Changes

The Localization team has been busy. We have almost complete support for more than 25 languages and almost 70 active language teams.

The Localization team has been busy. We have almost complete support for more than 25 languages and almost 70 active language teams.

The biggest changes in terms of infrastructure are the switch over to Gitorious for project hosting and the recent addition of addons.sugarlabs.org. Gitorious makes Sugar truly a distributed project. No one gates adding new projects or forking of existing projects. The intelligence is "in the leaves" and now the control is in the leaves as well. Visit addons.sugarlabs.org if you haven't done so already. It is modeled after the Mozilla addon site and it is much more accessible for the user (and efficient for the developer) than [wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All the cumbersome wiki interface] we had been using. Further, it is designed for scale.

The biggest changes in terms of infrastructure are the switch over to Gitorious for project hosting and the recent addition of addons.sugarlabs.org. Gitorious makes Sugar truly a distributed project. No one gates adding new projects or forking of existing projects. The intelligence is "in the leaves" and now the control is in the leaves as well. Visit addons.sugarlabs.org if you haven't done so already. It is modeled after the Mozilla addon site and it is much more accessible for the user (and efficient for the developer) than [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All the cumbersome wiki interface] we had been using. Further, it is designed for scale.

We are also on the eve of launching a static website as a series of landing pages for sugarlabs.org. Christian Schmidt and the Design Team have worked tireless to built a site that will be much more accessible to teachers and parents, many of whom have found the wiki to be impenetrable. Sean Daley and the Marketing Team have been helping fill in the many holes in the site's content and also turning my academic-speak into something comprehensible. A highlight of the new site is [http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php?template=page&page=learners a beautifully illustrated narrative] by graphic artist, [http://www.dongyunlee.com Dongyun Lee]. During a heated feedback process some great ideas for a children-oriented site that more directly interfaces to Sugar were voiced. Something to aspire to in the coming months.

We are also on the eve of launching a static website as a series of landing pages for sugarlabs.org. Christian Schmidt and the Design Team have worked tireless to built a site that will be much more accessible to teachers and parents, many of whom have found the wiki to be impenetrable. Sean Daley and the Marketing Team have been helping fill in the many holes in the site's content and also turning my academic-speak into something comprehensible. A highlight of the new site is [http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php?template=page&page=learners a beautifully illustrated narrative] by graphic artist, [http://www.dongyunlee.com Dongyun Lee]. During a heated feedback process some great ideas for a children-oriented site that more directly interfaces to Sugar were voiced. Something to aspire to in the coming months.