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Line 5: − “What we need are notions, not notations.” —Gauss+ + − 1. I gather that I am the only one who had never read the "Mathematician's Lament", but in case you haven't read it in a while and need a refresher on "notions" instead of "notations", see [http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf].+ − + − It is also always worth rereading Marvin Minksy's essays on learning math: [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays] − − 2. One of the pleasures of working in the Sugar community is that you get thoughtful feedback on your work from a wide range of people. Last week I got a request from a teacher in Uruguay for some new features in Turtle Blocks. (I included one—coordinate grid marked in centimeters—in Version 109. I also got feedback from Alan Kay and Barry Newell about the merits of the inclusion of an Arc block, which motivated me to finally write a Sugar Activity based on Barry's book, ''Turtle Confusion: Logo Puzzles and Riddles''. Check out [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4450]. Also, at this weekend's Design Team meeting, I got very helpful feedback from Sascha Silbe, Gary Martin, and Manuel Quiñones regarding the enhancements I have been proposing to View Source (See [[Design_Team/Proposals/Toolbars/View-Source_Enhancements]]). Perhaps the most significant change is that I now put a copy of the cloned activity bundle into the Journal, thus maintaining equal status for the clone within the Sugar infrastructure. You can find the current patches here [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-June/031838.html] and here [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-June/031702.html]. Line 18:
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==Sugar Digest==
==Sugar Digest==
1. A past vision of the future of learning can be found in the archives of the
Bibliothèque Nationale (French National Library) website (See http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b1.htm). Perhaps a little less unsettling is [http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95a3.htm], although I am still very happy using my 19th century transportation technology, the bicycle. Seriously, one-to-one computing is first and foremost about learning: kids learning; teachers learning; communities learning. Gary Stager, one of the early advocates of one to one does a nice job of articulating a vision of learning at a recent discussion at the Omar Dengo Foundation in Costa Rica (See [http://vimeo.com/25700703]).
2. Under the leadership fo Chris Leonard, the Translation Team has been engaged in upstream and downstream outreach. We are now hosting PO files for AbiWord and GNASH (See [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/upstream_POT]) and PO files for Waveplace downstream (See [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/Waveplace]). We are also tracking the status of Sugar/OLPC-relevant upstream GNOME and
Translation Project localization bits (See [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/upstream_l10n]). Sugar Labs is now hosting 130 languages and dialects from Acoli to Zulu.
=== In the community ===
=== In the community ===
http://www.facultadeducacion.ucr.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=23).
http://www.facultadeducacion.ucr.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=23).
4. The TedxKids@Brussels talks are online at [youtube.com/playlist?p=PLA14C60FA101D1F4C].
4. The TedxKids@Brussels workshops are online at [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLAF5E4FA0923CE190].
=== Tech Talk ===
=== Tech Talk ===
5. Peter Robinson is very close to releasing Sugar on a Stick Version 5. Please help us test: http://fedora.roving-it.com/SoaSv5-20110612-x86_64.iso and http://fedora.roving-it.com/SoaSv5-20110612-i686.iso
5. There are a plethora of reasons for us to begin work phasing out Hippo Canvas. (Hippo Canvas is a GNOME-based toolkit used to implement the Sugar Desktop and a few other UI elements.)
* Fedora is dropping support for Hippo Canvas, so if we want to continue using it, we'll have to maintain it ourselves;
* Hippo Canvas won't be supported in gtk3.0 and will thus impede our efforts to migrate Sugar; and
* Hippo Canvas does not support GNOME accessibility features, making it difficult to leverage the broader community's accessibility efforts;
Tomeu Vizoso made a branch of Sugar last year and began efforts to remove Hippo Canvas from the Sugar Desktop. I am picking up where he left off, in part motivated by the need to make some changes to the Journal Detail View in order to accommodate the 800x480 resolution display used on the Okidata laptop being given to teachers in Uruguay. In parallel Daniel Drake is jumping head first into the Sugar Toolkit.
=== Sugar Labs ===
=== Sugar Labs ===
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