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Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-05-27

In celebration of starting our second year of mentoring for DMP (Code for GovTech (C4GT)), Shubham Singh and @pikurasa created this: 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!

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-05-23

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): youtube.com/watch?v=SKyf_awMK4w

A flier that says "gen-ai demos by Sugar Labs". There is a selfie of a teacher and a student. The student is running a lesson plan generator on a computer.
Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-05-16

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 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.

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-04-27

Every financial contribution helps us create innovative new software for learning. Make a donation and help us reach the next fundraiser milestone: every.org/sugar-labs

Image of three kids with computers, each one has a few words. All together, it says "Please donate to Sugar Labs."
Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-04-25

The new Sugar Labs website is live! Check it out: youtu.be/EgrMwaUAO0w?feature=s and www.sugarlabs.org

Devin Ulibarripikurasa
2025-04-25

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: youtube.com/watch?v=v76Mw9wqO6E

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-04-25

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: youtube.com/watch?v=v76Mw9wqO6E

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-04-08

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!

Devin Ulibarripikurasa
2025-03-28

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 github.com/sugarlabs/www-v2

Devin Ulibarripikurasa
2025-03-28

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: sugarlabs.org/community/2025/0

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.)

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-03-21

Check out this video we found:

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." -- u2start.com/topic/3859

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-03-20

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

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-03-20

The Linux Professional Institute (@LPI) just published an interview by Sugar Labs executive director Devin Ulibarri (@pikurasa) .

Check it out: lpi.org/blog/2025/03/12/devin-

Child, together with his dad at a laptop, with thought bubble thinking about Music Blocks.
Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-03-20

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.

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-03-11

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!

Visual code for "Sol, Mi, Sol". At right, you can see the presenters, Devin Ulibarri and Reimagine Africa.Colorful squares with visual code; at right you can see the presenters Devin Ulibarri and Reimagine Africa.Presenters Devin Ulibarri and Reimagine Africa. You can see a student with a laptop showing their website.
Devin Ulibarripikurasa
2025-03-10

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!

Selfie of Devin Ulibarri, holding envelopes, ready to mail.
Devin Ulibarripikurasa
2025-03-05

Can someone pretty please donate to 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.

Student looking very excited, next to a computer with Turtle Art.
Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-02-28

It's official! Sugar Labs is a mentoring org for Google Summer of Code 2025.

Find out how to participate here: summerofcode.withgoogle.com/pr

Screenshot of our org page on GSoC website.
Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-02-27

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: medium.com/@therealharshit/my-

Sugar Labssugar_labs
2025-02-26

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

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

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