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[[File:SugaronastickAvocado-320px.png|320px|right|link=Sugar on a Stick/Avocado|Click Me!]]
 
[[File:SugaronastickAvocado-320px.png|320px|right|link=Sugar on a Stick/Avocado|Click Me!]]
 
* We are recruiting mentors and tasks for [[Google Code In 2013]].
 
* We are recruiting mentors and tasks for [[Google Code In 2013]].
* Celebrate [http://turtleartday.org Turtle Art Day]]
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* Celebrate [http://turtleartday.org Turtle Art Day].
 
* 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.
 
* 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 on a Stick '''[[Sugar on a Stick/Avocado|Avocado]]''' is out with the just released Fedora 19 and [[0.98/Notes|Sugar 0.98.8]]. Please [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Quandong#Contributing_to_Sugar_on_a_Stick|participate]].
 
* Sugar on a Stick '''[[Sugar on a Stick/Avocado|Avocado]]''' is out with the just released Fedora 19 and [[0.98/Notes|Sugar 0.98.8]]. Please [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Quandong#Contributing_to_Sugar_on_a_Stick|participate]].
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* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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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* 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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* Consider [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ the status of Sugar] after OLPC
 
* Consider [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ the status of Sugar] after OLPC
 
* Take a look at the [[Development Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84|latest Sugar features]] in version 0.84
 
* Take a look at the [[Development Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84|latest Sugar features]] in version 0.84
* Join our [[Activity Team|activity team]]
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* Join our [[Activity Team|activity team]].
 
* [[Activity Team]] formed.  Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.
 
* [[Activity Team]] formed.  Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.
 
* [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."

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