Sugar Labs/Current Events: Difference between revisions
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1. The Sucrose 0.84 release is now official! Simon Schampijer and Tomeu Vizoso have put together comprehensive release notes (See [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84|0.84 Release Notes]]). The long list of new features is impressive. And Sean Daly is spreading the word, having launched a major media blitz, a first for Sugar Labs, that has already gotten Sugar 0.84 exposure on [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sugar-labs-nonprofit-announces-new/story.aspx?guid={EF4B8934-0046-465F-AD4D-E82FBCE8F1EC}&dist=msr_7 Market Watch], [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS100509+16-Mar-2009+PRN20090316 Reuters], and [http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2009/03/16/prnewswire200903160805PR_NEWS_USPR_____PH83812.html Forbes]. More to come. | 1. The Sucrose 0.84 release is now official! Simon Schampijer and Tomeu Vizoso have put together comprehensive release notes (See [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84|0.84 Release Notes]]). The long list of new features is impressive. And Sean Daly is spreading the word, having launched a major media blitz, a first for Sugar Labs, that has already gotten Sugar 0.84 exposure on [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sugar-labs-nonprofit-announces-new/story.aspx?guid={EF4B8934-0046-465F-AD4D-E82FBCE8F1EC}&dist=msr_7 Market Watch], [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS100509+16-Mar-2009+PRN20090316 Reuters], and [http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2009/03/16/prnewswire200903160805PR_NEWS_USPR_____PH83812.html Forbes]. More to come. | ||
2. In preparation for the media campaign, there has been a lot of work done behind the scenes to make the wiki more easily searchable and navigable. Fred Grose has been the driving force behind a wiki reorganization, which includes a subpage menu for each of the major sections. Plus, | 2. In preparation for the media campaign, there has been a lot of work done behind the scenes to make the wiki more easily searchable and navigable. Fred Grose has been the driving force behind a wiki reorganization, which includes a subpage menu for each of the major sections. Plus, we have made progress in eliminating much of the CamelCase in the wiki that was interfering with search. | ||
3. Aleksey Lim is making sure that all of our efforts are being put to good use. His ost recent magic is a revamped Sugar for Caixa Mágica, the distribution used by Project Magellan (Magalhães) and numerous other projects. Meanwhile, Sasche Silbe is working on keeping Sugar on Ubuntu up to date. | 3. Aleksey Lim is making sure that all of our efforts are being put to good use. His ost recent magic is a revamped Sugar for Caixa Mágica, the distribution used by Project Magellan (Magalhães) and numerous other projects. Meanwhile, Sasche Silbe is working on keeping Sugar on Ubuntu up to date. | ||