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Jt4sugar
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-This will begin what will end up being a 6 month process until the 0.98 release comes out in September. If I am able to make a good enough case and get these features included, they will then be available to the presently 2.5 million One Laptop per Child XO laptops around the world when they are upgraded to this release, as well as being available for the new XO 3 tablet. It also will be available for anyone else who would like to download this new version of Sugar for free, and can be run on a mac or pc by running Sugar in VirtualBox (A free Virtual Machine).
-This will begin what will end up being a 6 month process until the 0.98 release comes out in September. If I am able to make a good enough case and get these features included, they will then be available to the presently 2.5 million One Laptop per Child XO laptops around the world when they are upgraded to this release, as well as being available for the new XO 3 tablet. It also will be available for anyone else who would like to download this new version of Sugar for free, and can be run on a mac or pc by running Sugar in VirtualBox (A free Virtual Machine).
===Collaborative Projects===
==Project OWL Jr.==
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Owl_Jr._Project
Facilitated creation
A collaborative project during the Fall 2011 semester with Dr. Dana Driscoll and her WRT 394 Literacy, Technology, and Civic Engagement class from Oakland University-Rochester Hills, Michigan. The project revolved around researching avenues to include writing process and literacy tools to enhance the Sugar Learning Platform and its constructionism offerings.
==The Fargo XO/Sugar Project http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/==
Facilitated creation
After presenting a Sugar Workshop along with Walter Bender and Dr.Gerald Ardito at the 2010 Computers&Writing Conference at Purdue University, Dr. Kevin Brooks, Chair of English-North Dakota State University approached us and asked to collaborate on Sugar Labs projects with students and faculty at NDSU along with Madison Elementary School in Fargo, North Dakota. This began a collaborative
relationship that has led to the establishment of Sugarlabs@NDSU as a local Sugar Lab, along with the impressive work they have done for the learners at Madison Elementary which is evidenced in the Fargo XO/Sugar Project blog http://fargoxo.wordpress.com/.
== MIT Sloan MarketLab Study ==
Facilitated creation
In late 2010, four students from the MIT Sloan MarketLab worked on a study of the Sugar Labs website. Their conclusions indicate the importance not only of revamping our website (launched two years ago when fewer visuals were available), but of addressing other aspects, in particular installation and support issues, as well as the technical orientation of our web presence.
The study wiki, with raw data, is here: https://sites.google.com/site/marketlabsugar
Of particular interest: the survey results from 85 respondents, here: [[Media:MarketLab_survey_results.pdf]]
A sample fundraising document by the MarketLab team is here: [[Media:Sugar_Fundraising_Text_Proposal.odt]]
The annotated final presentation is here: [[Media:MIT_MarketLab_Annotated_Presentation.odp]]