On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two questions: > > 1). I cannot find the Request To Be A Mentor form on the Google Code-In > site. I have a Gmail account so it looks like account-wise I'm all set.
A lot of things happen from what they call the Dashhboard http://www.google-melange.com/gci/dashboard/google/gci2012#request_to_become_mentor > 2). The Python Joven has a developer named Naughty Cristofer? > > James Simmons > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> == Sugar Digest == >> >> 1. Sugar Labs has been selected as one of ten projects to participate >> in Google Code In [1]. We join, among others, our colleagues at Fedora >> et al., in soliciting the participation of high-school (and in our >> case, middle-school) students to work on projects during a six-week >> sprint beginning on November 26. This is a great chance for the youth >> who have been so instrumental in our growth over the past year to show >> off their talents to the world (and two of them will hopefully win a >> trip to visit Google). Please help Chris Leonard and me finalize the >> project and mentor lists over the next few days. (We are offering >> coding projects, documentation and training projects, outreach, >> quality assurance, and user interface, so even if you are not a >> developer, you likely have some skills to devote to the Code In. >> >> NOTE TO MENTORS: Please create an account on [1] and fill out the >> Request to be a Mentor form. >> >> NOTE TO COMMUNITY: Please add to our task lists [2] and please recruit >> participants. >> >> 2. I am in transit back to Boston from a 3-day trip to Chihuahua, >> Mexico. I gave a lecture on Sugar at Campuslink 2.0, the annual tech >> conference at UACH. I had a lot of fun with the faculty and students >> and even managed to squeeze in a short tutorial on hacking Sugar on my >> way to the airport this morning. I am looking forward to growing >> participation in the Sugar community. (Note to CJL: they are very >> interested in providing RarĂ¡muri language support for Sugar.) >> >> 3. Sugar Labs is holding its annual election to the oversight board >> early next month. In anticipation of the election, I urge you to sign >> up for membership in the Sugar community. You need not be a software >> developer to join: contributions come in many forms, including: >> teaching, documenting, promoting, supporting, etc. (Note: there is no >> membership fee.) So, if you are not already a member, please sign up >> at [3] before 23 November. >> >> "If you're wondering whether you meet the requirements, if you're a >> teacher using Sugar in your classroom, regularly reading mailing >> lists, or have discussed Sugar in IRC, you probably do." >> >> If you are interested in running for one of the open board seats, open >> to any community member, please feel free to contact me or the >> membership committee with any questions before 7 December. >> >> 4. Irma Alvarez has completed Fructose (and Dextrose) translations of >> Sugar into Quechua. Next up: the Honey strings. >> >> === In the community === >> >> 5. The python-joven (Python youth) community has been busy. A number >> of Sugar and GNOME-related workshops were given last week: >> >> * Introduction to Gtk 3 (Ignacio Rodriguez and Flavio Danesse) >> * Game Development on glucose (Ezekiel Pereira) >> * My text editor for GNOME (on gtk 2) (Cristian Garcia) >> * Sugar (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty Cristofer) >> * Playing with python on my phone (Zubiaga Augustine and Naughty >> Cristofer) >> * A media player on Gstreamer 1.0 (Flavio Danesse) >> * A Client Server program (Flavio Danesse) >> >> 6. Worth a read: a blog from a new Sugar community member [4] >> >> === Tech Talk === >> >> 7. The latest Butia project by Nicolas Furquez and Rafael Sisto is >> pretty cool: [5]. >> >> === Sugar Labs === >> >> Visit our planet [6] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. >> >> ---- >> >> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 >> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012 >> [3] >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership >> [4] >> http://jutanclan.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-laptop-per-child-here-we-go.html?spref=fb >> [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9ZhQYIwVg&feature=relmfu >> [6] http://planet.sugarlabs.org >> >> -walter >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel