Sugar Digest 1. Sugar Labs has been given 8 slots for student interns for Google Summer of Code. This means we’ll be able to cover a lot ground this summer: we have some very strong proposals and a great mentoring team. The next step is for the mentors and the sugar-devel team to narrow the [...]
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Sugar Digest 2013-04-16
Sugar Digest 1. I have been on the road the past two weeks and consequently a bit behind in my communication. I don’t recall if I announced beyond the sugar-devel list that Sugar Labs was selected to participate in Google Summer of Code. We have a great collection of project ideas and students are starting [...]
Sugar Digest 2013-03-30
Sugar Digest 1. Thanks to the input from many member of our devel community, we we able to finalize our application to Google Summer of Code. Our application is mirrored in the wiki (See Summer of Code/2013/Application). Our final list of project ideas and mentors is quite impressive in terms of scope and impact (Summer [...]
Sugar Digest 2013-03-19
Sugar Digest 1. We need to finalize our application to Google Summer of Code by the end of next week. I’ve put a rough draft of our application in the wiki (See Summer_of_Code/2013/Application). Most important is to finalize our list of project ideas and mentors. Please add your ideas to the wiki to Summer_of_Code/2013. 2. [...]
Sugar Digest 2013-03-03
Sugar Digest 1. It has been crazy busy. With the upcoming XO4 launch, Sugar with touch support will be making its début. The developer team has done a great job but we are lagging behind a bit on the activity level: Activities that use keyboard input need to be modified to use the on-screen keyboard; [...]
Sugar Digest 2013-02-04
Sugar Digest Kim Toufectis commented on my post about online services: Appreciative of the ideals upon which SugarLabs and OLPC formed, it’s deeply troubling to envision a commercial entity like FaceBook integrated into the Control Panel. For a system in which a proprietary browser (Opera) or plugin (Adobe Flash) are controversial even as optional add-ons, [...]
Sugar Digest 2013-02-02
Sugar Digest 1, Redwood City: Raul Gutierrez Segales, Bernie Innocenti and I have been busy hacking in a mini Sugar Camp this weekend. Our goal is to build an interface between the Sugar Journal and several on-line services. Specifically, Raul and I are working on an interface between the Journal and Facebook and Bernie is [...]
Sugar Digest 2013-01-25
Sugar Digest There are certainly cases where applying objective measures badly is worse than not applying them at all, and education may well be one of those. –Nate Silver 1. Not to be deterred by Nate Silver’s words of warning, Claudia Urrea and I continue to work on mechanisms for visualizing learning Sugar. Along with [...]
Sugar Digest 2012-12-29
Sugar Digest 1. We have a newly elected Sugar Labs oversight board. Joining us are Claudia Urrea, Gonzalo Odiard, and Daniel Francis. Continuing are Adam Holt, Chris Leonard, Gerald Ardito, and Walter Bender. It is a nice group — quite diverse — which will bring some new perspectives to the board. Departing are Chris Ball, [...]
Sugar Digest 2012-12-17
Sugar Digest 1. Google Code-In continues at a rapid pace. So far, we have 49 participants working on more than 170 tasks (we continue to add more tasks as the contest progresses over the next four weeks). Students have done a great job with documentation, for example, there is now a chapter in ‘Make Your [...]