^Eva^Rita -walter
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Walter Bender<walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > ===Sugar Digest=== > > 1. It has been a busy week for Sugar Labs. > > The center piece was the announcement of Sugar on a Stick, Strawberry. > May thanks due to Sebastian Dziallas and the Fedora packaging team as > well as Sean Daly and the Sugar Labs marketing team (we got > unprecedented international coverage). Simon Schampijer organized a > Sugar Labs booth at LinuxTag (see his write-up below). > > The bookends were the FOSSed and NECC meetings. Caroline Meeks and I > ran a workshop for teachers at [http://www.fossed.com] and along with > Caryl Bigenho, Stephen Jacobs, and Mike Lee, we presented at > [http://www.neccunplugged.com/]. > > Caroline and I also made several trips to the Gardner and Lilla G. > Frederick schools, where we are conducting Sugar on a Stick pilot > programs this summer. We are running planning sessions with the > teachers and start working with the students next week. Both schools > have structured programs in the morning and open-ended discovery in > the afternoon. It is in these afternoon sessions that we'll be using > Sugar, as a compliment to the morning activities. > > 2. Two high-school students from Rwanda are interning with me this > summer. Eric and Peter will be adding some debugging features to > Turtle Art and following up with some classroom experiments when they > return to Rwanda in August. We'll take some inspiration from some > observations Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés and I made while debugging Turtle > Art project remotely. It was clear that it wasn't clear to the > programmer where in the code one was executing at the time of an > error. Eric and Peter's goal is to highlight the brick being executed > as one steps through the program. Raúl, for his part, has taken on the > challenge of adding hover-activated tool tips. > > 3. Alan Kay, Tony Forster, Ed Cherlin et al. have been in a discussion > ([http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006853.html], > [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006831.html]) about > teaching physics that highlights the difference between diagnostic > aids and physical thinking. Worth a read. K. K. Subramaniam (Subbu) > pointed to a parody > [http://solar.physics.montana.edu/tslater/montillation_of_traxoline.html], > "The Montillation of Traxoline" that really spoke to me about the > problem of "the 'intermediation' that has crept into the science > education in recent decades. It is no longer about direct experience. > It is about dealing with text in books, pictures on charts and movies > on screen. It is about literacy, not comprehension." > > 4. Meanwhile, in the spirit of Sugar, we now have > [[Modifying_Activities#Modifying_Physics]] page in the wiki > describing how modify the Physics Activity. > > 5. Simon made regular reports from LinuxTag > [http://erikos.sweettimez.de/]. Kudos to Simon for all his work in > organizing the booth and to Tony Anderson, David Van Assche, Sean > Daly, Sebastian Dziallas, Bert and Eva Freudenberg and the Squeak > Team, Adam Holt, and James Zaki. Also thanks to our booth partners, > Skolelinux, X2GO, and Linux4Afrika. > > ===Help Wanted=== > > 6. Maria del Pilar Saenz has put out a call for participation > [http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Convocatoria] in the various Sugar Labs > Colombia programs. "If you are a teacher, engineer, student, free > software enthusiast or related, you can collaborate. No matter the > experience you have, what Most importantly, the dedication that can be > given to projects." > > ===In the community=== > > 7. I'll be giving a keynote at GUADEC > [http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/]; my plan is to both > introduce Sugar to the broader desktop community (with the goal of > recruiting more contributors), to sing the praises of the desktop—the > cloud is not the solution to all problem—but also articulate the need > for more simplicity along the entire spectrum from developers to end > users. > > 8. Squeakfest [http://squeakfest.org] will be held in Los Angeles > 10–12 August and in Porto Alegre 23–25 Julho. > > 9. There will be a Sugar track at the Free Software Week > [http://www.freesoftwareweek.org/] in Bolzano, Italy, the week of 9 > November 2009. We will likely start the Sugar Hackfest the weekend > before (7 Nov.) in order to accommodate the restricted schedules of > some of our community members, e.g., students. Free Software Week > culminates with the South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2009 > [http://www.sfscon.it/2009/]) and is sponsored by TIS innovation park > [http://www.tis.bz.it/]. > > ===Tech Talk=== > > 10. Fred Grose continues to keep watch over > [http://wiki.suagrlabs.org]. It remains a navigable site despite our > growth in content and diversity over the past year. > > 11. Thomas C Gilliard has added a Sugar VM > [http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/216653] to the Virtual > Appliance Marketplace. > > 12. Aleksey Lim announced V3 of the Sugar Activities Library > [http://activities.sugarlabs.org]. Aleksey merged and adapted the AMO > upstream code (the Mozilla Add-on codebase). > > ===Sugar Labs=== > > 13. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion > on the IAEP mailing list (Please see > [[File:2009-June-20-26-som.jpg]]). > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel