Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2015-01-21

[Ignacio Rodríguez]

> Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:

Also I want to add few more "things" :)
* The Sugar Labs promo video [1]
* The new feature in Speak, the user can load a Image and create her own
"face" [2]
* The new Dropbox webservice [3]
* The new help pages [4]

I want to say 'thanks' to the mentors, we have done a lot of work, they
should be very exhausted! :)
as GCI 2013 student [and also 2014 student], this year was better, we got
new students, now some of these are 'friends'.
This year, like last, we tried to help new students :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRReDdoW9g&feature=youtu.be
[2]
https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5140598474407936
[3] https://github.com/ignaciouy/dropbox-webservice
[4] https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

Also, my english is still poor :)


Ignacio Rodríguez
SugarLabs at Facebook


2015-01-21 22:18 GMT-02:00 Walter Bender :

> == Sugar Digest ==
>
> In schools, all hardware and software bestow agency on one of three
> parties: the system, the teacher, or the learner. Typically, two of
> these actors lose their power as the technology benefits the
> third. Ask a group of colleagues to create a three-column table and
> brainstorm the hardware or software in your school and who is granted
> agency by each. Management software, school-wide grade-book programs,
> integrated learning systems, school-to-home communication packages,
> massive open online courses (MOOCs), and other cost-cutting
> technologies grant maximum benefit to the system. Interactive
> whiteboards, worksheet generators, projectors, whole-class
> simulations, plagiarism software, and so on, benefit the
> teacher. Personal laptops, programming languages, creativity software,
> cameras, MIDI keyboards, microcontrollers, fabrication equipment, and
> personal web space primarily benefit (bestow agency to) the
> learner. -- Gary Stager
>
> 1. Google Code-In. Wow. Finally a chance to catch my breath. Seven
> intense weeks: 60 students completed more than 300 tasks for Sugar
> Labs. The impact on Sugar Labs was even greater this year than in the
> previous years we have participated: more diversity among the
> participants, the mentors, the tasks, and a spirit of collaboration
> while striving for excellence prevailed throughout the contest. Thanks
> to Google and Stephanie Taylor for giving us this opportunity, to the
> contestants who not only did great work but taught me a thing or two
> along the way, and the mentors and community members who manned the
> IRC channel 24/7.
>
> I want to acknowledge the Top Ten+ from whom we will be selecting our
> finalists this week (results announce in early February):
>
> Ignacio Rodríguez, Daksh, samdroid, cristian99garcia, Ezequiel
> Pereira, svineet, Gtrinidad, Jas Park, Rafael Cordano, Richar, Sergio
> Britos, Aishmita Kakkar, Gabriel Lee, et al.
>
> Also, some mentors (and community members) deserve special
> recognition: Andrés Aguirre, Daniel Francis, Gary Servin, Gonzalo
> Odiard, James Cameron, Jorge Ramirez, Mariah Villarreal, Rajul,
> Rodrigo Parra, and Martin Abente Lahaye.
>
> Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:
>
> * Turtle Blocks JS plugins (Ignacio, samDroid, Daksh) [1]
> * Turtle Blocks guides (Jas Park) [2]
> * Activity reviews (Gabriel Lee) [3]
> * Dasher app (Cristian Garcia) [4]
> * Enhancements to Physics (Svineet) [5]
> * Sugar bugs squashed (Ezequiel) [6]
> * Butia Measure (Gtrinidad) [7]
> * Simple scrolling interface for Sugar (Rafael) [8]
> and much much more.
>
> 2. As mentioned above, we have a number of new Turtle Blocks plugins
> (for both the Python and Javascript versions) as a result of Google
> Code-in. One of the more interesting inspirations for plugins comes
> from mashape.com, a repository of APIs for everything from translation
> services to a bicycle theft alert system. As Sugar becomes more
> web-friendly, we can take advantage of web services and also
> facilitate our users to craft their own tools and services. It is fun
> and empowering.
>
> === In the community ===
>
> 3. The Free Software Foundation has put together a nice video on the
> core ideas behind Free Software. See [9]
>
> === Tech Talk ===
>
> 4. Xevents [10] is a TurtleBlocks plugin that makes it easy to design
> different types of accessibility interfaces through a variery of
> physical sensors types. It is being developed at FING by Andrés
> Aguirre and Alan Aguiar and was the focus of some of the Google
> Code-in work of Rafael Cordano.
>
> 5. For you OLPC XO 4 users, James Cameron has been working on enabling
> the second processor. He reports "about 38% improvement. For CPU tasks
> like rendering, alt/tab, kernel compiles, the improvement is somewhat
> more than 38%. For single threaded tasks that rely on memory
> bandwidth, performance is lower because the memory controller is
> shared between two cores." When asked how it impacts Sugar, he s

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2015-01-21

[Walter Bender]

== Sugar Digest ==

In schools, all hardware and software bestow agency on one of three
parties: the system, the teacher, or the learner. Typically, two of
these actors lose their power as the technology benefits the
third. Ask a group of colleagues to create a three-column table and
brainstorm the hardware or software in your school and who is granted
agency by each. Management software, school-wide grade-book programs,
integrated learning systems, school-to-home communication packages,
massive open online courses (MOOCs), and other cost-cutting
technologies grant maximum benefit to the system. Interactive
whiteboards, worksheet generators, projectors, whole-class
simulations, plagiarism software, and so on, benefit the
teacher. Personal laptops, programming languages, creativity software,
cameras, MIDI keyboards, microcontrollers, fabrication equipment, and
personal web space primarily benefit (bestow agency to) the
learner. -- Gary Stager

1. Google Code-In. Wow. Finally a chance to catch my breath. Seven
intense weeks: 60 students completed more than 300 tasks for Sugar
Labs. The impact on Sugar Labs was even greater this year than in the
previous years we have participated: more diversity among the
participants, the mentors, the tasks, and a spirit of collaboration
while striving for excellence prevailed throughout the contest. Thanks
to Google and Stephanie Taylor for giving us this opportunity, to the
contestants who not only did great work but taught me a thing or two
along the way, and the mentors and community members who manned the
IRC channel 24/7.

I want to acknowledge the Top Ten+ from whom we will be selecting our
finalists this week (results announce in early February):

Ignacio Rodríguez, Daksh, samdroid, cristian99garcia, Ezequiel
Pereira, svineet, Gtrinidad, Jas Park, Rafael Cordano, Richar, Sergio
Britos, Aishmita Kakkar, Gabriel Lee, et al.

Also, some mentors (and community members) deserve special
recognition: Andrés Aguirre, Daniel Francis, Gary Servin, Gonzalo
Odiard, James Cameron, Jorge Ramirez, Mariah Villarreal, Rajul,
Rodrigo Parra, and Martin Abente Lahaye.

Finally, a few projects worth mentioning:

* Turtle Blocks JS plugins (Ignacio, samDroid, Daksh) [1]
* Turtle Blocks guides (Jas Park) [2]
* Activity reviews (Gabriel Lee) [3]
* Dasher app (Cristian Garcia) [4]
* Enhancements to Physics (Svineet) [5]
* Sugar bugs squashed (Ezequiel) [6]
* Butia Measure (Gtrinidad) [7]
* Simple scrolling interface for Sugar (Rafael) [8]
and much much more.

2. As mentioned above, we have a number of new Turtle Blocks plugins
(for both the Python and Javascript versions) as a result of Google
Code-in. One of the more interesting inspirations for plugins comes
from mashape.com, a repository of APIs for everything from translation
services to a bicycle theft alert system. As Sugar becomes more
web-friendly, we can take advantage of web services and also
facilitate our users to craft their own tools and services. It is fun
and empowering.

=== In the community ===

3. The Free Software Foundation has put together a nice video on the
core ideas behind Free Software. See [9]

=== Tech Talk ===

4. Xevents [10] is a TurtleBlocks plugin that makes it easy to design
different types of accessibility interfaces through a variery of
physical sensors types. It is being developed at FING by Andrés
Aguirre and Alan Aguiar and was the focus of some of the Google
Code-in work of Rafael Cordano.

5. For you OLPC XO 4 users, James Cameron has been working on enabling
the second processor. He reports "about 38% improvement. For CPU tasks
like rendering, alt/tab, kernel compiles, the improvement is somewhat
more than 38%. For single threaded tasks that rely on memory
bandwidth, performance is lower because the memory controller is
shared between two cores." When asked how it impacts Sugar, he said
"it feels faster and more responsive."

6. Martin has announced the tarballs for the last 0.103.x UNSTABLE
release of Sugar before 0.104 STABLE. (We delayed the release a few
weeks in order to take advantage of all of the bug fixes coming in
from Google Code-in.) With this release we reach the API, UI and
String freeze [12].

* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.103.2.tar.xz
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.103.2.tar.xz
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.103.2.tar.xz
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.103.2.tar.xz
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.103.2.tar.xz

It's time to switch focus on updating translations, everyone can
contribute through or new Pootle instance [13]. We have time until
February 13, before the 0.104.0 STABLE release.

=== Sugar Labs ===

5. Please visit our planet at http://planet.sugarlab.org

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[1] https://github.com/walterbender/turtlebl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error vte3 olpc-osbuilder

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Que version de Fedora estas usando como base?

2015-01-21 21:13 GMT-03:00 Gonzalo Odiard :

> Tienes el rpm vte3 instalado?
>
>
> https://github.com/godiard/olpc-os-builder/blob/master/modules/sugar/kspkglist.50.sugar.inc#L29
>
> 2015-01-21 20:27 GMT-03:00 Alejandro Calderón :
>
> Hola a todos:
>>
>> Estoy intentando crear mi imágen personalizada de Sugar para la XO 1.75,
>> sin embargo cuando intento crearla me aparece el siguiente error.
>>
>> ERROR:root:Error creating Live CD : Failed to find package 'vte3' : No
>> existe(n) paquete(s) disponible(s) para instalar
>>
>> La imágen que intento instalar es desde el osbuilder en el archivo del os
>> 1
>> 3.2.1
>> .
>>
>> Les agradecería si saben como solucionar este problema y me echan una
>> mano con el.
>>
>> Feliz Tarde.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>



-- 
Gonzalo Odiard

SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Error vte3 olpc-osbuilder

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Tienes el rpm vte3 instalado?

https://github.com/godiard/olpc-os-builder/blob/master/modules/sugar/kspkglist.50.sugar.inc#L29

2015-01-21 20:27 GMT-03:00 Alejandro Calderón :

> Hola a todos:
>
> Estoy intentando crear mi imágen personalizada de Sugar para la XO 1.75,
> sin embargo cuando intento crearla me aparece el siguiente error.
>
> ERROR:root:Error creating Live CD : Failed to find package 'vte3' : No
> existe(n) paquete(s) disponible(s) para instalar
>
> La imágen que intento instalar es desde el osbuilder en el archivo del os 1
> 3.2.1
> .
>
> Les agradecería si saben como solucionar este problema y me echan una mano
> con el.
>
> Feliz Tarde.
>
>
>


-- 
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[Sugar-devel] Disk volume lost from frame

[James Cameron]

When a system running Sugar has a USB drive mounted, it is visible in
the frame and the Journal volume toolbar.

If the system suspends, and then resumes some time later, sometimes
the USB drive is not remounted, and has to be removed and reinserted.

This seems to be caused in gvfs where the media insertion event
timestamp is more than five seconds before the current time, leading
gvfs code to mark the volume as not to be automounted.

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12711

In other desktops, when automounting is skipped, the user clicks on
the icon for the drive to mount it.

Should Sugar have a feature for manual mounting?

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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