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| − | 1. Congratulations and thank you to Daniel Narvaez, the Sugar release manager, and the Sugar developer team on the occasion of the release of Sugar 100. It is by far the best version of Sugar to date and it was developed using the most effective workflow we have yet to embrace as a community. | + | 1. I've been busy pulling together tasks for [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 Google Code In] (with help from Gonzalo, Sebastian, Laura, and Daniel). Sugar Labs already has 153 tasks in the system so far, many of them culled from the bug tracker (I mostly focused on enhancements to begin with.) We can continue to add new tasks as the contest proceeds, so do be shy about suggesting things. |
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| − | What is new for users
| + | Also, please, we need more mentors. Please contact me if you have any questions. |
| − | * Web Services
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| − | * Multiple Home Views
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| − | * Multiple Selection in the Journal
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| − | * Enable the change of the Home Icon
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| − | * Improved Content Bundle Support
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| − | * Background image in Home View
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| − | * Database Support in 3G Modems control panel
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| − | * Improved Activities Updater
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| − | What's new for developers
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| − | * Web activities
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| − | * Extending Sugar
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| − | Details are available [[0.100/Notes|here]].
| + | Once more, I also encourage you to solicit contestants from our user community. Last year, we had great contributions from the Uruguay deployment. I am hoping we are also able to reach other deployments this year. |
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| − | Please contribute to our testing: You can run [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html sugar-build] or use one of the images Gonzalo Odiard has prepared for the [[0.100/Testing|OLPC XO hardware]].
| + | 6. Finally released Turtle Blocks 193. I has Marion Zepf's [[Summer_of_Code/2013/Turtle_Blocks_Python_export_project|Python Export feature]] (tip of the hat to Alan Aguiar and Martin Abente who helped with some of the debugging). It is really fun. Create a Turtle Art project, export it as Python, then open it in Pippy, the Sugar Python editor. Alas, there is a bug in Pippy -- that I am chasing down -- that prevents it from exporting Python to Sugar activities. But once that is fixed, you'll be able to author Sugar activities in Turtle Art!!! |
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| − | The tentative [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/roadmap schedule for Sugar 102] is:
| + | Thanks too to Tony Forster, who helped me clean up the calibration for XO 1.75 and XO 4 sensor input. |
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| − | 0.101.0 - 12/01/13
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| − | 0.101.1 - 01/01/14
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| − | 0.101.2 - 02/01/14
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| − | 0.101.3 - 03/01/14 - Feature freeze
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| − | 0.101.4 - 04/01/14 - String, UI, API freeze
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| − | 0.102.0 - 05/01/14 - Final release
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| − | Daniel is soliciting feature requests; please send email to sugar-devel to get the discussion of proposed features started.
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| − | 2. Sugar Labs has been accepted as one of ten organizations globally to participate in [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 Google Code In]. Last year's contest was lots of fun and resulted in lots of tasks completed and some new developers joining our ranks. This year should be fun as well. I've put together a preliminary list of [[Google_Code_In_2013|tasks for the contest]]. We can add more tasks as the contest progresses. (The contest begins on November 18.)
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| − | I also encourage you to solicit contestants from our user community. Last year, we had great contributions from the Uruguay deployment. I am hoping we are also able to reach other deployments this year.
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| − | 5. In the builds that Gonzalo has been preparing are a number of features we are testing in Australia. We hope to get many of these features accepted upstream in Sugar 102. Among these features are: | + | 5. Gonzalo updated the [[Features]] pages in the wiki [5]. We are actively soliciting features for Sugar 102. Please send email to sugar-devel with your suggestions/plans. |
| − | * widgets for age and gender in the About Me section of the control panel
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| − | * a webservice for sending Sugar journal items to the Journal Share activity
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| − | * a webservice for gathering Sugar activity usage statistics
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| − | * some new artwork for mesh views
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| − | * a dbus service used to update favorite activities (used by the Share Favorites activity)
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| − | * configurable limits to the maximum number of open activities
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| − | * configurable limits to the maximum number of instances open for a given activity (e.g., limiting Record to one open instance at a time)
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| − | 6. Working with Marion Zepf and Alan Aguiar (with some help from Martin Abente), we are close to releasing a version of Turtle Blocks that has Marion's [[Summer_of_Code/2013/Turtle_Blocks_Python_export_project|export Python feature]]. It would be great to work with some one on testing this feature in a middle-school classroom.
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| | === Sugar Labs === | | === Sugar Labs === |
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| − | 7. Please visit our [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet].
| + | 6. Please visit our [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet]. |
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| | == Community News archive == | | == Community News archive == |