Welcome to the new blog of the Scratch Team!
I'm Andrés and I am a member of the Scratch Team. I have been working on the Scratch website from the beginning and I am very happy to see the growth of our online community. In less than two years, more than 320,000 projects have been shared and now in a single day, more than 1,000 projects are uploaded to the website!
Projects have ranged from science simulations to animated stories, from news casts to engaging video games, from to soap operas to political statements... we have seen a lot of creative work!
Our community is made of people from different countries, interests and ages. While we are very different, we all share our love for Scratch and our interest in sharing projects and ideas. Some have even found collaborators and created groups to work together. Visitors to the website come from all over the world. Here is a map (from our Google Analyics) to give you an idea of the geographic diversity, based on cities, where visitors to our website come from.
And here you can see the range of ages in our community.
The past year was also an important as we had our first Scratch Conference. We also released a version of Scratch in many languages and forged some international collaborations in Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.
Of course, this growth comes with challenges. Being able to maintain the Scratch culture of friendliness and collaboration becomes harder as we have more participants. However, we are confident that with the help of you, our community and volunteers, we will be able to continue Scratching happily in the years to come.
We hope this blog will help us document some of the stories and developments of the Scratch community and the software. We are also using Twitter for short and more frequent updates.
Thanks a lot for a great 2008 and the best for this 2009.
I'm Andrés and I am a member of the Scratch Team. I have been working on the Scratch website from the beginning and I am very happy to see the growth of our online community. In less than two years, more than 320,000 projects have been shared and now in a single day, more than 1,000 projects are uploaded to the website!
Projects have ranged from science simulations to animated stories, from news casts to engaging video games, from to soap operas to political statements... we have seen a lot of creative work!
Our community is made of people from different countries, interests and ages. While we are very different, we all share our love for Scratch and our interest in sharing projects and ideas. Some have even found collaborators and created groups to work together. Visitors to the website come from all over the world. Here is a map (from our Google Analyics) to give you an idea of the geographic diversity, based on cities, where visitors to our website come from.
And here you can see the range of ages in our community.
The past year was also an important as we had our first Scratch Conference. We also released a version of Scratch in many languages and forged some international collaborations in Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.
Of course, this growth comes with challenges. Being able to maintain the Scratch culture of friendliness and collaboration becomes harder as we have more participants. However, we are confident that with the help of you, our community and volunteers, we will be able to continue Scratching happily in the years to come.
We hope this blog will help us document some of the stories and developments of the Scratch community and the software. We are also using Twitter for short and more frequent updates.
Thanks a lot for a great 2008 and the best for this 2009.
