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5. I finally met Christofer, the 12-year-old hacker from Uruguay to whom I sent an XO laptop last year. He attended Sugar Camp where Martin Abente taught him how to use git and vi. He and I are going to work on an SVG editor together. Meanwhile, Ignacio, another 12-year-old is helping me with some extensions to the Portfolio project.

5. I finally met Christofer, the 12-year-old hacker from Uruguay to whom I sent an XO laptop last year. He attended Sugar Camp where Martin Abente taught him how to use git and vi. He and I are going to work on an SVG editor together. Meanwhile, Ignacio, another 12-year-old is helping me with some extensions to the Portfolio project.

6. The children in Uruguay buit their own work-around to the problems with playing Youtube videos on the XO 1.0. The bajaryoutube activity downloads videos to the local machine from which they can be played without interrupts due to memory, processing, and bandwidth issues. "They solve problems and learn that they can solve problems!!"

6. The children in Uruguay built their own work-around to the problems with playing YouTube videos on the XO 1.0. The bajaryoutube activity downloads videos to the local machine from which they can be played without interrupts due to memory, processing, and bandwidth issues. "They solve problems and learn that they can solve problems!!"

7. In case you haven't seen it, there is a very nice website for the La Rioja project (See [http://www.jvglarioja.com.ar/]).

7. In case you haven't seen it, there is a very nice website for the La Rioja project (See [http://www.jvglarioja.com.ar/]).

9. Did you know that there is a Unicode character for the XO man? ⨰ is the character for multiplication with a dot, but it is not a bad short hand to use when typing in plain text.

9. Did you know that there is a Unicode character for the XO man? ⨰ is the character for multiplication with a dot, but it is not a bad short hand to use when typing in plain text.

10. One of the goals of Sugar is to engage young learners in the criticism of ideas. And as I have argued in the past, a love of debate is an aspect of Free Software culture that I hope is transferred to our users. Two weeks ago there was heated debate about software licenses. There are undoubtedly more opinions than licenses (and last time I looked, there were hundreds of licenses to choose from). While the discussion was passionate, for the most part, it as civil: reference to facts, expression of opinion, clarification of terms. We have not yet come to consensus on whether or not we should migrate from GPLv2 to GPLv3, but we are much better informed about the implications and consequences than we were when the discussion began. At the most recent Sugar oversight-board meeting, we agreed to use a referendum to take the pulse of the community (See [http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-05-08]). Details to follow.

10. One of the goals of Sugar is to engage young learners in the criticism of ideas. And as I have argued in the past, a love of debate is an aspect of Free Software culture that I hope is transferred to our users. Two weeks ago there was heated debate about software licenses. There are undoubtedly more opinions than licenses (and last time I looked, there were hundreds of licenses to choose from). While the discussion was passionate, for the most part, it was civil: reference to facts, expression of opinion, clarification of terms. We have not yet come to consensus on whether or not we should migrate from GPLv2 to GPLv3, but we are much better informed about the implications and consequences than we were when the discussion began. At the most recent Sugar oversight-board meeting, we agreed to use a referendum to take the pulse of the community (See [http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-05-08]). Details to follow.

Alas, there was a fork from the main thread where the discussion, while equally passionate, was far from civil. Unsubstantiated accusations of nefarious motivations were made that have no place in our community. “We are not going to be able to do it [meet our challenges] if we spend time vilifying each other. We are not going to be able to do it if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts.” —Barack Obama

Alas, there was a fork from the main thread where the discussion, while equally passionate, was far from civil. Unsubstantiated accusations of nefarious motivations were made that have no place in our community. “We are not going to be able to do it [meet our challenges] if we spend time vilifying each other. We are not going to be able to do it if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts.” —Barack Obama