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==Sugar Digest==
==Sugar Digest==
1. [http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/72690 Microsoft To Open Source Windows] was the April Fools' Day spoof announcement that got more press, but Sam Greenfeld's spoof is a lot less obvious and a lot more engaging (See the email thread: [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-April/031679.html Possible XO Graphics Optimization Technique]).
1. Amidst all the heated discussion about software licenses, it is worth stepping back a moment to see what people are actually doing on the ground with Sugar. Check out http://proyectofedora.org/argentina/?p=320 for an example of how Turtle Art has been modified by some of our end users!! Free Software rocks.
2. I have been fielding input regarding the [[Math4Team|4th Grade Math]] project and the Sugar [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/math math collection]. There are still some missing activities, but it is by-and-large a rich list. Next, we need to fill in the [[Math4Team/Resources/Curriculum_Chart|table correlating the activities with the curricula goals]]. Please contribute.
2. I somehow misread the race scehdule: the Sugar Labs team is not returned to Uruguay for the Vuelta de Uruguay this year (Team Chipolte/Sugar Labs won the Ruta de la Americas in Uruguay earlier this year). Nonetheless, we will continue with our plans to engage the children of Uruguay in participating in the race. With help from Ceibal Jam, RAP Ceibal, ''El Pais'', RIT, and the Sugar Labs marketing team, we now have a site enable for blogging about the race (See http://www.sugarlabs.org/vueltaciclista).
3. Compare the relative interest of XO and Justin Bieber in [http://www.google.com/intl/es-419/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/uy.html Uruguay] and [http://www.google.com/intl/es-419/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/mx.html Mexico]. While there is obviously a vast difference in access to XOs between the two countries, it raises the question of whether we can use measures such as these as an indicator of how access to computing changes culture, and it suggests another tool we can use in assessing impact.
3. While we were looking the other way, we surpassed 5-million activities downloads on the Sugar Labs activity server.
4. In a follow-up exercise to the [[Math4Team|Massachusetts 4th Grade Math project]], Claudia Urrea and I have been developing a correlation between Sugar activities and the Florida 4th Grade math curriculum (See [[Math4Team/Florida]]). Also, check out [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Innovation_in_Evaluation the preliminary write up on the Assessment Summit] (more details to follow).
===In the community===
===In the community===
5. Cynthia Solomon has put her excellent book, co-authored by Margaret Minsky and Brian Harvey, on Logo programming, ''LogoWorks: Challenging Programs in Logo'', on line (See http://logoworks.wikispaces.com/). There is also a very nice preface by Marvin Minsky (http://logoworks.wikispaces.com/Preface). All the the examples can be run in Turtle Blocks.
6. Don't miss EduJam (May 5-7) and Sugar Camp (May 8-9) in Montevideo.
===Sugar Labs===
Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past few weeks of discussion on the IAEP mailing list.
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File:2011-Apr-16-22-som.jpg 2011 Apr 16th–22th (79 emails)
File:2011-Apr-9-15-som.jpg 2011 Apr 9th–15th (59 emails)
File:2011-Apr-2-8-som.jpg 2011 Apr 2nd–9th (58 emails)
File:2011-Mar-26-Apr-1-som.jpg 2011 Mar 26th–Apr 1th (23 emails)
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Visit our [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments.
== Community News archive ==
== Community News archive ==