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This page is updated each week (usually on Monday morning) 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 <span class="plainlinks">[http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].</span>)

== Sugar Digest ==

== Sugar Digest ==

1. It seems that this is the season for Sugar Camps. The Paris Camp was by all reports quite success. Christoph Derndorfer reported on Days [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-September/014040.html 1] and [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-September/014053.html 2] of the camp, which focused mainly on deployments and emerging educational activities from OLPC France. Daniel Drake reported progress on the Sugar development front during the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-September/033343.html code sprint] track:

1. It seems that this is the season for Sugar Camps. The Paris Camp was by all reports quite success. Christoph Derndorfer reported on Days [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-September/014040.html 1] and [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-September/014053.html 2] of the camp, which focused mainly on deployments and emerging educational activities from OLPC France. Daniel Drake reported progress on the Sugar development front during the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-September/033343.html code sprint] track:

The Prague Sugar Camp at the end of October is coming into focus. Since Daniel and Raul have made so much progress on the no-hippo work, we'll be able to spend most of our time looking at Gnome 3.0 and introspection issues. One by-product of this push to future-proof the Sugar platform is the re-engagement of some of our key developers, such as Marco Presenti Gritti, whose code reviews have been most welcome.

The Prague Sugar Camp at the end of October is coming into focus. Since Daniel and Raul have made so much progress on the no-hippo work, we'll be able to spend most of our time looking at Gnome 3.0 and introspection issues. One by-product of this push to future-proof the Sugar platform is the re-engagement of some of our key developers, such as Marco Presenti Gritti, whose code reviews have been most welcome.

Finally, Somos Azucar announced plans for a Camp in Lima to focus on Quechua and Aymara translations for mid Novemver.

Finally, Somos Azucar announced plans for a Camp in Lima to focus on Quechua and Aymara translations for mid November.

2. In addition to the aforementioned work on indigionus languages in Peru, a the Mexican team of about a dozen has completed the [http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Huastec_language Huastec] (Téenek) language localization of Sugar (and most of eToys) in about one month  See [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/hus/]. The same team is looking into working on Nahuatl work. In Paraguay, there is some work in Gurani. It is great that Sugar will be available in children's first language. Having a strong first language is critical to developing good language skills in general. Many thanks to Chris Leonard and the many local teams he is working with.

2. In addition to the aforementioned work on indigionus languages in Peru, a the Mexican team of about a dozen has completed the [http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Huastec_language Huastec] (Téenek) language localization of Sugar (and most of eToys) in about one month  See [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/hus/]. The same team is looking into working on Nahuatl work. In Paraguay, there is some work in Guarani. It is great that Sugar will be available in a child's first language. Having a strong first language is critical to developing good language skills in general. Many thanks to Chris Leonard and the many local teams he is working with.

3. The [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/ Butia Team] at la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de la República has some more Turtle Art plugins: one for Follow Me and one for Sumo robotics. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECP_GoTUm00 Video 1] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BIcfnVuwU Video 2]. [www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/files/followme_ta_plugin.zip Plugins] are available.

3. The [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/ Butia Team] at la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de la República has some more Turtle Art plugins: one for Follow Me and one for Sumo robotics. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECP_GoTUm00 Video 1] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BIcfnVuwU Video 2]. [www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/files/followme_ta_plugin.zip Plugins] are available.