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==Sugar Digest==
 
==Sugar Digest==
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1. I heard a Sugar story today from a school in Oaxaca, Mexico. At a ceremony for the governor to celebrate the laptop program a young girl gave a speech in Spanish. At the end of her speech, she launched the Speak activity and proceeded to have Sugar give the same speech in her native language, one of the indigenous languages of the region.
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1. [http://www.paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay educa] team conducted a two-week workshop on Sugar Activity development. It is great that deployments are facilitating local Activity development—many of our most popular activities have come from downstream, which is exactly as it should be.  
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2. Futbol: I probably shouldn't say this on a public list, but I am not a fan of Italian Football. I prefer the "beautiful game" played in the South.  
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The Paraguay course was taught by Raúl Gutierrez, Bernie Innocenti, Martin Abente, and Jorge Saldivar. They covered all the basics and broke the students into project teams, which resulted in four new activities: Scrabble, Pintando Fracciones, SugarBrain, and Conozco. (The [http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Curso_Sugar_FPUNA detailed syllabus] is available on their wiki.)
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Even in the United States we know that the FIFA World Cup is coming soon – June 11–July 11. Gonzalo Odiard from Sugar Labs Argentina has suggested we use it as an excuse to organize a Sugar World Cup. Beginning with the observation that many of the open bugs on the Sugar [bugs.sugarlabs.org] and OLPC [dev.laptop.org] Trac systems are relatively simple (most could be resolved in just a couple of hours effort), Gonzalo is proposing we establish country-based teams that compete to close as many tickets as we can during the same time frame as the football tournament. For each bug fixed, a "goal" is scored. (A bug is considered fixed when a patch is approved on the Sugar-devel list.) Note that, like Maradona, you are allowed to use your hands. At the end of the tournament, after Ghana wins the FIFA cup, the Sugar Bowl will be awarded to the team that fixed the most bugs. Not only will we fix a lot of bugs, but we will be strengthening local development/deployment teams.
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Raúl raised an interesting question on IRC (and subsequently in [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-May/010965.html email]) about issuing a certification participation in the class. It has been a goal that as Sugar deployments expand, affiliates of Local Sugar Labs would offer services. We have a mechanism for approving the creation of local labs. Is that mechanism adequate, or should we have a separate mechanism for approving the certifications they award? (As someone who would be looking to hire a developer, it would be reassuring to know that Sugar Labs has confidence in their skills. This would suggest that their be a community-based process in place.)
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3. Congratulations to ceibalJAM for winning honorable mention in the international Cyberart competition (Prix Ars) at Ars Electronica.
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In the case of Moodle, only selected "Moodle Partners" can officially certify a developer's skills in Moodle-based e-learning. They have a "rigorous and highly-regarded assessment programme developed by the international Moodle community." We have no such rigorous Sugar assessment program, but perhaps the Activity Team should develop one. In the meantime, I am in favor of deferring to our local Sugar Labs.
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4. Congratulations of Gerald A., who defended his thesis last week. Gerald studied the impact of Sugar on the culture of five fifth-grade classrooms in a NY public school.
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2. Meanwhile, we have surpassed the 3-million-served mark on our [http://activities.sugarlabs.org activity portal].
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5. John Maloney has led an effort to "Sugarize" Scratch v13 (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Scratch#Download). Notably, thanks to Bert Freudenberg, there is now support for the Journal. (I'll have to update my review on ASLO.) In addition, Scratch reads data from the camera and resistive sensors plugged into the microphone jack on OLPC XO computers. A tip of the hat to Claudia Urea whose persistence kept the effort moving forward.  
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3. CeibalJam, a community-based group in Uruguay, which was recently acknowledged by Ars Electronica, has made yet another contribution: [http://sites.google.com/site/sugaractivities/jam JAMedia], an advanced multimedia player for Sugar. (See it in action on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpvN0ngsZw YouTube].)
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6. Last summer at the Desktop Summit I was asked by Linux Magazine Espaniol to write an article about Sugar. It appeared in their print edition in October and is finally available on line at http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/54/078-083_SugarLM54.pdf (in Spanish).
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* multiple audio formats
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* multiple video formats
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* on-line radio
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* on-line streaming video
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4. Last week we announced Sugar-on-a-Stick Mirabelle. This week, Thomas C Gilliard announced a revised Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD for downloading for "sneakernet" and behind-firewall installs. From one [http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Sugar-Creation-Kit-09.iso download], you have everything you need to locally build a complete environment for Sugar. See http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreationKit09-Contents.txt for details.
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5. Alas, I was unable to attend the recent Deployment Team meeting, but Tabitha Roder took [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-May/010959.html detailed notes]. It reads like a great start to addressing the questions of how we build a bridge between developers and deployments and between deployements themselves. Thanks to all who attended and to Raul for organizing it.
    
===In the community===
 
===In the community===
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7. Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés reports that there will be a Sugar Workshop at the National University of Asunción. See http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Curso_Sugar_FPUNA for details.
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6. Sugar will be represented at [/http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/ Linux Tag 2010](June 9–12 in Berlin).
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8. Claudia has been organizing IRC discussions on learning (in Spanish) on Wednesdays at 10:00 EST (14:00 UTC) at forum.laptop.org. The English-language learning chats organized by Joy Riach are on Thursdays at 10:00 EST.
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7. [[SugarWorldCup2010|Sugar World Cup 2010]] will be held from 11 June to 11 July.  
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=== Tech talk ===
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===Tech talk===
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9. Mirabelle has landed. The Fedora Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) team, which includes Sebastian Dziallas, Peter Robinson, and Mel Chua, has released a new version based on Fedora 13 and Sugar 0.88. The goal of this release was to integrate SoaS more completely into the Fedora "Spin" process, provide a structure for longer-term maintenance and stability. While there are only ten Sugar activities bundled with Mirabelle, Tom Gilliard has put together a collection of activities that can be loaded onto a separate USB key from which they can be installed locally. For information about further customizations, please contact the SoaS team at soas AT sugarlabs.org.
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8. Aleksey Lim has been working on the Sugar 0install version of Open Office for Kids. See [http://services.sugarlabs.org/ooo4kids/].
    
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