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July 2015
 * 2015-07-07 Sugar 106

June 2015
 * 2015-06-07 Turtle Blocks workshops

May 2015
 * 2015-05-26 Marco Presenti Gritti

April 2015
 * 2015-04-28 Sugar 104
 * 2015-04-09 Pilani

February 2015


 * 2015-02-12 Summer of Code
 * 2015-02-03 Google Code-in results

January 2015


 * 2015-01-21 Turtle Blocks JS

December 2014


 * 2014-12-15 Google Code-in begins

November 2014


 * 2014-11-03 Redwood City Sugar Camp

October 2014


 * 2014-10-01 Montevideo Youth Summit

Sept 2014


 * 2014-09-02 Summer digest (GSoC, Youth Summit)

May 2014


 * 2014-05-15 Turtle Art Day in Kathmandu

April 2014
 * 2014-04-22 Google Summer of Code
 * 2014-04-04 Sugar 102

March 2014
 * 2014-03-09 10 million downloads

February 2014
 * 2014-02-09 Google Summer of Code

December 2013


 * 2013-12-25 Year in review
 * 2013-12-06 Malacca Base Camp

November 2013


 * 2013-11-12 Google Code In too
 * 2013-11-01 Google Code In

October 2013


 * 2013-10-22 Turtle Art Day in Caacupe
 * 2013-10-05 Sugar 100

September 2013


 * 2013-09-16 Sugar on Android discussion

August 2013

July 2013
 * 2013-08-22 Flavio's approach to teaching Python


 * 2013-07-24 Turtle Flags
 * 2013-07-15 Shaping the Future

May 2013
 * 2013-05-08 more re Google Summer of Code

April 2013
 * 2013-04-16 An interview with Alan Kay

March 2013
 * 2013-03-30 Google Summer of Code
 * 2013-03-19 Physics on the XO

February 2013
 * 2013-02-02 Online services

January 2013
 * 2013-01-25 Visualizing Turtle Blocks

December 2012
 * 2012-12-29 Claudia, Gonzalo, and Daniel join the oversight board
 * 2012-12-17 SLOBs election

November 2012
 * 2012-11-30 Sugar 0.98
 * 2012-11-25 Google Code In too
 * 2012-11-16 Google Code In

October 2012
 * 2012-10-27 technology and learning
 * 2012-10-06 Analyze Journal
 * 2012-10-01 Learning programming

September 2012
 * 2012-09-18 SFC report
 * 2012-09-06 Sugar in India...

August 2012
 * 2012-08-03 A Sugar front-end for GNUChess

July 2012
 * 2012-07-05 More Turtle Art

June 2012
 * 2012-06-23 Turtle Art and Measure
 * 2012-06-10 Chachapoyas workshop
 * 2012-06-01 redefining local labs...

May 2012 April 2012
 * 2012-05-24 Sugar 0.96 is released
 * 2012-05-11 Sugar in Sri Lanka

March 2012
 * 2012-04-30 Sugar 0.96
 * 2012-04-12 OLPC hosted a documentation summit.
 * 2012-03-22 Sugar Camp at Holmes

February 2012
 * 2012-02-23 Sugar in Sri Lanka
 * 2012-02-11 Seymour Papert was cast in the role of "anti-teacher."
 * 2012-02-07 Yupana, the Incan abacus
 * 2012-02-02 Sugar 0.96 progress

January 2012
 * 2012-01-25 WeDo plugin for Turtle Blocks
 * 2012-01-10 Sugar on the XO-3.0

December 2011
 * 2011-12-28 the origins of Sugar
 * 2011-12-07 converting Flash Games to Sugar
 * 2011-12-01 Congratulations to new board members Chris Leonard and Gerald Ardito...

November 2011
 * 2011-11-19 Sugar Portfolios
 * 2011-11-13 ...the Cairo graphics conversion...
 * 2011-11-06 Sugar Camp Prague (GTK-3)

October 2011


 * 2011-10-18 Release 883
 * 2011-10-11 Join Sugar Labs...
 * 2011-10-05 Sugar 0.94 has been released...

September 2011


 * 2011-09-20 Sugar Camp Paris

August 2011


 * 2011-08-22 ...the OLPC engineering team threw in a few additional sensors.
 * 2011-08-07 A warm welcome to NDSU...

July 2011


 * 2011-07-25 OLPC has released 11.2
 * 2011-07-09 ... helping them to learn whatever it is they want...

June 2011


 * 2011-06-28 the translation team has been reaching out...
 * 2011-06-12 Read the Mathematician's Lament
 * 2011-06-10 Uruguay RFP for education management, digital learning materials
 * 2011-06-06 TedxKids@Brussels

May 2011


 * 2011-05-27 ...modifications to Sugar View Source...
 * 2011-05-13 EduJam in Montevideo

April 2011


 * 2011-04-24 ...modifying Turtle Art...
 * 2011-04-02 ...fielding input regarding the 4th Grade Math project...

March 2011


 * 2011-03-28 I spoke with David Nalley about the 4th Grade Math project.
 * 2011-03-15 There is consensus to hold a Sugar Camp in Montevideo.

February 2011


 * 2011-02-23 ...released Sugar 0.92...
 * 2011-02-04 We've put Sugar into the hands of almost two million children.

January 2011


 * 2011-01-03 The numbers tell some of the story of 2010.

December 2010


 * 2010-12-15 I spent some time at Ceibal discussing Sugar and future directions

November 2010


 * 2010-11-25 Tony Forster continues to add to the Using Turtle Art with Sensors
 * 2010-11-17 The Oversight Board election is under way.
 * 2010-11-08 Turtle Art with Sensors is back!
 * 2010-11-01 ...frame the criticism within a context...

October 2010


 * 2010-10-26 ...those things that every successful project needs:
 * 2010-10-17 ...a robotics interface to the OLPC XO
 * 2010-10-02 The Release Team have made the Sucrose 0.90 tarballs available...

September 2010


 * 2010-09-12 ...developing some lesson plans and tutorial...

August 2010


 * 2010-08-25 ...a surprising and wonderful use of the nickname field...
 * 2010-08-21 marcopg: welcome back! :)
 * 2010-08-10 ...wait for miracles to happen...

July 2010


 * 2010-07-28 Hello from Squeakfest in Wilmington, North Carolina.
 * 2010-07-17 I was out-staged by the presentation by Sdenka Salas...

June 2010


 * 2010-06-28 The month began with POSSE Worcester...
 * 2010-06-10 An example of contextomy is Mark Warschauer's post...
 * 2010-06-01 Paraguay educa team conducted a two-week workshop on Sugar Activity development.

May 2010


 * 2010-05-25 ...a Sugar story today from a school in Oaxaca
 * 2010-05-20 The playfulness of childhood is the most demanding teacher we have.
 * 2010-05-03 There was an announcement of a significant program in the Middle East; an initiative in East Africa.

April 2010


 * 2010-04-07 Laurence Buchmann has posted her wonderful video of last year's SugarCamp Paris.
 * 2010-04-01 Simon Schampijer and the Sugar release team announced Sucrose 0.88...

March 2010
 * 2010-03-22 The title of my talk was "Beyond 'open': Making software easier to modify."
 * 2010-03-17 We are in "Code Freeze".
 * 2010-03-07 activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO) has been the subject of much discussion...

February 2010
 * 2010-02-28 There are many ways to contribute to the triage effort...
 * 2010-02-23 Sugar is approaching a level of maturity where our milestones are stability and robustness...
 * 2010-02-18 Last weekend a "testing day" was held in which most of the new features were exercised.
 * 2010-02-02 ...to attend the OLPC deployment meeting...

January 2010
 * 2010-01-19 ...two short talks about modifying Sugar...
 * 2010-01-07 Aleksey has been busy working on Sugar Services—a decentralized means of supporting Sugar Activity dependencies.

December 2009
 * 2009-12-31 ...a healthy debate about how best to put powerful tools for learning into the hands of children
 * 2009-12-22 Tomeu Vizoso blogged about his trip to Uruguay.
 * 2009-12-15 ...strategy for Sugar deployments in US schools.
 * 2009-12-10 ...the launch of Sugar on a Stick V2 (Blueberry)

November 2009
 * 2009-11-30 Simon Schampijer... has put together a detailed set of pages in the wiki outlining our policy and process for proposing new Sugar features.
 * 2009-11-23 Rosamel Norma Ramirez Mendez has been an outspoken voice on the Sur list...
 * 2009-11-16 We held a week-long Sugar Camp in Bolzano...
 * 2009-11-02 The new activities site went on-line over the weekend.

October 2009
 * 2009-10-25 I spend a three exhilarating days in Peru this week.
 * 2009-10-19 ...we exceeded one-million downloads from activities.sugarlabs.org
 * 2009-10-12 ...a visit with Gerald Ardito at the Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School...
 * 2009-09-30 ...surveying the GNU/Linux distribution's plans regarding Sugar Release 0.84

September 2009
 * 2009-09-21 Simon, Aleksey, Sascha, and Tomeu have been working around the clock on putting the finishing touches on the new 0.86 release of Sugar
 * 2009-09-16 Reinventing the Classroom: Social and Educational Impact of the Incorporation of Technologies
 * 2009-09-11 we spontaneously declared that Aleksey Lim (alsroot) is Sugar Labs "Volunteer of the Month"
 * 2009-09-03 When will the US government announce the "Sugar for Clunkers" program?

August 2009
 * 2009-08-27 The discussion about the merits and pitfalls of the use of simulation in science education continued this week...
 * 2009-08-17 ...He was guided by what he saw rather than what he wanted to believe...
 * 2009-08-11 ...the role that Sugar Labs should be playing...
 * 2009-08-05 ...wrapping up the Sugar-on-a-Stick summer programs...

July 2009
 * 2009-07-28 ...a website "dedicated to turning used flash drives into portable learning devices for children...
 * 2009-07-22 In the wow category, from Alan Kay...
 * 2009-07-15 ...the pilot programs ... are foremost on my mind...
 * 2009-07-06 ...the next generation will learn to program...
 * 2009-07-01 Simon Schampijer organized a Sugar Labs booth at LinuxTag.

June 2009
 * 2009-06-23 Sugar Labs announces the availability of Sugar on a Stick, codenamed "Strawberry".
 * 2009-06-15 ...the computer vs. phone debate...
 * 2009-06-10 ...a grant from the Gould Foundation...
 * 2009-06-01 ...the power of IRC...

May 2009
 * 2009-05-27 ...the Sugar community are growing in both size and stability.
 * 2009-05-19 ...we celebrated the one-year anniversary...
 * 2009-05-11 The discussion about pedagogy on the IAEP list intensified this week.
 * 2009-05-03 ...how can we use Sugar to better disseminate creativity heuristics?

April 2009
 * 2009-04-27 ...recent studies indicating the efficacy of Sugar...
 * 2009-04-21 Five Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2009.
 * 2009-04-15 Jameson Quinn has been doing a great job leading our Google Summer of Code program. We have been allocated five slots...
 * 2009-04-09 ...the latest Sugar on a Stick images built by Sebastian Dziallas and the release team...
 * 2009-03-31 ...in Bergen, Norway at a Skolelinux sprint...

March 2009
 * 2009-03-24 The Sugar on a Stick team is making great progress on the Fedora-11 port.
 * 2009-03-17 The Sucrose 0.84 release is now official!
 * 2009-03-10 ...our “Big Overarching Vision Goals for 2009”...
 * 2009-03-02 We are on the eve of the release of Sugar (Sucrose 0.84).

February 2009
 * 2009-02-24 "Free software is the foundation of a learning society..."
 * 2009-02-16 We can achieve and measure such a balance...
 * 2009-02-10 ...a brief Sugar overview and also introduced them to the Portfolio tool...
 * 2009-02-03 Tomeu Vizoso set a baseline for the Sugar "view source" functionality...

January 2009
 * 2009-01-29 I don't regret my decision to use Turtle Art Portfolio for my presentation at LCA...
 * 2009-01-19 Yesterday was Day One of Linux Conference Australia (LCA)...
 * 2009-01-13 Short-term contingency plans for supporting the current OLPC deployments were discussed at FUDCon...
 * 2009-01-05 ...the most important metric we can hold up to our work is the impact on learning

December 2008
 * 2008-12-29 Everyone is a teacher and a learner...
 * 2008-12-22 Sugar Labs is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board
 * 2008-12-15 We've been discussing frameworks for local/regional Sugar Labs
 * 2008-12-09 Sugar Labs joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
 * 2008-12-01 ...the first Netbook World Summit in Paris...

November 2008
 * 2008-11-25 Sugar Camp Digest
 * 2008-11-17 Regional Sugar Labs have been a topic of discussion on each stop in my travels...
 * 2008-11-10 Herramientas pedagógicas: ...the efforts of Telmex to prepare—and share—pedagogical materials...
 * 2008-11-04 Peru by the numbers...

October 2008
 * 2008-10-27 Lima: Sugar was well represented in Peru this past week...
 * 2008-10-20 I submitted a proposal to the DML competition...
 * 2008-10-13 Carolyn Meeks and Marco Pesenti Gritti continue to work on improvements to the bootable Sugar USB...
 * 2008-10-06 Trying Sugar at school...

September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008
 * 2008-09-30 It seems that a LiveUSB offers the most simple way to experience Sugar on a preexisting hardware base...
 * 2008-09-22 Roadmap: Marco Presente Gritti and Simon Schampijer have been documenting the discussion of our 0.84 goals in the wiki...
 * 2008-09-15 A Sugar Labs deployment team has been formed...
 * 2008-09-08 The Sugar Labs Oversight Board meet on Friday...
 * 2008-09-02 The Sugar community has cast their votes...
 * 2008-08-25 We are in the midst of a week-long book sprint...
 * 2008-08-18 The discussion around a succinct definition of Constructionism has heated up again...
 * 2008-08-11 The Sugar community is working on the final release (0.82) for the Sucrose...
 * 2008-08-05 There has been some discussion about the Sugar vision...
 * 2008-07-28 We can start referring to Sugar as "award-winning software."
 * 2008-07-21 Ivan Krstić and Bernie Innocenti have been moving the Sugar Labs back-end infrastructure...
 * 2008-07-14 There are still a few more loose ends to deal with before we are officially members of the Software Freedom Conservancy...
 * 2008-07-07 Minutes of the Sugar Labs meeting are posted in the wiki...
 * 2008-06-29 The Conservancy Board has provisionally approved Sugar's application to join the Conservancy...
 * 2008-06-24 The new Sucrose 0.81.3 Development Release is now available.
 * 2008-06-16 There will be a Sugar Labs meeting in Milan on Monday, 30 June.
 * 2008-06-09 There are a number of complementary efforts for documenting the Sugar API and the process for creating sugar activities...
 * 2008-06-02 A draft proposal for a governance model for Sugar Labs has been posted to the wiki
 * 2008-05-26 It has been just a few weeks since we launched the Sugar Labs initiative...