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-== 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 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
 
 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


@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ Quick! Let's add all this crap 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 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:
 

-<div style="font-size: large; text-align: center">
-Configurability.
+<div style="font-size: large; color: red; text-align: center">
+more configurability.

 </div>
 
 Yeah, dozen of scientific studies showed how users almost never customize the desktops beyond
 </div>
 
 Yeah, dozen of scientific studies showed how users almost never customize the desktops beyond


@@ -114,18 +114,23 @@ setting a background image. Kids, however, are a lot more passionate about their
 laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// cover the exterior of
 their laptops with colorful stickers.
 
 laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// cover the exterior of
 their laptops with colorful stickers.
 

-|| {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hide behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }} || {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00050.jpg | maxwidth=480 || }}
+|| {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hide behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00003.jpg | maxwidth=480 | A sugar "hack" (zoom in to see the ASCII art detail) }} ||

 
 Believe it or not, many of these kids also set their Home View with the random icon layout
 (aka "the Negroponte layout"), because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in
 
 Believe it or not, many of these kids also set their Home View with the random icon layout
 (aka "the Negroponte layout"), because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in

-clever ways. I could take screenshot to prove it.
-
-And what was the gray color scale in our UI supposed to mean? I was explained it once, and it
-seemed to make sense, but I forgot. And, whatver the reason was, kids are unlikely to agree
-with us.
-
-Let's give them a control panel icon to customize colors as they wish, or they'll switch
-to Gnome //en masse//. I can't blame them, either. What would you have done when you were 8?
+clever ways. I could take many screenshot to prove it, but I particulatily like this one
+abusing Sugar's user name field to create a drawing on three lines. These kids do not live
+in the middle of Silicon Valley; it is very likely that they rediscovered the technique
+of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art | ASCII art]] completely on their own.
+The original idea was passed along and successively refined by several anonymous artists.
+
+Finally, what was the gray-scale palette supposed to mean in our UI? I was explained it once,
+and it seemed to make some sense, but now I forgot. And, whatver the reason was, kids are
+unlikely to agree with us.
+
+Let's give our users a control panel applet for customizing colors as they wish, or they'll
+switch to Gnome //en masse//. I can't blame them, either. What would you have done when
+you were 8?

 
 
 == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica ==
 
 
 == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica ==