Changes

1. During yesterday's developer meeting on IRC we spontaneously declared that Aleksey Lim (alsroot) is Sugar Labs "Volunteer of the Month". Some quotes from Aleksey's peers: "Now that we have alsroot fixing bugs, maybe we don't need any other people"; "We passed a tipping point a few days back when alsroot was fixing faster than I was able to report them." Many kudos to Aleksey!!

1. During yesterday's developer meeting on IRC we spontaneously declared that Aleksey Lim (alsroot) is Sugar Labs "Volunteer of the Month". Some quotes from Aleksey's peers: "Now that we have alsroot fixing bugs, maybe we don't need any other people"; "We passed a tipping point a few days back when alsroot was fixing faster than I was able to report them." Many kudos to Aleksey!!

2. There has been a great deal of negative press about One Laptop per Child of late--much of it based on misinformation and poor fact-checking. I decided to respond to one [http://www.undispatch.com/node/8859 blog], a particularly disheartening one by Alanna Shaikh on a UN Foundation-sponsored site:

2. There has been a great deal of negative press about One Laptop per Child of late—much of it based on misinformation and poor fact-checking. I decided to respond to one [http://www.undispatch.com/node/8859 blog], a particularly disheartening one by Alanna Shaikh on a UN Foundation-sponsored site:

:I am writing in response to Alanna Shaikh's 9/9/09 article, "One Laptop Per Child - The Dream is Over".

:I am writing in response to Alanna Shaikh's 9/9/09 article, "One Laptop Per Child - The Dream is Over".

:Sugar on a Stick, our latest initiative, allows children fortunate enough to have access to a computer at school, in the community, at home (or only the occasional access to a computer in an Internet café) to benefit from Sugar with a simple USB stick, which costs less than US $5. Sugar on a Stick runs on netbooks, but it also runs on hand-me-down computers, typical of those found in schools, that can only limp along running Windows.

:Sugar on a Stick, our latest initiative, allows children fortunate enough to have access to a computer at school, in the community, at home (or only the occasional access to a computer in an Internet café) to benefit from Sugar with a simple USB stick, which costs less than US $5. Sugar on a Stick runs on netbooks, but it also runs on hand-me-down computers, typical of those found in schools, that can only limp along running Windows.

:We invite you to contact as we will be pleased to answer any of your questions about Sugar, the free learning platform used in schools every day in countries around the world.

:We invite you to contact us as we will be pleased to answer any of your questions about Sugar, the free learning platform used in schools every day in countries around the world.

3. We will be holding the Oversight Board election this month. Details to follow soon.

3. We will be holding the Oversight Board election this month. Details to follow soon.

Simon is also looking for help with testing. We need testing plans for each new [[0.86/Feature_List|feature]] that landed in 0.86. We are looking for someone or a group of people to arrange the testing plans (many of which are contained in Trac tickets) on a wiki page so that testers can test them.

Simon is also looking for help with testing. We need testing plans for each new [[0.86/Feature_List|feature]] that landed in 0.86. We are looking for someone or a group of people to arrange the testing plans (many of which are contained in Trac tickets) on a wiki page so that testers can test them.

Once we have the 0.86 packages in the distributions, we will announce it on the mailing list. You are welcome to report bugs you find in [http://dev.sugarlabs.org our bug tracker]. Of course we welcome any efforts to form testing teams and/or to arrange for testing days. Please use the mailing list to coordinate those efforts, so that as many people as possible can join in the fun.

Once we have the 0.86 packages in the distributions, we will announce it on the mailing list. You are welcome to report bugs you find in [http://trac.sugarlabs.org our bug tracker]. Of course we welcome any efforts to form testing teams and/or to arrange for testing days. Please use the mailing list to coordinate those efforts, so that as many people as possible can join in the fun.

=== In the community ===

=== In the community ===