== 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/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito helping one of our trainers }} ||
+|| {{ 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
* 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// (
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.
+
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== Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons ==
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Cyber Nick, 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 }} ||
+|| {{ 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 }} ||
-A few days ago, Fernando the owner of the Caacupe XO support center, wrote (Google translation with some corrctions):
+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
}}}
-I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children are lining up in front of Cyber Nick's
-door early in the morning, and keep coming all day until the evening.
+(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:
-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).
+ "//Quiero poner ventanas coloradas//" (I want colored windows).
-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 Windoews.
+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
-something useful. It's new, it's colored and it's what adults are using. Oh, and it also comes
-with a really cool screensaver.
+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.
-Quick! Let's add all this crap to Sugar! :-)
+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:
projects / wiki.git / blobdiff