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− | ==Walter Bender==
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− | I was at OLPC for several years and now I am a volunteer on the project. My home page can be found here: [http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter]
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− | Email: walter AT sugarlabs DOT org
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− | ===Regarding the Sugar Labs Oversight Board===
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− | While it has been my goal to help get Sugar Labs to a point of self-sustainability, I don't think we are yet at that point. My goals for 2010 are to focus on fund-raising and further refining the organizational and governance models.
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− | A bit about me and my role in Sugar Labs: I was part of the Sugar team at One Laptop per Child that left to found Sugar Labs in March of 2008. I have worn a few different hats within the organization: activity developer, occasional contributor to Sugar core, member of the deployment team, the marketing team, and the activity team. I was a lead author of the FLOSS Manual on Sugar. I am presently the executive director of Sugar Labs. I also represent Sugar on the GNOME technical advisory board and the Squeakland board. I have been a GSOC mentor and am participating in several pilot deployment projects of Sugar on a Stick.
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− | ===To do===
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− | * <strike>get Frame test set up in Peru/Uruguay/Paraguay</srike>
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− | * <strike>New Activity templates
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− | :Much of the information that is consistent across activities can be held in activities.s.o. ([[User:Dfarning|dfarning]] 22:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC))</strike>
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− | * Follow-up with Linux Foundation
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− | * <strike>Draft membership agreement for Sugar Labs</strike>
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− | * <strike>rebase Turtle Art on SVG</strike>
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− | * <strike>ask SFC for pointers to lawyers in SA</strike>
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− | * <strike>start writing NSF/USAID proposal</strike>
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− | * <strike>local-labs proposals</strike>
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− | * NSF Creativity grant
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− | * Babson brief
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− | * Watertown follow-up
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− | * Curriculum guides from GPA programs
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− | ===Done===
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− | * New Getting Started Guide (See [http://flossmanuals.net/Sugar The Sugar FLOSS Manual])
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− | * Add ParserFunctions to Sugar Labs mediawiki
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− | * Draft rules of [[Sugar Labs/Governance|governance for Sugar Labs]]
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− | * Start [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/pipermail/community-news/ Community-News Sugar Weekly Digest] list
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− | * CoSN proposal
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− | * rebase Gmail on new Browse
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− | * Finalize arrangements with SFC
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− | ** Incorporate Sugar Labs
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− | ===Recent writing about Sugar and learning===
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− | * [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/confessions_of_a_fundamentalist.html Confessions of a fundamentalist (Part 1)]
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− | * [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/more_fundamentalist_confessions.html Confessions of a fundamentalist (Part 2)]
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− | * [http://walterbender.org/?p=6 A page from the Hilbert playbook]
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− | * [http://walterbender.org/?p=30 Media, Mathematics, and Mallard Fillmore]
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− | (I also [http://walterbender.org blog] the weekly Sugar Digest.)
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− | The slides from a talk I gave about Sugar at the Women2Woman conference are [[:Image:Women2women-part1.odp|here]] and [[:Image:Women2women-part2.odp|here]].
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− | ===Sandbox===
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− | * [[User:Walter/sandbox]]
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− | * [[User:Walter/favoriteslayout.py]]
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− | * [[User:Walter/favoritesview.py]]
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− | * [[User:Walter/View-mylayout.svg]]
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− | * [[Activities/Turtle Art/Patching]]
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− | [[Image:Spiral.png|thumb|left|Spiral Home View]]
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− | [[Image:FermatSpiral.png|thumb|left|Fermat Spiral]]
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− | [[Image:Pythagorus.png|thumb|left|Modifying TurtleArt]]
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− | <div class="visualClear"></div>
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− | ====Floss Manual====
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− | <div>
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− | <img src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif"/>
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− | <style>
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− | @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css");
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− | </style>
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− | <script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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− | <script type="text/javascript">
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− | FM.init({"paging":true,"preferred":["OLPC LAPTOP USERS GUIDE","SUGAR USERS GUIDE"]});
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− | </script>
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− | </div>
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− | ====Portfolio====
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− | I am making a "TurtleArt: inspired portfolio tool. See [[Activities/Turtle Art#Portfolios|TAPortfolio]] for more details.
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− | [[Image:TurtlePortfolio.png|thumb|left|first sketch of the portfolio tool]]
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− | [[Image:Portfolio2.png|thumb|left|another sketch of the portfolio tool]]
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− | [[Image:TAPortfolio.png|thumb|left|almost to Version 1.0]]
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− | [[Image:Clapper.png|thumb|left|clap to advance to next slide]]
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− | [[Image:Keyboardinput.png|thumb|left|type to advance to next slide]]
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− | <div class="visualClear"></div>
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− | ====Turtle Art → Logo====
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− | I added a "view source" for Turtle Art that exports Logo.
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− | [[Image:Taspin.png|thumb|left|a Turtle Art project]]
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− | [[Image:UCB-Logo.png|thumb|left|the UCB Logo version]]
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− | <div class="visualClear"></div>
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− | Some procedures for setting up the palette and the shade functionality:
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− | to tasetpalette :i :r :g :b :myshade
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− | make "s ((:myshade - 50) / 50)
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− | ifelse lessp :s 0 [
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− | make "s (1 + (:s *0.8))
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− | make "r (:r * :s)
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− | make "g (:g * :s)
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− | make "b (:b * :s)
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− | ] [
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− | make "s (:s * 0.9)
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− | make "r (:r + ((100-:r) * :s))
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− | make "g (:g + ((100-:g) * :s))
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− | make "b (:b + ((100-:b) * :s))
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− | ]
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− | setpalette :i (list :r :g :b)
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− | end
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− | to rgb :myi :mycolors :myshade
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− | make "myr first :mycolors
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− | make "mycolors butfirst :mycolors
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− | make "myg first :mycolors
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− | make "mycolors butfirst :mycolors
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− | make "myb first :mycolors
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− | make "mycolors butfirst :mycolors
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− | tasetpalette :myi :myr :myg :myb :myshade
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− | output :mycolors
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− | end
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− | to processcolor :mycolors :myshade
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− | if emptyp :mycolors [stop]
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− | make "i :i + 1
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− | processcolor (rgb :i :mycolors :myshade) :myshade
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− | end
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− | to tasetshade :shade
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− | make "myshade modulo :shade 200
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− | if greaterp :myshade 99 [make "myshade (199-:myshade)]
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− | make "i 7
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− | make "mycolors :colors
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− | processcolor :mycolors :myshade
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− | end
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− | to tasetpencolor :c
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− | make "color modulo round :c 100
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− | setpencolor :color + 8
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− | end
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− | make "colors [
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− | 100 0 0 100 5 0 100 10 0 100 15 0 100 20 0 100 25 0 100 30 0 100 35 0 100 40 0 100 45 0
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− | 100 50 0 100 55 0 100 60 0 100 65 0 100 70 0 100 75 0 100 80 0 100 85 0 100 90 0 100 95 0
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− | 100 100 0 90 100 0 80 100 0 70 100 0 60 100 0 50 100 0 40 100 0 30 100 0 20 100 0 10 100 0
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− | 0 100 0 0 100 5 0 100 10 0 100 15 0 100 20 0 100 25 0 100 30 0 100 35 0 100 40 0 100 45
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− | 0 100 50 0 100 55 0 100 60 0 100 65 0 100 70 0 100 75 0 100 80 0 100 85 0 100 90 0 100 95
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− | 0 100 100 0 95 100 0 90 100 0 85 100 0 80 100 0 75 100 0 70 100 0 65 100 0 60 100 0 55 100
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− | 0 50 100 0 45 100 0 40 100 0 35 100 0 30 100 0 25 100 0 20 100 0 15 100 0 10 100 0 5 100
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− | 0 0 100 5 0 100 10 0 100 15 0 100 20 0 100 25 0 100 30 0 100 35 0 100 40 0 100 45 0 100
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− | 50 0 100 55 0 100 60 0 100 65 0 100 70 0 100 75 0 100 80 0 100 85 0 100 90 0 100 95 0 100
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− | 100 0 100 100 0 90 100 0 80 100 0 70 100 0 60 100 0 50 100 0 40 100 0 30 100 0 20 100 0 10]
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− | make "shade 50
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− | tasetshade :shade
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− | to tasetbackground :color :shade
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− | tasetshade :shade
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− | setbackground :color + 8
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− | end
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− | The project:
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− | to ta
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− | clearscreen tasetbackground 21 100 setpensize 25.0 make "box1 0.0
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− | repeat 300.0 [ tasetpencolor xcor / 6.0 tasetshade heading forward :box1 right 91.0 make "box1 :box1 + 1.0 ]
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− | end
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− | ta
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− | ====Turtle Art variables====
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− | Following the lead of Luis Michelena, I've added named blocks and stacks. I plan to add push and pop next, which should greatly expand the range of possible constructions.
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− | [[Image:To square.png|thumb|left|to square]]
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− | [[Image:NewVariableGraphics.png|thumb|left|reworking the graphics]]
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− | <div class="visualClear"></div>
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− | ====Turtle Art push and pop====
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− | While it is not the intent that Turtle Art be a full implementation of Logo, but there has been some discussion on teh Sur list about adding some capability for passing arguments to stacks. (and to support recursion). I have added a FILO and push and pop blocks to enable this functionality. I am looking for feedback. regarding this choice.
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− | [[Image:Push and pop.png|thumb|left|push and pop]]
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− | <div class="visualClear"></div>
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− | ====HBS-style analysis====
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− | * our points of difference
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− | * our points of parity
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− | * their points of difference
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