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This page is updated every few weeks with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list, blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org], and [[Archive/Current Events|archived here]].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit <span class="plainlinks">[http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].</span>)

==Sugar Digest==

== Sugar Digest ==

1. Google Summer of Code 2015 is wrapping up. The students have been writing their final blog reports, submitting last-minute patches, and uploading their code to Google. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our students and their mentors for all their hard work this summer. (Also, thanks once more to Google for supporting this program.) Great strides along many fronts were made. Specifically,

1. Sugar Labs is going to apply again this year to be one of the organizations in the Google Code-in contest. As you may recall, Google Code-in is a global programming contest for youths 13-17. We have participated the past three years and it has been a very rewarding experience: we have brought many new contributors into Sugar Labs through the program and have had a lot of fun as well. The next few weeks will be critical to the application process. We need to build a collection of tasks for the contestants in five areas: Documentation/Training; Outreach/Research; User Interface; Quality Assurance; and coding. Please send me suggestions or add your ideas to [[Google Code In 2015]]. We also need mentors. If you are interested in participating, please contact me.

* Michaël Ohayon worked on Web versions of some core activities for the Sugarizer project: Calculate, Paint (with collaboration, Record, and Memorize. He also submitted patches to Turtle Blocks to make it compatible with Sugarizer. Michaël's [blog http://sugarizingparis2015.blogspot.fr/] and git [repo https://github.com/mikklfr] are worth visiting. (Mentor: Lionel Laske)

2. The Membership committee is launching a campaign to add new members and reaffirm the interest of current members. Expect to hear from them by the end of the month. We will also be soliciting candidates for the Sugar Labs Oversight Board (SLOB), with the election scheduled for December.

* Yash Khandelwal worked on Music Blocks AKA Mouse Music. This is a powerful, playful model for music in a block language. Yash's [blog [https://sugarizingmusic.wordpress.com/] and git [repo https://github.com/khandelwalYash/Music-Blocks] are also worth visiting. (Mentors: Devin Ulibarri and Marnen Laibow-Koser)

3. I've been following up on one of our Google Summer of Code projects, Music Blocks, by Yash Khandelwal under the mentorship of Devin Ulibarri. We have been really having fun and are close to releasing Version 1.0. Please help us with testing. You can run it from [http://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks]. A programming guide is available at [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks]. The source is at [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md].

* Ishan Sharma revisited the Turtle 3D concept, rewriting it in Javascript. His results ([blog https://turtle3d.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/final-update/], demo and git [repo http://ishan28mkip.github.io/turtle3D/]) are robust, scalable, and extensible. (Mentor: Walter)

=== In the community ===

* Amit Kumar Jha worked on extensions to Turtle programming this summer. He added argument passing and return values to procedures, passing arguments to and returning values from Turtle programs so that Turtle Blocks can be used for in-line programming by all Javascript activities, and he developed a unit=test framework for Turtle Blocks JS that can be extended to all of our Javascript activities. See his [blog http://sugarlabs-artista.blogspot.in/] and the master Turtle Blocks JS [repo http://github.com/walterbender/turtleblocksjs/] for more details. (Mentor: Walter)

4. The Journal RED is available on line at [http://www.um.es/ead/red/46/]. This issue is chockful of "Sugary" articles.

 

* Richa Sehgal worked on a framework to support off-line Web programming, an interactive Javascript shell. She's submitted patches to the upstream Browse activity. Meanwhile, checkout her git [repo https://github.com/richaseh]. (Mentor: Tony Anderson)

 

 

 

 

2. We will be holding an election for the Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) at the end of the calendar year. If you are interested (or know someone who is interested) in running for a board seat (all seven seats will be open), please see [[Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates]]. Also, whereas ballots are only available to "members", please [[officially join Sugar Labs|Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership]].

 

 

 

5. There were three RED ([Revista de Educación a Distancia http://www.um.es/ead/red/46]) submissions from Sugar community members:

* Sensores Tortuga 2.0: Cómo el hardware y software abiertos pueden empoderar a las comunidades de aprendizaje (Turtle Sensors 2.0: How open hardware and software empower learning communities) by Guzmán Trinidad, Andrés Aguirre, Alan Aguiar, Tony Forster, Walter Bender, Facundo Benavides, and Federico Andrade

 

6. The Sugar/OLPC program in Caacupe is expanding!!!

=== Tech Talk ===

=== Tech Talk ===

7. Peter Robinson announce quite some time ago that the [Sugar on a Stick 21 Beta https://fedoraproject.org/get-spin-prerelease] is now out as part of Fedora 21 Beta ([Details https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-November/003238.html]), but I think I neglected to ever pass on the information to the Sugar community.

5. Aleksey Lim has an update to the Sugar Network project. After 18 months, there are approximately 300 unique daily users (in Peru). You can find more statistics at [http://jita.sugarlabs.org/node.sugarlabs.org]. His plans going forward can be seen at [http://school-network.org/docs/Concepts Concepts], [http://school-network.org/docs/TryOut Try it], [http://school-network.org/docs/Deployment Deployment].

8. Also worth mentioning again: Ruben Rodriguez released Trisquel 7.0 released. [TOAST (Trisquel with Sugar) http://trisquel.info/en/download] is an official edition.

6. Please help Martin and the Developer Team test [[0.106/Testing|Sugar 106]]. Your feedback is important to us.

=== Sugar Labs ===

=== Sugar Labs ===

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== Community News archive ==

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