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* [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ The status of Sugar, post-OLPC]
 
* [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ The status of Sugar, post-OLPC]
 
* [[ActivityTeam]] formed.  Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.
 
* [[ActivityTeam]] formed.  Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.
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* [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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* Sugar Labs is [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html joining the GNOME Foundation] as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.
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* Older [[News]].
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* Sugar Labs officially [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/09/sugar/ joins the Software Freedom Conservancy].
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* Sugar Labs will be participating in FUDCon, which will be held at MIT (Cambridge, MA) 9–11 January. If you can attend, please ''sign up'' on the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 FUDConF11 wiki page].
 
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* Walter Bender gave the keynote at the <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.netbookworldsummit.org/ Netbook World Summit]</span> in Paris on 1 December 2008. His notes from the conference are [[Sugar_Labs/Current_Events#Sugar_Digest|here]].
 
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* [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008|SugarCamp]] was held 17–21 November in Cambridge. Notes for most of the meetings are linked from [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008/Schedule|here]].
 
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* We continue to make progress on the [[Supported_systems#Starch|LiveCD and LiveUSB]] versions of Sugar.
 
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* Read a Sugar community member's take on [http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/562 Sugar vs XP] and the [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080920181151638 Groklaw] take.
 
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* Check out the [http://en.flossmanuals.net FLOSS manual] for [http://en.flossmanuals.net/write_activity Write] and write a manual for your favorite Activity.
 
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* [[User:Aaron|Aaron Kaplan]] has ported Sugar to the Intel Classmate 2. You can read about it [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugarizing_it_intel_classmate_2.html here].
 
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* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] has been released.
 
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* 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].
 
 
For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].
 
For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].
  

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   The Sugar Labs wiki is where the community comes together to develop and support the Sugar Learning Platform.

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New Users; Parents, Teachers, and Students

If you are visiting for the first time, please see www.sugarlabs.org for an introduction to Sugar.

Current Users

If you are looking for new activities, please see activities.sugarlabs.org.

New and Current Community Members

If you are a new community member, please take a look around the wiki. You can navigate the wiki using the menus along the left side of the page. If you ever get lost, just click the logo in the upper left corner to bring you back to this page.

Community news

  • Watch some videos of children in Uruguay explaining how they use Sugar ([1] and [2]).
  • and read these stories from the field.
  • The latest memo on learning by Marvin Minsky
  • The latest Sugar features (0.83.4) are documented here.
  • The status of Sugar, post-OLPC
  • ActivityTeam formed. Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.

For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the Current Events page.


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