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Gary C. Martin

Gary C. Martin (gary at garycmartin dot com) is a freelance software developer based in Edinburgh/UK, with a focus on design, UI/HCI, analytics, and information visualisation. His external homepage is over at http://www.garycmartin.com/.

Todo

  • New Activity toolbar designs
    • Read
    • Paint
    • Record
    • Memorize
  • Back port old toolbar support for Write (still of use as official OLPC build uses Sugar 0.84 with the old toolbars)
  • Test and use Wade's SugarGames (replacement for un-maintained OlpcGames pygame wrapper)
  • ...lots more (oh my...)

Ongoing

  • Misc Activity maintenance/development
    • Physics
    • Calculate
    • Moon
    • Clock
    • Labyrinth
    • Maze (have a version with happy faces)
    • Write
  • Weekly Self Organising Map (SOM) generation for the IAEP mailing list
  • Design Team member
  • Activity Team co-co-ordinator
  • Sugar testing, feedback, and trac reports (access to an XO-B4, two XO-1s and various virtual machine environments in Mac OS X)

Done

  • New toolbar support for Physics
  • SVG toolbar icons for Calculate, and other misc SVG work (Image Viewer, some Sugar UI elements)
  • Banners and Poster work for the Marketing Team
  • Adopted Clock (by Pierre Métras) an Activity for learning to tell the time
  • Sugar port of Labyrinth Activity for creating mind-maps (with much help from tomeu and alsroot)
  • Work on Physics to help polish, and tidy up the UI. See its wiki page for more details.
  • Various SOMs for educational related papers people post (I'll try to map texts linked/posted there)
  • Some more research paper SOMs over on wiki.laptop.org
  • Icon set for the Sugar Getting Involved page
  • Monthly Self Organising Map (SOM) generation for the Sugar-devel mailing list
  • Moon Activity showing Moon phase and eclipse visualisation