Chris, Now that I have seen Walter's latest e-mail I have a better understanding of what the Google code-in involves. I would definitely like to get involved in this. My Sugar coding skills are a bit rusty, and some things I may not be much help with. For instance, the PyGame examples in the book all use sugargame, so I have no experience with olpcgames and converting from it. I don't know from touch or accelerometer either. My XO-1 and my development boxes have neither. I have a box that runs Fedora 15 but the Sugar supplied with that doesn't break any of my own Activities so I have to assume that it doesn't use Python 3 or GTK3+. This means I'll need to install the latest sugar-jhbuild, etc. So I'm not exactly ready to dive into all this, but I'll do what I can.
James Simmons On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear James, > > I am contacting you about two distinct points of Sugar Labs business. > > > 1) Google Code-In task > > Would you please consider writing up and mentoring a task under the > Documentation section of our task list (perhaps creating a separate > wiki page linked from the task list) having to do with updating your > book "Making Your Own Sugar Activities" to include new information > about the world of GTK3+, olpcgames > sugargames switch, and other > "new bits" related to Sugar activity development (e.g. touch, > accelerometer, etc.). The idea would be to describe the task(s) well > enough that a 13-17 year old Google Code in Participant could go > through and propose new or modified sections (for which you would act > as "editor-in-chief" determining inclusion. Feel free to break the > task up into multiple tasks (e.g .by chapters or however you see fit). > > > 2) You are aware that Sugar Labs is a member proejct of the Software > Freedom Conservancy and that we derive our 501(c)3 status from that > relationship as well as many other benefits with regards to > fundraising and legal administrivia. > > A new benefit that the SFC has offered offered to member projects is > the opportunity to link certain books listed on Amazon under the > Amazon affiliates program. I'm guessing this involves getting a > specially formed link that gives Sugar Labs credit for a click-through > that results in the sale of said book, the end result being Sugar Labs > getting a donation from Amazon on each sale driven through such an > affiliate link. > > The SLOBs and SFC would like to ask your permission to include the > Amazon listing of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities" in that program, > and we would obviously share the special link created with you to use > to link Amazon purchases to "click-through" donation credits to Sugar > Labs via our accounts held by SFC. We would most likely be creating a > special wiki page promoting those books included in the affiliate > program for Sugar labs, which would also include Walter's book: > > http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Change-World-Social-Impact/dp/0230337317 > > and others that we may include as we come to better understand the > rules about only listing books that have a specific affiliation with > the work of the project (e.g. we could not use random NYT > best-sellers). > > I know you give the book away and created the Amazon entry primarily > for visibility. We would not ask you to make any changes in how you > promote access to your book (other than replacing any Amazon links you > provide with the special affiliate click through version). > > The work you have done in creating this book is in itself a great > donation to Sugar Labs, I do hope you will agree to leveraging it > further for whatever additional financial benefit the affiliate > linkage might provide from purchases via Amazon. > > Warmest Regards, > > cjl >
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