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== Sugar Digest ==

== Sugar Digest ==

1. Bradley and Tony have ask us for a summary of Sugar Labs activity for the Software Freedom Conservancy annual report. It has been a busy year, with tremendous progress on the technical front, but also real in roads into better understanding how to deploy Sugar in a wide variety of contexts.

1. Bradley and Tony have ask us for a summary of Sugar Labs activity for the Software Freedom Conservancy annual report. It has been a busy year, with tremendous progress on the technical front, but also real inroads into better understanding of how to deploy Sugar in a wide variety of contexts.

;GTK-3: The major technical effort over the past twelve months has been the transition to GNOME Toolkit 3. The developer team, lead by Simon Schampijer, has migrated Sugar to GTK-3 and in the process both made Sugar easier to maintain and also easier to support on devices such as the OLPC XO 4.0 Touch. This has been a community effort with contributions coming from engineers at OLPC, Activity Central, and the Sugar community at large.

;GTK-3: The major technical effort over the past twelve months has been the transition to GNOME Toolkit 3. The developer team, lead by Simon Schampijer, has migrated Sugar to GTK-3 and, in the process, both made Sugar easier to maintain and also easier to support on devices such as the OLPC XO 4.0 Touch. This has been a community effort with contributions coming from engineers at OLPC, Activity Central, and the Sugar community at large.

;Sugar Activities: Our "app store" continues to grow, thanks in large part to contributions from Sugar users who have made the transition to Sugar developers. More than 10% of our apps were written by children who grew up with Sugar. Meanwhile, we are approaching eight-million downloads.

;Sugar Activities: Our "app store" continues to grow, thanks in large part to contributions from Sugar users who have made the transition to Sugar developers. More than 10% of our apps were written by children who grew up with Sugar. Meanwhile, we are approaching eight-million downloads.

:These efforts have often included working with the local experts to establish glibc locales for their languages, which will facilitate further localization work on any Linux-based system.

:These efforts have often included working with the local experts to establish glibc locales for their languages, which will facilitate further localization work on any Linux-based system.

;Sugar in the USA: While the majority of Sugar users are in Latin America and Africa, we are starting to make in roads into the United States. Programs like the ones led by Gerald Ardito have demonstrated the efficacy of Sugar within the US educational market. Larger-scale efforts by OLPC in Miami and Charlotte a driving growth.

;Sugar in the USA: While the majority of Sugar users are in Latin America and Africa, we are starting to make in roads into the United States. Programs like the ones led by Gerald Ardito have demonstrated the efficacy of Sugar within the US educational market. Larger-scale efforts by OLPC in Miami and Charlotte are driving growth.

;Teacher communities: Teachers are forming communities around Sugar to provide mutual support and to drive further pedagogical developments. They are using social media tools to form communities in which teachers and developers discuss problems and opportunities. Amazonas, Australia, et al. are leading the way.

;Teacher communities: Teachers are forming communities around Sugar to provide mutual support and to drive further pedagogical developments. They are using social media tools to form communities in which teachers and developers discuss problems and opportunities. Amazonas, Australia, et al. are leading the way.

;Local initiatives: We have back down from our formal "local labs" initiative, but not from working locally. There are strong local support teams in Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, etc., working on extending Sugar to support local needs.

;Local initiatives: We have backed down from our formal "local labs" initiative, but not from working locally. There are strong local support teams in Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, etc., working on extending Sugar to support local needs.

;Sugar on a Stick: There have been more than 500,000 visits to the Sugar on a Stick page (a version of Sugar that will run on any x86-based computer that can boot from a USB stick).

;Sugar on a Stick: There have been more than 500,000 visits to the Sugar on a Stick page (a version of Sugar that will run on any x86-based computer that can boot from a USB stick).

;GNU/Linux distributions: Thomas Gilliard compiled a list of distributions that have seen significant advances in the past year.

;GNU/Linux distributions: Thomas Gilliard compiled a list of distributions that have seen significant advances in the past year.

:* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network Sugar Network] (Aleksey Lim et al.)

:* [[Sugar Network]] (Aleksey Lim et al.)

:: Fedora-14 based OLPC OS for XO laptops (i586)

:: Fedora-14 based OLPC OS for XO laptops (i586)

:: Ubuntu-10.04 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)

:: Ubuntu-10.04 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)

:: Ubuntu-11.04 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)

:: Ubuntu-11.04 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)

:: Ubuntu-10.10 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)

:: Ubuntu-10.10 and derivatives (i586, x86_64)

:* [Trisquel http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/] 5.0 and 5.5 (Ruben Rodríguez)

:* [http://devel.trisquel.info/dagda/iso/ Trisquel] 5.0 and 5.5 (Ruben Rodríguez)

:* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/OpenSUSE#openSUSE_12.2-sugar_0.96.2 openSUSE-EDU] (Jigish Gohil and Dram Wang)

:* [[OpenSUSE#openSUSE_12.2-sugar_0.96.2|openSUSE-EDU]] (Jigish Gohil and Dram Wang)

:* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#ARM ARM] (Peter Robinson)

:* [[Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#ARM|ARM]] (Peter Robinson)

:* [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Alpha-RC3/ Fedora 18]

:* [http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Alpha-RC3/ Fedora 18]

:* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mageia Mageia]

:* [[Mageia]]

;Community outreach: Sugar Labs provided support for several developer gatherings, including Sugar Camps in Lima Peru, Cambridge Mass, San Francisco CA, Prague Czech Republic, and GUADEC.

;Community outreach: Sugar Labs provided support for several developer gatherings, including Sugar Camps in Lima Peru, Cambridge Mass, San Francisco CA, Prague Czech Republic, and GUADEC.