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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/

#SugarLabs #OpenSource #Education #SweetSpot #FreeSoftware

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/

#SugarLabs #OpenSource #Education #SweetSpot #FreeSoftware

Hear about #FreeSoftware's role in education, privacy and communication with #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs #FSF speakers #FSF40 https://www.fsf.org/live

Hear about #FreeSoftware's role in education, privacy and communication with #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs #FSF speakers #FSF40 https://www.fsf.org/live

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

Leaders from #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #FDroid #SugarLabs to speak at #FSF40 in October: https://u.fsf.org/48s

Leaders from #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #FDroid #SugarLabs to speak at #FSF40 in October: https://u.fsf.org/48s

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

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!

#MusicBlocks #SugarLabs #VisualProgramming #Mentorship

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

We're excited to be hosting "The role of AI in education" with special guest Ken Kahn, PhD.

Join us today at 1:00pm EDT (17:00 UTC) online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1jeQgKTOA

We'll be exploring the following topics and more:
* Role of gen-AI in education;
* Ethical implications of gen-AI in education; and
* Open (free/libre) source vs. closed/proprietary

We hope to see you there. If you have a question for us or Ken, please drop it in a comment, either here or on YouTube.

#Education #GenAI #SugarLabs

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

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

We're hosting a live event showcasing @sugar_labs 's new website. Building the new website has been fun and educational. It's not just a marketing platform, it's a portfolio for the organization, a place to collect and contextualize where we've been as well as to plan where we're going and how to get there. I hope you can join to learn more!

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76Mw9wqO6E

#WebDev #Development #React #Typescript #Programming #Software #SugarLabs #Launch #Learning #Teaching

Today's the day! Sugar Labs launches its new website. Built from the ground up by a group of skilled and passionate programmers, the new site uses modern practices to tell the story of Sugar Labs today. Tune in today at 13:00 EDT (17:00 UTC/10:30 IST) to see the new website, hear from the people who made it possible, and learn more about what's next. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76Mw9wqO6E

#WebDev #Development #React #Typescript #Programming #Software #SugarLabs #Launch #Learning #Teaching

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!

#GoogleSummerofCode #SugarLabs

And please do your best to ignore any CSS things. We're making a totally new website, which will launch in about a month. We're not going to deal with that for the current version of the website.

If anyone wants to follow that work, please go to https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-v2

#SugarLabs #WebDevelopment

If you want to warm your heart after whatever else you've been reading today, feel free to skim through the Annual Reports for Sugar Labs: https://www.sugarlabs.org/community/2025/03/24/annual-report/

I have yet to promote it on the official Sugar Labs channel. It's a treat, just for you! And, if you see any typos, please let me know. We don't, like, any staff to look over anything I've written. (Yes, I wrote all ~15 pages myself, without any help from gen-AI.)

#SugarLabs #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibre #NonProfit

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

Follow Sugar Labs on Github: https://github.com/sugarlabs/

#SugarLabs #education #STEM #STEAM #Learning #Teaching #Programming

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

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

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

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

I put a batch of thank you letters to people who donated to @sugar_labs last fall. It's very grounding to spend time writing my thanks and mailing out physical letters to our growing group of supporters.

Thank you all who gave to support our mission to create software for learning!

#SugarLabs #Education #Learning #NonProfit #Software #Programming

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

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

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

Please check out our new campaign page here: https://www.every.org/sugar-labs/f/help-sugar-labs-continue

If you have any feedback, please feel free to contact us to let us know.

#everyorg #nonprofit #opensource #freesoftware #softwarelibre #fundraising #sugarlabs

@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

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/

#SugarLabs #SugarOnAStick #SoaS #Linux #GNU #Fedora #EdTech

We now have a product page on the @sugar_labs website. WDYT?

Like with other improvements, this too was implemented by volunteers contributing to our Jekyll site, hosted on GitHub. It has been a great learning opportunity for many young developers in recent months.

Here's the live page: https://www.sugarlabs.org/product/

#Jekyll #StaticSite #Software #Development #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GitHub #GSoC #GSoC2025 #SugarLabs #EdTech #NonProfit

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.

#SugarLabs #Flatpak #Pippy #AI #Education #RPi

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

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

So cool to see the Fedora Sugar on a Stick Spin in the wild! @greg installed it on an old MacBook Air for his 2 year old daughter. ❤️

Story: https://clar.ke/@greg/111529259717744752
SoaS Spin: https://fedoraproject.org/spins/soas/

#Fedora #SugarLabs #SugarOnAStick #Linux

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

#followerpower
Würde gerne mein altes #Notebook für K1 nutzbar machen, wenn er hier neben mir "Home Office" spielt. 😂
Ich suche ein #Linux für Kinder ab Kindergartenalter. Bisher bin ich hauptsächlich über #edubuntu (auf den ersten Blick nicht passend) und #SoaS von #SugarLabs (Installation auf dem Notebook im ersten Versuch fehlgeschlagen) gestolpert. Gibt es weitere Ideen oder Erfahrungen in der Richtung?