Changes

==Sugar Digest==

==Sugar Digest==

1. After a long absence, Turtle Art with Sensors is back! The original fork was written by Arjun Sarwal when he was an intern at OLPC (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art_with_Sensors); however, when we migrated Sugar to non-XO platforms, we stopped supporting this fork due to problems with the alsaaudio library. With help from Tony Forster, Turtle Blocks ([http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/4027/addon-4027-latest.xo?src=homepagebrowse the mainline version of the project]) has a [[Activities/TurtleArt#Sensors_Palette|sensor palette]] with blocks for sound (raw microphone input), volume, and pitch, and on OLPC XO hardware, resistance and voltage sensors.

1. The Oversight Board election is underway. We have a very strong candidate list that spans the breadth of the community. You should have recieved a ballot by email. Please vote before 29 November. If you registered to vote and for some reason you did not receive a ballot, please let me know.

I used a Hall-effect sensor to build a bicycle odometer in Turtle Art.

2. Tony Forster continues to add to the [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors|Using Turtle Art with Sensors]] page in the wiki. Lots of great project ideas, ranging from making graphs of various data to meausing water salinity to building a carbon microphone. Check it out.

[[File:Bike_odometer.png|300px]]

3. Alex Khitrik <alex at sugarlabs dot org> is our new volunteer finance administrator volunteer. Alex has a passion for transparency; as afirst task, he will be making available all of our financial data in the wiki.

 

Tony has begun writing up [[Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors|a detailed description of the sensor input]]. Claudia Urrea has documented [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Making_XO_sensors how to build sensors] that work with the XO microphone input. Enjoy.

 

 

 

===In the community===

===In the community===

3. I was in Lima last week where I got a chance to discuss some details of the Peru OLPC deployment with Oscar Becerra. We spent much of our time discussing how to better coordinate with community efforts in Peru. Oscar is organizing a meeting -- tentatively scheduled for mid-February -- which will hopefully serve as a vehicle for more cooperation.

4. Congratulations to Tabatha Roder and the NZ Testing Team who were honored by the NZ Open Source Awards 2010. Tabatha and the Saturday morning testers in Wellington and Aukland were recognized for their contributions to Free Software in NZ.

5. We have had a flurry of new activities being contributed by deployments. Ceibal Jam in Uruguay posted a number of their wonderful activities on ASLO; Yader Velásquez, a voluneter from Nicaragua posted a cool calendar activity (See [http://yadervblog.drupalgardens.com/content/calendario-2-agendacalendar-sugar-activity-xo-and-fedora]); and a 12-year-old student from Uruguay has posted two new activities: an image viewer and a Python development environment. Meanwhile, ASLO reports ver 4.25 million downloads.

4. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, an international forum on development and social inclusion through the use of ICT in Uruguay will be held on 29th and 30th November 2010 at the Uruguayan Laboratory of Technology (LATU) in Montevideo, Uruguay.

6. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, an international forum on development and social inclusion through the use of ICT in Uruguay will be held on 29th and 30th November 2010 at the Uruguayan Laboratory of Technology (LATU) in Montevideo, Uruguay.  

===Tech Talk===

===Tech Talk===

5. Aleksey Lim, Bernie Innocenti, et al. have been working on an upgrade to the Sugar Gitorious server. They have been running a test environment, jita.sugarlabs.org, with much success; git.sugarlabs.org will be switched to the new Gitorious code base soon.

7. Aleksey Lim, Bernie Innocenti, et al. have completed the upgrade to the Sugar Gitorious server. Please note that the IP address for git.sugarlabs.org has changed to 18.85.44.120. And it has a new public SSH key:

 

You will have to remove line with substring "git.sugarlabs.org" from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file and then reconnect to git.sugarlabs.org in order to push changes to the server. (If you have trouble, check to see if "ssh-keygen -F git.sugarlabs.org -l" matches the key above.)

===Sugar Labs===

===Sugar Labs===

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File:2010-Nov-6-12-som.jpg|2010 November 6th – 12th (36 emails)  

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