| Title
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Mentor
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Project
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| Internationalization and Localization
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Chris Leonard
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- Brief explanation
- A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See Translation Proposal To Do List for details.
- Expected results
- Work flow improvements for i18n
- Knowledge prerequisites
- Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript
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| New Back-end Server for Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks
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Walter Bender
Vikram Ahuja
Ignacio Rodriguez
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- Brief explanation
- Last year we sponsored an exploration of using a git-like back end for projects so that they could be cloned, forked, etc. This summer we would like to implement and deploy this new approach.
- Expected results
- Deployment of "git" back end.
- Knowledge prerequisites
- Knowledge of Git, JavaScript, server-side skills
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| Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks
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Walter Bender
Devin Ulibarri
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- Brief explanation
- Most modern music systems are designed around equal temperament. But there are many ways to chose and tune notes in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics.
- Expected results
- Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user.
- Knowledge prerequisites
- Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory
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| Giving Sugar Labs Website a New Look
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Ignacio Rodriguez
Samson Goddy
Dave Crossland
Tymon Radzik
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- Brief explanation
- Sugar Labs would like a new look for its homepage, with the goals of making it more attractive and easier to explore (See link to get more information concerning the proposed homepage).
- Expected results
- Deployment of a new website for Sugar Labs
- Knowledge prerequisites
- JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, JQuery, jeckyl, and/or django
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| Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)
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(volunteers?)
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- Brief explanation
- http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. Some maintenance tasks are needed. Sugar uses activities.sugarlabs.org in Software Update in My Settings, and has a link to it in the Browse default page.
- Expected results
- Fix downloads by non-Sugar browsers; old versions are offered. Fix downloads by new versions of Sugar; old versions are offered. Make activity maintainer take-over easier; not easy at the moment. Adopt the new look from the new sugarlabs.org site; theme now is quite old. Show new activity.info metadata such as source repository. Other problems listed in bugs.sugarlabs.org against component activities.sugarlabs.org. Semi-automate common maintenance tasks; like adding a new Sugar version. Document future maintenance on the Wiki.
- Knowledge prerequisites
- PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See source code.
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| School Management Backend
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Walter Bender
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- Brief explanation
- Sugar is a desktop and a collection of apps. It has great internal features for collaboration and journaling. But it doesn't have any mechanism for managing courses/curriculum/administrative functions commonly found in "school management systems". It could be possible to overlay on top of Sugar webservices such a toolkit.
- Expected results
- a framework, a core implementation, and documentation for expanding the implementation.
- Knowledge prerequisites
- Python, django
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