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September 2009

• 2009-09-21 Simon, Aleksey, Sascha, and Tomeu have been working around the clock on putting the finishing touches on the new 0.86 release of Sugar
• 2009-09-16 Reinventing the Classroom: Social and Educational Impact of the Incorporation of Technologies
• 2009-09-11 we spontaneously declared that Aleksey Lim (alsroot) is Sugar Labs "Volunteer of the Month"
• 2009-09-03 When will the US government announce the "Sugar for Clunkers" program?

August 2009

• 2009-08-27 The discussion about the merits and pitfalls of the use of simulation in science education continued this week...
• 2009-08-17 ...He was guided by what he saw rather than what he wanted to believe...
• 2009-08-11 ...the role that Sugar Labs should be playing...
• 2009-08-05 ...wrapping up the Sugar-on-a-Stick summer programs...

July 2009

• 2009-07-28 ...a website "dedicated to turning used flash drives into portable learning devices for children...
• 2009-07-22 In the wow category, from Alan Kay...
• 2009-07-15 ...the pilot programs ... are foremost on my mind...
• 2009-07-06 ...the next generation will learn to program...
• 2009-07-01 Simon Schampijer organized a Sugar Labs booth at LinuxTag.

June 2009

• 2009-06-23 Sugar Labs announces the availability of Sugar on a Stick, codenamed "Strawberry".
• 2009-06-15 ...the computer vs. phone debate...
• 2009-06-10 ...a grant from the Gould Foundation...
• 2009-06-01 ...the power of IRC...

May 2009

• 2009-05-27 ...the Sugar community are growing in both size and stability.
• 2009-05-19 ...we celebrated the one-year anniversary...
• 2009-05-11 The discussion about pedagogy on the IAEP list intensified this week.
• 2009-05-03 ...how can we use Sugar to better disseminate creativity heuristics?

April 2009

• 2009-04-27 ...recent studies indicating the efficacy of Sugar...
• 2009-04-21 Five Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2009.
• 2009-04-15 Jameson Quinn has been doing a great job leading our Google Summer of Code program. We have been allocated five slots...
• 2009-04-09 ...the latest Sugar on a Stick images built by Sebastian Dziallas and the release team...
• 2009-03-31 ...in Bergen, Norway at a Skolelinux sprint...

March 2009

• 2009-03-24 The Sugar on a Stick team is making great progress on the Fedora-11 port.
• 2009-03-17 The Sucrose 0.84 release is now official!
• 2009-03-10 ...our “Big Overarching Vision Goals for 2009”...
• 2009-03-02 We are on the eve of the release of Sugar (Sucrose 0.84).

February 2009

• 2009-02-24 "Free software is the foundation of a learning society..."
• 2009-02-16 We can achieve and measure such a balance...
• 2009-02-10 ...a brief Sugar overview and also introduced them to the Portfolio tool...
• 2009-02-03 Tomeu Vizoso set a baseline for the Sugar "view source" functionality...

January 2009

• 2009-01-29 I don't regret my decision to use Turtle Art Portfolio for my presentation at LCA...
• 2009-01-19 Yesterday was Day One of Linux Conference Australia (LCA)...
• 2009-01-13 Short-term contingency plans for supporting the current OLPC deployments were discussed at FUDCon...
• 2009-01-05 ...the most important metric we can hold up to our work is the impact on learning

December 2008

• 2008-12-29 Everyone is a teacher and a learner...
• 2008-12-22 Sugar Labs is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board
• 2008-12-15 We've been discussing frameworks for local/regional Sugar Labs
• 2008-12-09 Sugar Labs joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
• 2008-12-01 ...the first Netbook World Summit in Paris...

November 2008

• 2008-11-25 Sugar Camp Digest
• 2008-11-17 Regional Sugar Labs have been a topic of discussion on each stop in my travels...
• 2008-11-10 Herramientas pedagógicas: ...the efforts of Telmex to prepare—and share—pedagogical materials...
• 2008-11-04 Peru by the numbers...

October 2008

• 2008-10-27 Lima: Sugar was well represented in Peru this past week...
• 2008-10-20 I submitted a proposal to the DML competition...
• 2008-10-13 Carolyn Meeks and Marco Pesenti Gritti continue to work on improvements to the bootable Sugar USB...
• 2008-10-06 Trying Sugar at school...

September 2008

• 2008-09-30 It seems that a LiveUSB offers the most simple way to experience Sugar on a preexisting hardware base...
• 2008-09-22 Roadmap: Marco Pesente Gritti and Simon Schampijer have been documenting the discussion of our 0.84 goals in the wiki...
• 2008-09-15 A Sugar Labs deployment team has been formed...
• 2008-09-08 The Sugar Labs Oversight Board meet on Friday...
• 2008-09-02 The Sugar community has cast their votes...

August 2008

• 2008-08-25 We are in the midst of a week-long book sprint...
• 2008-08-18 The discussion around a succinct definition of Constructionism has heated up again...
• 2008-08-11 The Sugar community is working on the final release (0.82) for the Sucrose...
• 2008-08-05 There has been some discussion about the Sugar vision...

July 2008

• 2008-07-28 We can start referring to Sugar as "award-winning software."
• 2008-07-21 Ivan Krstić and Bernie Innocenti have been moving the Sugar Labs back-end infrastructure...
• 2008-07-14 There are still a few more loose ends to deal with before we are officially members of the Software Freedom Conservancy...
• 2008-07-07 Minutes of the Sugar Labs meeting are posted in the wiki...

June 2008

• 2008-06-29 The Conservancy Board has provisionally approved Sugar's application to join the Conservancy...
• 2008-06-24 The new Sucrose 0.81.3 Development Release is now available.
• 2008-06-16 There will be a Sugar Labs meeting in Milan on Monday, 30 June.
• 2008-06-09 There are a number of complementary efforts for documenting the Sugar API and the process for creating sugar activities...
• 2008-06-02 A draft proposal for a governance model for Sugar Labs has been posted to the wiki

May 2008

• 2008-05-26 It has been just a few weeks since we launched the Sugar Labs initiative...