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• 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."
• Sugar Labs is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.
• Sugar Labs officially joins the Software Freedom Conservancy.
• 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 FUDConF11 wiki page.
• Walter Bender gave the keynote at the Netbook World Summit in Paris on 1 December 2008. His notes from the conference are here.
• SugarCamp was held 17–21 November in Cambridge. Notes for most of the meetings are linked from here.
• We continue to make progress on the LiveCD and LiveUSB versions of Sugar.
• Read a Sugar community member's take on Sugar vs XP and the Groklaw take.
• Check out the FLOSS manual for Write and write a manual for your favorite Activity.
• Aaron Kaplan has ported Sugar to the Intel Classmate 2. You can read about it here.
• Sucrose 0.82 has been released.
• Sugar wins a silver medal in the International Design Excellence Awards '08.