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Line 7: − + + + + + + + + + + + − If we accepted, we will need to accumulate tasks for the contest, which can include bug fixes, activity and feature development, design, outreach, documentation, and research. Please contact either Ignacio or me if you have interest in being a GCI mentor or if you have ideas for GCI tasks. See [[Google_Code_In_2017]] for more details.+ − + − + − + − 3. In anticipation of Sugar 0.112, I managed to get wrappers around Turtle Blocks JS [https://github.com/sugarlabs/turtle-blocks-embedded-activity] and Music Blocks [https://github.com/sugarlabs/music-blocks-embedded-activity] so that they can be run inside Sugar itself. − − 4. Jatin Dhankhar and Sam Cantero are making headway on ASLOv3 [https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo-v3], [https://aslo3-devel.sugarlabs.org], a new version of the Sugar Labs activity portal, which promises to be easier to use and maintain. Hopefully we'll have the new server running before GCI begins. − − 5. There are still a few more days left to vote in the Sugar Labs oversight board election. If you did not receive your ballot, please contact the members and election committee, e.g., Samson Goddy. + + + −
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== Sugar Digest ==
== Sugar Digest ==
1. I just completed our application for Sugar Labs participation in Google Code-in (GCI) 2017. As most of you know, GCI is a programming contest for youth ages 13-17 hosted by Google. Sugar Labs has participated the past 5 years. It is a great opportunity to work with young programmers, many of whom continue to contribute to Sugar Labs long after the contest ends (in fact, my co-administrator this year, Ignacio Rodriguez, is a former GCI participant.) We should know by the end of the month if we are accepted into the program this year.
1. Sugar Labs will be participating in Google Code-in again this year. Ignacio
Rodriguez and I are the program administrators and are now gathering
suggestions for bite-sized tasks in coding, documentation, research, design,
and outreach. We'll also be scouring the open issues in the various
Sugar-related repos for tasks. Please pass your suggestions out way. Also, if
you are interested in mentoring, please contact me. Finally, it would great if
you could help spread the word about the contest among educators so that we can
reach out to as many potential participants as possible (the contest is open to
13-17 year olds). GCI is a great opportunity to recruit new talent into the
community. Details out the contest are available at [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/contest-rules 1]. The Sugar Labs page
describing out participation is at [[Google Code In 2017]].
2. There is a new release of Music Blocks available [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/releases/tag/v2.1 3]. Features include a
marked improvement in performance and lots of bug fixes. Tip of the hat to
2. James Cameron has announced the release of [[0.112|Sugar 0.112]]. This new stable release of Sugar is largely a maintenance release; it includes some bug fixes and new translations. Please see [[0.112|the release notes]] regarding the details. Thanks to James as well as Besnik Bleta, Chris Leonard, Eduard Sanou, Ezequiel Pereira, Gonzalo Odiard, György Balló, Hrishi Patel, Ignacio Rodríguez, Manash Raja, Sam Parkinson, Sanchit Kapoor, and Utkarsh Tiwari.
Devin Ulibarri, Edgar Quispe, and Euan Ong for their contributions to this
release.
3. Congratulations to Lionel, Sameer, and Adam for being reelected to the Sugar
Labs oversite board. (And thanks to everyone who voted for my return to the
board as well.) Our next meeting is on 3 November at 19UTC in the #sugar-meeting channel of irc.freenode.net.
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