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Line 5: − "Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself."+ − − − It has been a very exciting week. (You may have noticed, I don't often use adverbs, but ''very'' was called for given all that has happened this week.)+ − 1. Simon Schampijer announced the release of [[0.98/Notes|Sugar 0.98]]. This is a major milestone for Sugar Labs as it is the first release that takes touch seriously. It also incorporates many improvements to the GTK3 port. The Sugar Developer Team deserves a resounding celebratory cheer of thanks for a their effort. (Note that OLPC has been incorporating Sugar 0.98 in their 13.1 series of builds, available for download here [http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/] to run on XO hardware.)+ − 2. Google Code-In [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012] began on Monday. We have 22 mentors [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_orgs_mentors], 40 students [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org_scores/google/gci2012/sugarlabs2012], and 79 out of 132 tasks already completed [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#all_org_tasks]. (More tasks are coming on-line soon.) The contest runs for 6 weeks, so it is not too late to [[GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Mentors|sign up as a mentor]] and to [[GoogleCodeIn2012/Participate#Students|recruit students to participate]]. Some highlights include new tutorials for Turtle Art, using Sugar in a Virtual Machine, and using Sugar on a Stick; a new feature: load a background image on the home screen; and numerous patches in support of internationalization. Some of the usual suspects are making their usual outstanding contributions, while some new talent is also emerging. Thanks to everyone (mentors, students, and Google) for participating.+ − 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board early next month. If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open to any community member, please contact me or the membership committee with any questions *before* 7 December.+ + + + + − 4. Aleksey Lim announced the Sugar Network 0.7 development release. See [[Sugar_Network#Try_it]] for details on how to try it.+ + +
Sugar Labs/Current Events (view source)
Revision as of 17:36, 17 December 2012
, 17:36, 17 December 2012→Sugar Digest
== Sugar Digest ==
== Sugar Digest ==
1. [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 Google Code-In] continues at a rapid pace. So far, we have 49 participants working on more than 160 tasks (we continue to add more tasks as the contest progresses over the next four weeks). Students have done a great job with documentation, for example, there is now a chapter in '''[http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_draft/_v/1.0/add_refinements_gtk3/ Make Your Own Sugar Activity]''' that describes how to port from GTK2 to GTK3, a video introduction to [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2012/8006228?id=9001 Sugar on a Stick], and a new [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2012/7966208?id=17001 Turtle Art introductory guide]. They have do a lot of coding: contributions such as setting the [http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2012/7953211?id=6001 background image on the homepage]; improvements to activities ([http://www.google-melange.com/gci/work/download/google/gci2012/8018203?id=1003 1, http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8019209 2]). If you have suggestions for projects--easy or hard--please don't hesitate to contact me.
(Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.)
-André Gide
2. We are entering the oversight board election season. We have a nice diversity of [[Oversight_Board/2012-2013-candidates|candidates to choose from this year]], including some of our key developers (one of whom has been instrumental not only in writing code, but also in mentoring other developers and one whom grew up with Sugar, bringing us the perspective of the Sugar user); a pedagogist who has been leading a weekly on-line discussion about Sugar with teachers and thought leaders ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Charlas_aprendizaje_2010 3], (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Charlas_aprendizaje_2011 4], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Charlas_aprendizaje_2012 5]); a rabble rouser; and two current members running for re-election. Ballots will be issued in the next day or two. Please vote.
3. It is [http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/703154main_earth_art-ebook.pdf beautiful and free (libre)].
=== In the community ===
4. Explore a nice [http://xolp.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/ collection of Sugar Activity lesson plans] for 1st through 5th grade designed for the OLPC Charlotte deployment.
5. Thanks to an initiative by Maria Elena, Sugar will be featured in [http://www.pol.una.py/cursosverano/ a summer course] of the Polytechnic Faculty at UNA. Martin Abente will be teaching the course.
6. Mike Lee read my book, '''Leaning to Change the World''', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZGZc73oe8&feature=autoshare on his XO].
=== Tech Talk ===
=== Tech Talk ===
7. The latest from Guzmán Trindad: physics using TurtleBlocks and Butia ([[Activities/Turtle_Art/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors#RC_time_constant|6]], [[Activities/Turtle_Art/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors#Voltage-current_relationship|7]]).
8. Bug fixes continue to come in for Sugar 0.98.
=== Sugar Labs ===
=== Sugar Labs ===