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We just released our latest issue of The Sweet Spot, our newsletter for Sugar Labs news and events.
Participate in our Fall board elections, help shape our future by completing our contributor survey. Also read about how we added dark mode to our (new!) homepage and a summary of exploring gen-AI in education through live conversations.
Share and subscribe: https://buttondown.com/sugarlabs/archive/the-sweet-spot-issue-004/
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Leaders from #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #FDroid #SugarLabs to speak at #FSF40 in October: https://u.fsf.org/48s
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I used Music Blocks today to figure out a complicated rhythm (3/4 divided into eight equal divisions and then back into 3/4).
Here's a video of me doing it: https://youtu.be/Tiw-tV-YCXM
#MusicBlocks #Rhythm #Math #Programming #SugarLabs #Music #PolyRhythm
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In celebration of starting our second year of mentoring for DMP (Code for GovTech (C4GT)), Shubham Singh and @pikurasa created this: https://youtu.be/b9uZ8ZKWO-A 🎇 🎇 🎇
Everything you see in the video is code in Music Blocks, run in real time. The animation frames were designed and created in Figma by Shubham. Enjoy!
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Today, Sugar Labs is hosting a Generative AI development showcase, where we're demoing audio-ti-midi musical transcription, a lesson plan generator, a playful "persona" app, and more. Make sure to attend it today at 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKyf_awMK4w
#SugarLabs #Learning #Teaching #Constructionism #Music #GenAI #Development #EdTech #Innovation
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Every financial contribution helps us create innovative new software for learning. Make a donation and help us reach the next fundraiser milestone: https://www.every.org/sugar-labs
#SugarLabs #EdTech #NonProfit #Software #Development #Learning #Teaching #OLPC #Programming #Fun #MusicBlocks #TurtleBlocks #Sugarizer
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The new Sugar Labs website is live! Check it out: https://youtu.be/EgrMwaUAO0w?feature=shared and www.sugarlabs.org
#SugarLabs #Development #Software #Learning #Constructionism
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Drum roll...
We received a total of 267 applications -- that's incredible! Sugar Labs mentors are working on reviewing them all in the coming weeks. Keep up the great work everyone!
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Check out this video we found:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VievUua9qyw
Fun fact: "Edge engineered/played/orchestrated/made the start up sound for the XO laptop which was made as part of the One Laptop Per Child initiative. Here is that sound. Only 4 seconds or so long and sounds exactly like Beautiful Day." -- https://u2start.com/topic/3859
#OLPC #SugarLabs #SugarDesktop #TamTam #Learning #STEM #STEAM #Music #Education
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The Linux Professional Institute (@LPI) just published an interview by Sugar Labs executive director Devin Ulibarri (@pikurasa) .
Check it out: https://www.lpi.org/blog/2025/03/12/devin-ulibarri-how-sugar-labs-empowers-education-via-floss/
#SugarLabs #OLPC #MusicBlocks #Sugarizer #GoogleSummerOfCode #Education #Software #STEM #Constructionism
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Did you know that Music Blocks has a feature to generated visual code from text-based ABC notation?
Last year, Abhijeet Singh developed a way to take ABC notation and transform it into musical code you can use in your Music Blocks (MB) projects. Need a little inspiration? You can now drag and drop some ABC notation from their website into MB.
#MusicBlocks #SugarLabs #ABCnotation #Software #Development #STEM #STEAM #Music #Programming #Education #VisualProgramming
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Sugar Labs executive director Devin Ulibarri (@pikurasa) participated this morning in the hackathon workshop for the Reimagine Africa Conference, hosted in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
He showed Music Blocks visual programming, talked about Constructionism and education, and watched student presentations. Bravo everybody!
#SugarLabs #Nigeria #PortHarcout #Constructionism #Software #Learning #Education #Teaching #Programming #MusicBlocks
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Can someone pretty please donate to https://www.every.org/sugar-labs? It'd be great if we could hire some hands to do things like do systems administration and support with deployment.
If you can't make a donation, that's ok. You can like or share the page, and that'll help.
And attached is an image of my students (used with permission) as inspiration, if you need it.
#SugarLabs #Education #Learning #Programming #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibre #OpenSource #TurtleBlocks
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It's official! Sugar Labs is a mentoring org for Google Summer of Code 2025.
Find out how to participate here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/sugar-labs
#GSoC #GSoC2025 #Programming #Coding #Summer2025 #Education #SugarLabs #Constructionism #MusicBlocks #Sugarizer #AI #Learning #Teaching #Fun #EdTech #SugarLearningPlatform
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Newly joined Sugar Labs contributor Harshit Verma wrote recently about his experience.
"Contribution to Sugar Labs has been an incredible rewarding experience. It has not only helped me grow as a developer but also given me confidence to work on real world projects."
Read the full article: https://medium.com/@therealharshit/my-open-source-journey-with-sugar-labs-362117497dcc
#opensource #freesoftware #education #sugarlabs #musicblocks #development #programming #javascript #visualprogramming
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@sugar_labs Remember that financial contributions are only one way to help us advance our mission. You can help in many ways, no matter your background or skillset. We are all working together to create wonderful tools for teaching and learning. If you need ideas, feel free to contact me.
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#SugarLabs #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Nonprofit #Constructionism #WorkingTogether #Education #Learning #OLPC
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We've got some great news!!! 🥳
You can now purchase Sugar Labs branded USB sticks with Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) pre-installed! We created this option in response to folks that were contacting us to "buy Sugar". Thanks to our partner USB Memory Direct, you can now purchase a stick for yourself or a loved one and get started with the Sugar on your laptop or PC without flashing the drive yourself.
Read more: https://www.sugarlabs.org/community/2025/01/21/SoaS-USB-announcement/
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The direct link to purchase your USB with Sugar on a Stick pre-installed is https://www.usbmemorydirect.com/store/novelty/sugarlabs/
USB Memory Direct handles shipping and handling, and all profits from your purchase go to helping nonprofit Sugar Labs in its mission in Constructionist education. We hope you enjoy!
#SugarLabs #SugarOnAStick #Fedora #Constructionism #OpenSource #Linux #Fedora #EdTech #STEM
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Here's to the wonderful memories made in 2024, as well as the ones we'll create together in 2025.
If you're able to give a financial donation, please do so via: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NEAV3YL4H6B5S
#SugarLabs #Sugar #Programming #Software #OLPC #OutOfSchoolTime #Fun #Learning #Education #STEM
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Curious what life might be like as a parent using the Sugar Learning Platform at home?
@pikurasa shares his reflections using Sugar both at home and in the classroom.
Check it out: https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/reflections-as-a-parent-and-teacher-sugar-at-home-and-in-the-classroom-c0aa9af0e34c
#OLPC #Sugar #SugarLabs #Parenting #DigitalNative #QualityScreenTime #Education #Programming #Fun
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Curious what life might be like as a parent using the Sugar Learning Platform at home?
@pikurasa shares his reflections using Sugar both at home and in the classroom.
Check it out: https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/reflections-as-a-parent-and-teacher-sugar-at-home-and-in-the-classroom-c0aa9af0e34c
#OLPC #Sugar #SugarLabs #Parenting #DigitalNative #QualityScreenTime #Education #Programming #Fun
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Curious what life might be like as a parent using the Sugar Learning Platform at home?
@pikurasa shares his reflections using Sugar both at home and in the classroom.
Check it out: https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/reflections-as-a-parent-and-teacher-sugar-at-home-and-in-the-classroom-c0aa9af0e34c
#OLPC #Sugar #SugarLabs #Parenting #DigitalNative #QualityScreenTime #Education #Programming #Fun
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Curious what life might be like as a parent using the Sugar Learning Platform at home?
@pikurasa shares his reflections using Sugar both at home and in the classroom.
Check it out: https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/reflections-as-a-parent-and-teacher-sugar-at-home-and-in-the-classroom-c0aa9af0e34c
#OLPC #Sugar #SugarLabs #Parenting #DigitalNative #QualityScreenTime #Education #Programming #Fun
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Curious what life might be like as a parent using the Sugar Learning Platform at home?
@pikurasa shares his reflections using Sugar both at home and in the classroom.
Check it out: https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/reflections-as-a-parent-and-teacher-sugar-at-home-and-in-the-classroom-c0aa9af0e34c
#OLPC #Sugar #SugarLabs #Parenting #DigitalNative #QualityScreenTime #Education #Programming #Fun
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Get a cool tee shirt or hoodie for yourself and a loved one, all while support our work in education. Check out our offerings on https://www.bonfire.com/sugar-labs-education/?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=post_campaign_launch&utm_campaign=sugar-labs-education&utm_content=default
#education #SugarLabs #freesoftware #softwarelibre #flo #opensource #olpc #STEM #STEAM #nonprofit #fun #merch
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Thank you for your support of Sugar Labs!
It's been another great year of bringing Constructionism into classrooms in the US and around the world, empowering kids through computation and creation. We're so thankful for the support of our many volunteers, and we're grateful for our community of developers, teachers, and learners.
Please follow our work here and join our newsletter at https://buttondown.com/sugarlabs
#education #software #learning #sugarlabs #olpc #constructionism
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This Saturday, Walter Bender and Devin Ulibarri will be conducting a Music Blocks workshop for the upcoming Boston Code Camp. Their session is titled "Create musical code with Music Blocks" and will be an introduction to programming with Music Blocks visual programming language, created by the Sugar Labs community. If you're in the area and able to join, we encourage you to take advantage of the free registration.
#boscc #musicblocks #sugarlabs #visualprogramming #stemlearning #constructionism
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It's Turtle Blocks Sunday!
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Today, Sameer Verma and I met at a mall near San Francisco State University (SFSU). We talked about OLPC and Sugar. We also talked about Jazz, Country, and Hindustani music while listening to The Headhunters.
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Sugar Labs community member Anindya Kundu presented over the weekend for the Opportunity Open Source Conference at IIT Kanpur.
He shared his experience in a talk titled "The 'build to learn' guide for Google Summer of Code and beyond."
Bravo, Anindya!
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This Friday, we're proud to host the second set of our #GoogleSummerOfCode interns to showcase their work for the summer.
We'll learn about their work on Raspberry Pi, Flatpak, Math Games, Pippy-AI assistant project, and AI-integration in Chat activity.
These interns have worked hard this summer and have achieved fruitful results along with the assistance of their mentors, @walterbender , @tchx84, and @chimosky.
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Sugar Labs is very proud to have a community where past contributors become long-time community members and mentors. Tomorrow, you have an opportunity to meet SugarLabs contributor-turned-mentor Anindya Kundu. Anindya joined us as a #GoogleSummerOfCode Contributor in 2020.
Join us tomorrow at 1:00pm ET (17:00 UTC; 22:30 IST) on YouTube via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/live/0veSdQigzCk
#MusicBlocks #Programming #SugarLabs #EdTech #Constructionism
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Devin Ulibarri (@pikurasa) and Chihurumnaya Ibiam had a discussion this morning which will be broadcast tomorrow at 13:00 ET (17:00 UTC; 22:30 IST). The conversation is set as an instant premier and will be broadcast to https://youtu.be/JLsUiVzZ5Z0
We encourage you to watch this conversation and learn more about the positive impact that Sugar software has had on individuals such as Ibiam, as well as how you can get involved.
#SugarLabs #OLPC #Software #EdTech #Education #Learning #Constructionism
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What's exciting about Sugarizer? Watch tomorrow's video of Sugarizer by Lionel Laské: https://youtu.be/K9Pco0yL1Rk
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Come learn what our Google Summer of Code and Code4GovTech interns will be working on this summer! We are hosting an online event this Friday where they will be sharing their work on #Sugarizer, #RaspberryPi, #Pippy, #AI assisted chat and coding (#Pippy, #Python), and #MathGames for kids.
Join us at 17:00 UTC (1pm Eastern) this Friday via https://www.youtube.com/live/k7eY-tkl2zw and learn more!
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Please help us welcome this summer’s Google Summer of Code team for Music Blocks development.
This summer, we have three projects that explore using generative AI to help teachers and learners with creating musical code, as well as transcribing musical ideas and making lesson plans. We also have one project to create a new, totally revamped “version 4” of the visual programming language.
More: https://link.medium.com/XIrsMIjLUJb
#MusicBlocks #SugarLabs #GSoC #AI #Programming #programming4kids #Music
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Please help us welcome this summer’s Google Summer of Code team for Music Blocks development.
This summer, we have three projects that explore using generative AI to help teachers and learners with creating musical code, as well as transcribing musical ideas and making lesson plans. We also have one project to create a new, totally revamped “version 4” of the visual programming language.
More: https://link.medium.com/XIrsMIjLUJb
#MusicBlocks #SugarLabs #GSoC #AI #Programming #programming4kids #Music
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Please help us welcome this summer’s Google Summer of Code team for Music Blocks development.
This summer, we have three projects that explore using generative AI to help teachers and learners with creating musical code, as well as transcribing musical ideas and making lesson plans. We also have one project to create a new, totally revamped “version 4” of the visual programming language.
More: https://link.medium.com/XIrsMIjLUJb
#MusicBlocks #SugarLabs #GSoC #AI #Programming #programming4kids #Music
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Please help us welcome this summer’s Google Summer of Code team for Music Blocks development.
This summer, we have three projects that explore using generative AI to help teachers and learners with creating musical code, as well as transcribing musical ideas and making lesson plans. We also have one project to create a new, totally revamped “version 4” of the visual programming language.
More: https://link.medium.com/XIrsMIjLUJb
#MusicBlocks #SugarLabs #GSoC #AI #Programming #programming4kids #Music
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Learn to make games with Gameeky! Join us this Friday for a hands-on demonstration of Gameeky, led by Martín Abente Lahaye (@tchx84). The live link is https://youtube.com/live/vLiCumKjofc and will be broadcast at 19:00 UTC (3:00pm Eastern), Friday, May 17.
#programming #logo #constructionism #sugarlabs #games #gamemaking
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Want to learn something new today? At 3pm Eastern, we're doing a live lesson in how to code with Music Blocks. All you need to do is go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZs-QJNfglc at the scheduled time. We'll walk you through the basics for how to get started, expressing yourself with musical code!
#musicblocks #musicpluscode #sugarlabs #edtech #coding #steam #stem #stemeducation #homeschooling #outofschooltime #programming4kids #forteachers
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Want to learn something new today? At 3pm Eastern, we're doing a live lesson in how to code with Music Blocks. All you need to do is go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZs-QJNfglc at the scheduled time. We'll walk you through the basics for how to get started, expressing yourself with musical code!
#musicblocks #musicpluscode #sugarlabs #edtech #coding #steam #stem #stemeducation #homeschooling #outofschooltime #programming4kids #forteachers
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Want to learn something new today? At 3pm Eastern, we're doing a live lesson in how to code with Music Blocks. All you need to do is go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZs-QJNfglc at the scheduled time. We'll walk you through the basics for how to get started, expressing yourself with musical code!
#musicblocks #musicpluscode #sugarlabs #edtech #coding #steam #stem #stemeducation #homeschooling #outofschooltime #programming4kids #forteachers
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Want to learn something new today? At 3pm Eastern, we're doing a live lesson in how to code with Music Blocks. All you need to do is go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZs-QJNfglc at the scheduled time. We'll walk you through the basics for how to get started, expressing yourself with musical code!
#musicblocks #musicpluscode #sugarlabs #edtech #coding #steam #stem #stemeducation #homeschooling #outofschooltime #programming4kids #forteachers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR7xitp4J74 is starting in just a little over two hours. Come join us, if you can, to participate in a discussion of Sugar Labs: Past, Present, and Future. Cheers! #sugarlabs #OLPC #Education #EdTech #STEAM #ForTeachers #ForParents #Computers #Coding #Coding4Kids
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Hello, we're Sugar Labs.
Sugar is an activity-focused, free/libre open-source software learning platform for children. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities and experiences.
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You can tell that the child in the photo is doing programming because of the smile on his face.
That's my son showing me his Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks projects.
Photo by Rubén Rodríguez Pérez.
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Sugar: An activity-focused, open-source software learning platform for children
https://www.sugarlabs.org/
#ycombinator #Sugar_Labs #Sugar #Sugarlabs #Education #Opensource #OpenSource #Sugar_activities #activities #Sugar_OS #Sugarizer #Sugar_on_Stick #SOAS #FOSS #Free_software #software_libre #Free_Libre_Software #Constructionism #GSOC #GCI #Outreachy #Sugar_Software #Learning -
My daughter was having trouble using Home Assistant dashboards because her hands are tiny and she kept accidentally right clicking. So I made her a toddler friendly interface.
Introducing Home Assistot!
Left or right clicks on any of the sections trigger a correspondingly named Home Assistant script: red, blue, green, & rainbow. I've set those scripts to change the lights.
Dockerized Flask app here: https://github.com/gregology/home-assistot
#HomeAssistant #Linux #Parenting #2yo #SugarLabs #Tech #Technology #Flask #Toddler #Docker
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It's my daughter's second birthday! I setup Sugar Labs on an old laptop MacBook Air. The laptop had a broken keyboard so I bought her a cheap fun keyboard and mouse combo.
Sugar Labs is neat, it's got a simple UI which will help her learn how to navigate and a few simple programs for her to play with. It has a simple Python IDE but it might be a little while until she's ready to play with that. It has a web browser too so I might setup some custom Home Assistant dashboards so she can change the lights, control her train, etc. And I'll see if I can setup Signal or alike so she can call her grandparents.
I remember playing on our family Amstrad CPC when I was 4yo. It came with BASIC and it was my first exposure to coding. I want my daughter to have the opportunity to be a creator of tech instead of just a consumer of tech.
#Linux #Parenting #2yo #Birthday #SugarLabs #Distro #Fedora #HomeAssistant #Amstrad #AmstradCPC #Signal #Tech #Technology