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One further note regarding Analyze Journal. I'd blogged recently about how youths who had grown up with Sugar were beginning to submit patches. In this case, the roles have reversed completely: I submitted the patch to Agustin.

One further note regarding Analyze Journal. I'd blogged recently about how youths who had grown up with Sugar were beginning to submit patches. In this case, the roles have reversed completely: I submitted the patch to Agustin.

2. In the keeping with spirit of the above discussion, [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/2a15fbc0f2269b1d61e5fa8ea723cb4848a8ee74 a new datastore metadata tag] has landed in Sugar 0.98. The "launch-times" tag is updated whenever an activity is launched. This will enable the learner to answer questions such as "how often have I used this activity?"; "do I use it in class, at home, or both?" Again, the goal is not to subsume the functionality potentially provided by [[[Platform_Team/Usage_Statistics|2]]], but to make the data available within Sugar itself more rich.

2. In keeping with the spirit of the above discussion, [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/2a15fbc0f2269b1d61e5fa8ea723cb4848a8ee74 a new datastore metadata tag] has landed in Sugar 0.98. The "launch-times" tag is updated whenever an activity is launched. This will enable the learner to answer questions such as "how often have I used this activity?"; "do I use it in class, at home, or both?" Again, the goal is not to subsume the functionality potentially provided by [[[Platform_Team/Usage_Statistics|2]]], but to make the data available within Sugar itself more rich.

3. There has been [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2012-October/015642.html a discussion on the IAEP list] about various strategies for using Turtle Blocks in support of robotics. The LEGO WeDo was discussed as one of several options currently available. It got me thinking that it may be time to finally add support for multiple WeDo devices. It is still beta, but please test [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/00/Wedo_plugin_2.tar.gz the latest wedo_plugin]. In addition to supporting multiple devices, it also is a bit more robust in regard to plugging in and removing devices while the program is running. (In the first version of the code, the device had to be plugged in when Turtle Blocks launched. Now devices can be added and removed while Turtle Blocks is running.)

3. There has been [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2012-October/015642.html a discussion on the IAEP list] about various strategies for using Turtle Blocks in support of robotics. The LEGO WeDo was discussed as one of several options currently available. It got me thinking that it may be time to finally add support for multiple WeDo devices. It is still beta, but please test [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/00/Wedo_plugin_2.tar.gz the latest wedo_plugin]. In addition to supporting multiple devices, it also is a bit more robust in regard to plugging in and removing devices while the program is running. (In the first version of the code, the device had to be plugged in when Turtle Blocks launched. Now devices can be added and removed while Turtle Blocks is running.)