Nadia shows plenty of design talent: she uses Sugar to create short stories featuring her friends. She
cookie-cuts their photos and uses Scratch to animate them on fantasy backgrounds with music, sound
effects and text. Recently, she started creating line-art versions of the photos using eToys, so her
-new creations look more like cartoons. To my surprise, Benedicto mentioned the Happy Tree Friends,
-a splatter-gore cartoon which makes even South Park seem politically correct. Appropriate for his
-age or not, it's a common hacker trait.
+new creations look more like cartoons. At this point, Benedicto mentioned the [[http://htf.atom.com/ | Happy Tree Friends]],
+an innocently named Internet series which makes even South Park seem politically correct in comparison!
+HTF is Flash-only and doesn't seem to work with Gnash -- at least, we should be above any bigot criticism
+for conveying "inapprorpiate content" to young hack^Wchildren.
Nadia also created a platform videogame in which a dog needs to jump around to find the way out from
each level, while a bouncing arrow chases him. Technically simple, but shows sensitive use of
which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Benedicto had been previously
testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities.
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00005-game-written-in-scratch.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Perro Bros }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00016-nadias-work-in-etoys.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Nadia's line-art image }} ||
-== Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons ==
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} ||
+== Mon, Mar 8 - Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reasons ==
+
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cats/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids waiting to install Sugar 0.84 in front of the CATS lab }} ||
The owner of **Centro de Assistencia Tecnica y Soporte (CATS)**, the XO support center of
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caacup%C3%A9 | Caacupé]], wrote:
early in the morning, and keep coming all day long, until the evening. All of them ask
for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said:
- "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want colored windows).
+ "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want to install colored windows).
They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop, also known as "//salva pantallas//" (screensaver).
Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "//Ahora tienen Windows!//"
So, what do we do? Quick! Let's add a cool screensaver to Sugar! :-)
-Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal more to kids? By now, I think I've observed
-our young users closely enough to be able to guess what they're really missing in Sugar:
+Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal to kids more than a traditional desktop?
+By now, I think I've observed our young users closely enough to be able to guess what they're
+really missing in Sugar:
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more configurability.