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=== Sugar Digest ===
1. Worth a read: Dave Farning sent a pointer to an Open University report on "the effectiveness of a FLOSS-like learning community in formal educational settings" (Please see
[http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/FLOSSCOM_Wp4_PHASE2_REPORT_d1.pdf FLOSSCOM Phase 2 Report]). While the focus is on higher education, what I found of particular relevance is the discussion of collaboration and reflection in FOSS projects and its potential transfer to the classroom.
=== Community jams and meetups ===
2. Game Jam Peru: Hernán Paches announces an upcoming Game Jam at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Lima on 23–25 October.
===Tech Talk===
3. Sucrose final release: Simon Schampijer reports that the Sugar community is working on the final release (0.82) for the Sucrose (Please see [[ReleaseTeam/Roadmap#Timeline|the Sugar Timeline]]).
4. Dr. Geo: Hilaire Fernandes is looking for feedback on some screencasts he has been preparing to explain the DrGeo features (Please see [http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Screencast_DrGeo DrGeo screencast]).
5. "Hard fun": Mark Goadrich and his student Nolan Baker are seeking feedback on three educational games (COBBLE, Space Tag and Cell Management) they have been developing for Sugar this summer (Please see [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/COBBLE COBBLE]; [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Space_Tag Space Tag]; and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cell_Management Cell Management]).
6. x2o: Alex Levenson reports the first release of x2o, a physics problem solving game in which you create Rube Goldberg contraptions in order to get the O to land on top of the X (Please see [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X2o X2o]).
7. Sugar-presence-service: Guillaume Desmottes reports that a new release of the Suagr Presence Service is available (Please see [https://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.82.1.tar.bz2 sugar-presence-service-0.82.1.tar.bz2]). This is the "Woo I'm stable!" release.
8. Activity updates: Read 49; Terminal 15; Log 12; Pippy 24; Calculate 21; Etoys 87; Write 57; Browse 95; and Journal 97.
9. Wine: John Gilmore is seeking feedback as to what class of MS-Windows programs would be of high-priority for Sugar users. (Please see [http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine Sugared Wine] for more information about Wine, a GNU LGPL licensed implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix and Sugar).
10. Translations: Sayamindu Dasgupta reports "significant support" for 18 languages (not including English) for Sugar 0.82:
{| border=1
|-
!Language !!% of translated strings
|-
|Greek||100
|-
|Sinhala||100
|-
|Turkish||100
|-
|Dutch||99
|-
|German||99
|-
|Kinyarwanda||98.5
|-
|Spanish||97.5
|-
|Nepali||97.5
|-
|Italian||97
|-
|Kreyol||97
|-
|Marathi||96.5
|-
|Mongolian||95.5
|-
|French||95
|-
|Telugu||94
|-
|Urdu||93.5
|-
|Slovenian||82.5
|-
|Dari||80
|-
|Pashto||80
|}
Thanks to all the translation teams for their hard work.
=== Sugar Labs ===
11. Self-organizing map (SOM): Gary Martin has generated another SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:Image:2008-August-02-08-som.jpg|SOM]]). Sugar and Work are surrounded by OLPC, lab, education, development, and community.
=== Sugar Digest ===
1. Worth a read: Dave Farning sent a pointer to an Open University report on "the effectiveness of a FLOSS-like learning community in formal educational settings" (Please see
[http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/FLOSSCOM_Wp4_PHASE2_REPORT_d1.pdf FLOSSCOM Phase 2 Report]). While the focus is on higher education, what I found of particular relevance is the discussion of collaboration and reflection in FOSS projects and its potential transfer to the classroom.
=== Community jams and meetups ===
2. Game Jam Peru: Hernán Paches announces an upcoming Game Jam at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Lima on 23–25 October.
===Tech Talk===
3. Sucrose final release: Simon Schampijer reports that the Sugar community is working on the final release (0.82) for the Sucrose (Please see [[ReleaseTeam/Roadmap#Timeline|the Sugar Timeline]]).
4. Dr. Geo: Hilaire Fernandes is looking for feedback on some screencasts he has been preparing to explain the DrGeo features (Please see [http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Screencast_DrGeo DrGeo screencast]).
5. "Hard fun": Mark Goadrich and his student Nolan Baker are seeking feedback on three educational games (COBBLE, Space Tag and Cell Management) they have been developing for Sugar this summer (Please see [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/COBBLE COBBLE]; [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Space_Tag Space Tag]; and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cell_Management Cell Management]).
6. x2o: Alex Levenson reports the first release of x2o, a physics problem solving game in which you create Rube Goldberg contraptions in order to get the O to land on top of the X (Please see [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X2o X2o]).
7. Sugar-presence-service: Guillaume Desmottes reports that a new release of the Suagr Presence Service is available (Please see [https://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.82.1.tar.bz2 sugar-presence-service-0.82.1.tar.bz2]). This is the "Woo I'm stable!" release.
8. Activity updates: Read 49; Terminal 15; Log 12; Pippy 24; Calculate 21; Etoys 87; Write 57; Browse 95; and Journal 97.
9. Wine: John Gilmore is seeking feedback as to what class of MS-Windows programs would be of high-priority for Sugar users. (Please see [http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine Sugared Wine] for more information about Wine, a GNU LGPL licensed implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix and Sugar).
10. Translations: Sayamindu Dasgupta reports "significant support" for 18 languages (not including English) for Sugar 0.82:
{| border=1
|-
!Language !!% of translated strings
|-
|Greek||100
|-
|Sinhala||100
|-
|Turkish||100
|-
|Dutch||99
|-
|German||99
|-
|Kinyarwanda||98.5
|-
|Spanish||97.5
|-
|Nepali||97.5
|-
|Italian||97
|-
|Kreyol||97
|-
|Marathi||96.5
|-
|Mongolian||95.5
|-
|French||95
|-
|Telugu||94
|-
|Urdu||93.5
|-
|Slovenian||82.5
|-
|Dari||80
|-
|Pashto||80
|}
Thanks to all the translation teams for their hard work.
=== Sugar Labs ===
11. Self-organizing map (SOM): Gary Martin has generated another SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:Image:2008-August-02-08-som.jpg|SOM]]). Sugar and Work are surrounded by OLPC, lab, education, development, and community.