Fwd: [SugarLabsPR-en] Sugar Labs Announces Beta-1 of Sugar on a Stick, LiveUSB Version of Sugar Learning Platform for Children

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Announces Beta-1 of Sugar on a Stick,  LiveUSB Version of Sugar
Learning Platform for Children
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22 April 2009 - Sugar Labs Announces Beta-1 of Sugar on a Stick,
LiveUSB Version of Sugar Learning Platform for Children

Cambridge, MA, April 22, 2009: Sugar Labs™ announces the availability
for testing of Sugar on a Stick Beta-1. This version of the free
open-source Sugar Learning Platform, available at www.sugarlabs.org
for loading on any 1 Gb or greater USB stick, is designed to
facilitate exploration of the award-winning Sugar interface beyond its
original platform, the One Laptop per Child XO-1, to such varied
hardware as aging PCs and recent Macs to the latest netbooks.

Teachers and parents interested in trying Sugar with children can
download the Sugar on a Stick beta-1 file from the Sugar Labs website
and load it onto a USB stick by following the instructions at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick.

Walter Bender, Executive Director of Sugar Labs, said "Sugar is
perfectly suited for children in the classroom with its simple,
colorful interface, built-in collaboration, and open architecture.
Sugar on a Stick lets you start a computer with Sugar and store a
child's data on the stick without touching the host computer's hard
disk. Sugar's Activities such as Write, a shared word processor, and
the recently announced InfoSlicer Activity, which enables teachers to
easily collect and package web-based content for the classroom,
benefit fully from Sugar's collaboration features."

Caroline Meeks of Solution Grove (www.solutiongrove.com), the Sugar on
a Stick project manager, commented: "We're counting on teachers to
help us improve Sugar on a Stick as we work towards our Version-1
release scheduled for Q3 2009. We just presented Sugar on a Stick at
the FOSS VT conference (http://www.ncose.org/node/47) where it
generated great interest, and our real-world tests at local sites with
varied aging PCs have been very encouraging."

Sugar testers are invited to send bug information and constructive
criticism to feedback@.... "We won't be able to reply to
every message," continued Ms. Meeks, "but we will read every one in
order to make Sugar on a Stick a reliable learning tool in
budget-stretched classrooms by the fall."

image: http://www.sugarlabs.org/press/sugar-on-a-stick.jpg


For more information, please contact:
Sean Daly, Marketing Coordinator
website: www.sugarlabs.org
e-mail: pr@...
telephone: +1-857-254-1100

Mailing address:
Sugar Labs
c/o Software Freedom Conservancy
1995 Broadway,17th Floor
New York, NY 10023-5882
USA

About Sugar Labs
Sugar Labs, a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization, is a member
project of the Software Freedom Conservancy
(conservancy.softwarefreedom.org). Originally part of the One Laptop
Per Child project (www.laptop.org), Sugar Labs coordinates volunteers
around the world passionate about providing educational opportunities
to children through the Sugar Learning Platform. Sugar Labs is
supported by donations and is seeking funding to accelerate
development. For more information, please visit www.sugarlabs.org.

Sugar Labs is a registered trademark of the Software Freedom
Conservancy. Other names are trademarks of their respective owners.




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