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Simon Phipps is part of a group of former Sun employees that are supporting a number of projects that were abandoned by Oracle after their acquisition of Sun. One of their projects, OpenAM, looks promising for filling a need we have in Sugar: it provides a centralized authentication service for single sign-on that can be federated. This could be used for supporting activity upload sites that could be accessed at schools, deployment-wide, and globally, with different authorities at each level. I am more and more convinced that having a facility for sharing projects is critical to our pedagogical mission and to our growth. OpenAM may be a candidate project for helping us implement such a facility.

Simon Phipps is part of a group of former Sun employees that are supporting a number of projects that were abandoned by Oracle after their acquisition of Sun. One of their projects, OpenAM, looks promising for filling a need we have in Sugar: it provides a centralized authentication service for single sign-on that can be federated. This could be used for supporting activity upload sites that could be accessed at schools, deployment-wide, and globally, with different authorities at each level. I am more and more convinced that having a facility for sharing projects is critical to our pedagogical mission and to our growth. OpenAM may be a candidate project for helping us implement such a facility.

I spoke with David Nalley about the [[Math4Team|4th Grade Math]] project. It struck us that while there has been a lot of work done on the project, its impact has not been felt very broadly yet. One concrete idea that came from our discussion was to create a "collection" on the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Activity Portal] to bring all the math-related activities into one place. Would everyone who is working on 4th Grade Math please send me info about your activity so that I can include it in the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/math math collection].

I spoke with David Nalley about the [[Math4Team|4th Grade Math]] project. It struck us that while there has been a lot of work done on the project, its impact has not been felt very broadly yet. One concrete idea that came from our discussion was to create a "collection" on the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Activity Library] to bring all the math-related activities into one place. Would everyone who is working on 4th Grade Math please send me info about your activity so that I can include it in the [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/math math collection].

I turned David Trask onto Turtle Blocks. While he continues in his efforts to get Sugar integrated into the Maine laptop program, he will be able to add Turtle Blocks to their builds right away, thus giving the teachers and students a taste of Sugar.

I turned David Trask onto Turtle Blocks. While he continues in his efforts to get Sugar integrated into the Maine laptop program, he will be able to add Turtle Blocks to their builds right away, thus giving the teachers and students a taste of Sugar.