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== Sugar Digest ==

== Sugar Digest ==

1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate in [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 Google Code In]. We join, among others, our colleagues at Fedora et al., in soliciting the participation of high-school (and in our case, middle-school) students to work on projects during a six-week sprint beginning on November 26. This is a great chance for the youth who have been so instrumental in our growth over the past year to show off their talents to the world (and two of them will hopefully win a trip to visit Google). Please help Chris Leonard and me finalize the project and mentor lists over the next few days. (We are offering coding projects, documentation and training projects, outreach, quality assurance, and user interface, so even if you are not a developer, you likely have some skills to devote to the Code In.  

1. [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 Google Code-In] begins tomorrow. It is not too late to [[GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Mentors|sign up as a mentor]] and to [[GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Students|recruit students to participate]]. While many of [[GoogleCodeIn2012#Tasks|the tasks]] involve programming, there are also documentation, design, and research tasks. This is a great opportunity for Sugar Labs to recruit its next generation of developers.

2. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board early next month. If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the membership committee with any questions before 7 December.

 

 

2. I am in transit back to Boston from a 3-day trip to Chihuahua, Mexico. I gave a lecture on Sugar at Campuslink 2.0, the annual tech conference at UACH. I had a lot of fun with the faculty and students and even managed to squeeze in a short tutorial on hacking Sugar on my way to the airport this morning. I am looking forward to growing participation in the Sugar community. (Note to CJL: they are very interested in providing Rarámuri language support for Sugar.)

 

3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board early next month. In anticipation of the election, I urge you to sign up for membership in the Sugar community. You need not be a software developer to join: contributions come in many forms, including: teaching, documenting, promoting, supporting, etc. (Note: there is no membership fee.) So, if you are not already a member, [[Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership|please sign up]] before 23 November.

 

 

If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the membership committee with any questions before 7 December.

 

 

 

 

 

=== Tech Talk ===

=== Tech Talk ===

7. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9ZhQYIwVg&feature=relmfu latest Butia project] by Nicolas Furquez and Rafael Sisto is pretty cool.  

3. Daniel Narvaez has made a number of improvements to [http://sugarlabs.org/~dnarvaez/sugar-docs sugar-build], which has by-and-large replaced sugar-jhbuild as the preferred development environment for Fedora and Ubuntu.

=== Sugar Labs ===

=== Sugar Labs ===