavior as Sugar Labs Oversight Board and all our internal policies and procedures as a Project and as an organization.

Among other terms, please note the Project Management, Communications and Activities terms in the agreement provide that:

2.1. The Oversight Board Will Manage the Project.

2.2. The Project Will Be Free Software.

6. Representation of the Project in Conservancy: The Representative will have the authority to instruct Conservancy on the Project’s behalf on all matters.

The terms contemplate that the Oversight Board elects a single individual to communicate with Conservancy (the “Representative”) and shall notify Conservancy promptly following the election of a new Representative.

By publishing your candidacy below, you imply that in case you are elected a Sugar Labs Oversight board member you will honor the agreement terms.

==Calendar==

{| class="wikitable"
|Stage I
|November 7
|Announcement of election date and first call for candidates.
|-
|Stage II
|November 19
|Reminder of election date and second call for candidates.
|-
|Stage III
|November 30
|[[#Candidates|Candidates' Wiki submissions]] deadline.
|-
|Stage IV
|December 1-15
|Election.
|}

Oversight Board/2018-2020-candidates

2018-10-30T21:21:37Z

Samson Goddy: /* Calendar */

==Election==

There are to be four (4) [[Oversight Board]] slots to be elected for the 2017-2019 period, currently held by Walter, Adam, Lionel, and Sameer.

==Candidates==

Candidates should create a Wiki entry at [[#Candidates|Candidates' Wiki submissions]], one entry per candidate, sharing their vision and motivation.

Candidates should read and understand the terms of the [[Sugar_Labs/SFC_Fiscal_Agreement|Software Freedom Conservancy Fiscal Agreement]], because such terms bind our behavior as Sugar Labs Oversight Board and all our internal policies and procedures as a Project and as an organization.

Among other terms, please note the Project Management, Communications and Activities terms in the agreement provide that:

2.1. The Oversight Board Will Manage the Project.

2.2. The Project Will Be Free Software.

6. Representation of the Project in Conservancy: The Representative will have the authority to instruct Conservancy on the Project’s behalf on all matters.

The terms contemplate that the Oversight Board elects a single individual to communicate with Conservancy (the “Representative”) and shall notify Conservancy promptly following the election of a new Representative.

By publishing your candidacy below, you imply that in case you are elected a Sugar Labs Oversight board member you will honor the agreement terms.

==Calendar==

{| class="wikitable"
|Stage I
|November 7
|Announcement of election date and first call for candidates.
|-
|Stage II
|November 19
|Reminder of election date and second call for candidates.
|-
|Stage III
|November 30
|[[#Candidates|Candidates' Wiki submissions]] deadline.
|-
|Stage IV
|December 1-15
|Election.
|}

Oversight Board/2018-2020-candidates

2018-10-30T02:20:38Z

Samson Goddy:

==Election==

There are to be four (4) [[Oversight Board]] slots to be elected for the 2017-2019 period, currently held by Walter, Adam, Lionel, and Sameer.

==Candidates==

Candidates should create a Wiki entry at [[#Candidates|Candidates' Wiki submissions]], one entry per candidate, sharing their vision and motivation.

Candidates should read and understand the terms of the [[Sugar_Labs/SFC_Fiscal_Agreement|Software Freedom Conservancy Fiscal Agreement]], because such terms bind our behavior as Sugar Labs Oversight Board and all our internal policies and procedures as a Project and as an organization.

Among other terms, please note the Project Management, Communications and Activities terms in the agreement provide that:

2.1. The Oversight Board Will Manage the Project.

2.2. The Project Will Be Free Software.

6. Representation of the Project in Conservancy: The Representative will have the authority to instruct Conservancy on the Project’s behalf on all matters.

The terms contemplate that the Oversight Board elects a single individual to communicate with Conservancy (the “Representative”) and shall notify Conservancy promptly following the election of a new Representative.

By publishing your candidacy below, you imply that in case you are elected a Sugar Labs Oversight board member you will honor the agreement terms.

==Calendar==

{| class="wikitable"
|Stage I
|November 10
|Announcement of election date and first call for candidates.
|-
|Stage II
|November 19
|Reminder of election date and second call for candidates.
|-
|Stage III
|November 30
|[[#Candidates|Candidates' Wiki submissions]] deadline.
|-
|Stage IV
|December 1-15
|Election.
|}

Oversight Board/2018-2020-candidates

2018-10-30T02:17:11Z

Samson Goddy: Created page with "==Election== There are to be four (4) Oversight Board slots to be elected for the 2017-2019 period, currently held by Walter, Adam, Lionel, and Sameer. ==Candidates==..."

Goals/2018 Submissions/portfolio approach

2018-07-08T21:27:15Z

Samson Goddy: Added my name, as I will like to join the effort.

== Proposal ==

A portfolio approach to what a potential consumer of Sugar may look for. Currently, the pieces (Sugar, SOAS, Sugarizer) appear as disjointed efforts by a loosely-knit community.

== Proposed Timeframe ==

12 Months

== Proposed Collaborators ==

Dave Crossland, Sean Daly, Lionel Laske, Walter Bender, Samson Goddy

Goals/2018 Submissions/Introduce Music or Turtle Blocks programmes

2018-07-08T21:16:07Z

Samson Goddy: Fixed typo

Suggested Collaborators: Devin Ulibarri, Samson Goddy

https://www.meetup.com/Mangaluru-Python-Programmers/

Summer of Code/2018/Archive

2018-03-21T08:25:53Z

Samson Goddy: /* Non-Coding Project Ideas */

== Non-Coding Project Ideas ==

'''The projects listed below are of real interest to Sugar Labs. But because GSoC projects must involve programming, these non-coding projects cannot be done as part of that program. If you are nonetheless interested in pursuing one of these projects, please contact project the mentor(s).'''

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project

|-
| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc" |
| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |
| align="left" valign="top" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;" |Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| SCG
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line.
;Expected results: Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
;Knowledge prerequisites: PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3].

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Updating a new design of Sugarlabs wiki
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Jaskirat Singh Walter bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: we are lacking in look of wiki.sugarlabs.org page. It looks ugly and unfriendly and need to be updated with a good design
;Expected results: New design of Wiki page of Sugarlabs
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of mediawiki and use of some basic languages

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;" |Outreach
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Samson Goddy Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We don't have a very friendly approach to outreach to new contributors. It would be great to make it easier to get involved and to navigate the path towards contributing to Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to revamp our approach to outreach.
;Expected results: A set of pages similar to [https://publiclab.github.io/community-toolbox/] and [https://publiclab.org/wiki/software-outreach]
;Knowledge prerequisites: community outreach experience; some coding experience (to create requisite artifacts)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Making a marketing animated website page of Sugar Labs
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to develop a link that is website-page that will include a page with animations explaining all the things we have in Sugarlabs (as a marketing) like these examples (See [http://meta-liquid.com/] and [http://education.iceandsky.com/]
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and a main page that can be used to market the things in an animated way
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of marketing and use of some basic languages (HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Lesson Plans for Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have a [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide], but we really need some more scaffolding in the form of lesson plans.
;Expected results: A website and PDF document that can be bound.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of music theory, writing skills

|}

Summer of Code/2018

2018-03-21T08:21:58Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

'''GSoC projects must involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been moved to the [[Summer of Code/2018/Archive|Non-Coding Projects Page]].'''

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #f7effc;"
|-style="background:#7409bc; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project
|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Python 3 port
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Python 3 has been here for quite some time. We've investigated how to migrate and now it is time to do it.
;Expected results: A Python 3 version of the Sugar toolkit, as well as the Sugar Desktop and a few activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.). Like if an activity has not closed yet so it will be shown through a badge appearing on an icon. Repo can be found here https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/tree/master/src/sugar3
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity, sharing, achievements and much more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Learn to program in Turtle Art
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Walter Bender Jaskirat Singh 
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: In much the same way that [https://www.codecademy.com/courses/programming-intro/0/1#!/exercises/0 ( example here )] walks newbies through the basics of programming in Javascript, it would be nice to walk newbies through the basics of Turtle Art. There is already a provision within Turtle Art for programatically creating and moving blocks and executing program stacks. So it would be a matter of developing the exercises.
;Expected results: Website for teaching and having exercises with Turtle Art.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Requires some familiarity with Logo programming and Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"| Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f7effc;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |Sugar Labs Social [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel Shivang Shekhar perriefidelis
Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: '''[https://github.com/geekrypter/Sugar-Labs-Social Sugar Labs Social]''' is a website project which should serve a purpose to help people understand and discuss project(s) around Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to attract Teachers, Parents, Developers and fully communicate together in one platform. : It's a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Software, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest. : A competitive proposal must include some evidence that the approach taken will result in some use -- just because we build it doesn't mean they will come.
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog([https://medium.com/ medium] like) that can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend (Django, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Mongo).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of JavaScript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstrable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. (You will be expected to code in the Music Blocks language on a daily basis.) Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks as a programming language; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (time-frames, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definite plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that can be implemented in JavaScript.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Music Blocks export [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align="left" valign="top" style="background:#f7effc;" |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks inline documentation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: There are three types of documentation for Music Blocks: documentation about how individual blocks work; short coding examples; and lesson plans. This project is about the first two. We can add inline comments to each block as it is defined in basicblocks.js from which help can be autogenerated for each block. And we can utilize the "make block" mechanism to generate on-the-fly examples of how to use blocks in combination to achieve different musical goals. The former will require some JavaScript programming; the latter, Music Blocks programming.
;Expected results: In-line documentation for each block as well as in-line Music Blocks-coded examples of the core music ideas.
;Knowledge prerequisites: UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; some background in music.

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|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"| Jaskirat Singh Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
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;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . An example is the Coala [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Newcomers' Guide] which is built from [https://github.com/coala/coala/blob/6dae06082017587a260189a787db9cfdc84a148b/docs/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.rst markdown source]. The goal of this task is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs also make a dasboard for the users so they can get about developed and developing areas. Their contribution can be seen also their presence can be seen with the community.
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily. It is essential to this project that there is a credible maintenance regime to ensure it is easy to keep it up to date after GSoC is completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML, CSS, JavaScript(interactive) , BootStrap(responsive nav compatible on mobile devices also), PHP(dashboard), Github workflow, Markdown/up for documentation.

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| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |Scratch 3.0 to Sugar Desktop [[File:Scratch.png|centre|thumb|99x99px]]
| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc" | Walter Bender Samson Goddy
Hrishi Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya
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;Brief explanation: [https://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch] is a programming environment for kids. The goal of this project is to make bring back the [[Activities/Scratch|Scratch activity]] to the Sugar Desktop. Scratch 3.0 was created with HTML 5 using [https://developers.google.com/blockly/ Google’s blocky].
:# Port scratch 3.0 as a Sugar activity using method [https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/web-activity.md 1] or [https://github.com/walterbender/turtle-blocks-embedded-activity 2]. Method 1, a web activity that can run on the Sugar Desktop. While method 2, an embedded activity that can run inside browser activity. There have been some development of [https://github.com/EmilyOng/embedded-scratch-activity scratch to sugar] and a yet to release version of [https://github.com/EmilyOng/Scratch.activity scratch in Sugarizer].
:# Make the scratch libraries to work completely offline, so a user can import sprite without have issues of internet connection. A possible way is to fork the [https://github.com/LLK/scratch-storage scratch-storage] and [https://github.com/LLK/scratch-gui scratch-gui] modules to make them work offline by linking the libraries to local assets on the filesystem. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API/Using_Service_Workers https://hackernoon.com/service-worker-one-fallback-offline-image-for-any-aspect-ratio-b427c0f897fb
;Expected results: A stable working Scratch 3 on Sugar Desktop.: User to "save project" within the scratch activity into the journal, making it easy to resume project.
: Make the Scratch activity work completely offline stated at 2.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Python, GTK, JavaScript knowledge
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| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)
| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" | Caryl Bigenho
Samson Goddy
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;Brief explanation: Sugarizer is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences on many devices. The goal of this project is to package a subset of the Sugarizer Activities (Maximum of 5) for children 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2) with a young child-friendly UI/UX experience suitable devices. Many of the graphics in the interfaces will be re-designed to accommodate non-readers and very young children who are still developing their fine motor skills. One new Activity for intuitive math concepts will also be developed similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods Cuisenaire Rods]. Sugarizer1° will be non-language dependent so translations will not be needed.
;Expected results: At the end of the summer project, a prototype of Sugarizer1° will be ready for beta testing by children, parents, and educators. .
;Knowledge prerequisites: Javascript, HTML, CSS and some knowledge of layout and design. A familiarity of how young children play and learn will also be helpful.

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Summer of Code/2018

2018-03-13T08:47:44Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */ Added a new project to the list

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

'''GSoC projects must involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been moved to the [[Summer of Code/2018/Archive|Non-Coding Projects Page]].'''

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Python 3 port
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
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;Brief explanation: Python 3 has been here for quite some time. We've investigated how to migrate and now it is time to do it.
;Expected results: A Python 3 version of the Sugar toolkit, as well as the Sugar Desktop and a few activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
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;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
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;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
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;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.). Like if an activity has not closed yet so it will be shown through a badge appearing on an icon. Repo can be found here https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/tree/master/src/sugar3
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity, sharing, achievements and much more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
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;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"| Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
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;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |Sugar Labs Social [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel Shivang Shekhar perriefidelis
Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
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;Brief explanation: '''[https://github.com/geekrypter/Sugar-Labs-Social Sugar Labs Social]''' is a website project which should serve a purpose to help people understand and discuss project(s) around Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to attract Teachers, Parents, Developers and fully communicate together in one platform. : It's a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Software, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest. : A competitive proposal must include some evidence that the approach taken will result in some use -- just because we build it doesn't mean they will come.
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog([https://medium.com/ medium] like) that can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend (Django, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Mongo).

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
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;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of JavaScript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstrable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. (You will be expected to code in the Music Blocks language on a daily basis.) Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks as a programming language; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (time-frames, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definite plus.

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
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;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis Jaskirat Singh
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;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that can be implemented in JavaScript.

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
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;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

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|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

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|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon Jaskirat Singh
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Music Blocks export [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks inline documentation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: There are three types of documentation for Music Blocks: documentation about how individual blocks work; short coding examples; and lesson plans. This project is about the first two. We can add inline comments to each block as it is defined in basicblocks.js from which help can be autogenerated for each block. And we can utilize the "make block" mechanism to generate on-the-fly examples of how to use blocks in combination to achieve different musical goals. The former will require some JavaScript programming; the latter, Music Blocks programming.
;Expected results: In-line documentation for each block as well as in-line Music Blocks-coded examples of the core music ideas.
;Knowledge prerequisites: UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; some background in music.

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|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"| Jaskirat Singh Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
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;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . An example is the Coala [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Newcomers' Guide] which is built from [https://github.com/coala/coala/blob/6dae06082017587a260189a787db9cfdc84a148b/docs/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.rst markdown source]. The goal of this task is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs also make a dasboard for the users so they can get about developed and developing areas. Their contribution can be seen also their presence can be seen with the community.
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily. It is essential to this project that there is a credible maintenance regime to ensure it is easy to keep it up to date after GSoC is completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML, CSS, JavaScript(interactive) , BootStrap(responsive nav compatible on mobile devices also), PHP(dashboard), Github workflow, Markdown/up for documentation.

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| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |Scratch 3.0 to Sugar Desktop [[File:Scratch.png|centre|thumb|99x99px]]
| valign="top" width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc" | Walter Bender Samson Goddy
Hrishi Patel
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;Brief explanation: [https://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch] is a programming environment for kids. The goal of this project is to make bring back the [[Activities/Scratch|Scratch activity]] to the Sugar Desktop. Scratch 3.0 was created with HTML 5 using [https://developers.google.com/blockly/ Google’s blocky].
:# Port scratch 3.0 as a Sugar activity using method [https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/web-activity.md 1] or [https://github.com/walterbender/turtle-blocks-embedded-activity 2]. Method 1, a web activity that can run on the Sugar Desktop. While method 2, an embedded activity that can run inside browser activity. There have been some development of [https://github.com/EmilyOng/embedded-scratch-activity scratch to sugar] and a yet to release version of [https://github.com/EmilyOng/Scratch.activity scratch in Sugarizer].
:# Make the scratch libraries to work completely offline, so a user can import sprite without have issues of internet connection. A possible way is to fork the [https://github.com/LLK/scratch-storage scratch-storage] and [https://github.com/LLK/scratch-gui scratch-gui] modules to make them work offline by linking the libraries to local assets on the filesystem. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API/Using_Service_Workers https://hackernoon.com/service-worker-one-fallback-offline-image-for-any-aspect-ratio-b427c0f897fb
;Expected results: A stable working Scratch 3 on Sugar Desktop.: User to "save project" within the scratch activity into the journal, making it easy to resume project.
: Make the Scratch activity work completely offline stated at 2.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Python, GTK, JavaScript knowledge
|}

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Summer of Code/2018

2018-03-13T08:24:52Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */ The music blocks export had a mixed up information.

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

'''GSoC projects must involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been moved to the [[Summer of Code/2018/Archive|Non-Coding Projects Page]].'''

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #f7effc;"
|-style="background:#7409bc; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project
|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Python 3 port
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Python 3 has been here for quite some time. We've investigated how to migrate and now it is time to do it.
;Expected results: A Python 3 version of the Sugar toolkit, as well as the Sugar Desktop and a few activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.). Like if an activity has not closed yet so it will be shown through a badge appearing on an icon. Repo can be found here https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/tree/master/src/sugar3
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity, sharing, achievements and much more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"| Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f7effc;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;" |Sugar Labs Social [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel Shivang Shekhar perriefidelis
Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: '''[https://github.com/geekrypter/Sugar-Labs-Social Sugar Labs Social]''' is a website project which should serve a purpose to help people understand and discuss project(s) around Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to attract Teachers, Parents, Developers and fully communicate together in one platform. : It's a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Software, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest. : A competitive proposal must include some evidence that the approach taken will result in some use -- just because we build it doesn't mean they will come.
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog([https://medium.com/ medium] like) that can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend (Django, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Mongo).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of JavaScript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstrable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. (You will be expected to code in the Music Blocks language on a daily basis.) Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks as a programming language; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (time-frames, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definite plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that can be implemented in JavaScript.

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Music Blocks export [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align="left" valign="top" style="background:#f7effc;" |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks inline documentation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: There are three types of documentation for Music Blocks: documentation about how individual blocks work; short coding examples; and lesson plans. This project is about the first two. We can add inline comments to each block as it is defined in basicblocks.js from which help can be autogenerated for each block. And we can utilize the "make block" mechanism to generate on-the-fly examples of how to use blocks in combination to achieve different musical goals. The former will require some JavaScript programming; the latter, Music Blocks programming.
;Expected results: In-line documentation for each block as well as in-line Music Blocks-coded examples of the core music ideas.
;Knowledge prerequisites: UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; some background in music.

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"| Jaskirat Singh Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f7effc;"|
;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . An example is the Coala [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Newcomers' Guide] which is built from [https://github.com/coala/coala/blob/6dae06082017587a260189a787db9cfdc84a148b/docs/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.rst markdown source]. The goal of this task is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs also make a dasboard for the users so they can get about developed and developing areas. Their contribution can be seen also their presence can be seen with the community.
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily. It is essential to this project that there is a credible maintenance regime to ensure it is easy to keep it up to date after GSoC is completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML, CSS, JavaScript(interactive) , BootStrap(responsive nav compatible on mobile devices also), PHP(dashboard), Github workflow, Markdown/up for documentation.

|}

Summer of Code/2018

2018-03-05T14:23:06Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

GSoC projects must involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been removed and saved into [[/Archive]].

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #f7effc;"
|-style="background:#7409bc; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project
|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Python 3 port
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Python 3 has been here for quite some time. We've investigated how to migrate and now it is time to do it.
;Expected results: A Python 3 version of the Sugar toolkit, as well as the Sugar Desktop and a few activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.). Like if an activity has not closed yet so it will be shown through a badge appearing on an icon. Repo can be found here https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/tree/master/src/sugar3
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity, sharing, achievements and much more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
| valign=top width="15%" | Sam CG
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line.
;Expected results: Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
;Knowledge prerequisites: PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3].

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" | Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . An example is the Coala [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Newcomers' Guide] which is built from [https://github.com/coala/coala/blob/6dae06082017587a260189a787db9cfdc84a148b/docs/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.rst markdown source]. The goal of this task is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs also make a dasboard for the users so they can get about developed and developing areas. Their contribution can be seen also their presence can be seen with the community.
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily
;Knowledge prerequisites: community research, GitHub, coding experience (Markdown, HTML/CSS) for the guide and javascipt, PHP for making dasboard.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Sugar Labs Social [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel Shivang Shekhar perriefidelis
Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: '''[https://github.com/geekrypter/Sugar-Labs-Social Sugar Labs Social]''' is a website project which should serve a purpose to help people understand and discuss project(s) around Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to attract Teachers, Parents, Developers and fully communicate together in one platform. : It's a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Software, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest. : A competitive proposal must include some evidence that the approach taken will result in some use -- just because we build it doesn't mean they will come.
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog([https://medium.com/ medium] like) that can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend (Django, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Mongo).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of JavaScript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstrable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks as a programming language; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (time-frames, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definite plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that can be implemented in JavaScript.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima perriefidelis
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; JavaScript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the JavaScript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc;"|Music Blocks exporrt [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f7effc"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f7effc;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc"|Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#fcfcfc;"|Education Team Caryl Bigenho Samson Goddy Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis
Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
| align=left valign=top style="background:#fcfcfc;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer Sugarizer] is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences. This project will package a subset of the Activities (Minimum of 10 activites) suitable for children with a target age of 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2) and with a friendly UI/UX experience.

:Some new activity development will be required, e.g., The original TamTam had a keyboard that the user could use to play songs with their choice of instrumental sounds. Currently the version of TamTam in Sugarizer only allows the user to make a sound of one note on their chosen instrument. TamTam for Sugar Primero will have a keyboard option that will permit the playing of simple songs.

:A user's guide with suggestions for using them to meet educational goals while having fun.

;Expected results: Sugar Primero will be available for free from all of the app stores
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, some knowledge of Primary school curriculum.
|}

Summer of Code/2018

2018-02-14T15:13:04Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

GSoC projects are required to involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been <strike>striked out</strike>.

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.)
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity and sharing
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
| valign=top width="15%" | Sam CG
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line.
;Expected results: Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
;Knowledge prerequisites: PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3].

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Lesson Plans for Music Blocks</strike> [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have a [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide], but we really need some more scaffolding in the form of lesson plans.
;Expected results: A website and PDF document that can be bound.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of music theory, writing skills

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" | Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-Thaney
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Updating a new design of Sugarlabs wiki</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Jaskirat Singh Walter bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: we are lacking in look of wiki.sugarlabs.org page. It looks ugly and unfriendly and need to be updated with a good design
;Expected results: New design of Wiki page of Sugarlabs
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of mediawiki and use of some basic languages

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |<strike>Outreach</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Samson Goddy Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We don't have a very friendly approach to outreach to new contributors. It would be great to make it easier to get involved and to navigate the path towards contributing to Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to revamp our approach to outreach.
;Expected results: A set of pages similar to [https://publiclab.github.io/community-toolbox/] and [https://publiclab.org/wiki/software-outreach]
;Knowledge prerequisites: community outreach experience; some coding experience (to create requisite artifacts)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Example] The goal of this project is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily
;Knowledge prerequisites: community research , GitHub , coding experience ( HTML/CSS ) for the artifacts.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Sugar Labs Social [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Hrishi Patel

Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: '''Sugar Labs Social''' is a website project which should serve a purpose to help people understand and discuss project(s) around Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to attract Teachers, Parents, Developers and fully communicate together in one platform. : Its a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Softwares, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest.
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog([https://medium.com/ medium] like) that can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend ( Django, Javascript, Html/CSS, Mongo ).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a marketing animated website page of sugarlabs
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to develop a link that is website-page that will include a page with animations explaining all the things we have in Sugarlabs (as a marketing) like these examples [http://meta-liquid.com/ See[1] ], [http://education.iceandsky.com/ See [2] ]
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and a main page that can be used to market the things in an animated way
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of marketing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Migrating Planet Sugar to Medium
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to change the look of [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar] by embedding [[https://medium.com/|Medium (a blogger)]] into it by using Medium API but design should be changed> Better and interactive layout.
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and an interactive design which can be easy to use and outreach more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of web designing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, JavaScript, PHP, Django/Mongo )

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Making Testimonials page on Sugar Labs website
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender
Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation:Well, Develop a testimonal webpage on Sugarlabs website by making a good research about the users who have experienced the world of Sugar. That should include videos, blog posts and many more things. For such type of layout example visit ( https://www.chownow.com/testimonials-reviews ) and ( https://www.codecademy.com/stories )
;Expected results: A good layout with more views about sugar Users
;Knowledge prerequisites: Make a research about people using Sugar ...get interaction with them ; know about Sugarlabs and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Javascript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstratable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks program; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (timeframes, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definate plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri
Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, Javascript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that a future (or current) developer could read and implement.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; javascript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"|Music Blocks exporrt [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#e3e4e5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

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| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Education Team Caryl Bigenho Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer Sugarizer] is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences. This project will package a subset of the Activities (Minimum of 10 activites) suitable for children with a target age of 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2) and with a friendly UI/UX experience.

:Some new activity development will be required, e.g., The original TamTam had a keyboard that the user could use to play songs with their choice of instrumental sounds. Currently the version of TamTam in Sugarizer only allows the user to make a sound of one note on their chosen instrument. TamTam for Sugar Primero will have a keyboard option that will permit the playing of simple songs.

:A user's guide with suggestions for using them to meet educational goals while having fun.

;Expected results: Sugar Primero will be available for free from all of the app stores
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, some knowledge of Primary school curriculum.
|}

Summer of Code/2018

2018-02-14T14:55:37Z

Samson Goddy:

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

GSoC projects are required to involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been <strike>striked out</strike>.

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.)
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity and sharing
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
| valign=top width="15%" | Sam CG
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line.
;Expected results: Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
;Knowledge prerequisites: PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3].

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Lesson Plans for Music Blocks</strike> [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have a [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide], but we really need some more scaffolding in the form of lesson plans.
;Expected results: A website and PDF document that can be bound.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of music theory, writing skills

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" | Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-Thaney
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Updating a new design of Sugarlabs wiki</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Jaskirat Singh Walter bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: we are lacking in look of wiki.sugarlabs.org page. It looks ugly and unfriendly and need to be updated with a good design
;Expected results: New design of Wiki page of Sugarlabs
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of mediawiki and use of some basic languages

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |<strike>Outreach</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Samson Goddy Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We don't have a very friendly approach to outreach to new contributors. It would be great to make it easier to get involved and to navigate the path towards contributing to Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to revamp our approach to outreach.
;Expected results: A set of pages similar to [https://publiclab.github.io/community-toolbox/] and [https://publiclab.org/wiki/software-outreach]
;Knowledge prerequisites: community outreach experience; some coding experience (to create requisite artifacts)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Example] The goal of this project is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily
;Knowledge prerequisites: community research , GitHub , coding experience ( HTML/CSS ) for the artifacts.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |New Social Sugarlabs website [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Hrishi Patel

Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Its a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Softwares, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog thst can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend ( Django, Javascript, Html/CSS, Mongo ).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a marketing animated website page of sugarlabs
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to develop a link that is website-page that will include a page with animations explaining all the things we have in Sugarlabs (as a marketing) like these examples [http://meta-liquid.com/ See[1] ], [http://education.iceandsky.com/ See [2] ]
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and a main page that can be used to market the things in an animated way
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of marketing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Migrating Planet Sugar to Medium
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to change the look of [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar] by embedding [[https://medium.com/|Medium (a blogger)]] into it by using Medium API but design should be changed> Better and interactive layout.
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and an interactive design which can be easy to use and outreach more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of web designing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, JavaScript, PHP, Django/Mongo )

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Making Testimonials page on Sugar Labs website
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender
Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
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;Brief explanation:Well, Develop a testimonal webpage on Sugarlabs website by making a good research about the users who have experienced the world of Sugar. That should include videos, blog posts and many more things. For such type of layout example visit ( https://www.chownow.com/testimonials-reviews ) and ( https://www.codecademy.com/stories )
;Expected results: A good layout with more views about sugar Users
;Knowledge prerequisites: Make a research about people using Sugar ...get interaction with them ; know about Sugarlabs and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Javascript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstratable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks program; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (timeframes, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definate plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri
Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh
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;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, Javascript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that a future (or current) developer could read and implement.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; javascript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"|Music Blocks exporrt [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Education Team Caryl Bigenho Samson Goddy
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;Brief explanation: [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer Sugarizer] is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences. This project will package a subset of the Activities (Minimum of 10 activites) suitable for children with a target age of 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2)

:Some new activity development will be required, e.g., The original TamTam had a keyboard that the user could use to play songs with their choice of instrumental sounds. Currently the version of TamTam in Sugarizer only allows the user to make a sound of one note on their chosen instrument. TamTam for Sugar Primero will have a keyboard option that will permit the playing of simple songs.

:A user's guide with suggestions for using them to meet educational goals while having fun.

;Expected results: Sugar Primero will be available for free from all of the app stores
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, some knowledge of Primary school curriculum.
|}

Summer of Code/2018

2018-02-13T23:39:59Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */Assigned Samson Goddy to some projects

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

GSoC projects are required to involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been <strike>striked out</strike>.

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
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;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh
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;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.)
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity and sharing
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
| valign=top width="15%" | Sam CG
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;Brief explanation: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line.
;Expected results: Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
;Knowledge prerequisites: PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3].

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Lesson Plans for Music Blocks</strike> [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have a [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide], but we really need some more scaffolding in the form of lesson plans.
;Expected results: A website and PDF document that can be bound.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of music theory, writing skills

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" | Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
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;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-Thaney
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Updating a new design of Sugarlabs wiki</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Jaskirat Singh Walter bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: we are lacking in look of wiki.sugarlabs.org page. It looks ugly and unfriendly and need to be updated with a good design
;Expected results: New design of Wiki page of Sugarlabs
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of mediawiki and use of some basic languages

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |<strike>Outreach</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Samson Goddy 
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;Brief explanation: We don't have a very friendly approach to outreach to new contributors. It would be great to make it easier to get involved and to navigate the path towards contributing to Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to revamp our approach to outreach.
;Expected results: A set of pages similar to [https://publiclab.github.io/community-toolbox/] and [https://publiclab.org/wiki/software-outreach]
;Knowledge prerequisites: community outreach experience; some coding experience (to create requisite artifacts)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Example] The goal of this project is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily
;Knowledge prerequisites: community research , GitHub , coding experience ( HTML/CSS ) for the artifacts.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |New Social Sugarlabs website [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Hrishi Patel

Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation: Its a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Softwares, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog thst can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend ( Django, Javascript, Html/CSS, Mongo ).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a marketing animated website page of sugarlabs
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to develop a link that is website-page that will include a page with animations explaining all the things we have in Sugarlabs (as a marketing) like these examples [http://meta-liquid.com/ See[1] ], [http://education.iceandsky.com/ See [2] ]
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and a main page that can be used to market the things in an animated way
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of marketing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Migrating Planet Sugar to Medium
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to change the look of [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar] by embedding [[https://medium.com/|Medium (a blogger)]] into it by using Medium API but design should be changed> Better and interactive layout.
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and an interactive design which can be easy to use and outreach more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of web designing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, JavaScript, PHP, Django/Mongo )

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Making Testimonials page on Sugar Labs website
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender
Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation:Well, Develop a testimonal webpage on Sugarlabs website by making a good research about the users who have experienced the world of Sugar. That should include videos, blog posts and many more things. For such type of layout example visit ( https://www.chownow.com/testimonials-reviews ) and ( https://www.codecademy.com/stories )
;Expected results: A good layout with more views about sugar Users
;Knowledge prerequisites: Make a research about people using Sugar ...get interaction with them ; know about Sugarlabs and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Javascript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstratable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks program; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (timeframes, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definate plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri
Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh
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;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, Javascript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that a future (or current) developer could read and implement.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; javascript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon
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;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"|Music Blocks exporrt [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Education Team Caryl Bigenho Samson Goddy
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;Brief explanation: Sugarizer is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences. This project will package a subset of the Activities suitable for children with a target age of 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2)

:Some new activity development will be required, e.g., The original TamTam had a keyboard that the user could use to play songs with their choice of instrumental sounds. Currently the version of TamTam in Sugarizer only allows the user to make a sound of one note on their chosen instrument. TamTam for Sugar Primero will have a keyboard option that will permit the playing of simple songs.

:A user's guide with suggestions for using them to meet educational goals while having fun.

;Expected results: Sugar Primero will be available for free from all of the app stores
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, some knowledge of Primary school curriculum.
|}

Summer of Code/2018

2018-02-13T23:19:01Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */Updated names

== Sponsored Projects ==

[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6193990685163520/ Sugar Labs at GSoC 2018]

== Project Ideas ==

GSoC projects are required to involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been <strike>striked out</strike>.

{| border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title
!Mentor
!Project

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Migration of wiki activity pages to git
| valign=top width="15%" |Activity team
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;Brief explanation: We have 345 pages under [[Activities]] in this wiki. It would be more sustainable in the long run if these pages were embedded (in Markdown format) in their corresponding git repositories.
;Expected results: Definition of migration process; migration of the majority of these pages
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Markdown and Mediawiki markup; experience with git.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|GTK-4 exploration
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Devel Team
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: GTK-4 is coming soon [https://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/gtk4-devconf2018.pdf]: probably in 2018. We need to be better prepared for the transition than we were for GTK-3.
;Expected results: Design of a workflow for transitioning from GTK-3 to GTK-4
;Knowledge prerequisites: Strong Python and GTK experience

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Internationalization and Localization
| valign=top width="15%" |Chris Leonard
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details. See [[Translation Team]] for framework description.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Full-color icons
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Design team Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have been discussing the implications of removing the duo-tone restriction on Sugar icons, allowing for full-color icons. We can likely use badges to compensate for any functionality we'd lose. (See [https://medium.com/@sidhant/designing-interfaces-for-education-systems-with-sugar-labs-rethinking-icons-on-sugar-614120e7ec6f] as one example of how we might proceed.)
;Expected results: A patch to Sugar that uses badges to manage the icon notifications such as activity and sharing
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK; Python.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks optimizations [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
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;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has never been optimized in any way. It would be helpful to review the tone.js optimization recommendations, as well as build some unit tests to measure and improve the program itself.
;Expected results: A more robust and responsive Music Blocks.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, unit testing

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. See also [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/labels/temperament MB issues for temperament], [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF Articles about temperament, scales, and tuning] and [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/PmPfZ1yMhimQomG various materials related to temperament (.tb files that achieve temperament with existing MB features, videos of those files being performed, notes)]
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
| valign=top width="15%" | Sam CG
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;Brief explanation: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line.
;Expected results: Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
;Knowledge prerequisites: PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3].

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Lesson Plans for Music Blocks</strike> [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: We have a [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide], but we really need some more scaffolding in the form of lesson plans.
;Expected results: A website and PDF document that can be bound.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of music theory, writing skills

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Just say no to GTK2
| valign=top width="15%" | Ignacio Rodriguez Cristian Garcia Abhijit Patel Ibiam Chihurumnaya Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: GTK2 and GST0.10 are end of life. We need to upgrade the remaining activities with these dependencies.
;Expected results: New versions of at least 25 existing Sugar activities.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of GTK, GST, and Python

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|<strike>Updating a new design of Sugarlabs wiki</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Jaskirat Singh Walter bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: we are lacking in look of wiki.sugarlabs.org page. It looks ugly and unfriendly and need to be updated with a good design
;Expected results: New design of Wiki page of Sugarlabs
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of mediawiki and use of some basic languages

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |<strike>Outreach</strike>
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: We don't have a very friendly approach to outreach to new contributors. It would be great to make it easier to get involved and to navigate the path towards contributing to Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to revamp our approach to outreach.
;Expected results: A set of pages similar to [https://publiclab.github.io/community-toolbox/] and [https://publiclab.org/wiki/software-outreach]
;Knowledge prerequisites: community outreach experience; some coding experience (to create requisite artifacts)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a Beginner Guide
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation: We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . [http://api.coala.io/en/latest/Developers/Newcomers_Guide.html Example] The goal of this project is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs
;Expected results: A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily
;Knowledge prerequisites: community research , GitHub , coding experience ( HTML/CSS ) for the artifacts.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |New Social Sugarlabs website [[File:Social Site.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Hrishi Patel

Shivang Shekhar
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;Brief explanation: Its a social website that can be used to attract maximum users and everything ( Blogs, New projects, Softwares, Activities, etc) can be uploaded on it which will attract more user and create their interest
;Expected results: It should have user logins, feed and a blog thst can be over viewed by people around the world
;Knowledge prerequisites: Good Layout designing and coding experience with backend ( Django, Javascript, Html/CSS, Mongo ).

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Making a marketing animated website page of sugarlabs
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to develop a link that is website-page that will include a page with animations explaining all the things we have in Sugarlabs (as a marketing) like these examples [http://meta-liquid.com/ See[1] ], [http://education.iceandsky.com/ See [2] ]
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and a main page that can be used to market the things in an animated way
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of marketing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Lilypond Methodical Improvements to how Music Blocks generates Lilypond output [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is capable of exporting [https://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] code of which general instructions can be found [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#BEYOND-MUSIC-BLOCKS here in the Music Blocks guide] and its [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ source code can be found here]. We would like to improve existing code where needed and implement needed features in a methodical way, which means we must 1) document how the Music Blocks source code works for current and future developers to learn and benefit from and 2) project manage this portion of Music Blocks development (e.g. "what works" and "what needs to be done". [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/tgJAX5yMEzQsENf An example of a draft of a simple type of this analysis exists for you to start from.]), as well as 3) implement and improve features.
;Expected results: Implement and improve lilypond export features; Detailed documentation created for developer audience that details how Music Blocks exports to Lilypond; documentation to help manage what needs to be completed.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; functional knowledge of Lilypond code (some of your own scores would be nice); Organizational and Project Management Skills; JavaScript

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Migrating Planet Sugar to Medium
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation:We need to change the look of [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet Sugar] by embedding [[https://medium.com/|Medium (a blogger)]] into it by using Medium API but design should be changed> Better and interactive layout.
;Expected results: A UI/UX layout and an interactive design which can be easy to use and outreach more.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of web designing and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, JavaScript, PHP, Django/Mongo )

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Making Testimonials page on Sugar Labs website
| valign=top width="15%" | Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation:Well, Develop a testimonal webpage on Sugarlabs website by making a good research about the users who have experienced the world of Sugar. That should include videos, blog posts and many more things. For such type of layout example visit ( https://www.chownow.com/testimonials-reviews ) and ( https://www.codecademy.com/stories )
;Expected results: A good layout with more views about sugar Users
;Knowledge prerequisites: Make a research about people using Sugar ...get interaction with them ; know about Sugarlabs and use of some basic languages ( HTML, CSS styling, PHP)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks' First Steps for Robotics [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: What is needed to integrate Music Blocks with Robotics? This project is 1) to experiment with existing technologies to see what is already possible, 2) develop features (e.g. plugins, hardware modifications) needed to make interfacing possible, and 3) document the entire process and next steps
;Expected results: A working method for interfacing with a simple robot; additional features within MB to ease interfacing; and full documentation of how to recreate successful projects (that a classroom could use); communication (we do not want to guess what experiments you are doing by yourself--do not be shy to send emails, videos, pictures DAILY!!!)
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Javascript (Music Blocks source code) and robotics (no particular method requested, just make sure it is free/libre); demonstratable documentation and self-management skills; NOTE: we value quality, clear ideas over expensive or pretty robots

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day! [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team.
;Expected results: Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Blocks program; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (timeframes, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definate plus.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks UI Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri
Hrishi Patel Jaskirat Singh
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: [https://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/ Music Blocks] has a good enough UI, but there are open issues remaining and it would be nice if a person with a high level of understanding of graphics and style were to proposal and implement changes that unify the entire look and feel of Music Blocks.
;Expected results: Visually unified, beautiful and intuitive Music Blocks interface. Documentation to benefit future contributors to understand "what Music Blocks style is" (obviously this may change in the future, but a thoughtful rationale for the new style is expected).
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of CSS, Javascript, and HTML. Published work on UI (links to code, websites, etc)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Scales/Modes/Keys Design Improvements and Implementation [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Marnen Laibow-Koser Sachiko Nakajima
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;Brief explanation: There are features in [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#3213-setting-voice-and-keys MB for exploring modes/scales/keys which can are referenced in the guide]. However, we suspect that there are better ways to organize keys. This project would be to reimagine how MB organizes pitches. We recommend that you read the discussions that have taken place already on GitHub as well as research how keys work as well as [https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF scholarly articles about temperament, scales, and tuning]. Keep in mind that we would like to prepare for the possibility of chromatic pitch spaces that are not 12--for example, a chroma of 5 or 7 or 13, etc. What features and widgets are needed?
;Expected results: Detailed documentation created for developer audience that specifies 1) proposed features and overall design, 2) purpose of design choices, 3) audit of code (e.g. What changes to our current approach may be necessary? Are there libraries that may be useful?) 4) widget design proposal as well as MB code design proposal.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Understanding of Music Theory and/or group (or set) theory. Please read the articles at https://owncloud.libretools.com/index.php/s/2GtAhkvQpt3fYfF We are looking for candidates that can make a simple and effective design that a future (or current) developer could read and implement.

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Create UI features for music analysis and visualization [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks does not yet have a robust set of tools to help the user analyze their music (e.g. highest pitch, lowest pitch, pitches used, keys, musical form, intervals etc.). Additionally, users would very much benefit from features to help them visualize the way their music is constructed. Perhaps we could even create some features to help the user choose a style of music and the analysis highlights movements that violate that style's particular rules.
;Expected results: New Features.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; javascript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Music Blocks Musical Ornaments Features [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top |
;Brief explanation: The neighbor block feature is the first of a series of musical ornament features. There are many more possibilities, some of which are described [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/909 in issue 909]. The project would be to implement and document these features as well as to create example programs.
;Expected results: New Features, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Music Blocks Widget Improvements [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Marnen Laibow-Koser
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks has a number of features to help users conceptualize musical concepts, which also help to create code. Please see [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/tree/master/guide#widgets the guide for more]. There are a number of widgets that have not been integrated at all as well. This project would be to 1) fix widget bugs, 2) implement unfinished features ([https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+widgets+ see issues]), and 3) document and fully integrate these new features and improve existing features. [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/663 is also a related feature]
;Expected results: New Features, fixes, documentation, and new example programs for each new feature.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Music Theory knowledge; javascript knowledge; knowledge of Music Blocks and tone.js internals (please research)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Sugarizer School Box [[File:Sugarizerschoolbox.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" |Michaël Ohayon Lionel Laské Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney
Shivang Shekhar
| align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.:The app is composed by both a client side and a server side.
:The idea of this project is to develop a package to simplify deployment of Sugarizer in schools.
: This package will take two forms:
: 1 - An image for Raspberry Pi that could be flashed on a sd card that could automatically start a sugarizer server at boot and displays sugarizer client on the Pi. The server will be accessible by other devices from the local network. So the teacher has just to plug the RaspberryPI to expose a WiFi and the Sugarizer Server API/WebApp. So any computer connected to this WiFi could use Sugarizer Server WebApp and any tablet with Sugarizer App connected to this WiFi could benefit to collaboration, presence and backup its content on the server.
: 2 - Create one click to deploy scripts, to deploy a full Sugarizer stack on popular providers such as Amazon AWS or Heroku. So anyone could deploy a new Sugarizer Server instance on one of popular cloud platform without the need to dig into a complex setup process.
;Expected results:Raspberry Pi image files. Deployment scripts.
;Knowledge prerequisites:[https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server Sugarizer Server] knowledge, Linux system administration knowledge, bash scripting capabilities, Docker enthusiasm. (This project may require to download many system files)

|-
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Exerciser activity [[File:Sugarizerexerciser.jpg|90px|thumb|center]]
|valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Lionel Laské Michaël Ohayon
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation
:[https://sugarizer.org Sugarizer] is the javascript version of Sugar, making education available of many platforms from web to mobile.
:The idea of this project is to create a new Sugarizer activity to allow users to create exercise and let other users play to this exercise.
:The activity will propose different templates for exercises. Typical exercises could be multiple-choice question, reordering a list of items, cloze text, group assignment, ...
:Once created, the exercise could be played locally or shared on the network using Sugarizer presence. At the end of the exercise a graph will give results for each participants.
:The activity should allow to integrate multimedia element (images, sounds, videos) coming from the Journal. The activity should as simple as possible so even a child should be able to create an exercise and share it.
:Like all Sugarizer activity, the activity should: adopt the Sugar UI, be responsive (work on any screen size), work with the keyboard and with the mouse (to support touch screen), use journal and use localization.
:Features inspiration could be found on [https://learningapps.org LearningApps], [https://www.google.com/forms/ Google Forms], [https://www.limesurvey.org LimeSurvey], ...
;Expected results:A Sugarizer activity.
;Knowledge prerequisites: HTML/JavaScript, UI Design, [https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/blob/dev/docs/tutorial.md Sugarizer Development Tutorial]

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"|Music Blocks exporrt [[File:Music-Blocks.png|90px|thumb|center]]
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;"| Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima
| align=left valign=top style="background:#e3e4e5;"|
;Brief explanation: Music Blocks is essentially a Logo interpreter. It would be great to be able to export Logo from Music Blocks. (We need to find a Logo that can handle the basic synthesizer needs to make it relevant.)
;Expected results: A Logo export that is coupled to a music-enabled Logo interpreter.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Literacy in reading music; Music Theory knowledge; UI knowledge; Logo and JavaScript knowledge

|-
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)
| valign=top width="15%" style="background:#f3f4f5;"|Education Team Caryl Bigenho Samson Goddy
| align=left valign=top style="background:#f3f4f5;"|
;Brief explanation: Sugarizer is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences. This project will package a subset of the Activities suitable for children with a target age of 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2)

Some new activity development will be required, e.g., The original TamTam had a keyboard that the user could use to play songs with their choice of instrumental sounds. Currently the version of TamTam in Sugarizer only allows the user to make a sound of one note on their chosen instrument. TamTam for Sugar Primero will have a keyboard option that will permit the playing of simple songs.

A user's guide with suggestions for using them to meet educational goals while having fun.

;Expected results: Sugar Primero will be available for free from all of the app stores
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, some knowledge of Primary school curriculum.
|}

Google Code In 2017

2017-10-27T09:27:45Z

Samson Goddy: /* Mentors */Added my name to the mentors list

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[[Category: GCI2017]]</noinclude>

This is the project page for the Sugar Labs [https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/10/welcoming-25-mentor-organizations-for.html application] to [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ Google Code In 2017]. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due the fourth week of October 2017.

== Message to potential participants ==

It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.

Es importante que obtengas el permiso de tus padres para participar.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/contest-rules

Please see the Contest Rules for Eligibility and Registration process.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/contest-rules

'''Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: [[Google Code In 2017/Participate#Students]].'''

Also, you will likely need to set up the Sugar development environment. See http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html for details. Further information about contributing to the project can be found here: http://developer.sugarlabs.org/

Please don't hesitate to ask questions on our irc channel (#sugar on irc.freenode.net) or on the sugar-devel list: sugar-devel AT lists.sugarlabs DOT org

== Why Sugar Labs is participating ==

Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.

== Some background from GCI ==

[See https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/getting-started]

===Open Source Fundamentals ===

You can contribute without being a coder!
You do not have to be a coder to contribute to open source. There are many different skill sets needed to help an open source community thrive:
;Documentation: If you are a good writer and enjoy attention to detail then you might want to contribute by writing or editing documentation. Documentation is a huge part of a successful open source project. Organizations need documentation to help attract new contributors as it helps them see what the codebase looks like and where things are and what the plan is for the project.
;Research: An organization may need help crunching numbers or sorting through pages of documents to better understand what the users want or need. There are many different types of tasks that students could work on that are very important to the health of the project.
;Outreach: If you have an outgoing personality and like being around and talking to people, take a look at the outreach tasks. Outreach tasks often include hosting meetups in your local community or creating a plan on how people around the globe can host a meetup about the project in their local communities.
;Training: You could create a YouTube video discussing a new feature of the project or maybe some basics on what the project does so people who haven’t heard about it can understand the project and get involved.
;User Interface: User interface can include many types of tasks including designing new aspects of a webpage or creating a new logo for the project. It may also include various accessibility opportunities to help make the project easier for people who are blind.
;Other: If you have an idea that may help an organization, reach out to them and let them know! Sometimes the best task is one that the organization hasn’t even considered yet.
=== Collaboration===
Open source is not just about coding but working with other people to find the best solution. Being a part of the community is an essential part of success in Google Code-in. Mentors tell us every year that their best students were the ones who worked hard on their projects but also participated on IRC and helped answer questions other students had. Collaborate with the community and mentors on the #sugar channel in the irc.freenode.net network.

=== Quality over Quantity ===

It’s not about being the student who completes the most tasks, that only gets you to the top 10 to be reviewed, it doesn’t mean you will be a grand prize winner. We have had quite a few students who completed the most tasks for their organization yet were not named as Grand Prize Winners because they did everything solo and didn’t get involved in the community or think about the health of the project as a whole, they just kept completing task after task like a machine. If you actively participate in the community then you not only feel the camaraderie that comes with working as a team but you become committed to making the project better for everyone.

== Some basics about Sugar Labs and Sugar development ==

For some basics about the project, see [http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/docs/Learning-to-Change-the-World-Chapter-4.pdf Chapter 4 of Learning to Change the World].

{{:Google Code In 2017/background}}

== This is a stub for 25+ example tasks new for GCI 2017. ==

Note, more detailed task descriptions will be available once the contest begins.

=== beginner tasks ===
# Install the Sugar development environment by following the instruction at [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html].
# Install Sugar in a virtual machine.
# Install Sugar packages on Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora.
# Create an example program in Turtle Blocks (See [https://www.pinterest.com/walterbender/turtle-art/] for some ideas).
# Create an example program in Music Blocks.
# Create a simple machine in Physics.

=== general tasks ===
# Organize a Turtle Art Day (or Music Blocks Day) in your community (Outreach)
# Create a 60 second promotional video on Sugar and its community (Outreach)
# Host a Question and Answer (Q&A)/Information session about Sugar on Google Hangouts. (Outreach)
# DIY Sugar on a Stick||Organize and host a Sugar on a Stick party where you show people how to make their own Sugar on a Stick. (Outreach)
# Find an educator who is using open-source educational software to teach. Interview the educator about their experience as an educator and why they are using open-source software to teach. (Outreach)
# Write a blog post about your experience as a GCI participant for Sugar Labs. (Outreach)
# Create a 10-minute presentation celebrating at least three women within the Sugar community and/or the open-source community at large. (Research/Outreach)
# Gather information on who could benefit from using or knowing about Sugar. (Research)
# Find the resources that people are using throughout the world to learn about or teach Sugar Activities. (Research)
# Find the missing repo: we've lost track of the source repository of some Sugar activities: help us find them (Research)
# Investigate Google Fuzzing tool (Research)
# Add more synths/sound fonts to Music Blocks (Research)
# Design the music equivalent of Turtle Confusion for Music Blocks (Research)
# Wiki cleanup (Documentation)
# Music Blocks examples (Documentation/Training)
# Write a review about an Activity in Sugar. (Documentation)
# How should the Sugar UI change to accommodate a small screen? (User interface)
# What else should be made easier to customize in Sugar with minimal programming? (User interface)
# Create a unit tests for a JavaScript activity (Quality assurance)
# Bugzilla clean up (Quality assurance)
# Refactor Turtle graphics to adopt look of Javascript version (Code: Python)
# Refactor Planet server for Turtle Blocks (Code: Python)
# Write a Pinetrest plugin for the Sugar Journal (Code: Python)
# Investigate CSound/Python version of Music Blocks (Code: Python)
# Resolve an open issue from https://github.com/sugarlabs/ (Code: Python)
# Teach me how to draw activity (Code: Javascript)
# Plugin manager for Turtle JS (Code: Javascript)
# Improvements to Lilypond interface (Code: Javascript)
# Add ABC import to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Add Lilypond import to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Write a Turtle plugin (Code: Javascript)
# Visualize turtle movements in Pitch-Time Matrix (Code: Javascript)
# Visualize turtle pitch in Music Blocks widget (Code: Javascript)
# Write a JavaScript version of [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4450 Turtle Confusion] (Code: JavaScript)
# Write a extruder in JavaScript to convert from SVG to STL for 3D printing. (Code: JavaScript)
# Write a slicer in JavaScript to convert between SL and GCODE for 3D printing. (Code: JavaScript)
# Resolve an open issue from https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/ (Code: JavaScript)
# Rewrite turtleblocksjs server (https://github.com/tchx84/turtleblocksjs-server) using NodeJS, express (https://www.npmjs.com/package/express) may be a good module to use (Code: Javascript)

Mentors: please feel free to add more tasks and/or add yourself as a potential mentor to an existing task.

Tasks must fall within one of these five categories: [[#Documentation/Training]]; [[#Outreach/Research]]; [[#User Interface]]; [[#Quality Assurance]]; and [[#Code]].

== Mentors ==
;NOTES TO MENTORS:
:Please refer to [[Google Code In 2017/Participate#Mentors]] for details regarding enrolling as a mentor.
:Please add yourself to the list below.
:Feel free to add new tasks to the table above.

Depending on the project, we will assign multiple mentors from our various development and support teams.

* Walter Bender - co-administrator
* Ignacio Rodriguez -co-administrator
* Hrishi Patel
* Tayba Wasim(Tabs16)
* Ibiam Chihurumnaya
* Rishabh Thaney
* Samson Goddy

User:Samson Goddy

2017-03-17T22:03:50Z

Samson Goddy:

'''Samson Goddy'''

Name: '''Samson Goddy'''

Country: '''Nigeria'''

Age: '''17 years old'''

IRC nickname: '''samsongoddy'''

IRC channel: #sugar

Contact: +2348185340960

Facebook ID: https://www.facebook.com/samson.goddy

Linkedin ID: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Email ID: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org, samsongoddy@gmail.com

twitter ID : https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy

Samson Goddy

2017-03-17T22:00:30Z

Samson Goddy:

==Samson Goddy==

Hello, my name is Samson Goddy. I am a 17 year old Nigerian, that is passionate about working for open source project. I have been volunteering for Sugar Labs since 2012, but officially became a full member in 2013.

==Contact Information==

Twitter: http://twitter.com/samson_goddy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SamsonGoddy

Instagram: SamsonGoddy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Sugar Labs email: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org

main email: samsongoddy@gmail.com

home email: samsongoddy@hotmail.com

Summer of Code/2017

2017-01-29T13:03:37Z

Samson Goddy: /* Project Ideas */ A proposed project for GSOC

== Project Ideas ==

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! !! Title !! Mentor !! Project

|-
!valign=top | ||valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Internationalization and Localization ||valign=top width="15%" | Chris Leonard ||align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation: A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See [[Translation_Proposal#ToDo:|Translation Proposal To Do List]] for details.
;Expected results: Work flow improvements for i18n
;Knowledge prerequisites: Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript

|-
!valign=top | ||valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |New backend server for Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks ||valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Vikram Ahuja Ignacio Rodriguez ||align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation: Last year we sponsored [http://vikramahujagsoc.blogspot.com/ an exploration] of using a git-like back end for projects so that they could be cloned, forked, etc. This summer we would like to implement and deploy this new approach.
;Expected results: Deployment of "git" back end.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of Git, JavaScript, server-side skills

|-
!valign=top | ||valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Going beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks ||valign=top width="15%" | Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri||align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation: Most modern music systems are designed around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament equal temperament]. But there are many ways to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament chose and tune notes] in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics.
;Expected results: Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
;Knowledge prerequisites: Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory
|-
!
!Giving Sugar Labs website a new Look
!Ignacio Rodriguez
Samson Goddy

Dave Crossland

Walter Bender
!Brief explanation
Sugar Labs tend to give it [https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs homepage] a new look, with the goal to attract make it more attracting and making it more easier for strangers to explore.

See link to get more information concerning the [https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/blob/master/STRUCTURE.md proposed homepage]

Expected results

Here's a list of organizations that might be considered peers with Sugar Labs. Comparing their websites with ours may give us ideas for how we can improve.
* <nowiki>https://learningequality.org</nowiki>
* <nowiki>http://haxe.org</nowiki>

Knowledge prerequisites

JavaScript, HTML & CSS, Ruby, JQuery
|}

Oversight Board

2017-01-26T13:30:53Z

Samson Goddy: /* The Oversight Board */ Updated to the newest member

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== Mission ==

{{:Oversight_Board/Mission}}

== The Oversight Board ==

The current oversight board members are:

* [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
* Lionel Laské
* Sameer Verma
* [[User:Holt|Adam Holt]]
* [[Samson Goddy]]
* Ignacio Rodríguez
* Laura Vargas

===Contacts===

* slobs AT lists.sugarlabs.org - A private list for the Oversight Board members; all emails that do not ask to be private (or are not obviously intended to be private) will be forwarded to the publicly archived IAEP list.
* ombudsman AT sugarlabs.org - A neutral party with whom anyone (member or non-member) may consult privately. The ombudsman will report to the Oversight Board and the community each month that a consultation occurs. [[User:Bert|Bert Freudenberg]] is Ombudsman.

[[Category:Oversight board]]
[[Category:Contact]]

== Meetings ==

We meet on IRC at 19:00 UTC on the first Friday of each month (irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting).

{{:Oversight_Board/Next_meeting}}

=== Previous Meetings ===

Minutes and logs from previous meeting can be found at [[Oversight Board/Minutes]].

== Decisions ==

Board actions and decisions are found at [[Oversight Board/Decisions]].

== Additional roles within Sugar Labs==

The [[Oversight Board]] is responsible for appointing delegates with executive functions.
Any Sugar Labs [[Sugar Labs/Members|member]] can be appointed by the board. Existing
delegates include:

* <strike>[[Sugar Labs/Executive_Director|Executive Director]] (ED)</strike>
* [[Sugar Labs/Treasurer|Treaurer]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Members|Membership Committee]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Ombudsman|Ombudsman]]

Coordinators are appointed independently by each SIG.

* [[Sugar Labs/Teams|Team Coordinators]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Projects|Project Managers]]
* [[Local Labs|Coordinators of Local Labs]]

The [[Oversight Board]] appoints one of its members as a liaison to each SIG.

== Former Board Members ==

We'd like to thank the follow former board members for their contributions:

* [[User:Marcopg|Marco Pesenti Gritti]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Gdk|Greg Dekoenigsberg]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Dfarning|David Farning]] (2008–2009)
* [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]] (2008-2010)
* [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] (2008-2011)
* [[User:Alsroot|Aleksey Lim]] (2008-2012)
* [[User:Cjb|Chris Ball]] (2008-2012)
* [[User:SeanDaly|Sean Daly]] (2009–2010)
* [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] (2009-2011)
* [[User:Sebastian|Sebastian Silva]] (2010-2012)
* [[User:Gardito|Gerald Ardito]] (2013–2014)
* [[User:Francis|Daniel Francis]] (-2015)
* [[User:Cjl|Chris Leonard]] (-2015)
* [[User:Godiard|Gonzalo Odiard]] (-2015)

== Subpages ==
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[[Category:Oversight board]]
[[Category:Governance]]

[[Category:Team]]

Sugar Labs/Current Events

2016-11-26T09:17:22Z

Samson Goddy: /* In the Community */

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== What's new ==

This page is updated every few weeks with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list, blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org], and [[Archive/Current Events|archived here]].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].)

</noinclude>
== Sugar Digest ==

1. Marvin Minsky was fond of saying that there is nothing more dangerous than when a roomful of people all agree with each other. We don't have to worry about that in the Sugar community!!! Marvin also observed that "it's very important to have friends who can solve problems you can't." The diversity of our community is its strength.

Another Marvin quote relevant to our current quest to define ourselves as a community: "Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do." As Laura Vargas put it recently, Sugar Labs is a community "where you can learn how to design, develop and deploy high-quality Free Software." Within our community, children and adults are working together.

2. Sam Parkinson is our new release manager. Sam, a former GCI winner from Australia, has been responsible for many of the patches to the Sugar toolkit over the past few releases and has also been one of our most prelific code reviewers. Martin Abente, our release manager for the past four releases, has agreed to mentor Sam during the transition. Tip of the hat to Martin for all of his contributions and continued support.

3. Mariah Noelle Villarreal just got back from the Google Code-in reunion, where she represented Sugar Labs. She had a chance to meet Ezequiel and Piotr, our two winners, and spend time with members of the other participating projects. Mariah brought multiple copies of Sugar on a Stick to hand out and reports that there was a positive reception, especially among some of the parents in attendance. She also voiced some disappointment with the degree of awareness of Software Libre among attendees. FWIW, Devin Ulibarri and I are working on a new paper regarding the importance of Software Libre to education. Stay tuned.

4. I just got back from a trip to Santiago, Chile, where I was hosted by the education division of Fundación Chile. (Cecilia Rodriguez Alcala Garcia, formally of Educa Paraguay, was responsible for my invitation to run some workshops and give a keynote address at Creo Chile.) The theme of my workshops was programming as a vehicle for engaging in critical thinking. I introduced Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks first to a team of engineers from throughout the foundation, then to an executive group, then to a "hacker" group attending the Creo Chile event, and finally to a group of children and their parents. I was assisted by Andrea Vasquez Garcia, without whom I would have been lost. In addition, I participated in a workshop run by a local rap artist, Nelson Bobadilla Alvarado, and an educator, Francisca Petrovich Ursic. We did a collaborative, interactive Music Blocks program, whereby we could programmatically participate in the performance. A bit crude, but I learned a lot in the process. My keynote, which I have uploaded to [[File:FchBender2016.pdf]], focused on Sugar and the role of Software Libre in education.

In the workshop for executives, I was challenged to write a Turtle program to calculate the expected value of the number of coin flips required to get three heads or three tails in a row. My response can be seen at [http://walterbender.github.io/turtleblocksjs/?file=threeinarow.tb].

One sub-goal of my trip was to seek advice regarding a reference machine for Sugar. Alas, I was not yet able to get a definitive answer, as the foundation does not directly distribute hardware and the ministry of education has a wide variance in the types of machines they distribute. But I hope to get some feedback on this topic in the coming weeks.

While I was in Santiago, Chile defeated Mexico in the Copa América. I credited the win to Sugar (and the Chilean futbol shirt I was wearing). Hopefully it will mean that Sugar will find a warn reception in Chile.

5. Google Summer of Code is well underway. Mentors are writing mid-term evaluations this week. Be sure to check out the great work being done by our interns, including [https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity], [http://vikramahujagsoc.blogspot.in/], [https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/313#discussion_r63140566], [http://musicblocks.net/2016/06/13/multiple-rhythm-rulers/], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAHUOBJ7fqk], and [https://iamutkarshtiwari.wordpress.com/].

6. On the flight back from Santiago, I wrote a Python script to convert glif files into Turtle Block projects. (Tip of the hat to Eli Heuer for providing me some sample glif files.) The results are quite fun (See [http://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/?file=a.tb]). Next up, a version where each knot and control point is represented by a turtle, and thus the glyph will be editable.

=== In the Community ===

7. Gary Stager has written a nice [https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-06-07-as-the-maker-movement-turns-45-gary-stager-pays-tribute-to-m-i-t-computing-pioneer-cynthia-solomon tribute to Cynthia Solomon] in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Maker Movement.

8. Please join us every 1st friday of the month at UTC 1900 on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting.

=== Tech Talk ===

9. Sam has announced the second release leading up to Sugar 0.110. Recent changes include:
* James Cameron fixed Gtk 3.6 compatibility and an edge case with bundle erasure
* Utkarsh Tiwari added a WiFi password visibility toggle
* Abhijit Patel added a PopWindow api for sugar toolkit
* Sebastian Silva fixed Broadway compatibility for `sugar-activity`
* The [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Tick_based_animation smooth animations feature] landed
* Git submodules are now supported by the bundlebuilder
* Improved Gtk 3.20 support
* Misc bug/interface fixes

Sam has been busy updating the [https://developer.sugarlabs.org/sugar3/sugar3.graphics.icon.html API documentation] and is soliciting feedback. Also, San has updated Fedora [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/samtoday/sugar/ COPR] with the new versions of the Sugar packages. Tarballs for sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3 and sugar-artwork are in the usual places on the download server [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/].

10. Tom Gilliard reports the availability of Sugar spins for Fedora24 ([http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/unofficial/releases/24/x86_64/Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-24-20160614.n.0.iso x86_64], [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/unofficial/releases/24/i386/Fedora-SoaS-Live-i386-24-20160614.n.0.iso i386]).

=== Sugar Labs ===

11. Please visit our [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet].

<noinclude>

== Community News archive ==

An '''[[Archive/Current Events|archive]]''' of this digest is available.

==Planet==

The Sugar Labs [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet] is found [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ here].

==Sugar in the news==
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|align=right valogn=top|02 Nov 2016||'''BBVA''' – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puA2NH2uVQQ&feature=youtu.be Sociedad de la Creatividad - desafíos de hoy para el futuro] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|23 Oct 2016||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/la-computacion-es-una-herramienta-para-promover-agentes-de-cambio-1530653.html La computación es una herramienta para promover agentes de cambio]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Jul 2016||'''La Tercera''' – [http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/07/27-689886-9-walter-bender-cuando-todos-estan-de-acuerdo-con-todos-es-bastante-peligroso.shtml Cuando todos están de acuerdo con todos es bastante peligroso]
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|align=right valign=top|02 May 2016||'''Fedora Insider''' – [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Fedora-Based-Sugar-on-a-Stick-Is-One-Sweet-Desktop-83446.html Fedora-based Sugar on a Stick is one sweet desktop]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Feb 2016||'''www.montevideo.com''' – [http://www.montevideo.com.uy/auc.aspx?299096 DOS URUGUAYOS ENTRE GANADORES DEL CONCURSO GOOGLE CODE-IN]
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|align=right valign=top|28 Aug 2015||'''Musson Foundation''' – [https://youtu.be/HZtVv2nlP8Y Jamaica Girls Code] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|28 Aug 2015||'''Google Open Source''' – [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/08/my-sweet-adventures-with-sugar-labs-and.html My sweet adventures with Sugar Labs and Google Code-in]
|-
|align=right valign=top|09 May 2015||'''La Prensa''' – [http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2015/05/09/nacionales/1829026-de-alumnos-a-creadores-de-su-aprendizaje De alumnos a creadores de su aprendizaje]
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|align=right valign=top|30 Apr 2015||'''Diario La República''' – [http://www.republica.com.uy/investigador-sueco-visito-uruguay-para-conocer-el-proyecto-butia/514419/ Swedish researcher visited Uruguay to meet the project Butiá]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2015||'''Jamaica Observer''' – [http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/career/Future-coders_18811152 Future Coders]
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|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2015||'''Jamaica Information Service''' – [http://jis.gov.jm/state-minister-urges-young-women-enter-ict-sector/ State minister urges young women to enter ICT sector]
|-
|align=right valign=top|6 Feb 2015||'''Cromo''' – [http://www.cromo.com.uy/2015/02/el-chico-google/ El chico Google]
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|align=right valign=top|5 Feb 2015||'''Capital Noticias Canelones''' – [https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fvideo.php%3Fv%3D400864146741913%26set%3Dvb.246080195553643%26type%3D2%26theater&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFGeMoL69EHGf4Kudmoxo47duJf_Q El joven de Canelones, Ignacio Rodríguez, ganó nuevamente la competencia de programación de Google.] (video)
|-
|align=right valign=top|3 Feb 2015||'''montevideo.com''' – [http://www.montevideo.com.uy/auc.aspx?261076 Código joven]
|-
|align=right valign=top|1 Dec 2014||'''Google Open Source Blog''' – [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/12/3-2-1-code-in-inviting-teens-to.html 3, 2, 1 Code-in: Inviting teens to contribute to open source]
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|align=right valign=top|7 Oct 2014||'''Kauffman Report''' – [http://www.kauffman.org/blogs/policy-dialogue/2014/august/paraguay-thirsty-for-21st-century-education Paraguay Thirsty for 21st-Century Education]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Sept 2014||'''ANEP''' – [http://www.anep.edu.uy/anep/index.php/897-fecundo-intercambio-de-jovenes-de-todo-el-mundo-en-encuentro-de-programadores Fecundo intercambio de jovenes de todo el mundo en encuentro de programadores]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Jun 2014||'''Producción Nacional''' – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YbRCMRpstg Innovando con XO] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|28 Apr 2014||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/centinela/paraguay-educa-realiza-talleres-de-programacion-y-de-robotica-1238493.html Paraguay Educa realiza talleres de programación y de robótica]
|-
|align=right valign=top|21 Apr 2014||'''El Tiempo''' – [http://www.eltiempo.com/vida-de-hoy/educacion/entrevista-de-el-tiempo-a-walter-bender_13855020-4 'Cada niño podría ser un maestro del 'software': Walter Bender]
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|align=right valign=top|2 Apr 2014||'''vera.tv''' – [http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/7012 Antel vuelta a clases] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|4 Feb 2014||'''La Diaria''' – [http://ladiaria.com.uy/articulo/2014/2/en-codigo/ En código]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Jan 2014||'''Espectador''' – [http://www.espectador.com/sociedad/283177/entre-los-ganadores-del-concurso-anual-de-programacion-de-google-code-in-hay-nuevamente-un-joven-uruguayo Entre los ganadores del concurso anual de programación de Google Code-in hay nuevamente un joven uruguayo]
|-
|align=right valign=top|23 Jan 2014||'''El Pais''' – [http://www.elpais.com.uy/vida-actual/ensena-profesores-ahora-premia-google.html Le enseña a sus profesores y ahora lo premia Google]
|-
|align=right valign=top|20 Jan 2014||'''Google Open Source Blog''' – [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/ Google Code-in 2013 - drumroll please!]
|-
|align=right valign=top|28 Nov 2013||'''BBVA Paraguay''' – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_wTBs2ektI&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=bufferbac3c&utm_medium=twitter Turtle Art Day in Caacupé] (video)
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Oct 2013||'''ANTEL Integra''' – [http://www.integra.antel.com.uy/2013/10/educacion/turtle-art-la-plataforma-del-butia/ Turtle Art: la plataforma del Butiá]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/software-libre-es-tema-de-paneles-en-la-cumbre-627064.html Software libre es tema de paneles en la cumbre]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/programar-ayuda-a-los-ninos-a-pensar-628059.html Programar ayuda a los niños a pensar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/hoy-es-el-dia-de-tortugarte-en-caacupe-627470.html Hoy es el Día de TortugArte, en Caacupé]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/las-tic-en-la-educacion-son-clave-para-el-desarrollo-del-pais-aseguran-627469.html Las TIC en la educación son clave para el desarrollo del país, aseguran]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Oct 2013||'''Cromo''' – [http://www.cromo.com.uy/2013/10/mhijo-el-programador/ M’hijo el programador]
|-
|align=right valign=top|08 Aug 2013||'''News1''' – [http://news1.kr/articles/1273059 Interview with former MIT Media Lab director] (in Korean)
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Jul 2013||'''RIT''' – [http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50113 ‘Sky Time’ video game selected for White House Champions of Change event July 23]
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|align=right valign=top|28 Apr 2013||'''BBC Mundo''' – [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2013/04/130422_programadores_adolescentes_am.shtml Los programadores adolescentes premiados por Google]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Feb 2013||'''el Neuvo Herald''' – [http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/02/07/1402134/joven-uruguayo-brilla-como-programador.html Joven uruguayo brilla como programador y es distinguido por Google]
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|align=right valign=top|06 Feb 2013||'''el Observador''' – [http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/242936/joven-uruguayo-gana-la-competencia-google-code/ Joven uruguayo gana la competencia Google Code] (Also see [http://people.sugarlabs.org/aguz/gci-press-interviews.html GCI press interviews])
|-
|align=right valign=top|Jan 2013||'''Raspberry Pi Geek''' – [http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/Archive/2013/01/Pi-with-Sugar-and-turtles-as-a-learning-tool/(language)/eng-US Pi with Sugar and turtles as a learning tool]
|-
|align=right valign=top|07 Sep 2012||'''NDTV''' – [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/one-laptop-per-child-initiative-a-hit-in-rural-india-263867 One Laptop Per Child initiative a hit in rural India]
|-
|align=right valign=top|08 Jul 2012||'''Estado de S. Paulo''' – [http://blogs.estadao.com.br/radar-tecnologico/2012/07/08/para-educar/ Para educar]
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|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2012||'''Pacific Standard''' – [http://www.psmag.com/education/one-laptop-per-child-redux-38589/ OLPC Redux]
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|align=right valign=top|12 Apr 2012||'''Huffington Post''' – [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ketaki-desai/one-laptop-per-child_b_1417801.html Hult Global Case Challenge: One Laptop Per Child]
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|align=right valign=top|30 Mar 2012||'''newswise''' – [http://www.newswise.com/articles/sugar-on-a-stick-helps-kids-learn-how-to-learn “Sugar on a Stick” Helps Kids Learn How to Learn]
|-
|align=right valign=top|11 Jan 2012||'''Boston Herald''' – [http://bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1394672 One Laptop Per Child screening $100 tablet]
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|align=right valign=top|10 Jan 2012||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/charging-by-crank-bicycle-waterwheel-hands-on-with-the-olpc-xo-30-tablet.ars Crank, bicycle, and waterwheel: hands-on with the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Jan 2012||'''The Verge''' – [http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/8/2691733/olpc-xo-3-0-tablet-pictures-video OLPC XO 3.0 tablet preview: impressions, video, and pictures]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Jan 2012||'''The Verge''' – [http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2688604/olpc-xo-3-0-tablet-a-8-inch-tablet-with-android-and-sugar-options-for OLPC XO 3.0 tablet: an 8-inch tablet for $100, with Android and Sugar options for the children]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Dec 2011||'''Miller-McCune''' – [http://www.miller-mccune.com/education/one-laptop-per-child-redux-38589/ One Laptop Per Child Redux]
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|align=right valign=top|18 Oct 2011||'''BDU''' – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpzVnuFP0M&feature=channel_video_title Robotics in Uruguay] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|11 Aug 2011||'''Berlin.de''' – [http://www.berlin.de/projektzukunft/presse/aktuelle-pressemitteilung/detailseite/datum/2011/08/08/gewinner-des-berliner-landeswettbewerbs-zu-open-source-stehen-fest/ Gewinner des Berliner Landeswettbewerbs zu Open Source stehen fest]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Jul 2011||'''CCC Classic''' – [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:CCC-StartingLine.jpg Garmin-sugarlabs development cycling team at Crit starting line]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Jul 2011||'''CCC Classic''' – [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:CCC-after.jpg Garmin-sugarlabs development cycling team after Crit]
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|align=right valign=top|13 Apr 2011||'''framablog''' – [http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/04/13/sugar-labs-education-walter-bender L'expérience Sugar Labs préfigure-t-elle une révolution éducative du XXIe siècle?]
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|align=right valign=top|05 Apr 2011||'''Businesswire''' – [http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110405006842/en/Government-Peru-Expands-Laptop-Child-Program-Local The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child Program with Local Manufacturing]
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|align=right valign=top|31 Jan 2011||'''Sundance''' – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABp7GkLgN94 A Day in the Life – Peru]
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|align=right valign=top|01 Dec 2010||'''velonation''' – [http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/6564/Sugar-Labs-to-back-Garmin-Cervelos-development-team-in-unique-arrangement.aspx Sugar Labs to back Garmin-Cervelo’s development team in unique arrangement]
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|align=right valign=top|28 Oct 2010||'''UCR''' – [http://www.ucr.ac.cr/noticias/2010/10/28/nuevas-tecnologias-deben-estar-al-alcance-de-todos-los-ninos-y-ninas.html Nuevas tecnologías deben estar al alcance de todos los niños y niñas]
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|align=right valign=top|05 Oct 2010||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/10/05/one-ecosystem-per-child-walter-bender-and-olpc-reunite-to-enhance-learning-and-grow-economies-in-developing-nations/#comments One Ecosystem per Child]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Sep 2010||'''FLOSS Weekly''' – [http://twit.tv/floss134 Sugar Labs]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Aug 2010||'''ABC digital''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/165361-Indicadores-constatan-el-impacto-positivo-en-el-aprendizaje-de-ninos/ Indicadores constatan el impacto positivo en el aprendizaje de niños]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Jun 2010||'''ABC digital''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/137383-Xo-para-todas-las-escuelas-de-Caacup%C3%A9/ Xo para todas las escuelas de Caacupé]
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|align=right valign=top|21 Jun 2010||'''La Nacion''' – [http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias_um-312380.htm “Buscamos que los niños no solo usen softwares, sino que puedan crear uno”]
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|align=right valign=top|20 Jun 2010||'''UltimaHora.com''' – [http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/332297-La-laptop-une-a-padres,-alumnos-y-docentes La laptop une a padres, alumnos y docentes]
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|align=right valign=top|15 Jun 2010||'''The H''' – [http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OLPC-XO-1-5-software-updated-1022936.html OLPC XO-1.5 software updated]
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|align=right valign=top|10 Jun 2010||'''engadget''' – [http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/sugar-on-a-stick-hits-3-0-teaches-us-about-a-new-kind-of-fruit/ Sugar on a Stick hits 3.0, teaches us about a new kind of fruit]
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|align=right valign=top|27 May 2010||'''Pro Linux DE''' – [http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/15722/sugar-on-a-stick-v3-freigegeben.html Sugar on a Stick v3 freigegeben] (German)
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|align=right valign=top|27 May 2010||'''NY Times''' – [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/olpc-partners-with-marvell-to-launch-100-tablet/?src=busln One Laptop Per Child Project Works With Marvell to Produce a $100 Tablet]
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|align=right valign=top|27 May 2010||'''PC World''' – [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/197361/olpc_rules_out_windows_for_xo3.html OLPC Rules out Windows for XO-3]
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|align=right valign=top|03 May 2010||'''WXXI: Mixed Media''' – [http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1644648/news/Mixed.Media.Special.Edition.05-03-10 Interview with Walter Bender] (audio)
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|align=right valign=top|03 May 2010||'''Linux Magazine''' – [http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/OLPC-Computers-for-Palestinian-Refugee-Children OLPC Computers for Palestinian Refugee Children]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Apr 2010||'''National Science Foundation''' – [http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116638 XO Laptops Inspire Learning In Birmingham, Alabama] ([http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxOg-dt6rw video])
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|align=right valign=top|02 Apr 2010||<div class="NavFrame collapsed"><div class="NavHead">'''Dailymotion''' – [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xct0lp_un-jour-a-paris-ensembles-pour-olpc_tech Un jour... à Paris... ensembles pour OLPC et Sugar...] (video) </div><div class="NavContent">{{#widget:Daily Motion
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|align=right valign=top|15 Mar 2010||'''nbc13.com''' – [http://www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/video_birmingham_city_students_opt_to_spend_spring_break_in_class_xo_comput/138224/ Birmingham City students opt to spend spring break in class, XO computer camps] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|18 Feb 2010||'''LWN''' – [https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/374790/8dc41b030f4562b1/ Karma targets easier creation of educational software]
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|align=right valign=top|05 Feb 2010||'''iprofesional''' – [http://tecnologia.iprofesional.com/notas/93943-La-PC-barata-de-Negroponte-desembarca-en-la-Argentina-para-pelear-contra-Intel.html La PC barata de Negroponte desembarca en la Argentina para pelear contra Intel]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Jan 2010||'''AALF''' – [http://www.aalf.org/articles/view.php?ArticleID=86 Open Systems for Broader Change]
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|align=right valign=top|03 Jan 2010||'''Educacion 2.0''' – [http://www.educdoscero.com/2009/12/plan-ceibal-el-libro.html PLAN CEIBAL, El Libro]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Dec 2009||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/12/14/sugar-gets-sweeter-former-olpc-exec-walter-bender-on-netbooks-e-books-blueberry-and-cloudberry/?single_page=true Sugar gets sweeter]
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|align-right valign=top|10 Dec 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/12/sugar-software-environment-gets-sweeter-with-version-2.ars Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Dec 2009||'''Wired''' – [http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/12/new-sugar-on-a-stick-brings-much-needed-improvements/ New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Dec 2009||'''engadget''' – [http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/sugar-on-a-stick-os-goes-to-2-0-gets-blueberry-coating-and-crea/ Sugar on a Stick OS goes to 2.0, gets Blueberry coating and creamy Fedora 12 center (video)]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Dec 2009||'''Teleread.org''' – [http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/07/sugar-on-a-stick-what-it-means-for-e-books-and-education/ Sugar on a Stick: What it means for e-books and education]
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|align=right valign=top|27 Nov 2009||'''CNET Japan''' – [http://japan.cnet.com/special/story/0,2000056049,20404126,00.htm 「コードを見せて、もっと良くなるよ」と言える子どもが生まれる--Sugar Labsが描く未来]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Nov 2009||'''zanichelli''' – [http://scienze.zanichelli.it/notizie/2009/11/16/intervista-walter-bender-e-sugar-labs/ software libero a scuola]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Nov 2009||'''opensuse.org''' – [http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/Team/11_2_Launch/Announcement openSUSE 11.2 Released]
|-
|align=right valign=top|07 Nov 2009||'''My Broadband News''' – [http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10351.html Mandriva 2010 packs a punch [and Sugar]]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Nov 2009||'''GhanaWeb''' – [http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=171387 Open education and an IT-enabled economic growth in Ghana: Musings of a dutiful citizen]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 Oct 2009||'''Linux Magazine ES''' – [http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/54/078-083_SugarLM54.pdf Software Libre como apoyo al aprendizaje]
|-
|align=right valign=top|09 Oct 2009||'''interdisciplines''' – [http://www.interdisciplines.org/mobilea2k/papers/2 OLPC and Sugar: mobility through the community]
|-
|align=right valign=top|08 Oct 2009||'''IBM developerWorks''' – [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-10th-anniversary/index.html 10 important Linux developments everyone should know about]
|-
|align=right valign=top|01 Oct 2009||'''OLPC France''' – [http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_Walter_Bender_au_SugarCamp Interview Walter Bender au SugarCamp]
|-
|align=right valign=top|25 Sep 2009||'''The Inquirer''' – [http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1555781/one-laptop-per-child-marches One Laptop per Child marches on]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Sep 2009||'''Groklaw''' – [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090918110925298 The Role of Free Software in Education]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Sep 2009||'''Reuters''' – [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS97755+18-Sep-2009+PRN20090918 Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation Celebrate Software Freedom Day]
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Sep 2009||'''ICTDev.org''' – [http://ictdev.org/pulse/20090916/ict4d/dreaming-again-one-laptop-child Dream Again with One Laptop per Child]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 Aug 2009||'''Latinux''' – [http://www.latinuxmagazine.com/ediciones/pdf/latinux-magazine-VolINum1-beta.pdf Azúcar en una memoria USB]
|-
|align=right valign=top|03 Aug 2009||'''Wired: Geek Dad''' – [http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/08/inventing-a-new-paradigm-sugarlabs-and-the-sugar-ui/ Inventing a New Paradigm: SugarLabs and the Sugar UI]
|-
|align=right valign=top|30 Jul 2009||'''Zanichelli''' – [http://scienze.zanichelli.it/notizie/2009/06/30/sugar-on-a-stick-imparare-insieme/ Sugar on a Stick: imparare insieme]
|-
|align=right valign=top|23 Jul 2009||'''Everything USB''' – [http://www.everythingusb.com/recycle-usb-17077.html RecycleUSB.com - Donate your Flash Drives for a Good Cause]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 Jul 2009||'''OLPC France''' – [http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/07/sugar-mauvaise-presse-et-mise-au-point/ Sugar : mauvaise presse et mise au point]
|-
|align=right valign=top|13 Jul 2009||'''Spiegel Online''' – [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,634718,00.html Das zuckersüße Leichtbau-Linux]
|-
|align=right valign=top|07 Jul 2009||'''ComputerWorldUK''' – [http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2334&blogid=14 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: a Study in Contrasts]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jul 2009||'''Windows Forest''' – [http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/article/2009/06/30/olpcusb.html USBメモリなどから“OLPC”用のOSを利用できる「Sugar on a Stick」が無償公開]
|-
|align=right valign=top|02 Jul 2009||'''Howard County Library''' – [http://hclibrary.org/opensource/?p=228 Sugar on a Stick]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 Jun 2009||'''Deutschlandfunk''' – [http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/989765/ Süßes für die Kleinen: Sugar ist Linux speziell für Kinder] (in Deutsch)
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 Jun 2009||'''EduTech''' – [http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/sugar-on-a-stick-and-other-delectables-praise-for-the-lowly-usb-drive Sugar on a stick, and other delectables (praise for the lowly USB drive)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 Jun 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/sugar-on-a-stick-brings-sweet-taste-of-linux-to-classrooms.ars Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Jun 2009||'''BBC''' – [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm OLPC software to power aging PCs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Jun 2009||'''Technology Review''' – [http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22919/ $100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|15 Jun 2009||'''TechSavvyKids''' – [http://techsavvykids.podomatic.com/player/web/2009-06-15T11_15_29-07_00 Episode 10 FOSSVT: Sugar on a Stick] (audio)
|-
|align=right valign=top|10 Jun 2009||'''LWN.net''' – [http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/336910/3878a88c0c27f977/ Sugar moves from the shadow of OLPC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 May 2009||'''LWN.net''' – [http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334911/cf451c615cfdaa33/ Activities and the move to context-oriented desktops] (subscriber link)
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 May 2009||'''Business Wire''' – [http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090527006237&newsLang=en Dailymotion Launches Support for Open Video Formats and Video HTML Tag]
|-
|align=right valign=top|01 May 2009||'''Guysoft''' – [http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/nokia-n810-running-olpc-sugar/ Nokia N810 Running OLPC Sugar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|29 Apr 2009||'''El Mercurio''' – [http://www.mer.cl/modulos/catalogo/Paginas/2009/04/29/MERSTVS017AA2904.htm?idnoticia=CC116HNVJ120090429 Así se vivió la fiesta del software libre]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 Apr 2009||'''ostatic''' – [http://ostatic.com/blog/sugar-on-a-stick-good-for-kids-minds-and-school-budgets Sugar on a Stick: Good for Kids' Minds (and School Budgets)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|25 Apr 2009||'''Free Software Magazine''' – [http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bittersweet_facts_about_olpc_and_sugar The Bittersweet Facts about OLPC and Sugar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/sugar-labs-releases-beta-of-live-usb-learning-environment.ars First taste: Sugar on a Stick learning platform]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 Apr 2009||'''Betanews''' – [http://www.betanews.com/article/Beta-of-Live-USB-Sugar-OS-opens/1240409113#talkback Beta of Live USB Sugar OS opens]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 Mar 2009||'''Mass High Tech''' – [http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/03/23/weekly3-Google-promotes-summer-open-source-internships.html Google promotes summer open-source internships]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Mar 2009||'''Metropolis''' – [http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20090318/a-good-argument A Good Argument]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Mar 2009||'''Laptop Magazine''' – [http://blog.laptopmag.com/sugar-labs-new-version-of-sugar-learning-platform-is-netbook-and-pc-ready Sugar Labs’ New Version of Sugar Learning Platform Is Netbook and PC Ready]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Mar 2009||'''Market Watch''' – [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sugar-labs-nonprofit-announces-new/story.aspx?guid={EF4B8934-0046-465F-AD4D-E82FBCE8F1EC}&dist=msr_7 Sugar Labs Nonprofit Announces New Version of Sugar Learning Platform for Children, Runs on Netbooks and PCs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Feb 2009||'''OLPC Learning Club – DC''' – [http://olpclearningclub.org/meetings/learning-learning-on-a-stick/ Learning Learning on a Stick]
|-
|align=right valign=top|05 Feb 2009||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/02/05/sugar-beyond-the-xo-laptop-walter-bender-on-olpc-sucrose-084-and-sugar-on-a-stick/ Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop: Walter Bender on OLPC, Sucrose 0.84, and “Sugar on a Stick”]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 Jan 2009||'''Linus Magazine''' – [http://www.linux-magazine.com/content/view/full/32999 Sugar Defies OLPC Cutbacks]
|-
|align=right valign=top|19 Jan 2009||'''Feeding the Penguins''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ The status of Sugar, post-OLPC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Jan 2009||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/xo_acer_aspire_one_thin_client_sugar.html Sugar on Acer Aspire One & Thin Client via LTSP]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Jan 2009||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/01/thoughts-about-olpc-cutbacks.html thoughts about olpc cutbacks]
|-
|align=right valign=top|07 Jan 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jan 2009||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/microsoft/how_microsoft_got_xp_on_the_xo.html An Inside Look at how Microsoft got XP on the XO]
|-
|align=right valign=top|30 Dec 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/sugar_labs_status_at_six_month.html Sugar Labs Status at Six Months]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 Dec 2008||'''The GNOME Project''' – [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Dec 2008||'''Feeding the Penguins''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/sugar-git-repository-change/ Sugar git repository change]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Dec 2008||'''NPR''' – [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96825852 Laptop Deal Links Rural Peru To Opportunity, Risk (Part 2)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|13 Dec 2008||'''NPR''' – [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96510072 Laptops May Change The Way Rural Peru Learns (Part 1)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|09 Dec 2008||'''SFC''' – [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/09/sugar/ Sugar Labs joins Conservancy]
|-
|align=right valign=top|31 Oct 2008||'''Linux Devices''' – [http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3023016259.html An OLPC dilemma: Linux or Windows?]
|-
|align=right valign=top|10 Oct 2008||'''Feeding the Penguin''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/sugar-on-ubuntu/ Sugar on Ubuntu]
|-
|align=right valign=top|21 Sep 2008||'''Groklaw''' – [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080920181151638 Interview with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Sep 2008||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/09/sugar-labs.html Sugar Labs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Sep 2008||'''Open Source''' – [http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/562 Sugar everywhere]
|-
|align=right valign=top|28 Aug 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/education/an_answer_to_question_22.html An answer to Walter Bender's question 22]
|-
|align=right valign=top|20 Aug 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugarizing_it_intel_classmate_2.html Sugarize it: Intel Classmate 2]
|-
|align=right valign=top|08 Aug 2008||'''Investor's Business Daily''' – [http://www.investors.com/Tech/TechExecQA.asp?artid=303074322503278 'Learning' Vs. Laptop Was Issue]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Aug 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/people/leadership/23_questions_on_technology_education.html Twenty-three Questions on Technology and Education]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Jul 2008||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html evaluating Sugar in the developed world]
|-
|align=right valign=top|28 Jun 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/cutting_edge_sugar_ui.html A Cutting Edge Sugar User Interface Demo]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Jun 2008||'''PC World''' – [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147265/olpc_spinoff_developing_ui_for_intels_classmate_pc.html OLPC Spin-off Developing UI for Intel's Classmate PC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Jun 2008||'''Datamation''' – [http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3753376_1 If Business Succeeds with GNU/Linux, Why Not OLPC?]
|-
|align=right valign=top|11 Jun 2008||'''LinuxInsider''' – [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Sugar-Labs-Walter-Bender-on-the-Sweetness-of-Collaborative-Learning-63354.html The Sweetness of Collaborative Learning]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jun 2008||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/untangling-free-sugar-and.html untangling Free, Sugar, and Constructionism]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jun 2008||'''Open Education''' – [http://www.openeducation.net/2008/06/03/walter-bender-discusses-sugar-labs-foundation/ Walter Bender Discusses Sugar Labs Foundation]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jun 2008||'''BusinessWeek''' – [http://prod-blogs.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/06/olpc_the_educat.html OLPC: The Educational Philosophy Controversy]
|-
|align=right valign=top|05 Jun 2008||'''Code Culture''' – [http://radian.org/notebook/distraction-machine The Distraction Machine]
|-
|align=right valign=top|05 Jun 2008||'''BusinessWeek''' – [http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/06/olpc_the_open-s.html OLPC: The Open-Source Controversy]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 May 2008||'''The New York Times''' – [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/why-walter-bender-left-one-laptop-per-child-edited-hold-for-wed-am/ Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 May 2008||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080526-former-olpc-software-president-wants-to-expand-sugars-reach.html OLPC software maker splits from X0 hardware, goes solo]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 May 2008||'''BetaNews''' – [http://www.betanews.com/article/Linux_startup_Sugar_Labs_in_informal_talks_with_four_laptop_makers/1211467857 Linux start-up Sugar Labs in informal talks with four laptop makers]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''OSTATIC''' – [http://ostatic.com/162220-blog/olpcs-open-source-sugar-platform-aims-for-new-hardware OLPC's Open Source Sugar Platform Aims for New Hardware]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''PCWorld''' – [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146002/bender_forms_group_to_promote_olpcs_sugar_ui.html Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC's Sugar UI]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''MHT''' – [http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2008/05/12/daily35.html Bender jumps from OLPC, founds Sugar Labs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''News.com''' – [http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9946242-7.html Sugar Labs will make OLPC interface available for Eee PC, others]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''Feeding the Peguins''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/the-future-of-sugar/ The future of Sugar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''Sugar list''' – [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-May/005800.html A few thoughts on SugarLabs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/16/bender-creates-sugar-labs-new-foundation-to-adapt-olpcs-laptop-interface-for-other-machines/ Bender Creates Sugar Labs—New Foundation to Adapt OLPC’s Laptop Interface for Other Machines]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''BBC''' – [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7405346.stm '$100 laptop' platform moves on]
|-
|align=right valign=top|15 May 2008||'''OLPC wiki''' – [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/AnnounceFAQ Dual-boot XO] Claim: OLPC will not work to port Sugar to Windows.
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''Softpedia''' – [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bender-Launches-Sugar-Labs-for-Better-Development-of-OLPC-039-s-Sugar-UI-85881.shtml Bender Launches Sugar Labs for Better Development of OLPC's Sugar UI]
|}

==Press releases==
http://www.sugarlabs.org/press

[[Category:General public]]
</noinclude>

Sugar Labs/Current Events

2016-11-26T09:15:44Z

Samson Goddy: /* Tech Talk */

<noinclude>
== What's new ==

This page is updated every few weeks with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list, blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org], and [[Archive/Current Events|archived here]].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].)

</noinclude>
== Sugar Digest ==

1. Marvin Minsky was fond of saying that there is nothing more dangerous than when a roomful of people all agree with each other. We don't have to worry about that in the Sugar community!!! Marvin also observed that "it's very important to have friends who can solve problems you can't." The diversity of our community is its strength.

Another Marvin quote relevant to our current quest to define ourselves as a community: "Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do." As Laura Vargas put it recently, Sugar Labs is a community "where you can learn how to design, develop and deploy high-quality Free Software." Within our community, children and adults are working together.

2. Sam Parkinson is our new release manager. Sam, a former GCI winner from Australia, has been responsible for many of the patches to the Sugar toolkit over the past few releases and has also been one of our most prelific code reviewers. Martin Abente, our release manager for the past four releases, has agreed to mentor Sam during the transition. Tip of the hat to Martin for all of his contributions and continued support.

3. Mariah Noelle Villarreal just got back from the Google Code-in reunion, where she represented Sugar Labs. She had a chance to meet Ezequiel and Piotr, our two winners, and spend time with members of the other participating projects. Mariah brought multiple copies of Sugar on a Stick to hand out and reports that there was a positive reception, especially among some of the parents in attendance. She also voiced some disappointment with the degree of awareness of Software Libre among attendees. FWIW, Devin Ulibarri and I are working on a new paper regarding the importance of Software Libre to education. Stay tuned.

4. I just got back from a trip to Santiago, Chile, where I was hosted by the education division of Fundación Chile. (Cecilia Rodriguez Alcala Garcia, formally of Educa Paraguay, was responsible for my invitation to run some workshops and give a keynote address at Creo Chile.) The theme of my workshops was programming as a vehicle for engaging in critical thinking. I introduced Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks first to a team of engineers from throughout the foundation, then to an executive group, then to a "hacker" group attending the Creo Chile event, and finally to a group of children and their parents. I was assisted by Andrea Vasquez Garcia, without whom I would have been lost. In addition, I participated in a workshop run by a local rap artist, Nelson Bobadilla Alvarado, and an educator, Francisca Petrovich Ursic. We did a collaborative, interactive Music Blocks program, whereby we could programmatically participate in the performance. A bit crude, but I learned a lot in the process. My keynote, which I have uploaded to [[File:FchBender2016.pdf]], focused on Sugar and the role of Software Libre in education.

In the workshop for executives, I was challenged to write a Turtle program to calculate the expected value of the number of coin flips required to get three heads or three tails in a row. My response can be seen at [http://walterbender.github.io/turtleblocksjs/?file=threeinarow.tb].

One sub-goal of my trip was to seek advice regarding a reference machine for Sugar. Alas, I was not yet able to get a definitive answer, as the foundation does not directly distribute hardware and the ministry of education has a wide variance in the types of machines they distribute. But I hope to get some feedback on this topic in the coming weeks.

While I was in Santiago, Chile defeated Mexico in the Copa América. I credited the win to Sugar (and the Chilean futbol shirt I was wearing). Hopefully it will mean that Sugar will find a warn reception in Chile.

5. Google Summer of Code is well underway. Mentors are writing mid-term evaluations this week. Be sure to check out the great work being done by our interns, including [https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity], [http://vikramahujagsoc.blogspot.in/], [https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/313#discussion_r63140566], [http://musicblocks.net/2016/06/13/multiple-rhythm-rulers/], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAHUOBJ7fqk], and [https://iamutkarshtiwari.wordpress.com/].

6. On the flight back from Santiago, I wrote a Python script to convert glif files into Turtle Block projects. (Tip of the hat to Eli Heuer for providing me some sample glif files.) The results are quite fun (See [http://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/?file=a.tb]). Next up, a version where each knot and control point is represented by a turtle, and thus the glyph will be editable.

=== In the Community ===

7. Gary Stager has written a nice [https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-06-07-as-the-maker-movement-turns-45-gary-stager-pays-tribute-to-m-i-t-computing-pioneer-cynthia-solomon tribute to Cynthia Solomon] in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Maker Movement.

8. Please join us every 1st friday of the month at UTC 1900 on irc.freenode.net #sugar .

=== Tech Talk ===

9. Sam has announced the second release leading up to Sugar 0.110. Recent changes include:
* James Cameron fixed Gtk 3.6 compatibility and an edge case with bundle erasure
* Utkarsh Tiwari added a WiFi password visibility toggle
* Abhijit Patel added a PopWindow api for sugar toolkit
* Sebastian Silva fixed Broadway compatibility for `sugar-activity`
* The [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Tick_based_animation smooth animations feature] landed
* Git submodules are now supported by the bundlebuilder
* Improved Gtk 3.20 support
* Misc bug/interface fixes

Sam has been busy updating the [https://developer.sugarlabs.org/sugar3/sugar3.graphics.icon.html API documentation] and is soliciting feedback. Also, San has updated Fedora [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/samtoday/sugar/ COPR] with the new versions of the Sugar packages. Tarballs for sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3 and sugar-artwork are in the usual places on the download server [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/].

10. Tom Gilliard reports the availability of Sugar spins for Fedora24 ([http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/unofficial/releases/24/x86_64/Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-24-20160614.n.0.iso x86_64], [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/unofficial/releases/24/i386/Fedora-SoaS-Live-i386-24-20160614.n.0.iso i386]).

=== Sugar Labs ===

11. Please visit our [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet].

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== Community News archive ==

An '''[[Archive/Current Events|archive]]''' of this digest is available.

==Planet==

The Sugar Labs [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ Planet] is found [http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ here].

==Sugar in the news==
{|
|-
|align=right valogn=top|02 Nov 2016||'''BBVA''' – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puA2NH2uVQQ&feature=youtu.be Sociedad de la Creatividad - desafíos de hoy para el futuro] (video)
|-
|align=right valign=top|23 Oct 2016||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/la-computacion-es-una-herramienta-para-promover-agentes-de-cambio-1530653.html La computación es una herramienta para promover agentes de cambio]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Jul 2016||'''La Tercera''' – [http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/07/27-689886-9-walter-bender-cuando-todos-estan-de-acuerdo-con-todos-es-bastante-peligroso.shtml Cuando todos están de acuerdo con todos es bastante peligroso]
|-
|align=right valign=top|02 May 2016||'''Fedora Insider''' – [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Fedora-Based-Sugar-on-a-Stick-Is-One-Sweet-Desktop-83446.html Fedora-based Sugar on a Stick is one sweet desktop]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Feb 2016||'''www.montevideo.com''' – [http://www.montevideo.com.uy/auc.aspx?299096 DOS URUGUAYOS ENTRE GANADORES DEL CONCURSO GOOGLE CODE-IN]
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|align=right valign=top|28 Aug 2015||'''Musson Foundation''' – [https://youtu.be/HZtVv2nlP8Y Jamaica Girls Code] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|28 Aug 2015||'''Google Open Source''' – [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/08/my-sweet-adventures-with-sugar-labs-and.html My sweet adventures with Sugar Labs and Google Code-in]
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|align=right valign=top|09 May 2015||'''La Prensa''' – [http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2015/05/09/nacionales/1829026-de-alumnos-a-creadores-de-su-aprendizaje De alumnos a creadores de su aprendizaje]
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|align=right valign=top|30 Apr 2015||'''Diario La República''' – [http://www.republica.com.uy/investigador-sueco-visito-uruguay-para-conocer-el-proyecto-butia/514419/ Swedish researcher visited Uruguay to meet the project Butiá]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2015||'''Jamaica Observer''' – [http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/career/Future-coders_18811152 Future Coders]
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|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2015||'''Jamaica Information Service''' – [http://jis.gov.jm/state-minister-urges-young-women-enter-ict-sector/ State minister urges young women to enter ICT sector]
|-
|align=right valign=top|6 Feb 2015||'''Cromo''' – [http://www.cromo.com.uy/2015/02/el-chico-google/ El chico Google]
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|align=right valign=top|5 Feb 2015||'''Capital Noticias Canelones''' – [https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fvideo.php%3Fv%3D400864146741913%26set%3Dvb.246080195553643%26type%3D2%26theater&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFGeMoL69EHGf4Kudmoxo47duJf_Q El joven de Canelones, Ignacio Rodríguez, ganó nuevamente la competencia de programación de Google.] (video)
|-
|align=right valign=top|3 Feb 2015||'''montevideo.com''' – [http://www.montevideo.com.uy/auc.aspx?261076 Código joven]
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|align=right valign=top|1 Dec 2014||'''Google Open Source Blog''' – [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/12/3-2-1-code-in-inviting-teens-to.html 3, 2, 1 Code-in: Inviting teens to contribute to open source]
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|align=right valign=top|7 Oct 2014||'''Kauffman Report''' – [http://www.kauffman.org/blogs/policy-dialogue/2014/august/paraguay-thirsty-for-21st-century-education Paraguay Thirsty for 21st-Century Education]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Sept 2014||'''ANEP''' – [http://www.anep.edu.uy/anep/index.php/897-fecundo-intercambio-de-jovenes-de-todo-el-mundo-en-encuentro-de-programadores Fecundo intercambio de jovenes de todo el mundo en encuentro de programadores]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Jun 2014||'''Producción Nacional''' – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YbRCMRpstg Innovando con XO] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|28 Apr 2014||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/centinela/paraguay-educa-realiza-talleres-de-programacion-y-de-robotica-1238493.html Paraguay Educa realiza talleres de programación y de robótica]
|-
|align=right valign=top|21 Apr 2014||'''El Tiempo''' – [http://www.eltiempo.com/vida-de-hoy/educacion/entrevista-de-el-tiempo-a-walter-bender_13855020-4 'Cada niño podría ser un maestro del 'software': Walter Bender]
|-
|align=right valign=top|2 Apr 2014||'''vera.tv''' – [http://tv.vera.com.uy/video/7012 Antel vuelta a clases] (video)
|-
|align=right valign=top|4 Feb 2014||'''La Diaria''' – [http://ladiaria.com.uy/articulo/2014/2/en-codigo/ En código]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Jan 2014||'''Espectador''' – [http://www.espectador.com/sociedad/283177/entre-los-ganadores-del-concurso-anual-de-programacion-de-google-code-in-hay-nuevamente-un-joven-uruguayo Entre los ganadores del concurso anual de programación de Google Code-in hay nuevamente un joven uruguayo]
|-
|align=right valign=top|23 Jan 2014||'''El Pais''' – [http://www.elpais.com.uy/vida-actual/ensena-profesores-ahora-premia-google.html Le enseña a sus profesores y ahora lo premia Google]
|-
|align=right valign=top|20 Jan 2014||'''Google Open Source Blog''' – [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/ Google Code-in 2013 - drumroll please!]
|-
|align=right valign=top|28 Nov 2013||'''BBVA Paraguay''' – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_wTBs2ektI&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=bufferbac3c&utm_medium=twitter Turtle Art Day in Caacupé] (video)
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Oct 2013||'''ANTEL Integra''' – [http://www.integra.antel.com.uy/2013/10/educacion/turtle-art-la-plataforma-del-butia/ Turtle Art: la plataforma del Butiá]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/software-libre-es-tema-de-paneles-en-la-cumbre-627064.html Software libre es tema de paneles en la cumbre]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/programar-ayuda-a-los-ninos-a-pensar-628059.html Programar ayuda a los niños a pensar]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/hoy-es-el-dia-de-tortugarte-en-caacupe-627470.html Hoy es el Día de TortugArte, en Caacupé]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Oct 2013||'''ABC Color''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/las-tic-en-la-educacion-son-clave-para-el-desarrollo-del-pais-aseguran-627469.html Las TIC en la educación son clave para el desarrollo del país, aseguran]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Oct 2013||'''Cromo''' – [http://www.cromo.com.uy/2013/10/mhijo-el-programador/ M’hijo el programador]
|-
|align=right valign=top|08 Aug 2013||'''News1''' – [http://news1.kr/articles/1273059 Interview with former MIT Media Lab director] (in Korean)
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Jul 2013||'''RIT''' – [http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50113 ‘Sky Time’ video game selected for White House Champions of Change event July 23]
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|align=right valign=top|28 Apr 2013||'''BBC Mundo''' – [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2013/04/130422_programadores_adolescentes_am.shtml Los programadores adolescentes premiados por Google]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Feb 2013||'''el Neuvo Herald''' – [http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/02/07/1402134/joven-uruguayo-brilla-como-programador.html Joven uruguayo brilla como programador y es distinguido por Google]
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|align=right valign=top|06 Feb 2013||'''el Observador''' – [http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/242936/joven-uruguayo-gana-la-competencia-google-code/ Joven uruguayo gana la competencia Google Code] (Also see [http://people.sugarlabs.org/aguz/gci-press-interviews.html GCI press interviews])
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|align=right valign=top|Jan 2013||'''Raspberry Pi Geek''' – [http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/Archive/2013/01/Pi-with-Sugar-and-turtles-as-a-learning-tool/(language)/eng-US Pi with Sugar and turtles as a learning tool]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Sep 2012||'''NDTV''' – [http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/one-laptop-per-child-initiative-a-hit-in-rural-india-263867 One Laptop Per Child initiative a hit in rural India]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Jul 2012||'''Estado de S. Paulo''' – [http://blogs.estadao.com.br/radar-tecnologico/2012/07/08/para-educar/ Para educar]
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|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2012||'''Pacific Standard''' – [http://www.psmag.com/education/one-laptop-per-child-redux-38589/ OLPC Redux]
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|align=right valign=top|12 Apr 2012||'''Huffington Post''' – [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ketaki-desai/one-laptop-per-child_b_1417801.html Hult Global Case Challenge: One Laptop Per Child]
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|align=right valign=top|30 Mar 2012||'''newswise''' – [http://www.newswise.com/articles/sugar-on-a-stick-helps-kids-learn-how-to-learn “Sugar on a Stick” Helps Kids Learn How to Learn]
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|align=right valign=top|11 Jan 2012||'''Boston Herald''' – [http://bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1394672 One Laptop Per Child screening $100 tablet]
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|align=right valign=top|10 Jan 2012||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/charging-by-crank-bicycle-waterwheel-hands-on-with-the-olpc-xo-30-tablet.ars Crank, bicycle, and waterwheel: hands-on with the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Jan 2012||'''The Verge''' – [http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/8/2691733/olpc-xo-3-0-tablet-pictures-video OLPC XO 3.0 tablet preview: impressions, video, and pictures]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Jan 2012||'''The Verge''' – [http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2688604/olpc-xo-3-0-tablet-a-8-inch-tablet-with-android-and-sugar-options-for OLPC XO 3.0 tablet: an 8-inch tablet for $100, with Android and Sugar options for the children]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Dec 2011||'''Miller-McCune''' – [http://www.miller-mccune.com/education/one-laptop-per-child-redux-38589/ One Laptop Per Child Redux]
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|align=right valign=top|18 Oct 2011||'''BDU''' – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpzVnuFP0M&feature=channel_video_title Robotics in Uruguay] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|11 Aug 2011||'''Berlin.de''' – [http://www.berlin.de/projektzukunft/presse/aktuelle-pressemitteilung/detailseite/datum/2011/08/08/gewinner-des-berliner-landeswettbewerbs-zu-open-source-stehen-fest/ Gewinner des Berliner Landeswettbewerbs zu Open Source stehen fest]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Jul 2011||'''CCC Classic''' – [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:CCC-StartingLine.jpg Garmin-sugarlabs development cycling team at Crit starting line]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Jul 2011||'''CCC Classic''' – [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:CCC-after.jpg Garmin-sugarlabs development cycling team after Crit]
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|align=right valign=top|13 Apr 2011||'''framablog''' – [http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2011/04/13/sugar-labs-education-walter-bender L'expérience Sugar Labs préfigure-t-elle une révolution éducative du XXIe siècle?]
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|align=right valign=top|05 Apr 2011||'''Businesswire''' – [http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110405006842/en/Government-Peru-Expands-Laptop-Child-Program-Local The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child Program with Local Manufacturing]
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|align=right valign=top|31 Jan 2011||'''Sundance''' – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABp7GkLgN94 A Day in the Life – Peru]
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|align=right valign=top|01 Dec 2010||'''velonation''' – [http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/6564/Sugar-Labs-to-back-Garmin-Cervelos-development-team-in-unique-arrangement.aspx Sugar Labs to back Garmin-Cervelo’s development team in unique arrangement]
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|align=right valign=top|28 Oct 2010||'''UCR''' – [http://www.ucr.ac.cr/noticias/2010/10/28/nuevas-tecnologias-deben-estar-al-alcance-de-todos-los-ninos-y-ninas.html Nuevas tecnologías deben estar al alcance de todos los niños y niñas]
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|align=right valign=top|05 Oct 2010||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/10/05/one-ecosystem-per-child-walter-bender-and-olpc-reunite-to-enhance-learning-and-grow-economies-in-developing-nations/#comments One Ecosystem per Child]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Sep 2010||'''FLOSS Weekly''' – [http://twit.tv/floss134 Sugar Labs]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Aug 2010||'''ABC digital''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/165361-Indicadores-constatan-el-impacto-positivo-en-el-aprendizaje-de-ninos/ Indicadores constatan el impacto positivo en el aprendizaje de niños]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Jun 2010||'''ABC digital''' – [http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/137383-Xo-para-todas-las-escuelas-de-Caacup%C3%A9/ Xo para todas las escuelas de Caacupé]
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|align=right valign=top|21 Jun 2010||'''La Nacion''' – [http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias_um-312380.htm “Buscamos que los niños no solo usen softwares, sino que puedan crear uno”]
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|align=right valign=top|20 Jun 2010||'''UltimaHora.com''' – [http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/332297-La-laptop-une-a-padres,-alumnos-y-docentes La laptop une a padres, alumnos y docentes]
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|align=right valign=top|15 Jun 2010||'''The H''' – [http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OLPC-XO-1-5-software-updated-1022936.html OLPC XO-1.5 software updated]
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|align=right valign=top|10 Jun 2010||'''engadget''' – [http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/sugar-on-a-stick-hits-3-0-teaches-us-about-a-new-kind-of-fruit/ Sugar on a Stick hits 3.0, teaches us about a new kind of fruit]
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|align=right valign=top|27 May 2010||'''Pro Linux DE''' – [http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/15722/sugar-on-a-stick-v3-freigegeben.html Sugar on a Stick v3 freigegeben] (German)
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|align=right valign=top|27 May 2010||'''NY Times''' – [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/olpc-partners-with-marvell-to-launch-100-tablet/?src=busln One Laptop Per Child Project Works With Marvell to Produce a $100 Tablet]
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|align=right valign=top|27 May 2010||'''PC World''' – [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/197361/olpc_rules_out_windows_for_xo3.html OLPC Rules out Windows for XO-3]
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|align=right valign=top|03 May 2010||'''WXXI: Mixed Media''' – [http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1644648/news/Mixed.Media.Special.Edition.05-03-10 Interview with Walter Bender] (audio)
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|align=right valign=top|03 May 2010||'''Linux Magazine''' – [http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/OLPC-Computers-for-Palestinian-Refugee-Children OLPC Computers for Palestinian Refugee Children]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Apr 2010||'''National Science Foundation''' – [http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116638 XO Laptops Inspire Learning In Birmingham, Alabama] ([http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxOg-dt6rw video])
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|align=right valign=top|02 Apr 2010||<div class="NavFrame collapsed"><div class="NavHead">'''Dailymotion''' – [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xct0lp_un-jour-a-paris-ensembles-pour-olpc_tech Un jour... à Paris... ensembles pour OLPC et Sugar...] (video) </div><div class="NavContent">{{#widget:Daily Motion
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|align=right valign=top|15 Mar 2010||'''nbc13.com''' – [http://www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/video_birmingham_city_students_opt_to_spend_spring_break_in_class_xo_comput/138224/ Birmingham City students opt to spend spring break in class, XO computer camps] (video)
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|align=right valign=top|18 Feb 2010||'''LWN''' – [https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/374790/8dc41b030f4562b1/ Karma targets easier creation of educational software]
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|align=right valign=top|05 Feb 2010||'''iprofesional''' – [http://tecnologia.iprofesional.com/notas/93943-La-PC-barata-de-Negroponte-desembarca-en-la-Argentina-para-pelear-contra-Intel.html La PC barata de Negroponte desembarca en la Argentina para pelear contra Intel]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Jan 2010||'''AALF''' – [http://www.aalf.org/articles/view.php?ArticleID=86 Open Systems for Broader Change]
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|align=right valign=top|03 Jan 2010||'''Educacion 2.0''' – [http://www.educdoscero.com/2009/12/plan-ceibal-el-libro.html PLAN CEIBAL, El Libro]
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|align=right valign=top|14 Dec 2009||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/12/14/sugar-gets-sweeter-former-olpc-exec-walter-bender-on-netbooks-e-books-blueberry-and-cloudberry/?single_page=true Sugar gets sweeter]
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|align-right valign=top|10 Dec 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/12/sugar-software-environment-gets-sweeter-with-version-2.ars Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Dec 2009||'''Wired''' – [http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/12/new-sugar-on-a-stick-brings-much-needed-improvements/ New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Dec 2009||'''engadget''' – [http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/sugar-on-a-stick-os-goes-to-2-0-gets-blueberry-coating-and-crea/ Sugar on a Stick OS goes to 2.0, gets Blueberry coating and creamy Fedora 12 center (video)]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Dec 2009||'''Teleread.org''' – [http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/07/sugar-on-a-stick-what-it-means-for-e-books-and-education/ Sugar on a Stick: What it means for e-books and education]
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|align=right valign=top|27 Nov 2009||'''CNET Japan''' – [http://japan.cnet.com/special/story/0,2000056049,20404126,00.htm 「コードを見せて、もっと良くなるよ」と言える子どもが生まれる--Sugar Labsが描く未来]
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|align=right valign=top|16 Nov 2009||'''zanichelli''' – [http://scienze.zanichelli.it/notizie/2009/11/16/intervista-walter-bender-e-sugar-labs/ software libero a scuola]
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|align=right valign=top|12 Nov 2009||'''opensuse.org''' – [http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing/Team/11_2_Launch/Announcement openSUSE 11.2 Released]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Nov 2009||'''My Broadband News''' – [http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10351.html Mandriva 2010 packs a punch [and Sugar]]
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|align=right valign=top|06 Nov 2009||'''GhanaWeb''' – [http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=171387 Open education and an IT-enabled economic growth in Ghana: Musings of a dutiful citizen]
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|align=right valign=top|26 Oct 2009||'''Linux Magazine ES''' – [http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/54/078-083_SugarLM54.pdf Software Libre como apoyo al aprendizaje]
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|align=right valign=top|09 Oct 2009||'''interdisciplines''' – [http://www.interdisciplines.org/mobilea2k/papers/2 OLPC and Sugar: mobility through the community]
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|align=right valign=top|08 Oct 2009||'''IBM developerWorks''' – [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-10th-anniversary/index.html 10 important Linux developments everyone should know about]
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|align=right valign=top|01 Oct 2009||'''OLPC France''' – [http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_Walter_Bender_au_SugarCamp Interview Walter Bender au SugarCamp]
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|align=right valign=top|25 Sep 2009||'''The Inquirer''' – [http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1555781/one-laptop-per-child-marches One Laptop per Child marches on]
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|align=right valign=top|18 Sep 2009||'''Groklaw''' – [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090918110925298 The Role of Free Software in Education]
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|align=right valign=top|18 Sep 2009||'''Reuters''' – [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS97755+18-Sep-2009+PRN20090918 Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation Celebrate Software Freedom Day]
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|align=right valign=top|17 Sep 2009||'''ICTDev.org''' – [http://ictdev.org/pulse/20090916/ict4d/dreaming-again-one-laptop-child Dream Again with One Laptop per Child]
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|align=right valign=top|26 Aug 2009||'''Latinux''' – [http://www.latinuxmagazine.com/ediciones/pdf/latinux-magazine-VolINum1-beta.pdf Azúcar en una memoria USB]
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|align=right valign=top|03 Aug 2009||'''Wired: Geek Dad''' – [http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/08/inventing-a-new-paradigm-sugarlabs-and-the-sugar-ui/ Inventing a New Paradigm: SugarLabs and the Sugar UI]
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|align=right valign=top|30 Jul 2009||'''Zanichelli''' – [http://scienze.zanichelli.it/notizie/2009/06/30/sugar-on-a-stick-imparare-insieme/ Sugar on a Stick: imparare insieme]
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|align=right valign=top|23 Jul 2009||'''Everything USB''' – [http://www.everythingusb.com/recycle-usb-17077.html RecycleUSB.com - Donate your Flash Drives for a Good Cause]
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|align=right valign=top|22 Jul 2009||'''OLPC France''' – [http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/07/sugar-mauvaise-presse-et-mise-au-point/ Sugar : mauvaise presse et mise au point]
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|align=right valign=top|13 Jul 2009||'''Spiegel Online''' – [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,634718,00.html Das zuckersüße Leichtbau-Linux]
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|align=right valign=top|07 Jul 2009||'''ComputerWorldUK''' – [http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2334&blogid=14 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: a Study in Contrasts]
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|align=right valign=top|06 Jul 2009||'''Windows Forest''' – [http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/article/2009/06/30/olpcusb.html USBメモリなどから“OLPC”用のOSを利用できる「Sugar on a Stick」が無償公開]
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|align=right valign=top|02 Jul 2009||'''Howard County Library''' – [http://hclibrary.org/opensource/?p=228 Sugar on a Stick]
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|align=right valign=top|27 Jun 2009||'''Deutschlandfunk''' – [http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/989765/ Süßes für die Kleinen: Sugar ist Linux speziell für Kinder] (in Deutsch)
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|align=right valign=top|26 Jun 2009||'''EduTech''' – [http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/sugar-on-a-stick-and-other-delectables-praise-for-the-lowly-usb-drive Sugar on a stick, and other delectables (praise for the lowly USB drive)]
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|align=right valign=top|26 Jun 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/sugar-on-a-stick-brings-sweet-taste-of-linux-to-classrooms.ars Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Jun 2009||'''BBC''' – [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm OLPC software to power aging PCs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Jun 2009||'''Technology Review''' – [http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22919/ $100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|15 Jun 2009||'''TechSavvyKids''' – [http://techsavvykids.podomatic.com/player/web/2009-06-15T11_15_29-07_00 Episode 10 FOSSVT: Sugar on a Stick] (audio)
|-
|align=right valign=top|10 Jun 2009||'''LWN.net''' – [http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/336910/3878a88c0c27f977/ Sugar moves from the shadow of OLPC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 May 2009||'''LWN.net''' – [http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334911/cf451c615cfdaa33/ Activities and the move to context-oriented desktops] (subscriber link)
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 May 2009||'''Business Wire''' – [http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090527006237&newsLang=en Dailymotion Launches Support for Open Video Formats and Video HTML Tag]
|-
|align=right valign=top|01 May 2009||'''Guysoft''' – [http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/nokia-n810-running-olpc-sugar/ Nokia N810 Running OLPC Sugar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|29 Apr 2009||'''El Mercurio''' – [http://www.mer.cl/modulos/catalogo/Paginas/2009/04/29/MERSTVS017AA2904.htm?idnoticia=CC116HNVJ120090429 Así se vivió la fiesta del software libre]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 Apr 2009||'''ostatic''' – [http://ostatic.com/blog/sugar-on-a-stick-good-for-kids-minds-and-school-budgets Sugar on a Stick: Good for Kids' Minds (and School Budgets)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|25 Apr 2009||'''Free Software Magazine''' – [http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bittersweet_facts_about_olpc_and_sugar The Bittersweet Facts about OLPC and Sugar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|24 Apr 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/sugar-labs-releases-beta-of-live-usb-learning-environment.ars First taste: Sugar on a Stick learning platform]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 Apr 2009||'''Betanews''' – [http://www.betanews.com/article/Beta-of-Live-USB-Sugar-OS-opens/1240409113#talkback Beta of Live USB Sugar OS opens]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 Mar 2009||'''Mass High Tech''' – [http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/03/23/weekly3-Google-promotes-summer-open-source-internships.html Google promotes summer open-source internships]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Mar 2009||'''Metropolis''' – [http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20090318/a-good-argument A Good Argument]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Mar 2009||'''Laptop Magazine''' – [http://blog.laptopmag.com/sugar-labs-new-version-of-sugar-learning-platform-is-netbook-and-pc-ready Sugar Labs’ New Version of Sugar Learning Platform Is Netbook and PC Ready]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Mar 2009||'''Market Watch''' – [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sugar-labs-nonprofit-announces-new/story.aspx?guid={EF4B8934-0046-465F-AD4D-E82FBCE8F1EC}&dist=msr_7 Sugar Labs Nonprofit Announces New Version of Sugar Learning Platform for Children, Runs on Netbooks and PCs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Feb 2009||'''OLPC Learning Club – DC''' – [http://olpclearningclub.org/meetings/learning-learning-on-a-stick/ Learning Learning on a Stick]
|-
|align=right valign=top|05 Feb 2009||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/02/05/sugar-beyond-the-xo-laptop-walter-bender-on-olpc-sucrose-084-and-sugar-on-a-stick/ Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop: Walter Bender on OLPC, Sucrose 0.84, and “Sugar on a Stick”]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 Jan 2009||'''Linus Magazine''' – [http://www.linux-magazine.com/content/view/full/32999 Sugar Defies OLPC Cutbacks]
|-
|align=right valign=top|19 Jan 2009||'''Feeding the Penguins''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ The status of Sugar, post-OLPC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Jan 2009||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/xo_acer_aspire_one_thin_client_sugar.html Sugar on Acer Aspire One & Thin Client via LTSP]
|-
|align=right valign=top|12 Jan 2009||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/01/thoughts-about-olpc-cutbacks.html thoughts about olpc cutbacks]
|-
|align=right valign=top|07 Jan 2009||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jan 2009||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/microsoft/how_microsoft_got_xp_on_the_xo.html An Inside Look at how Microsoft got XP on the XO]
|-
|align=right valign=top|30 Dec 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/sugar_labs_status_at_six_month.html Sugar Labs Status at Six Months]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 Dec 2008||'''The GNOME Project''' – [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Dec 2008||'''Feeding the Penguins''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/sugar-git-repository-change/ Sugar git repository change]
|-
|align=right valign=top|14 Dec 2008||'''NPR''' – [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96825852 Laptop Deal Links Rural Peru To Opportunity, Risk (Part 2)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|13 Dec 2008||'''NPR''' – [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96510072 Laptops May Change The Way Rural Peru Learns (Part 1)]
|-
|align=right valign=top|09 Dec 2008||'''SFC''' – [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/09/sugar/ Sugar Labs joins Conservancy]
|-
|align=right valign=top|31 Oct 2008||'''Linux Devices''' – [http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3023016259.html An OLPC dilemma: Linux or Windows?]
|-
|align=right valign=top|10 Oct 2008||'''Feeding the Penguin''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/sugar-on-ubuntu/ Sugar on Ubuntu]
|-
|align=right valign=top|21 Sep 2008||'''Groklaw''' – [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080920181151638 Interview with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Sep 2008||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/09/sugar-labs.html Sugar Labs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 Sep 2008||'''Open Source''' – [http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/562 Sugar everywhere]
|-
|align=right valign=top|28 Aug 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/education/an_answer_to_question_22.html An answer to Walter Bender's question 22]
|-
|align=right valign=top|20 Aug 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugarizing_it_intel_classmate_2.html Sugarize it: Intel Classmate 2]
|-
|align=right valign=top|08 Aug 2008||'''Investor's Business Daily''' – [http://www.investors.com/Tech/TechExecQA.asp?artid=303074322503278 'Learning' Vs. Laptop Was Issue]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Aug 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/people/leadership/23_questions_on_technology_education.html Twenty-three Questions on Technology and Education]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Jul 2008||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html evaluating Sugar in the developed world]
|-
|align=right valign=top|28 Jun 2008||'''OLPC News''' – [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/cutting_edge_sugar_ui.html A Cutting Edge Sugar User Interface Demo]
|-
|align=right valign=top|18 Jun 2008||'''PC World''' – [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147265/olpc_spinoff_developing_ui_for_intels_classmate_pc.html OLPC Spin-off Developing UI for Intel's Classmate PC]
|-
|align=right valign=top|17 Jun 2008||'''Datamation''' – [http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3753376_1 If Business Succeeds with GNU/Linux, Why Not OLPC?]
|-
|align=right valign=top|11 Jun 2008||'''LinuxInsider''' – [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Sugar-Labs-Walter-Bender-on-the-Sweetness-of-Collaborative-Learning-63354.html The Sweetness of Collaborative Learning]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jun 2008||'''Bill Kerr''' – [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/untangling-free-sugar-and.html untangling Free, Sugar, and Constructionism]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jun 2008||'''Open Education''' – [http://www.openeducation.net/2008/06/03/walter-bender-discusses-sugar-labs-foundation/ Walter Bender Discusses Sugar Labs Foundation]
|-
|align=right valign=top|06 Jun 2008||'''BusinessWeek''' – [http://prod-blogs.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/06/olpc_the_educat.html OLPC: The Educational Philosophy Controversy]
|-
|align=right valign=top|05 Jun 2008||'''Code Culture''' – [http://radian.org/notebook/distraction-machine The Distraction Machine]
|-
|align=right valign=top|05 Jun 2008||'''BusinessWeek''' – [http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/06/olpc_the_open-s.html OLPC: The Open-Source Controversy]
|-
|align=right valign=top|27 May 2008||'''The New York Times''' – [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/why-walter-bender-left-one-laptop-per-child-edited-hold-for-wed-am/ Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child]
|-
|align=right valign=top|26 May 2008||'''ars technica''' – [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080526-former-olpc-software-president-wants-to-expand-sugars-reach.html OLPC software maker splits from X0 hardware, goes solo]
|-
|align=right valign=top|22 May 2008||'''BetaNews''' – [http://www.betanews.com/article/Linux_startup_Sugar_Labs_in_informal_talks_with_four_laptop_makers/1211467857 Linux start-up Sugar Labs in informal talks with four laptop makers]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''OSTATIC''' – [http://ostatic.com/162220-blog/olpcs-open-source-sugar-platform-aims-for-new-hardware OLPC's Open Source Sugar Platform Aims for New Hardware]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''PCWorld''' – [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146002/bender_forms_group_to_promote_olpcs_sugar_ui.html Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC's Sugar UI]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''MHT''' – [http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2008/05/12/daily35.html Bender jumps from OLPC, founds Sugar Labs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''News.com''' – [http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9946242-7.html Sugar Labs will make OLPC interface available for Eee PC, others]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''Feeding the Peguins''' – [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/the-future-of-sugar/ The future of Sugar]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''Sugar list''' – [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-May/005800.html A few thoughts on SugarLabs]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''xconomy''' – [http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/16/bender-creates-sugar-labs-new-foundation-to-adapt-olpcs-laptop-interface-for-other-machines/ Bender Creates Sugar Labs—New Foundation to Adapt OLPC’s Laptop Interface for Other Machines]
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''BBC''' – [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7405346.stm '$100 laptop' platform moves on]
|-
|align=right valign=top|15 May 2008||'''OLPC wiki''' – [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/AnnounceFAQ Dual-boot XO] Claim: OLPC will not work to port Sugar to Windows.
|-
|align=right valign=top|16 May 2008||'''Softpedia''' – [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bender-Launches-Sugar-Labs-for-Better-Development-of-OLPC-039-s-Sugar-UI-85881.shtml Bender Launches Sugar Labs for Better Development of OLPC's Sugar UI]
|}

==Press releases==
http://www.sugarlabs.org/press

[[Category:General public]]
</noinclude>

Google Code In 2016

2016-11-19T07:29:19Z

Samson Goddy: /* Documentation/Training */

<noinclude>[[Category:Trac Reference]][[Category:Idea]]
[[Category: GCI2015]]</noinclude>

This is the project page for the Sugar Labs application to [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ Google Code In 2016]. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due the first week of November 2016.

== Message to potential participants ==

It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.

Es importante que obtengas el permiso de tus padres para participar.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/contest-rules

Please see the Contest Rules for Eligibility and Registration process.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/contest-rules

'''Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: [[Google Code In 2015/Participate#Students]].'''

Also, you will likely need to set up the Sugar development environment. See http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html for details. Further information about contributing to the project can be found here: http://developer.sugarlabs.org/

Please don't hesitate to ask questions on our irc channel (#sugar on irc.freenode.net) or on the sugar-devel list: sugar-devel AT lists.sugarlabs DOT org

== Why we are participating ==

Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.

== Some background from GCI ==

[See https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/getting-started]

===Open Source Fundamentals ===

You can contribute without being a coder!
You do not have to be a coder to contribute to open source. There are many different skill sets needed to help an open source community thrive:
;Documentation: If you are a good writer and enjoy attention to detail then you might want to contribute by writing or editing documentation. Documentation is a huge part of a successful open source project. Organizations need documentation to help attract new contributors as it helps them see what the codebase looks like and where things are and what the plan is for the project.
;Research: An organization may need help crunching numbers or sorting through pages of documents to better understand what the users want or need. There are many different types of tasks that students could work on that are very important to the health of the project.
;Outreach: If you have an outgoing personality and like being around and talking to people, take a look at the outreach tasks. Outreach tasks often include hosting meetups in your local community or creating a plan on how people around the globe can host a meetup about the project in their local communities.
;Training: You could create a YouTube video discussing a new feature of the project or maybe some basics on what the project does so people who haven’t heard about it can understand the project and get involved.
;User Interface: User interface can include many types of tasks including designing new aspects of a webpage or creating a new logo for the project. It may also include various accessibility opportunities to help make the project easier for people who are blind.
;Other: If you have an idea that may help an organization, reach out to them and let them know! Sometimes the best task is one that the organization hasn’t even considered yet.
=== Collaboration===
Open source is not just about coding but working with other people to find the best solution. Being a part of the community is an essential part of success in Google Code-in. Mentors tell us every year that their best students were the ones who worked hard on their projects but also participated on IRC and helped answer questions other students had. Collaborate with the community and mentors on the #sugar channel in the irc.freenode.net network.

=== Quality over Quantity ===

It’s not about being the student who completes the most tasks, that only gets you to the top 10 to be reviewed, it doesn’t mean you will be a grand prize winner. We have had quite a few students who completed the most tasks for their organization yet were not named as Grand Prize Winners because they did everything solo and didn’t get involved in the community or think about the health of the project as a whole, they just kept completing task after task like a machine. If you actively participate in the community then you not only feel the camaraderie that comes with working as a team but you become committed to making the project better for everyone.

== Some basics about Sugar Labs ==

For some basics about the project, see [http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/docs/Learning-to-Change-the-World-Chapter-4.pdf Chapter 4 of Learning to Change the World].

=== Getting started with coding ===

Sugar development is in either Python or Javascript.

* You will need knowledge of Python and GTK (See http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/);
* or Javascript/HTML5;
* and then the basic of Sugar development (See http://www.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/);
* and to have a Sugar development environment running (See http://developer.sugarlabs.org).

Please note that you must run [http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#introduction pep8] and pyflakes on your code ''before'' submitting your patches.

=== Getting started with GIT ===

Some knowledge of git is important as your work will be submitted to our git repository (https://github.com/sugarlabs). The basic mechanism is a pull request (PR), which is detailed in [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/contributing.md.html].

GitHub provides a tutorial (See https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1), although there are many others as well.

Note that our bug tracker is http:bugs.sugarlabs.org.

=== Getting started with Sugarizer ===

Sugar Web Framework is the JavaScript Framework for Sugar [https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/web-architecture.md]. Sugarizer [http://sugarizer.org] is a subset of Sugar that allow runing activities developed with Sugar Web Framework on any web browser. Sugarizer is also available as Android, iOS, Firefox OS and Chrome Web App.

== This is a stub for 25+ example tasks new for GCI 2016. ==

# Investigate Google Fuzzing tool (Research)
# Decimal places in Calculate activity (Code: Pyhton)
# Music Blocks examples (Documentation/Training)
# Space team activity (Code: Python)
# Bugzilla clean up (QA)
# Teach me how to draw activity (Code: Javascript)
# Manage order of blocks in Turtle plugins (Code: Javascript)
# Plugin manager for Turtle JS (Code: Javascript)
# Refactor pitch-time matrix code (Code: Javascript)
# Fix scrolling problem with pitch-time matrix (Code: Javascript)
# Refactor Training activity to be non-specific to Australia (Code: Python)
# Refactor Turtle graphics to adopt look of Javascript version (Code: Python)
# Improvements to Lilypond interface (Code: Javascript)
# Add drum icons in Music Blocks (Design)
# Add more synths/sound fonts to Music Blocks (Research)
# Add ABC import to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Add ABC export to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Add Lilypond import to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Refactor Planet server for Turtle Blocks (Code: Python)
# Research graphics caching in Turtle (Research)
# Wiki cleanup (Documentation)
# Make trash areas smaller on Turtle (Code: Javascript)
# Write a Turtle plugin (Code: Javascript)
# Write a Pinetrest plugin for the Sugar Journal (Code: Python)
# Investigate CSound/Python version of Music Blocks (Code: Python)
# Add synth lab widget to Music Blocks (Code: Javascript)
# Backport a web plugin from Turtle Blocks JS to Python (Code: Python)
# Turtle write directly to the canvas instead of using Easel (Code: Javascript)
# Visualize turtle movements in Pitch-Time Matrix (Code: Javascript)
# Visualize turtle pitch in Music Blocks project (Code: Music Blocks)
# Visualize turtle pitch in Music Blocks widget (Code: Javascript)
# Synonym-Antonym activity to classify them correctly (Code: Javascript)
# Create a zoo activity - Differentiate between animals, birds, reptiles etc (Code: Javascript)
# Laser mirror reflection game activity



===Beginner Tasks===
We have several tasks that are targeting people new to Sugar and Sugar development. You are only allowed to complete two beginner tasks.
{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title !! Description !! Hours !! Mentor !! Tag
|-
|Install the Sugar development environment||Following the instruction at [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html], set up the Sugar development environment. Submit a screen-shot of the development environment running to complete this task. You can get help on our irc channel should you run into any difficulties.|| 48 || all || beginner
|-
|Install Sugar in a virtual machine||If your intention is to focus on documentation and training or outreach, then you may want to install Sugar in a virtual machine. Following the instructions at [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Tutorials][http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Virtual_machines][http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#Virtual_Machines_on_all_platforms], set up the Sugar development environment. Submit a screen-shot of the development environment running to complete this task. You can get help on our irc channel should you run into any difficulties.|| 48 || all || beginner
|-
|Create an example program in Turtle Blocks||We distribute examples with the Turtle Blocks programming environment. Create your example -- some art, some geometry, some multimedia, a simple game -- to be included with the package. Deliverable is a Turtle Blocks project file to be reviewed by Sugar Labs designers and educators. (Use either the Python version bundled with Sugar or the Javascript version at [http://turtle.sugarlabs.org Turtle Blocks JS]) One source of inspiration might be [https://www.pinterest.com/walterbender/turtle-art/]. || 48 || all || beginner
|-
|Create an example program in Music Blocks||We distribute examples with the [http://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks Music Blocks] programming environment. Create your example -- some music (and art) -- to be included with the package. Deliverable is a Music Blocks project file to be reviewed by Sugar Labs designers and educators. || 48 || all || beginner
|-
|Create a simple machine in Physics||We distribute examples with the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193 Physics Activity]. Create a simple machine we can include in the examples collection -- some interesting mechanical device. Deliverable is a Physics activity project file to be reviewed by Sugar Labs designers and educators. || 48 || all || beginner
|}

===Documentation/Training===
Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title !! Description !! Hours !! Mentor !! Tag
|-
|Update the Sugar Labs entry in Wikipedia|| The Sugar Labs entry in Wikipedia could use some TLC. Please bring it up to date. || 48 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Update the Sugar Labs wiki page on git||The [[Activity Team/Git Tutorial]] is out of date: we have migrated to GitHub. Please update the page to reflect the GitHub workflow. See http://developer.sugarlabs.org/contributing.md.html for more details || 48 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Turtle Blocks Programming Guide 1|| Add live examples missing from the [https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide to Programming with Turtle Blocks]. || 48 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Turtle Blocks Programming Guide 2|| Extend the [https://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide to Programming with Turtle Blocks] to include more examples. || 48 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Music Blocks Programming Guide|| Extend the [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md Guide to Programming with Music Blocks] to include more examples. || 48 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Turtle Blocks Classroom Guide||Write a guide on how to use Turtle Blocks in the classroom -- a manual for teachers who might want to engage in programming. Please consult with a classroom teacher when creating the guide.|| 96 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Music Blocks Classroom Guide||Write a guide on how to use Music Blocks in the classroom -- a manual for teachers who might want to engage in programming with Music. Please consult with a music teacher when creating the guide.|| 96 || Walter || Documentation
|-
|Sugarizer Server API Documentation||Write a documentation for the REST API for Sugarizer Server. Include some GET/POST/DELETE sample inside || 48|| Lionel || Documentation
|-
|Sugarizer Server Collaboration Tutorial||Write a tutorial on how to connect a Sugarizer Client to a Sugarizer Server and how to use it to do Journal sharing and collaboration || 24 || Lionel || Documentation
|-
|Sugarizer wiki page||Write a Sugarizer page in the SugarLabs wiki || 24 || Lionel || Documentation
|-
|Sugarizer wiki page||Create a Sugarizer entry in Wikipedia|| 48 || All || Documentation
|}

For information about how to create help pages for activities

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Help/Contribute

https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/blob/master/source/restructuredtext.rst

https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/blob/master/source/collaborating.rst

===Outreach/Research===
Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title !! Description !! Hours !! Mentor !! Tag
|-
|Turtle Art Day||Organize a Turtle Art Day in your community. Details at [http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/Guia_Ingles_10-08-2013.pdf]||96||Walter||Outreach
|-
|Promo Video||Create a 60 second promotional video on Sugar and its community.||96||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|Hangout Q&A||Host a Question and Answer (Q&A)/Information session about Sugar on Google Hangouts. Invite friends, family, peers, as well as academic and community leaders.||96||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|Local Lab Wiki||Create/update a "Local Lab" page for your area/country. Fill in the page with information on the Sugar community in your area. This could include contact information, mailing lists, events and any other information that may be relevant. ||96||Mariah||Research
|-
|How-To Guide||Create a guide for how to host your own DIY Sugar on a Stick party. The guide should include at least two promotional item designs (like a sticker, brochure, flyer). Feel free to change the name to something else. ||96||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|DIY Sugar on a Stick||Organize and host a Sugar on a Stick party where you show people how to make their own Sugar on a Stick. Then, hold a workshop on the basics of using Sugar. Take pictures to document the experience. Post a blog about it.||96||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|Potential Users||Gather information on who could benefit from using or knowing about Sugar. Look at non-profit organizations, academic institutions, the home-school community. Build a database including contact information, website URLS, social media profiles, and any other relevant information.||96||Mariah||Research
|-
|Sugar Tools & Resources||Find the resources that people are using throughout the world to learn about or teach Sugar Activities. This can include manuals, teacher guides, YouTube videos, blogs, etc. Document what type of resource it is, the URL for the resource, the target audience of the resource and whether it is up-to-date.||96||Mariah||Research
|-
|Introduce Yourself||Write a blog post about why you are participating in Google Code-In, what you hope to learn from the GCI and how Sugar Labs can help you. Include a picture. Share blog post through social media.||48||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|Interview a GCI Peer||Interview another Sugar Labs GCI participant. Ask them questions about how they are selecting/completing tasks, any successes/struggles they are having, etc. Post on participant blog. Share blog post through social media.||48||Mariah||Outreach
|--
|Interview an Educator||Find an educator who is using open-source educational software to teach. Interview the educator about their experience as an educator and why they are using open-source software to teach. Post about it on the blog, include a picture. Share the blog post through social media and with the educator.||48||Mariah||Outreach|
|-
|Review an Activity||Write a review about an Activity in Sugar. Explain how you use it, what kind of project you could do with it, any bugs it might have, etc. Post your review. The review can be a video review or a written review with screenshots. Share the blog post through social media.||48||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|Women in the Sugar Community||Create a 10-minute presentation celebrating at least three women within the Sugar community and/or the open-source community at large. Write a blog post about what you learned when making this presentation and include a link to the presentation.||48||Mariah||Outreach
|-
|Wrap-Up||Write a blog post about your experience as a GCI participant for Sugar Labs. Share your thoughts on what was successful and what can be improved for next year's participants. Feel free to include pictures, videos, links to work that you are most proud of. Share the post through social media.||48||Mariah||Outreach
|}

===User Interface===
Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title !! Description !! Hours !! Mentor !! Tag
|-
|Icon design for Music Blocks||The icons used for the main toolbar in Music Block don't "sing" to me. This task is to design better icons both in terms of expressing the intention of the button and visual engagement of the user. || 72 || Walter, Devin || UI, design
|-
|Classroom collaboration|| Sugar provides tools for sharing and collaborating among students, e.g., peer editing of texts, chat, group programming, etc. Survey the list of collaboration-enabled activities and categorize them by whether they are learning utilities, classroom management utilities, communication, games, etc. || 72 || Walter || UI, pedagogy
|-
|Classroom management 1|| Sugar provides only a few tools for classroom management, e.g., the Share With Teacher webservice. Survey classroom services that run either as web services or native in desktop environments.|| 72 || Walter || UI, pedagogy
|-
|Classroom management 2|| Sugar provides only a few tools for classroom management, e.g., the Share With Teacher webservice. Which of the results from the Classroom management 1 task would be useful to incorporate into the Sugar ecosystem? Evaluation should include s description of the service and a sketch of how the user interaction would work. || 72 || Walter || UI, pedagogy
|-
|Sugar on a small screen|| Sugar was originally designed as a desktop environment for small computers. But these days, many children have access to smart phones rather than computers. This task is to make some sketches as to how Sugar might be redesigned for a smart phone form-factor. A series of annotated sketches should be made as part of completing this task. || 72 || Walter || UI
|-
|Programming on a small screen|| We put an emphasis on programming in Sugar. One popular programming environment is Turtle Blocks. Recently we made a Javascript version that can run in a browser (and hence on a smart phone). How should the UI change to accommodate that form-factor? A series of annotated sketches should be made as part of completing this task. || 72 || Walter || UI
|-
|End-user customization||We try to encourage our users to re-imagine Sugar as they'd like it. Users can change the icon layout, the background screen, and the XO avatar. What else should be made easier to customize with minimal programming? || 72 || Walter || UI
|-
|Sugarizer marketing web page||Create a marketing web page to explain what is Sugarizer and replace the [http://sugarizer.org current one] || 40 || Lionel || UI
|}

===Quality Assurance===
Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
!Title !! Description !! Hours !! Mentor !! Tag
|-
|Behavior diff for Turtle Blocks JS|| [https://turtle.sugarlabs.org Turtle Blocks JS] is a Javascript port from the Python version of the activity. The goal of this task is to document any differences in behavior between the two versions.||72||Walter||QA
|-
|Unit tests for JS activities||We have no unit tests for our Javascript activities. This task is to investigate approaches to unit testing in Javascript||72||Walter||QA
|-
|Test Sugar on a Stick || Help test the latest Sugar on a Stick on Fedora (F24). See https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_24#fedora_24, [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/unofficial/releases/24/ #fedora-qa (freenode IRC). Deliverable is a report of the major Sugar features, e.g., desktop, journal, collaboration, and the core activities, e.g., Write, Browse, Turtle, Chat, Speak, etc. || 48 || Satellit || QA, SoaS
|-
|fix f25 Soas|f25 Soas currently does not login to liveuser.|| see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1363915, https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/25/final/buglist], Task is to fix this bug||72|| || QA
|-
|Interview a teacher|| Ultimately the quality of our work is determined by our end users. Interview a classroom teacher who is using Sugar and solicit feedback about what works, what doesn't. || 72 || Walter || QA
|-
|Interview a student|| Ultimately the quality of our work is determined by our end users. Interview a student who is using Sugar in school and solicit feedback about what works, what doesn't. || 72 || Walter || QA
|}





== Mentors ==
;NOTES TO MENTORS:
:Please refer to [[Google Code In 2016/Participate#Mentors]] for details regarding enrolling as a mentor.
:Please add yourself to the list below.
:Feel free to add new tasks to the table above.

Depending on the project, we will assign multiple mentors from our various development and support teams.

* Walter Bender - also org admin for GCI
* Sam Parkinson
* Ignacio Rodriguez
* Lionel Laské
* Batchu Venkat Vishal
* Ibiam Chihurumnaya
* Utkarsh Tiwari
* Abhijit Patel
* Julio Reyes
* Ezequiel Pereira

Sugar Labs/Members

2015-10-25T18:48:02Z

Samson Goddy: /* Applying for membership */

<noinclude>[[Category:Policy]]</noinclude>
== Sugar Labs Membership ==
The Sugar Labs [[Sugar Labs/Members/List|members list]] consists of all the contributors to the Sugar project. Members can run for election to the [[Oversight Board|Oversight Board]], vote in the elections for the Oversight Board, and suggest [[Sugar Labs/Governance#Sugar Labs Referenda|referenda]].

Any "significant and sustained" contributor to Sugar Labs is eligible for membership. Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition, a [[Sugar_Labs/Sugar_contributors|contributor]] generally must have contributed to a non-trivial improvement of the Sugar project or Sugar Labs activity. Contributions may be code, documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, ''running a Sugar deployment'', or other non-trivial activities which benefit Sugar Labs. Membership eligibility is an individual determination: while contributions made in the course of employment will be considered, they will generally be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather than accruing to all employees of a "contributing" corporation. The Membership and Elections Committee will oversee membership applications (Please apply by sending email to ''members at sugarlabs.org'').

The Membership and Elections Committee will review the membership list for currency once per year. Any member may join this committee, which is currently staffed by [[User:Sebastian/FuenteLibre|Sebastian Silva]], [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Samson_Goddy Samson Goddy], and [mailto:caryl@laptop.org Caryl Bigenho].

== Applying for membership ==
All submissions MUST be sent via email to '''members''' at '''sugarlabs.org'''. Submissions sent to other email addresses or sent after the deadline will not be processed for this year's election. Someone on the '''MEC''' will reply to your query within 2 business days. If you don't get a reply after a week, please contact the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Samson_Goddy Samson Goddy] or [[cbigenho@hotmail.com|Caryl Bigenho]].

In your email, please include:
* Your name
* Your [[IRC]] / Wiki / [http://git.sugarlabs.org Gitorious] username
* A description of your contribution to Sugar Labs, links are preferable.

== Currency assurance policy ==

In order to ensure that the Sugar Labs Membership list is reflective of the current status of the project and its participants, once a year members will be asked to confirm that they still wish to be a Sugar Labs Member. If this request bounces, or if a request has not been replied to after it has been a) resent, b) checked for a more current email address, and c) six months have passed, the member will be sent a removal notice with an invitation to reapply.
== Members List ==
This is our [[Sugar Labs/Members/List]].

== See Also ==
* [[Service/email]]

[[Category:Participate]]

Sugar Labs/Members

2015-09-25T19:16:04Z

Samson Goddy: I added my name as one of the membership committee

<noinclude>[[Category:Policy]]</noinclude>
== Sugar Labs Membership ==
The Sugar Labs [[Sugar Labs/Members/List|members list]] consists of all the contributors to the Sugar project. Members can run for election to the [[Oversight Board|Oversight Board]], vote in the elections for the Oversight Board, and suggest [[Sugar Labs/Governance#Sugar Labs Referenda|referenda]].

Any "significant and sustained" contributor to Sugar Labs is eligible for membership. Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition, a [[Sugar_Labs/Sugar_contributors|contributor]] generally must have contributed to a non-trivial improvement of the Sugar project or Sugar Labs activity. Contributions may be code, documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, ''running a Sugar deployment'', or other non-trivial activities which benefit Sugar Labs. Membership eligibility is an individual determination: while contributions made in the course of employment will be considered, they will generally be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather than accruing to all employees of a "contributing" corporation. The Membership and Elections Committee will oversee membership applications (Please apply by sending email to ''members at sugarlabs.org'').

The Membership and Elections Committee will review the membership list for currency once per year. Any member may join this committee, which is currently staffed by [[User:Sebastian/FuenteLibre|Sebastian Silva]], [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Samson_Goddy Samson Goddy] [mailto:caryl@laptop.org Caryl Bigenho].

== Applying for membership ==
All submissions MUST be sent via email to '''members''' at '''sugarlabs.org'''. Submissions sent to other email addresses or sent after the deadline will not be processed for this year's election. Someone on the '''MEC''' will reply to your query within 2 business days. If you don't get a reply after a week, please contact [[User:LFaraone|Luke Faraone]].

In your email, please include:
* Your name
* Your [[IRC]] / Wiki / [http://git.sugarlabs.org Gitorious] username
* A description of your contribution to Sugar Labs, links are preferable.

== Currency assurance policy ==

In order to ensure that the Sugar Labs Membership list is reflective of the current status of the project and its participants, once a year members will be asked to confirm that they still wish to be a Sugar Labs Member. If this request bounces, or if a request has not been replied to after it has been a) resent, b) checked for a more current email address, and c) six months have passed, the member will be sent a removal notice with an invitation to reapply.
== Members List ==
This is our [[Sugar Labs/Members/List]].

== See Also ==
* [[Service/email]]

[[Category:Participate]]

Samson Goddy

2015-06-24T11:43:20Z

Samson Goddy:

Samson Goddy

Name: Samson Goddy

Country: Nigeria

Age: 15 years old

IRC nickname: samsongoddy

IRC channel: #sugar

Contact: +2348185340960

Facebook ID: https://www.facebook.com/samson.goddy

Linkdin ID: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Email ID: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org, samsongoddy@gmail.com

twitter ID : https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy

Bio: My name is Samson, i am a Nigerian and also i also live in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I am a 15 year old kid that like using technology, and also i like volunteer for none-profit organizations like SugarLabs, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). I also involve with the Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development (SEED), where i am a student volunteer facilitator in SEED Nigeria. Through SEED i got know about SugarLabs and it's volunteers also OLPC, also i am also grateful to Claudia Urrea, because she was the one who talked me through in volunteering for Non-profit orgs. About Claudia Urrea i met her in Nigeria when i was 10 years old, when she taught me how to use some Sugar Activities and also how to teach people around me. So i got to know Walter Bender in earlier 2013 and he told that i should be gift into practice, so i started volunteering for SugarLabs since and up till date. By God's grace i am hoping on attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study computer science and cyber security, and most importantly i also want to met the team face to face in Boston, Massachusetts. I am also creating a group of teens that are willing in contributing in SugarLabs in my community.

0.104/Notes

2015-06-24T11:34:41Z

Samson Goddy: /* Summary of new features */

Sucrose 0.104.0 Release Notes 

= Introduction =
Sugar 0.104 is the new STABLE version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It was released on February the 13th 2015. This release includes new features and bug fixes from Google [https://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014 Code-In] and [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 Summer of Code] students, deployments and community members.

= Summary of new features =
* Extended microformat updater with optional activities in automatic updates [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Optional_activity_updates].
* New dconf setting to disable adhoc autoconnect policy [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Optional_adhoc_autoconnect].
* New "spent-times" entry in activities metadata [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Spent_Times].
* New "New ASLO" back-end for activities updates [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/New_ASLO].

[[Image:ASLO2.png|link=http://activities2.sugarlabs.org|400px]]

* New text-to-speech API in gtk3 toolkit [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Text_To_Speech_In_The_Toolkit].
* Customizable groups instead of fixed ages in "About Me" section.

[[Image:Aboutme-grade.png|400px]]

This is the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Feature_List#Proposed_Features_for_Sugar_0.104 full list] of features proposed, we expect to re-evaluate unmerged proposals in the next release cycle.

== New Sugar Activities since Sugar 102 ==

* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4765 Buttons and Scissors] by Utkarsh
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4764 Dasher] by cristian
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4763 3D Shapes] by rishi
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4761 Bibliography] by Sam
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4760 Crossword] by cristian
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4758 Football] by Sammiester
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4757 TurtleBlocks3D] by Walter, Anubhav
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4754 Hangman game] by icarito, Salvarez
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4753 Comodo] by icarito, kaametza, josers, cristian
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4752 Diamond Fusion] by francocorrea
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4730 Music Painter] by wuhsi.li

[[Image:Musicpainter.png|link=http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4730|400px]]

= Tarballs =
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.104.1.tar.xz sugar]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.104.1.tar.xz sugar-toolkit-gtk3]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.104.1.tar.xz sugar-artwork]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.104.1.tar.xz sugar-datastore]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.104.1.tar.xz sugar-runner]

= How to contribute with testing =
We will provide more options for testing this release soon. For now, please try it out using [http://developer.sugarlabs.org sugar-build].

= Commits =

== Changes to Sugar since 0.102 ==

=== Sugar ===

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|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Commit
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Fix EN and AGR po files from crashing sugar …
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Use 'retrieve' instead of 'retrive' …
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Flush the busy cursor on homeview load …
|-
|Martin Abente Lahaye ||Use SugarExt.clipboard_set_with_data …
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Hide the Speech TrayIcon if GST or the espeak module isn't installed …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Show a wait cursor while the journal is updating - Fixes #4330
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Show activity name in the search entry when one activity is selected …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Fix selection filter …
|-
|James Cameron ||configure.ac: fix version for 0.103.1 …
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Use the bundle registry in sugar-install-bundle (when sugar is running)
|-
| Sam Parkinson ||Elipsize view source title to prevent toolbar overflow, fixes #4755 …
|-
|Martin Abente Lahaye ||Revert "Use the bundle registry in sugar-install-bundle; fixes #4722" …
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Show Journal accelerator in palette. …
|-
|Goutam Nair ||Ellipses defaulted to end of long activity titles;fixes 1429
|-
|Ezequiel Pereira ||Fix unicode escapes in clipboard objects …
|-
| Sam Parkinson ||Use the bundle registry in sugar-install-bundle; fixes #4722 …
|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez ||Use 'sugar' icons and no 'gnome' icons. …
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Remove markup for palettes. …
|-
| Sam Parkinson ||Change "control panel" to "My Settings"; fixes #3601
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Remove uneeded code
|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez ||Add Image viewer for source view …
|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez ||PEP8 corrections
|-
| James Cameron ||Show busy on register to school server …
|-
|DakshShah||Add Busy Cursor on bundle install …
|-
|Ezequiel Pereira||Use busy cursor during launch
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Revert "Using DEFAULT_ELLIPSIS_CHARACTERS constant" …
|-
|Ezequiel Pereira ||Using DEFAULT_ELLIPSIS_CHARACTERS constant
|-
|Sam Parkinson||Fix weirdness with pressing SHIFT & ALT on the home screen - fixes #1490
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Add updater option for the new ASLO …
|-
| Sam Parkinson || Close dialogs along with activities - fixes #2503
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard || View Help: don't use symlinks for images directory …
|-
|Martin Abente Lahaye || Fix age/gender flake8 issues …
|-
|Walter Bender||Fix age/gender i18n …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Fix age/gender INTRO gender-selection and CP grade setup …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Fix age/gender flawed default-nick logic …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Fix age/gender INTRO widgets visibility …
|-
| Walter Bender ||Add configurable database for age/gender selection …
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Fix UTC time handeling, fixes #2195 …
|-
| Sam Parkinson ||Include all UTC time zones …
|-
| Sam Parkinson ||Remove GMT time zones - they are the same as UTC …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Move the tts implementation to the toolkit …
|-
|Martin Abente Lahaye ||Make ad-hoc autoconnnect optional …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Do not select optional activities in updater UI …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Filter optional activities in automatic updates …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Support olpc-activity-optional field in BundleUpdate …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Parse olpc-activity-optional field …
|-
|James Cameron ||Fix extra blanks in Sugar Backup restore …
|-
| James Cameron ||Fix missing confirm button in Sugar Backup restore …
|-
|Martin Abente Lahaye ||Fix MetadataLookup signal definition …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||ObjectChooser: preserve filter type …
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Don't show 'Clear Query' when the activities preset is active
|-
| Sam Parkinson ||Don't let 'Clear Query' override activities preset filters
|}

=== Sugar Toolkit GTK3 ===

{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Commit
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Raise the palette window when its mapped …
|-
| Martin Abente Lahaye ||Provide access to Gtk.Clipboard.set_with_data …
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Log error when the espeak plugin is not installed. …
|-
|Goutam Nair ||Ellipses defaulted to end of long activity titles;fixes 1429
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Get markup text as default …
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Merge branch 'fix_parsing_exception' of https://github.com/godiard/su… …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Fix import of exception from ConfigParser …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Don't break if translation can't be parsed …
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||BundleBuilder: Don't crash on malformed translation files …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Add parameters to configure tts …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Add a structure to store the translated voice names
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Initialize Gst before use speech …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||TTS: Cache the voices list
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Add a list of language names to translate …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Move SpeechManager from sugar to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Add a testing method to open a activity with a uri …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Bundlebuilder check if activity files are in git …
|-
|Martin Abente Lahaye ||Save spent time on activities …
|}

=== Sugar Web ===

{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Commit
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Loading the activity palette template from a file break activity work… …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Add a method to show a alert with the Sugar style …
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Make isStandalone() compatible with webkit1 …
|}

=== Sugar Artwork ===

{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Commit
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez ||Fix wrong styling for column-header.button …
|-
| Ezequiel Pereira ||Fixed Sharing Palette Highlight Bug
|}

=== Sugar Docs ===

{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Commit
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Add information about sugar-build and proxies
|-
|Lionel LASKE ||New release of Sugarizer don't need update of sugar-web
|-
|Soumen Ganguly ||Fixes a typo in activity.md
|-
|Walter Bender ||Added reference to gsettings and log files

|}

== Changes to Sugar Activities since 0.102 ==

=== Browse 157 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Don't put toolbars over the bottom of a pdf documents
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard ||Pyflakes fixes …
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard ||Pep8 fixes
|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez ||Add button & mechanism for export page as pdf
|-
| Gaurav Parida ||replace icon_size with pixel_size
|-
| James Cameron ||add mp3 to partial fix - SL #3933 #4465 …
|}

=== Physics 25 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
| Sam Parkinson||Add categories for the New ASLO

|-
|Walter Bender||add add_badge code back into tools code since it is not yet upstream… …

|-
|Walter Bender||more examples

|-
| Walter Bender||remove Inkscape spam

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Add a gallery of samples.. Need samples..

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Add an ObjectChooser for physics projects.

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||AUTOPEP8 for all code.

|-
|Walter Bender||clean up icons; remove unneeded separator; bump version number

|-
|Sai Vineet||Add increase/decrease execution speed

|-
| Sai Vineet||pep8 all I could

|-
| Sai Vineet||Add ability to move motors and pins around :)

|-
|Sai Vineet||Add more achievements using the new add_badge method of toolkit

|-
|Walter Bender||rename elements to eliminate name conflict on SoaS

|-
|Walter Bender||fix problem with cursor when right-clicking

|}

=== Read 115 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
|Sam Parkinson ||Add CBZ support to Read; fixes #4241
|}

=== Write 96 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Do not show export to pdf option when abiword version == 3.0 …

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Do not show "speak" palette when abiword is version 3.0 …

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Save on format rtf instead of odt …

|}

=== Terminal 43 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Make terminal compatible with Vte 0.38 …

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Save font size for every tab

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Pep8 fixes

|-
|Goutam Nair||Added keyboard shortcuts for tabs

|-
|DakshShah ||Allow change to dark-theme …

|-
| DakshShah||pep8 fixes

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Update repository information in activity.info

|-
|Sam Parkinson||Remove a "/" from the help message

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| Sam Parkinson||Remove duplicate defs in hus po file …

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Do not save terminal content to avoid random crash - SL #4627 …

|}

=== Fototoon 22 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Set max_participants = 1 in activity.info file

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Fix remove temporary directory in video creation

|-
| Cristian Garcia||Adding a button for new instaces

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Check if self.page is created

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Pep8 fixes

|-
| Sam Parkinson||Add an export as movie (ogg) feature

|-
| Sam Parkinson||Add a slideshow option that uses the timings

|-
| Sam Parkinson||Add a 'slideshow duration' property for comic photos

|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez||Add screenshots and categories for the new ASLO

|}

=== Image Viewer 61 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Remove non standard fields from activity.info file

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Set max_participants in activity.info file

|-
| Goutam Nair||Keyboard shortcuts, small fixes …

|-
|Goutam Nair||Next, previous buttons to view images

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Pep8 fixes

|-
| James Cameron||fix overexposed render of Record photographs …

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Update repository information in activity.info

|}

=== IRC 11 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fixes
|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Added the summary and repository fields to activity.info

|-
|trinidadg||Add connect/disconnect button …

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Ping notifications when the window is not opened. + Audio notifications

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Use xo colors, and black and white for tabs …

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Set locale for default room in IRC

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Autopep8 for all code.

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Remove unused imports

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Use json instead of simplejson

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Port to gtk3 …

|}

=== Calculate 42 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements
|-
|Amitjha1412||Implement select all operation when the user press Ctrl+a - Fixes #4738

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Pyflakes fixes

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Fix all the pending pep8 fixes

|-
|Vikram Ahuja||Do not show decimal zeros if the result is an integer

|-
|Vikram Ahuja||Input 2+x**y (of form a+x**y) was going to an infinite loop and thus … …

|-
| Amitjha1412||converted the files in pep8 style

|-
|Amitjha1412||added is_prime function Fixes #4812

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Checking for first occurence of '+' and '-' just after ** in x**y fun… …

|-
|Gaurav Mishra||Definition of b10bin() updated this fixes #4811

|-
|Vikram Ahuja||Fac() function removed - Fixes #3531

|-
| Gaurav Mishra||Fixes Raising of Errors by adding ArgumentError Class hence #4807

|-
| Vikram Ahuja||Fix log10 function using base 10 algorithm - Fixes #4809

|}

=== Help 19 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug fixes
|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Merge pull request #11 from vikramahuja1001/master …

|-
|Vikram Ahuja||Calculate functions added in source/calculate.rst

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Add irc activity page to index.rst and helplink.json

|-
| DakshShah ||IRC Guide

|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez||Save state in Help activity. …

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Update Story page

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Clean musickeyboard page

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Update helplink.json with the new activities added

|-
| DakshShah||Index Fixed …

|-
| DakshShah||Story Help Guide Added

|-
| DakshShah||Star Chart Help Guide Added

|-
| DakshShah||Labyrinth Help Guide Added

|-
| DakshShah||Get Books Help Guide Added

|-
| DakshShah||Distance Help Guide Added

|-
| DakshShah||Chart Help Guide Added

|-
| DakshShah||Turtle Blocks 3D Guide improved …

|-
| DakshShah||Music Keyboard Guide Improved …

|-
| DakshShah||Finance Guide Improved …

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Fix order on index.rst

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Add stopwatch page to the index. Limit screenshot size

|-
| Cristian Garcia||Adding help for StopWatch

|-
|Sai Vineet||Add physics page

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Merge pull request #3 from SAMdroid-apps/log-try2 …

|-
| Sam Parkinson||Add screenshots and categories for the new ASLO

|-
| Sam Parkinson||Add help for Log Activity

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Add more information to Jukebox page

|-
| Cristian Garcia||Adding help for Jukebox

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Add Abacus & Dimensions to the index

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Fixes to abacus page

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Update contribution tutorial

|-
|DakshShah||Help Guide for TurtleBlocks3D

|-
| DakshShah||Music Keyboard Help Guide

|-
| DakshShah||Finance Help Guide

|-
| DakshShah||Dimensions Help Guide

|-
| DakshShah||Abacus Help Guide

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Pep8 fixes

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Don't use symlink for images dir …

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Add localization scripts

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Implement a custom setup.py …

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Add Poll activity documentation

|}

=== Paint 64 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug Fix
|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez||Use Kaleidoscope instead of Kalidoscope in tooltip …

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Simplify kalidoscope code

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Don't open stamps dialog when the tool button is pressed …

|-
| Gonzalo Odiard||Set max_participants in activity.info file

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Pyflakes fixes

|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez|| i5o authored on Jan 8 godiard committed on Jan 13

|-
|Gonzalo Odiard||Pep8 fixes

|-
| Cristian Garcia||Adding kalidoscope tool

|-
|Ignacio Rodríguez||Load stamps from journal and remember it. …

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez||Add Tux Paint stamps to paint …

|}

=== Pippy 64 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug fixes
|-
| Vikram Ahuja||Solved the problem of naming tabs when adding/deleting tabs

|-
| Vikram Ahuja||Executing the Ctrl-w code if number of tabs is greator than 1

|-
| Sakala Venkata Krishna Rohit||Fixed the problem of naming of tabs while adding new tabs

|-
| Sakala Venkata Krishna Rohit||Fixed tab name changing problem

|-
|Vikram Ahuja||Make Ctrl-(1-9) changes current tab to that number

|-
|Vikram Ahuja||Checking if number of tab is 1 when Ctrl+w is pressed and then hide c… …

|-
|Goutam Nair||Ctrl+Shift+Tab on first tab goes to the last

|-
| Goutam Nair||Ctrl+Tab on last tab changes to first tab

|-
| Sai Vineet||A bit of pep8

|-
| Sai Vineet||Add copyright notice

|-
| Sai Vineet||Hide close button if only one tab is present

|-
| Sai Vineet||Add font size +/-

|-
| Walter Bender||corrections suggested by Jean THIERY

|-
| Rafael Cordano||Updated thanks example
|}

=== Turtle Blocks 209 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: black;"
! Author !! Enhancements/Bug fixes
|-
| Ignacio Rodriguez|| Add macro for index block

|-
| Cristian Gracia|| new sample project

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| add dbus to default imports

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| Fix alert msg

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| Use alert instead popup

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| Dont export if not start block

|-
| Walter Bender|| Set default values for index block to something that works

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| AUTOPEP8 for all TurtleArt code.

|-
| Walter Bender|| use tb and don't save turtle

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| A graphics sample

|-
| Ignacio Rodríguez|| Index block. Works like python: Text[start:end]

|-
| Daniel Francis|| thumbnail for new project

|-
| Fred Lopesy|| update to Brazilian PT

|-
| Walter Bender|| remove redundant turtle updates

|-
| Walter Bender|| use box instead of box1

|-
|Alan Aguiar|| reuse palettes when running make_palette

|-
| Alan Aguiar|| Using existing power management from utils library

|-
| Walter Bender|| suppress power management error messages

|-
| Walter Bender|| inhibit suspend if camera block is in use

|-
| Walter Bender|| add white circle in the center

|-
| Walter Bender||fix regressions in paste and save-as-svg

|-
| Walter Bender|| save/restore private block data

|-
| Walter Bender|| new sample project: pinwheel

|-
| Walter Bender|| don't use coordinate scale on media blocks

|-
| Alan Aguiar|| fix to SL#4788; add export to SVG to GNOME menu

|-
| Walter Bender|| fix bug in rendering of if-then-else block

|-
| Walter Bender|| fix some issues with label placement

|-
| Walter Bender|| fix problem with color compare

|-
| Walter Bender|| resize 3arg blocks on load

|-
| Walter Bender|| catching one more corner case in autosave logic

|-
| Walter Bender|| fixed bug with autosave

|-
| Walter Bender|| add turtle window to before and after methods

|-
| Walter Bender|| add a private attribute to block class

|-
| Walter Bender|| rescale mouse coordinates

|-
| Walter Bender|| rescale constants when rescaling coordinates

|}

= Credits =
Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education distributions, packaging, and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible.

== Patches contributors ==
* Sam Parkinson
* Ignacio Rodríguez
* Ezequiel Pereira Lopez
* Daksh Shah
* Goutam
* James Cameron
* Walter Bender
* Gonzalo Odiard
* Martin Abente Lahaye
* et al.

== Translations contributors ==

* Chris Leonard
* Tymon Radzik
* Samson Goddy
* Chukwuebuka Abazie
* Christan Nnah
* et al.

;Please note: Well over 50% of the patches to Sugar Activities came from youths in the Sugar community. Just under 50% of the patches to Sugar core libraries came from youths in the Sugar community.

== We want to especially thank ==
* the Infrastructure team which does all this great work in the background without which the development would not be possible at all,
* the deployments that provide the development team with feedback from the field,
* the Design team which guided the design of features with UI changes or impact on the workflow,
* the Translation team which makes sure that Sugar is enjoyable in the local languages of our users,
* the developers that submit patches for new features and bug fixes and do review other's patches,
* the maintainers that make sure their code is shippable and which provide packagers with new tarballs,
* the packagers which provide distributions with new Sugar packages,
* the SoaS team for providing a Sugar version to test with during the development cycle,
* the testers for finding the small and bigger issues,
* the release team and Development team for coordinating those efforts.

This time, Martin Abente Lahaye took the responsibility of manage the release.

Samson Goddy

2015-06-24T11:28:55Z

Samson Goddy: this is my wiki page a

Samson Goddy

Name: Samson Goddy

Country: Nigeria

Age: 15 years old

IRC nickname: samsongoddy

IRC channel: #sugar

Contact: +2348185340960

Facebook ID: https://www.facebook.com/samson.goddy

Linkdin ID: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Email ID: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org, samsongoddy@gmail.com

twitter ID : https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy

Bio: My name is Samson, i am a Nigerian and also i also live in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I am a 15 year old kid that like using technology, and also i like volunteer for none-profit organizations like SugarLabs, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). I also involve with the Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development (SEED), where i am a student volunteer facilitator in SEED Nigeria. Through SEED i got know about SugarLabs and it's volunteers also OLPC, also i am also grateful to CLaudia Urrea, because she was the one who talked me through in volunteering for Non-profit orgs. About Claudia Urrea i met her in Nigeria when i was 10 years old, when she taught me how to use some Sugar Activities and also how to teach people around me. So i got to know Walter Bender in earlier 2013 and he told that i should be gift into practice, so i started volunteering for SugarLabs since and up till date. By God's grace i am hoping on attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study computer science and cyber security, and most importantly i also want to met the team face to face in Boston, Massachusetts. I am also creating a group of teens that are willing in contributing in SugarLabs in my community.

User:Samson Goddy

2015-06-24T11:18:18Z

Samson Goddy:

'''Samson Goddy'''

Name: '''Samson Goddy'''

Country: '''Nigeria'''

Age: '''15 years old'''

IRC nickname: '''samsongoddy'''

IRC channel: #sugar

Contact: +2348185340960

Facebook ID: https://www.facebook.com/samson.goddy

Linkdin ID: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Email ID: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org, samsongoddy@gmail.com

twitter ID : https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy

<code>''Bio: My name is '''Samson''', i am a '''Nigerian''' and also i also live in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I am a 15 year old kid that like using technology, and also i like volunteer for none-profit organizations like '''SugarLabs''', '''One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)'''. I also involve with the '''Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development (SEED)''', where i am a student volunteer facilitator in '''SEED Nigeria'''. Through SEED i got know about '''SugarLabs''' and it's volunteers also '''OLPC''', also i am also grateful to CLaudia Urrea, because she was the one who talked me through in volunteering for Non-profit orgs. About Claudia Urrea i met her in Nigeria when i was 10 years old, when she taught me how to use some Sugar Activities and also how to teach people around me. So i got to know '''Walter Bender''' in earlier 2013 and he told that i should be gift into practice, so i started volunteering for '''SugarLabs''' since and up till date. By God's grace i am hoping on attending '''Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)''' to study computer science and cyber security, and most importantly i also want to met the team face to face in '''Boston, Massachusetts'''. I am also creating a group of teens that are willing in contributing in '''SugarLabs''' in my community.''</code>

User talk:Samson Goddy

2015-04-01T12:37:57Z

Samson Goddy: Sugar 0.106

<big>'''Thanks for clicking the link because you just got prank!!!!''' #'''April Fool's Day'''</big>

User:Samson Goddy

2015-03-03T09:53:59Z

Samson Goddy: This is my SugarLabs wiki page

'''Samson Goddy'''

Name: '''Samson Goddy'''

Country: '''Nigeria'''

Age: '''15 years old'''

IRC nickname: '''samsongoddy'''

IRC channel: #sugar

Contact: +2348187618634

Facebook ID: https://www.facebook.com/samson.goddy

Linkdin ID: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy

Email ID: samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org, samsongoddy@gmail.com

twitter ID : https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy

Bio: My name is '''Samson''', i am a '''Nigerian''' and also i also live in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I am a 15 year old kid that like using technology, and also i like volunteer for none-profit organizations like '''SugarLabs''', '''One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)'''. I also involve with the '''Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development (SEED)''', where i am a student volunteer facilitator in '''SEED Nigeria'''. Through SEED i got know about '''SugarLabs''' and it's volunteers also '''OLPC''', also i am also grateful to CLaudia Urrea, because she was the one who talked me through in volunteering for Non-profit orgs. About Claudia Urrea i met her in Nigeria when i was 10 years old, when she taught me how to use some Sugar Activities and also how to teach people around me. So i got to know '''Walter Bender''' in earlier 2013 and he told that i should be gift into practice, so i started volunteering for '''SugarLabs''' since and up till date. By God's grace i am hoping on attending '''Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)''' to study computer science and cyber security, and most importantly i also want to met the team face to face in '''Boston, Massachusetts'''. I am also creating a group of teens that are willing in contributing in '''SugarLabs''' in my community.