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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

• Congratulations to Aguz and Aneesh, the two winners of the Sugar Labs/Google Code In contest. Thanks also to all the participants and to Google.
• Sugar 0.98 has been released!!!
• Congratulations to Claudia Urrea, Gonzalo Odiard and Daniel Francis, the newest members of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board.
• Daniel Narvaez has made a number of improvements to sugar-build, which has by-and-large replaced sugar-jhbuild as the preferred development environment for Fedora and Ubuntu.
• Sugar on a Stick Quandong is out with the just released Fedora 17 and Sugar 0.96.1. Please participate.
• Twas the season. But still please consider making a donation to Sugar Labs.
• 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
• 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.

Sugar Labs^® is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization, and is supported by our generous contributors and sponsors.