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== Sugar Digest 2016-05-25 ==
== Sugar Digest 2016-05-25 ==
1. Just a quick Marvin Minsky remembrance: Marvin, especially in the days of overhead projectors, would use a bit of theatrics in his talks. He'd walk up to the overhead projector, "accidentally" drop all of his slides on the floor, and then proceed to talk about whatever happened to be on his mind at the moment. Often, part way through his allotted time, he'd bend over, scan the slides, pick on up and say, "this looks interesting", and talk about the theme of the slide. Try doing that with PowerPoint (TM).
1. Just a quick Marvin Minsky remembrance: Marvin, especially in the days of overhead projectors, would use a bit of theatrics in his talks. He'd walk up to the overhead projector, "accidentally" drop all of his slides on the floor, and then proceed to talk about whatever happened to be on his mind at the moment. Often, part way through his allotted time, he'd bend over, scan the slides, pick one up and say, "this looks interesting", and talk about the theme of the slide. Try doing that with PowerPoint (TM).
2. John Markoff, former technology writer for the <em>NY Times</em> unearthed a link to a classic paper by Alan Kay on personal computing from 1972, "[http://mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages]". Well worth the read. Alan was actively interacting with Marvin, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon at the time.
2. John Markoff, former technology writer for the <em>NY Times</em> unearthed a link to a classic paper by Alan Kay on personal computing from 1972, "[http://mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages]". Well worth the read. Alan was actively interacting with Marvin, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon at the time.
=== In the Community ===
=== In the Community ===
7. Dave Crossland lead a team of volunteers on a weekend wiki gardening adventure. While there is still more work to be done, we managed to prune lots of stale material and we began migrating stable pages to the static website we maintain on github. Thanks to everyone who volunteered. We'll probably have another go at it in July.
7. Dave Crossland lead a team of volunteers on a weekend wiki gardening adventure. While there is still more work to be done, we managed to prune lots of stale material and we began migrating stable pages to the static website we maintain on GitHub. Thanks to everyone who volunteered. We'll probably have another go at it in July.
8. There is a nice article about Sugar on a Stick in the [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Fedora-Based-Sugar-on-a-Stick-Is-One-Sweet-Desktop-83446.html Fedora Insider] blog.
8. There is a nice article about Sugar on a Stick in the [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Fedora-Based-Sugar-on-a-Stick-Is-One-Sweet-Desktop-83446.html Fedora Insider] blog.