X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=inline;f=blog%2F2010%2F03;h=e580777d34cb6699ffa4f64e77a69d28b9a7f2c9;hb=52ec006be431da88270453cb85dc1c5807ccd0e3;hp=313da9cfc45b18eed62c6396edf8fa625c8b46ef;hpb=71d1a4b38a1531b38098c6ff48d810038b31cffd;p=wiki.git diff --git a/blog/2010/03 b/blog/2010/03 index 313da9c..e580777 100644 --- a/blog/2010/03 +++ b/blog/2010/03 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -== Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with "los scratcheros" == +== Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with //Los Scratcheros// == -|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00003.jpg | maxwidth=480 | A sugar "hack" (zoom in to see the ASCII art detail) }} || +|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito, our youngest volunteer, helping one of our trainers }} || Today I spent some time with three siblings of Caacupe who has impressed me and the educators very much with their original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not a school subject, these kids are @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ learning it on their own driven by their own passion. * B: The "Snake" game * N: Strategic games * A: ...hmm... - * Mom: They need an automatic spell checker + * (Mom: They need an automatic spell checker... and a **screensaver**, of course). * **What's the most annoying problem for you with Sugar?** * B: Can't use the "robot" function in //Ablar con Sara// ( @@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ learning it on their own driven by their own passion. * **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?** * B: Very well! -|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Cyber Nick, the XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick }} || - Then Benedicto and I got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes. I've shown him a few Pippy examples, describing the code briefly before running it, then making small changes to make Benedicto grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the @@ -72,6 +70,75 @@ We also updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduc 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. +== Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons == + +|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's 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: + +{{{ +On March 8 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: +> Fernando, +> +> How is the migration to Fedora 11 going so far? Approximate number +> of machines to date? + +Raul, the truth that it's going smooth so far, the boys are very excited +about the new version, and the rumor is spreading fast. +I think so far my team updated 120 laptops, more or less. + +FG +}}} + +(Google translation with my manual corrctions) + +I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children start lining up outside of CATS' door +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). + +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!//" +(now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windows. + +Power of brand. It doesn't rmatter if it's the actual Windows, or even if it really does +anything useful at all. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it +also comes with a screensaver which makes it irresistible. + +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: + +