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November 2011
- 2011-11-13 Sugar Camp Prague (GTK-3)
October 2011
- 2011-10-18 Release 883
- 2011-10-11 Join Sugar Labs...
- 2011-10-05 Sugar 0.94 has been released...
September 2011
- 2011-09-20 Sugar Camp Paris
August 2011
- 2011-08-22 ...the OLPC engineering team threw in a few additional sensors.
- 2011-08-07 A warm welcome to NDSU...
July 2011
- 2011-07-25 OLPC has released 11.2
- 2011-07-09 ... helping them to learn whatever it is they want...
June 2011
- 2011-06-28 the translation team has been reaching out...
- 2011-06-12 Read the Mathematician's Lament
- 2011-06-10 Uruguay RFP for education management, digital learning materials
- 2011-06-06 TedxKids@Brussels
May 2011
- 2011-05-27 ...modifications to Sugar View Source...
- 2011-05-13 EduJam in Montevideo
April 2011
- 2011-04-24 ...modifying Turtle Art...
- 2011-04-02 ...fielding input regarding the 4th Grade Math project...
March 2011
- 2011-03-28 I spoke with David Nalley about the 4th Grade Math project.
- 2011-03-15 There is consensus to hold a Sugar Camp in Montevideo.
February 2011
- 2011-02-23 ...released Sugar 0.92...
- 2011-02-04 We've put Sugar into the hands of almost two million children.
January 2011
- 2011-01-03 The numbers tell some of the story of 2010.
December 2010
- 2010-12-15 I spent some time at Ceibal discussing Sugar and future directions
November 2010
- 2010-11-25 Tony Forster continues to add to the Using Turtle Art with Sensors
- 2010-11-17 The Oversight Board election is under way.
- 2010-11-08 Turtle Art with Sensors is back!
- 2010-11-01 ...frame the criticism within a context...
October 2010
- 2010-10-26 ...those things that every successful project needs:
- 2010-10-17 ...a robotics interface to the OLPC XO
- 2010-10-02 The Release Team have made the Sucrose 0.90 tarballs available...
September 2010
- 2010-09-12 ...developing some lesson plans and tutorial...
August 2010
- 2010-08-25 ...a surprising and wonderful use of the nickname field...
- 2010-08-21 marcopg: welcome back! :)
- 2010-08-10 ...wait for miracles to happen...
July 2010
- 2010-07-28 Hello from Squeakfest in Wilmington, North Carolina.
- 2010-07-17 I was out-staged by the presentation by Sdenka Salas...
June 2010
- 2010-06-28 The month began with POSSE Worcester...
- 2010-06-10 An example of contextomy is Mark Warschauer's post...
- 2010-06-01 Paraguay educa team conducted a two-week workshop on Sugar Activity development.
May 2010
- 2010-05-25 ...a Sugar story today from a school in Oaxaca
- 2010-05-20 The playfulness of childhood is the most demanding teacher we have.
- 2010-05-03 There was an announcement of a significant program in the Middle East; an initiative in East Africa.
April 2010
- 2010-04-07 Laurence Buchmann has posted her wonderful video of last year's SugarCamp Paris.
- 2010-04-01 Simon Schampijer and the Sugar release team announced Sucrose 0.88...
March 2010
- 2010-03-22 The title of my talk was "Beyond 'open': Making software easier to modify."
- 2010-03-17 We are in "Code Freeze".
- 2010-03-07 activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO) has been the subject of much discussion...
February 2010
- 2010-02-28 There are many ways to contribute to the triage effort...
- 2010-02-23 Sugar is approaching a level of maturity where our milestones are stability and robustness...
- 2010-02-18 Last weekend a "testing day" was held in which most of the new features were exercised.
- 2010-02-02 ...to attend the OLPC deployment meeting...
January 2010
- 2010-01-19 ...two short talks about modifying Sugar...
- 2010-01-07 Aleksey has been busy working on Sugar Services—a decentralized means of supporting Sugar Activity dependencies.
December 2009
- 2009-12-31 ...a healthy debate about how best to put powerful tools for learning into the hands of children
- 2009-12-22 Tomeu Vizoso blogged about his trip to Uruguay.
- 2009-12-15 ...strategy for Sugar deployments in US schools.
- 2009-12-10 ...the launch of Sugar on a Stick V2 (Blueberry)
November 2009
- 2009-11-30 Simon Schampijer... has put together a detailed set of pages in the wiki outlining our policy and process for proposing new Sugar features.
- 2009-11-23 Rosamel Norma Ramirez Mendez has been an outspoken voice on the Sur list...
- 2009-11-16 We held a week-long Sugar Camp in Bolzano...
- 2009-11-02 The new activities site went on-line over the weekend.
October 2009
- 2009-10-25 I spend a three exhilarating days in Peru this week.
- 2009-10-19 ...we exceeded one-million downloads from activities.sugarlabs.org
- 2009-10-12 ...a visit with Gerald Ardito at the Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School...
- 2009-09-30 ...surveying the GNU/Linux distribution's plans regarding Sugar Release 0.84
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 Presente 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...