On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Fred juma <fredwa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bungoma OLPC HIV/AIDS XO project has introduced more activities.Now there > is internet connection on XO for children in primary Schools.Community > outreach using XO machines has been introduced.the rural community is so > excited.This courtesy of Sandra Thaxter of Solutions in USA.She is visiting > the Kenyan OLPC XO projects to ensure there success.Hands of Charity has > reached over 7 schools in Bungoma Kenya.The Maths programme has progressed > too.I has changed the perfomance in Maths in Butonge Primary School in > Bungoma County.Its a very good idea for learners. > Very interested to learn more about what activites you find useful and more about the HIV/AIDS-specific efforts. regards. -walter > > --- On *Thu, 2/2/12, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2012-02-02 > To: community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Cc: "iaep" <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, "Sugar-dev Devel" < > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org> > Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012, 2:10 PM > > == Sugar Digest == > > 1. I spent some time working on the nutrition plugin for Turtle Blocks > last weekend. I'm actually quite intrigued by the potential. So far, I > have built a small database of foods (banana, apple, chocolate cake, > and a chocolate chip cookie), where each object has an associated > simple polynomial with value for calories, protein, carbohydrates, > fiber, and fat. These values are respectable on the help palette and > there are inspector blocks that can get these values as numeric values > in Turtle Block programs. You can do arithmetic operations on the > object, e.g., banana * 3 + cookie / 2 and you can use the component > values in other operations, e.g., forward by get_calories apple. > Finally, there is an eat method that consumes the nutritional values > fed to it and accumulates aggregate totals for each component. Using > those values, I wrote a simple Weight Watchers(TM) "Points" > calculator. You can play with all of this by downloading the plugin > from [1]. > > Next up is to create a palette with foods that are actually meaningful > within the context of a deployment. There is a nice database to map > foods to their nutritional components available at [2] so the real > work is coming up with a representative list of foods and the artwork > for the blocks. Anyone one interested in exploring this further with > me? > > A screen shot is available at [3]. > > 2. I am a little late in relaying this, but Caryl Bigenho wrote up a > nice summary of SCaLE 10X a week ago. You can read about it here: [4] > > 3. I am please to announce that Robert Fadel will be taking over as > finance coordinator for Sugar Labs. Robert has a wealth of > professional experience in finance and, having previously been a part > of the core team at One Laptop per Child, he is very familiar with > Sugar Labs and its mission. Robert has been in communication with > Bradley Kuhn at the SFC in order to get brought up to speed on our > finances--Bradley had been distracted by an end of year audit report, > so things are a bit behind on the finance front. Once he gets the lay > of the land, I am certain that Robert will have many recommendations > on how we can improve our financial processes. Robert and Bradley both > have expressed interest in helping Sugar Labs identify funding > opportunities. > > 2. John Tierney spent the fall semester working closely with a team of > students participating in the OWL Jr. project at Oakland University > under the supervision of Dr. Dana Driscoll. The students evaluated > different aspects of Sugar and the use of Sugar in the classroom and > have written up very thoughtful recommendations. John is working with > them to get these materials into the wiki and to mine them for > potential feature requests. Stay tuned. > > === In the community === > > 6. There will be an eduJAM! in the week of May 7-12 in Montevideo. > Details to follow. > > 7. The week following eduJAM! will be a Squeakfest, also in Montevideo > (May 16-18). > > === Tech Talk === > > 8. The patches for new features for Sugar 0.96 [5] have (for the most > part) landed. Under the hood, we'll see a migration to GTK-3. This is > particularly important in "future-proofing" Sugar, ensuring that we > remain in sync with our upstream and opens the door to much of the > work in the GNOME community around topics such as accessibility and > touch. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this major > effort. Other new features include a global text-to-speech mechanism, > written by Gonzalo Odiard. You'll be able to highlight text in any > activity and send it to the voice synthesizer with a simple keyboard > shortcut. Manuel QuiƱones and Simon Schampijer have been porting > Browse to Webkit as its back end. Simon helped me with "write to > journal anytime", a feature that enables the user to takes notes > stored in the Sugar journal from within any activity. And Sascha > Silbe, Anish Mangal, and Aleksey Lim have added proxy configuration to > the network entry in the Sugar control panel. Lots of QA to do, but > the heavy lifting is done. > > === Sugar Labs === > > Gary Martin has generated SOMs from the past few weeks of discussion > on the IAEP mailing list: > > 2012 Jan 21st-27th [6] (41 emails) > 2012 Jan 14th-20th [7] (28 emails) > > Visit our planet [8] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. > > ---- > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Food-plugin.tar.gz > [2] https://www.choosemyplate.gov/SuperTracker > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/01/Food-plugin.png > [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2012-January/014837.html > 0.96/Feature_List > [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2012-Jan-21-27-som.jpg > [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2012-Jan-14-20-som.jpg > [8] http://planet.sugarlabs.org > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Community-news mailing list > community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org<http://mc/compose?to=community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/community-news > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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