X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2010%2F03;h=51d0294e6991f8be50042b238542e14de08a3e4d;hp=4f95a8d1520fa91cc1eb3f46e632c9c786eff56c;hb=a0e39c37b24e1f8ba196513dccbf6a0ffe3cdc4c;hpb=fe32a44bd5df928ab26d671520904271bc572ab7 diff --git a/blog/2010/03 b/blog/2010/03 index 4f95a8d..51d0294 100644 --- a/blog/2010/03 +++ b/blog/2010/03 @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ == 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 detail) }} || -|| {{ 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 }} || - +|| {{ 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) }} || -Today I spent some time with a boy of Caacupe who has impressed me and the -educators very much with his original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not -a school subject, these kids are learning it on their own. +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 +learning it on their own driven by their own passion. * **What's your name?** * B: Benedicto @@ -63,10 +61,72 @@ a school subject, these kids are learning it on their own. * **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?** * B: Very well! -Then we got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes. -We also updated Benedicto's laptop to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | build 65]], -containing the latest version of the Sugar 0.84 branch. Benedicto had been previously testing my previous -build 45, which contained some networking bugs. +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 +concepts despite my very poor Spanish fluency and my usual disorganized style. + +We also updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]], +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 | 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 }} || + +A few days ago, Fernando the owner of the Caacupe XO support center, wrote (Google translation with some corrctions): + +{{{ +On March 8 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: +> 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. +}}} + +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. + +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 Windoews. + +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. + +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: + +
+Configurability. +
+ +Yeah, dozen of scientific studies showed how users almost never customize the desktops beyond +setting a background image. Kids, however, are a lot more passionate about their precious +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 || }} + +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? + == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica ==