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== Community News Archive ==
== Community News Archive ==
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* [[SugarWorldCup2010|Sugar World Cup 2010]]
* Sugar Labs announces the availability of [[Sugar on a Stick |Sugar on a Stick "Mirabelle"]]. It features the Sugar Learning Environment version 0.88, support for 3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications networks, a reduced collection of core Activities, and is aimed to encourage customization and collaboration between deployments and developers.
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Recursos_en_espanol Recursos en espanol]
* Our new release ([[0.88/Notes|'''Sugar 0.88''']]) is out. Read about it [[0.88/Notes|here]].
* Interested in Google Summer of Code? Visit our [[Summer of Code]] page.
* Jim Simmons has written a [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction FLOSS manual ''Beginner's Guide''] to writing Sugar Activities.
* Download a [http://www.scribd.com/doc/20189623/The-XO-Laptop-in-the-Classroom guide to using Sugar in the classroom], written by a teacher working in rural Peru.
* Donate your used USB sticks at [http://recycleusb.com Recycle USB.com]; they'll be turned into Sugar sticks and distributed to schools.
* Watch some [http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz videos] of children in Uruguay explaining how they use Sugar and [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2009/01/anecdotes-of-plan-ceibal-in-durazno.html stories from the field]
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== Historical entries ==
* [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development], but "OLPC's decision to end its participation in Sugar's evolution doesn't mean that Sugar itself will be coming to an end any time soon. Former OLPC president of software, Walter Bender, who left the organization last year, launched Sugar Labs to facilitate ongoing community-driven development of the Sugar project. Sugar Labs has done well for itself—it recently joined the GNOME Foundation and is currently in informal talks with some hardware vendors."
* [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development], but "OLPC's decision to end its participation in Sugar's evolution doesn't mean that Sugar itself will be coming to an end any time soon. Former OLPC president of software, Walter Bender, who left the organization last year, launched Sugar Labs to facilitate ongoing community-driven development of the Sugar project. Sugar Labs has done well for itself—it recently joined the GNOME Foundation and is currently in informal talks with some hardware vendors."
* Sugar Labs is [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html joining the GNOME Foundation] as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.
* Sugar Labs is [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html joining the GNOME Foundation] as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.
* [[Development Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] has been released.
* [[Development Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] has been released.
* Sugar wins a silver medal in the [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772 International Design Excellence Awards '08].
* Sugar wins a silver medal in the [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772 International Design Excellence Awards '08].
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