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* Google [[Summer of Code]] 2016 is underway, with 6 projects.
== 3 Things You Can Do To Help ==
* Donate your used USB sticks to give away Sugar Sticks to schools at http://recycleusb.com
* Join the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep "It's An Education Project" mailing list]
* Watch some [http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz videos] of children in Uruguay explaining how they use Sugar and read some [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2009/01/anecdotes-of-plan-ceibal-in-durazno.html stories from the field].<BR CLEAR=RIGHT>
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== Archival entries ==
* The application period for Google Summer of Code 2016 has ended. We have 62 project proposals, which we will vet over the next few weeks. Thanks to the applicants and community mentors.
* The application period for Google Summer of Code 2016 has ended. We have 62 project proposals, which we will vet over the next few weeks. Thanks to the applicants and community mentors.
* Congratulations to our two Google Code-in grand-prize winners: Piotr Antosz (from Poland) and Ezequiel Pereira Lopez (from Uruguay).
* Congratulations to our two Google Code In 2015 grand-prize winners: Piotr Antosz (from Poland) and Ezequiel Pereira Lopez (from Uruguay).
* The Fedora 23 release of [[Sugar on a Stick]] is available with [[0.106/Notes|Sugar 0.106]]. This release of Sugar (v 0.106) is dedicated to the memory of Marco Gritti Presenti. Marco was a member of the original Sugar team and the lead Red Hat engineer on the project over its first three years of development. Soft-spoken but determined, Marco was a founding member of Sugar Labs and one of the original members of the Sugar Labs oversight board. Beyond the code he contributed to the project—he was a gifted software engineer; Marco shared with us his vision that Sugar ultimately belongs to its users. It is the clarity of this vision that is still reflected in the Sugar code-base and the spirit of the Sugar Labs community.
* The Fedora 23 release of [[Sugar on a Stick]] is available with [[0.106/Notes|Sugar 0.106]]. This release of Sugar (v 0.106) is dedicated to the memory of Marco Gritti Presenti. Marco was a member of the original Sugar team and the lead Red Hat engineer on the project over its first three years of development. Soft-spoken but determined, Marco was a founding member of Sugar Labs and one of the original members of the Sugar Labs oversight board. Beyond the code he contributed to the project—he was a gifted software engineer; Marco shared with us his vision that Sugar ultimately belongs to its users. It is the clarity of this vision that is still reflected in the Sugar code-base and the spirit of the Sugar Labs community.
* [[0.106/Notes|Sugar 106]] has been released!! See [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXFaXAGIw04&feature=youtu.be] for a quick video summary of the new features.
* [[0.106/Notes|Sugar 106]] has been released!! See [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXFaXAGIw04&feature=youtu.be] for a quick video summary of the new features.
* Are you a developer who is new to Sugar? Consider helping us with our [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/web-architecture.md.html HTML5/Javascript framework].
* Are you a developer who is new to Sugar? Consider helping us with our [http://developer.sugarlabs.org/web-architecture.md.html HTML5/Javascript framework].
* Celebrate [http://turtleartday.org Turtle Art Day].
* Celebrate [http://turtleartday.org Turtle Art Day].
* We are participating in [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ Google Code In 2015]. If you have projects you'd like to suggest or would be willing to mentor, please contact walter --AT-- sugarlabs.org.
* We are participating in [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ Google Code In 2015]. If you have projects you'd like to suggest or would be willing to mentor, please contact walter --AT-- sugarlabs.org.
* Google Summer of Code 2015 is wrapping up. The students have been writing their final blog reports, submitting last-minute patches, and uploading their code to Google. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our students and their mentors for all their hard work this summer. (Also, thanks once more to Google for supporting this program.) Great strides along many fronts were made. Specifically, Michaël Ohayon worked on Web versions of some core activities for the Sugarizer project: Calculate, Paint (with collaboration, Record, and Memorize. He also submitted patches to Turtle Blocks to make it compatible with Sugarizer. Mentor: Lionel Laske) Yash Khandelwal worked on Music Blocks AKA Mouse Music. This is a powerful, playful model for music in a block language. (Mentors: Devin Ulibarri and Marnen Laibow-Koser) Ishan Sharma revisited the Turtle 3D concept, rewriting it in Javascript. (Mentor: Walter) Amit Kumar Jha worked on extensions to Turtle programming this summer. He added argument passing and return values to procedures, passing arguments to and returning values from Turtle programs so that Turtle Blocks can be used for in-line programming by all Javascript activities, and he developed a unit=test framework for Turtle Blocks JS that can be extended to all of our Javascript activities. (Mentor: Walter) Richa Sehgal worked on a framework to support off-line Web programming, an interactive Javascript shell. She's submitted patches to the upstream Browse activity. (Mentor: Tony Anderson) Vibhor Sehgal and Utkarsh Dhawan, although not officially GSoC students, worked with Tony and Richa on a parallel project, Web Confusion, a series of programming challenges in the spirit of Turtle Confusion to encourage students. (Mentor: Tony Anderson) Abhinav Anurag made some progress on a Web collaboration framework for our Javascript activities. (Mentors: Martin Abente and Lionel Laske)
* Google Summer of Code 2015 is wrapping up. The students have been writing their final blog reports, submitting last-minute patches, and uploading their code to Google. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our students and their mentors for all their hard work this summer. (Also, thanks once more to Google for supporting this program.) Great strides along many fronts were made. Specifically, Michaël Ohayon worked on Web versions of some core activities for the Sugarizer project: Calculate, Paint (with collaboration, Record, and Memorize. He also submitted patches to Turtle Blocks to make it compatible with Sugarizer. Mentor: Lionel Laske) Yash Khandelwal worked on Music Blocks AKA Mouse Music. This is a powerful, playful model for music in a block language. (Mentors: Devin Ulibarri and Marnen Laibow-Koser) Ishan Sharma revisited the Turtle 3D concept, rewriting it in Javascript. (Mentor: Walter) Amit Kumar Jha worked on extensions to Turtle programming this summer. He added argument passing and return values to procedures, passing arguments to and returning values from Turtle programs so that Turtle Blocks can be used for in-line programming by all Javascript activities, and he developed a unit=test framework for Turtle Blocks JS that can be extended to all of our Javascript activities. (Mentor: Walter) Richa Sehgal worked on a framework to support off-line Web programming, an interactive Javascript shell. She's submitted patches to the upstream Browse activity. (Mentor: Tony Anderson) Vibhor Sehgal and Utkarsh Dhawan, although not officially GSoC students, worked with Tony and Richa on a parallel project, Web Confusion, a series of programming challenges in the spirit of Turtle Confusion to encourage students. (Mentor: Tony Anderson) Abhinav Anurag made some progress on a Web collaboration framework for our Javascript activities. (Mentors: Martin Abente and Lionel Laske)