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=== Help Wanted ===

=== Help Wanted ===

6. Simon Schampijer and the release team would appreciate more feedback regarding the upcoming Sugar Release 0.84 (See [[BugSquad/TriageGuide#How_to_get_up_to_speed|the Triage Guide]]). Also, Tomeu Vizoso is trying to organizing more direct feedback for 0.86 would like to propose the next Sugar release (0.86). He is proposing that one point person be designated in each deployment area to be the point of contact between the global and the local Sugar communities. This person would ”coordinate tasks where direct communication between individuals is not practical” (See [[DeploymentTeam/Places|deployment feedback]]).

6. Simon Schampijer and the release team would appreciate more feedback regarding the upcoming Sugar Release 0.84 (See [[BugSquad/TriageGuide#How_to_get_up_to_speed|the Triage Guide]]). Also, Tomeu Vizoso is trying to organizing more direct feedback for 0.86 would like to propose the next Sugar release (0.86). He is proposing that one point person be designated in each deployment area to be the point of contact between the global and the local Sugar communities. This person would ”coordinate tasks where direct communication between individuals is not practical” (See [[Deployment Team/Places|deployment feedback]]).

7. OLPC will not be issuing a major software release this spring (9.1), but is proceeding with an update to last fall's 8.2 release. Chris Ball has announced ”the first in a series of signed candidate builds leading up to the release of 8.2.1.”  For those of you using XO laptops, the 8.2.1 release team would appreciate your help testing (See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing#Preparation 8.2.1 preparation]).

7. OLPC will not be issuing a major software release this spring (9.1), but is proceeding with an update to last fall's 8.2 release. Chris Ball has announced ”the first in a series of signed candidate builds leading up to the release of 8.2.1.”  For those of you using XO laptops, the 8.2.1 release team would appreciate your help testing (See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing#Preparation 8.2.1 preparation]).

=== Tech Talk ===

=== Tech Talk ===

9. Wade Brainerd has continued to develop the [[ActivityTeam|Actvity Team]]. He and Bernie Innocenti have set up an RSS feed ([http://git.sugarlabs.org/events.atom events.atom]) to make it easier to track changes in the git tree.

9. Wade Brainerd has continued to develop the [[Activity Team|Activity Team]]. He and Bernie Innocenti have set up an RSS feed ([http://git.sugarlabs.org/events.atom events.atom]) to make it easier to track changes in the git tree.

10. Simon, Tomeu, and Marco (Presenti Gritti) have been busy pushing out new releases:

10. Simon, Tomeu, and Marco (Presenti Gritti) have been busy pushing out new releases: