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Maybe it is time to bail out the US education industry. When will the US government announce the "Sugar for Clunkers"? It would work a bit differently than the car program in that with Sugar, there is no need to subsidize the purchase of replacement hardware—we'll have to find another program to bail out the computer industry. Simply replace the clunker software that most schools are using—Windows 2000 or Windows XP—with Sugar.  Sugar is, of course, free—as in speech and as in beer. Any government subsidy could go towards teacher workshops. “Yes we can!”

Maybe it is time to bail out the US education industry. When will the US government announce the "Sugar for Clunkers"? It would work a bit differently than the car program in that with Sugar, there is no need to subsidize the purchase of replacement hardware—we'll have to find another program to bail out the computer industry. Simply replace the clunker software that most schools are using—Windows 2000 or Windows XP—with Sugar.  Sugar is, of course, free—as in speech and as in beer. Any government subsidy could go towards teacher workshops. “Yes we can!”

2. I had the opportunity to present to Sugar to HRH Princess Ubolratana Mahidol at an MIT Symposium, “Miracle of Life”, which focused on her youth development program in Thailand. John (J5) Palmieri and I demoed Sugar on a Stick to the princess (See  [http://picasaweb.google.com/somponnat/MiracleOfLifeSymposium?authkey=Gv1sRgCLib8uPkpqzjoAE&feat=email#5377118272203559266 photos from the event]). We had an animated discussion and I will be following up with Khun Paron, a leading pedagogist in Thailand regarding next steps.

2. I had the opportunity to present Sugar to HRH Princess Ubolratana Mahidol at an MIT Symposium, “Miracle of Life”, which focused on her youth development program in Thailand. John (J5) Palmieri and I demoed Sugar on a Stick to the princess (See  [http://picasaweb.google.com/somponnat/MiracleOfLifeSymposium?authkey=Gv1sRgCLib8uPkpqzjoAE&feat=email#5377118272203559266 photos from the event]). We had an animated discussion and I will be following up with Khun Paron, a leading pedagogist in Thailand regarding next steps.

===Help wanted/help offered===

===Help wanted/help offered===

5. Simon Schampijer has posted notes about his Sugar pilot in Berlin. See [http://erikos.sweettimez.de/ his blog] or read about it in the Sugar Labs planet.   

5. Simon Schampijer has posted notes about his Sugar pilot in Berlin. See [http://erikos.sweettimez.de/ his blog] or read about it in the Sugar Labs planet.   

6. Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero reports that there is documentation about the Sugar pilots in Colombia at http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_con_fedora11_sobre_un_desktop and http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_con_fedora11_sobre_el_classmate.

6. Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero reports that there is documentation about the Sugar pilots in Colombia at http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_con_fedora11_sobre_un_desktop and http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_con_fedora11_sobre_el_classmate.

===Tech Talk===

===Tech Talk===

 

7. As mentioned above, we are testing the Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta Release, based on the Fedora 12 Alpha as well as the latest Sugar 0.85.3 release. Please download and test your version of this release from here:

 

7. As mentioned above, we are testing the Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta Release, based on the Fedora 12

 

Alpha as well as the latest Sugar 0.85.3 release. Please download and test your version of this release from here:

  http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-beta.iso

  http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-beta.iso