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3. There will also be a [http://squeakland.org/ Squeakfest] in Montevideo at the end of May (26–28 at Universidad Católica del Uruguay).
 
3. There will also be a [http://squeakland.org/ Squeakfest] in Montevideo at the end of May (26–28 at Universidad Católica del Uruguay).
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4. Rather than writing my column for the Sugar Digest, once again I have gotten sucked down a coding rat hole :). My two terrible addictions seem to be coffee and Python. Since I last posted, I have been doing more work on the Turtle Art plugin mechanism. I have two community efforts underway to use plugins: Ian Daniher wrote a plugin for WeDo and Emiliano Pastorino has written a plugin for NXT. (An Arduino plugin is also in the works.) I got lots of great feedback from both of them (as well as Raul and Tony) and made some adjustments that will be part of Release 107.  
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4. Rather than writing my column for the Sugar Digest, once again I have gotten sucked down a coding rat hole :). My two terrible addictions seem to be coffee and Python. Since I last posted, I have been doing more work on the Turtle Art plugin mechanism. I have two community efforts under way to use plugins: Ian Daniher wrote a plugin for WeDo and Emiliano Pastorino has written a plugin for NXT. (An Arduino plugin is also in the works.) I got lots of great feedback from both of them (as well as Raul and Tony) and made some adjustments that will be part of Release 107.  
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Also, as part of Release 107 is better handling of shared turtles when using Turtle Art collaboratively. With the help of Simon, Gonzalo, and Tony, I managed to sort out a number of little problems that added up to a lot of confusion: for example, you can no longer drag a turtle that someone else is sharing with you. This fixes a problem with synchronization of shared turtles (#2687). Also, the problem with extra turtles appearing when you open a project under a new 'nickname' has been fixed (#2441).
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Also, as part of Release 107 is better handling of shared turtles when using Turtle Art collaboratively. With the help of Simon, Gonzalo, and Tony, I managed to sort out a number of little problems that added up to a lot of confusion: for example, you can no longer drag a turtle that someone else is sharing with you. This fixes a problem with synchronization of shared turtles ([http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2687 #2687]). Also, the problem with extra turtles appearing when you open a project under a new 'nickname' has been fixed ([http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2441 #2441]).
    
5. I also wrote a new game: [[Activities/Paths|Paths]]. It is based upon a game I played with Oscar Becerra in Lima a few weeks ago. The basic idea is to create closed paths using tiles on an 8×8 grid. A collaborative version will be available soon. Meanwhile, [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4409 download] it and play against the robot.
 
5. I also wrote a new game: [[Activities/Paths|Paths]]. It is based upon a game I played with Oscar Becerra in Lima a few weeks ago. The basic idea is to create closed paths using tiles on an 8×8 grid. A collaborative version will be available soon. Meanwhile, [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4409 download] it and play against the robot.