On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:59 PM, 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!) > > :claps: :claps: :claps: > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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