> 7. One of the first decisions the new board will be making is whether or not Sugar Labs should apply for GCI 2017. I am hopeful that the board will see the merits of the program and give a green light to apply again this year. If we do apply, I will be looking for mentors, project ideas, and a co-administrator. Please contact me if you are interested.
Count me in as a co-administrator this year ;) On 9/12/17, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > It has been a long time since I last wrote a Sugar Labs community new blog. > I got tied up with my day jobs: starting a new design college from scratch > and launching a new research center at MIT. (And, frankly, I was a bit > depressed following the deaths of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert.) I have > a breather on both fronts and given all of the Sugar activity of late, I am > inspired to do some writing. > > 1. A footnote from Google Code-in 2015. Ezequiel Pereira, one of the > grand-prize recipients from Sugar Labs was recently acknowledged by Google > for discovering a security bug. He got some nice press, e.g., [1, 2]. In > one article [3], he was quoted as saying: "Homework is boring. Looking for > bugs is fun.” Ezequiel is one of a generation of children in Uruguay who > grew up with Sugar. It is nice to hear the occasional word about their > accomplishments. > > 2. We just wrapped up Google Code-in and Outreachy 2017. We had 9 interns > supported by Google and 1 Outreachy intern. You can read about their > accomplishments in their blogs [4] and in the meeting logs [5] (every > Monday from May through August). Highlights from the summer include a new, > easy-to-maintain activity portal and a new www.sugarlabs.org, both going > live soon. Also of note: a new Sugar image for Raspberry Pi, some new apps, > GTK3 ports, a Sugarizer dashboard, and a major overhaul of Music Blocks. > > Tip of the hat to our mentors: Abhijit Patel, Cristina Del Puerto, Devin > Ulibarri, Hrishi Patel, Ignacio Rodriguez, José Argüello, Lionel Laské, > Matias Baez, Michaël Ohayon, Samson Goddy, Samuel Cantero, and Tony > Anderson. Lionel help me adminsister the program again this year. It is > nice to note that many of the mentors are fomer GCI participants. > > Cristina, Michaël, and Samson will be representing Sugar Labs at the annual > mentor summit at Google in October. (For those of you who have been > following the saga of Samson's visa, I am happy to say that he was > approved!) > > 3. I was invited to represent Sugar Labs at the Plan Ceibal 10th > anniversary in Montevideo a few months ago. It was great to see children > still using Sugar 10 years after the first deployment in a small school in > the Florida Department. It was also an opportunity to catch up with many > old friends and Sugar contributors, including Ignacio, Andres, Alan, Jose > Miguel, Guzman, etc. I am not sure if my talk is on line, but I wrote a > paper based on the talk which is available for download [6]. > > 4. Lionel just announced a new release of Sugarizer (v0.9). See [7] for all > of the details. > > 5. James Cameron is working towards the release of Sugar 0.111, our first > new release in nearly one year. It is mostly planned as a maintenance > release. > > 6. There are only a few more days left (15 Sept.) to register as a > candidate for the Sugar Labs oversight board. Please consider joining the > board as we need some fresh voices and perspectives. See [8] for details. > You also have until 27 Sept. to register as a member in order to be given a > vote in the election. See [9] for details. > > 7. One of the first decisions the new board will be making is whether or > not Sugar Labs should apply for GCI 2017. I am hopeful that the board will > see the merits of the program and give a green light to apply again this > year. If we do apply, I will be looking for mentors, project ideas, and a > co-administrator. Please contact me if you are interested. > > regards. > > -walter > > ---- > > [1] > https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/08/10/highschool-security-research-google-data/#.tnw_5BETRGWT > [2] > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/10/schoolboy_google_bug_bounty_http_host/ > [3] > http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/google-awards-uruguay-high-school-student-10k-finding/story?id=49249604 > [4] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code > [5] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings > [6] http://www.um.es/ead/red/54/bender.pdf > [7] http://sugarizer.org > [8] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2017-2019-candidates > [9] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> > _______________________________________________ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-Sur@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur