The page will be updated soon. The deadline is May 31th Gonzalo
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Sai Vineet <saivinee...@gmail.com> wrote: > The background contest doesn't specify the deadline for submitting a > background, what's the deadline? > On Apr 2, 2014 3:36 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ==Sugar Digest== >> >> 1. Daniel Narvaez just released Sugar 0.101.6 (unstable). See [1] for >> detailed notes on changes since Sugar 0.100. The tarfiles are >> available at [2-4] and new test builds are being prepared (keep an eye >> on [5]). We've entered Feature Freeze (which had been extended by >> three weeks to enable us to land a few more features). Time to chase >> down bugs. Tip-of-the-hat to Gonzalo Odiard, Martin Abente, and Manuel >> Quiñones, who put so much effort into getting the last few features >> over the hump. Also, an extraordinary number of new features were >> contributed by our Google Code-in students: special kudos to Emil >> Dudev, Ignacio Rodriguez, and Sam Parkinson. Finally, it was really >> nice to see so many first-time contributors. >> >> 2. Gonzalo has made some videos demonstrating the new features in both >> Sugar 100 [6] and Sugar 102 [7]. >> >> 3. We are reviewing Google Summer of Code applications. We had 35 >> applicants this year. We'll know in a few weeks how many slots we get >> from Google. >> >> 4. I traveled to Colombia a few weeks ago with Claudia Urrea to visit >> a wonderful ANSPE project in Chia being run by Aura Mora [8]. Saw some >> old friends (Sebastian Silva, Laura Vargas, and Sandra Barragán) and >> made many new friends. The highlights for me were the two Turtle Art >> workshops: one at the National University in Bogota and the other with >> the children in Chia. >> >> 5. Claudia and Erik Blankinship joined me on a panel discussuion at >> LibrePlanet 2014 [9]. The panel, which will be available online, was >> "No more mouse: saving elementary education". >> >> :The lack of a mouse and the presence of "the mouse" are having a >> detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt >> tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of >> young learners at a time in their development when "making" is >> paramount. The "Disneyification" of media further erodes the >> opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel >> we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for >> combating them. >> >> === In the community === >> >> 6. Sugar Camp #3 - Paris, hosted by Bastien Guerry, will be held from >> 12-13 April in Carrefour Numérique - Cité des Sciences. For more >> information, see [10]. >> >> 7. Claudia will be hosting a Learning Chat on Wednesday, 2 April, at >> 10AM EST, 15 GMT. The guest speaker will be Gonzalo. Please join us at >> irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. (These meetings will be held >> regularly on the first Wednesday of each month.) >> >> 8. The Sugar Background Image Contest has begun. See [11] for details. >> >> === Tech Talk === >> >> 9. I wrote a new activity while I was in Colombia: Word Cloud [12] is >> a simple activity for generating word clouds from text. >> >> 10. Another new activity worth mentioning is Flappy [13] by Alan >> Aguiar. Enjoy. (I cannot get past the first gate.) >> >> === Sugar Labs === >> >> 9. Please visit our planet [14]. >> >> ---- >> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes >> [2] >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz >> [3] >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz >> [4] >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz >> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing >> [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw >> [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0 >> [8] >> http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia >> [9] http://libreplanet.org/2014/ >> [10] http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html >> [11] http://contest.sugarlabs.org >> [12] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734 >> [13] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731 >> [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org >> >> -walter >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
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