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| − | This page contains information specific to the May 30 to August 30, 2017 round of [https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ Outreachy] internships.
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| − | == About Sugar Labs ==
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| − | At Sugar Labs, we make tools that learners use to explore, discover, create, and reflect. We encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning.
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| − | Sugar Labs, a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization, had its origins in the One Laptop Per Child project and is has been a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy since 2008.
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| − | Sugar is both a desktop and a collection of Activities. Activities, as the name implies, are Apps that involve active engagement from the learner. Activities automatically save results to a journal, where reflections are recorded. Activity instances can be shared between learners; many support real-time collaboration.
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| − | * Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration: Children can write, share books, or make music together with a single mouse-click.
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| − | * Activities, not applications: Sugar activities are applicable beyond the scope of the classroom and even Sugar itself.
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| − | * Automatic backup of Activity work; no worrying about files or folders. Sugar’s Journal makes it almost impossible to lose any data.
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| − | * The Sugar Journal records everything you do: It is a place to reflect upon and evaluate your work.
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| − | * Sugar runs on most computer hardware, including slower machines.
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| − | * Sugar is Free (Libre) Software: It is written in the Python language and easily customized.
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| − | * Sugar is documented by its users: It is easy to use and teachers worldwide have created a wealth of pedagogical materials for it.
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| − | * Sugar is largely written and maintained by its users.
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| − | * Sugarizer is a fork of Sugar available for tablets and phones.
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| − | Our primary FOSS License is GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0).
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| − | === About Our Community ===
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| − | As mentioned above, our community is composed 100% by volunteers. May (most) of are contributors are youth who use (of have used) Sugar in school. We have participated in Google Code-in and Google Summer of Code for many years, which have also been a source of contributions to the project.
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| − | Our community members span the globe—and while we have never had a commit from Antarctica, Sugar has been used on every continent. Contributors bring many skills: Python and JavaScript programming; graphic design; marketing and communication; documentation; user-interface design; game design; pedagogy; research into best practices; and, perhaps most important, using Sugar as a tool for learning.
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| − | Our mentors are:
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| − | * walter AT sugarlabs DOT com
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| − | * devin AT devinulibarri DOT com
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| − | === Getting Started ===
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| − | These days there are a number of different paths to getting started with Sugar. You can:
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| − | * follow the instructions for setting up our developer environment [https://developer.sugarlabs.org/];
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| − | * try Sugarizer [http://sugarizer.org/]; or
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| − | * explore some of our stand-alone activities such as Music Blocks [http://walterbender.github.io/musicblocks/].
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| − | We have lots of open issues in our various GitHub repositories: [https://github.com/sugarlabs] and [https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks], some of which involve some coding, but many of which involve testing and documentation.
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| − | == About Outreachy ==
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| − | === Sponsors ===
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| − | Outreachy is hosted by [https://sfconservancy.org Software Freedom Conservancy] with the special support from [https://www.redhat.com Red Hat] and the [https://www.gnome.org/foundation/ GNOME Foundation].
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| − | === Schedule ===
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| − | ;February 16:participating organizations are announced and application system opens
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| − | ;February 16 - March 30: applicants need to get in touch with at least one project and make a contribution to it
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| − | ;March 30: application deadline at 4pm UTC
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| − | ;March 30 - April 28: applicants are encouraged to continue making contributions for the project they applied for; submitted applications are open for editing
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| − | ;April 28: accepted participants announced on this page at 4pm UTC
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| − | ;May 30 - August 30: internship period
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| − | === Payments Schedule ===
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| − | Please refer to [https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2017/MayAugust] for details about how the SFC administers payments for the program.
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