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== Sugar Digest ==

== Sugar Digest ==

Happy New Year.

1. Our release manager, Martin Abente, has announced the release of Sugar 0.107.2 (unstable). With this release, we have frozen API, UI and Strings for Sugar 0.108. The focus now is on translations and testing.

1. Three weeks into [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci Google Code-in], a remarkable 238 tasks have been completed by 95 students. One student has already completed 36 tasks!!! And our mentor team, led by former grand prize winners, Ignacio Rodríguez and Sam Parkinson, have been responsive and supportive. I'm very pleased with the energy that the GCI program brings to our development process.

 

2. We have a Sugar Labs Oversight Board meeting on Monday, 4 January at 23:00 UTC. We meet on irc.freenode.net (#sugar-meeting). Please join us for the first meeting of the calendar year and the final meeting of the current board: the election of the new board will be held in mid-January. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Francis, José Miguel García, Adam Holt, Chris Leonard, Gonzalo Odiard, and Claudia Urrea for their years of service to the community. I'm enthusiastic about the quality and dedication of [[Oversight_Board/2015-2016-candidates|the candidate pool]], so I am certain that Sugar Labs will be in good hands going forward.

 

 

2. [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci Google Code-in] ends today. A remarkable 358 tasks have been completed by 145 students, supervised by a team of 24 mentors. (By comparison, 60 students completed tasks last year, so we more than doubled the rate of participation.)

 

The mentor team will be reviewing the work of our top ten finalists to decide on two grand prize winners who will travel to Google with their parents. The top ten are: Ezequiel Pereira, Daksh Shah, Cristian, Boquete, ndefilippis, Shrix, Manveer_B, Hrishi, Sanskar Jindal, and Jas Park. Between them, they completed 177 tasks.

 

It is worth mentioning in light of the pending release of Sugar 0.108 that, among other things, the GCI students updated a number of Sugar activities such that they will work with the new Collaboration Wrapper. They also fixed dozens of activities that were not working due to changes in dependencies, incompatible binaries, etc.

 

3. Those of you who signed up for membership to Sugar Labs should have received a ballot for the Sugar Labs Oversight Board election. If you think you should have received a ballot and did not, please contact caryl AT laptop DOT org.

 

 

4. [https://github.com/Daksh/Guides/blob/master/Interview/interview.md Devin ulibarri], Claudia Urrea, Cynthia Solomon, and Walter Bender will all be attending [http://e-school.kmutt.ac.th/constructionism2016/ Constructionism 2016]. Devin and Walter will be presenting Music Blocks and the four of us will be running several workshops for children and educators.

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