User:Garycmartin

Gary C. Martin

Gary C. Martin (gary at garycmartin dot com) is a freelance software developer based in Edinburgh/UK, with a focus on design, UI/HCI, analytics, and information visualisation. His external homepage is over at http://www.garycmartin.com/.

Todo

• New Read toolbar
• New Paint toolbar
• New Record toolbar
• Back port old toolbar support for Write (still of use as official OLPC build uses Sugar 0.84 with the old toolbars)
• Test and use Wade's SugarGames (replacement for un-maintained OlpcGames pygame wrapper)
• ...lots more (oh my...)

Ongoing

• Misc Activity maintenance/development
  • Physics
  • Calculate
  • Moon
  • Clock
  • Labyrinth
  • Maze (have a version with happy faces)
  • Write
• Weekly Self Organising Map (SOM) generation for the IAEP mailing list
• Design Team member
• Activity Team co-co-ordinator
• Sugar testing, feedback, and trac reports (access to an XO-B4, two XO-1s and various virtual machine environments in Mac OS X)

Done

• New toolbar support for Physics
• SVG toolbar icons for Calculate, and other misc SVG work (Image Viewer, some Sugar UI elements)
• Banners and Poster work for the Marketing Team
• Adopted Clock (by Pierre Métras) an Activity for learning to tell the time
• Sugar port of Labyrinth Activity for creating mind-maps (with much help from tomeu and alsroot)
• Work on Physics to help polish, and tidy up the UI. See its wiki page for more details.
• Various SOMs for educational related papers people post (I'll try to map texts linked/posted there)
• Some more research paper SOMs over on wiki.laptop.org
• Icon set for the Sugar Getting Involved page
• Monthly Self Organising Map (SOM) generation for the Sugar-devel mailing list
• Moon Activity showing Moon phase and eclipse visualisation