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==Sugar Digest==
 
==Sugar Digest==
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1. The Oversight Board election is underway. We have a very strong candidate list that spans the breadth of the community. You should have received a ballot by email. Please vote before 29 November. If you registered to vote and for some reason you did not receive a ballot, please let me know.
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Today is Thanksgiving in the US. A time for family and reflection and baking pies (also known as kitchen chemistry).
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2. Tony Forster continues to add to the [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors|Using Turtle Art with Sensors]] page in the wiki. Lots of great project ideas, ranging from making graphs of various data to measuring water salinity to building a carbon microphone. Check it out.
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1. Just a few more days to cast your vote in the Oversight Board election. You should have received a ballot in the mail.
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3. [[User:Alex Khitrik|Alex Khitrik]] <alex at sugarlabs dot org> is our new volunteer finance administrator volunteer. Alex has a passion for transparency; as a first task, he will be making available all of our financial data in the wiki.
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2. Tony Forster continues to add to the [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors|Using Turtle Art with Sensors]] page in the wiki. His latest project is a to use sensor input to explore [[Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors#Acceleration_on_an_inclined_plane|acceleration on an inclined plane]]. So cool.
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3. Speaking of Turtle Art, I just released a new version of Turtle Blocks ([http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27124/turtle_art-104.xo v104]) that cleans up a lot of little annoyances, including problems with playback of multimedia objects ([http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1613 #1613). With Tony's help and feedback, I also made the process of importing Python code into blocks more streamlined.
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4. A group of MIT Sloan students (Alex Fallow, Laura Guaglianone, Julie Lein, and Parul Singh) are conducting a survey about Sugar with the goal of helping us refine our outreach. Please participate (See [https://survey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eD8yvVjHSnPhxek Sugar Survey]).
    
===In the community===
 
===In the community===
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4. Congratulations to Tabatha Roder and the NZ Testing Team who were honored by the NZ Open Source Awards 2010. Tabatha and the Saturday morning testers in Wellington and Auckland were recognized for their contributions to Free Software in NZ.
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5. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, an international forum on development and social inclusion through the use of ICT in Uruguay will be held on 29th and 30th November 2010 at the Uruguayan Laboratory of Technology (LATU) in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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5. We have had a flurry of new activities being contributed by deployments. Ceibal Jam in Uruguay posted a number of their wonderful activities on ASLO; Yader Velásquez, a volunteer from Nicaragua posted a cool calendar activity (See [http://yadervblog.drupalgardens.com/content/calendario-2-agendacalendar-sugar-activity-xo-and-fedora]); and a 12-year-old student from Uruguay has posted two new activities: an image viewer and a Python development environment. Meanwhile, ASLO reports over 4.25 million downloads.
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6. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, an international forum on development and social inclusion through the use of ICT in Uruguay will be held on 29th and 30th November 2010 at the Uruguayan Laboratory of Technology (LATU) in Montevideo, Uruguay.  
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6. I'll also be giving a talk at the Catholic University in Montevideo on Tuesday, 30 November. If you are in the neighborhood, please drop by.
    
===Tech Talk===
 
===Tech Talk===
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7. Aleksey Lim, Bernie Innocenti, et al. have completed the upgrade to the Sugar Gitorious server. Please note that the IP address for git.sugarlabs.org has changed to 18.85.44.120. And it has a new public SSH key:
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7. Aleksey Lim, who has recently gotten translation bots running in our most frequented channels on irc.freenode.net has been revamping the web interface(See either https://chat.sugarlabs.org or http://chat.sugarlabs.org).
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Enhancements include:
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* https for secure chatting
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* Sugar Labs quick-link toolbar
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* nickname login field supports keeping history in browsers
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* list of Sugar-related channels
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* list of languages for multi-lingual chatting
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* after logging in, #sugar channel and language may be chosen from tabs bar selectors
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You will have to remove line with substring "git.sugarlabs.org" from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file and then reconnect to git.sugarlabs.org in order to push changes to the server. (If you have trouble, check to see if "ssh-keygen -F git.sugarlabs.org -l" matches the key above.)
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For the secure chat, you can download a certificate from http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3
    
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