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The Sugar Labs wiki is where our community comes together to develop and support the Sugar Learning Platform.

New Learners, Parents, Teachers, and Students Sugar users are Learners. If you are visiting for the first time, please see www.sugarlabs.org for an introduction to Sugar. Want to help? We're always looking for people who want to join the Sugar Labs community. We are a group of contributors of all types - teachers, writers, coders, designers, testers, and more - who work together to further the development and deployment of the Sugar Learning Platform around the world. Visit the Getting Involved page, and find out how you can join in the fun of learning. We have some Vacancies and are always looking for maintainers and testers. Current Learners If you have Sugar and are looking for new Activities, please see the Sugar Activity Library. New and Current Community Members Please take a look around the wiki. Explore the menus along the left side of the page. If you ever get lost, just click on the Wiki link at the top of every page and you will return to this page. Please also visit the Local Labs.

Community News

• Tis the season. Thinking of making an end-of-the-year donation? Please consider Sugar Labs.
• Congratulations to Chris Leonard and Gerald Ardito, the two newest members of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board.

• Sugar on a Stick Pineapple is out with the just released Fedora 16 and Sugar 0.94. Please participate.
• Sugar 0.94 is released: many improvements and new features.
• الكمبيوتر المحمول إكس أو في الفص Sdenka Salas's book, Using the XO in the Classroom is now available in Arabic, thanks to the work of Dr. Rashid Ismael Hag Ibrahim.
• Concurso Internacional de One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) y Nickelodeon / MTV
• 11.2.0 has just been released by OLPC (for those of you who run Sugar on XO hardware). Congratulations to everyone involved in the effort, with a special tip of the hat to Daniel Drake, who led this effort.
• Como Hacer Una Actividad Sugar (Make Your Own Sugar Activities!) is now available.
• Listen to Walter Bender talk about Sugar on FLOSS Weekly.
• Recursos en espanol
• Jim Simmons has written a FLOSS manual Beginner's Guide to writing Sugar Activities. (pdf)
• Download a guide to using Sugar in the classroom, written by a teacher working in rural Peru.
• Donate your used USB sticks at Recycle USB.com; they'll be turned into Sugar sticks and distributed to schools.
• Watch some videos of children in Uruguay explaining how they use Sugar and stories from the field

For more news about Sugar Labs, please see the Current Events page and the Sugar Digest archive. Press releases are on our Press page. There is also an archive of news links, which were on this front page.