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Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC's Sugar UI
                   
pcworld.com     May 16, 2008            

Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop. Sugar Labs Foundation will refine the development of Sugar, a UI (user...


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Sugar Labs will make OLPC interface available for Eee PC, others

news.com.com     May 16, 2008          

Former One Laptop Per Child President Walter Bender has formed a non-profit called Sugar Labs, which will advance the Sugar graphical interface he originally created for the low-cost computing project. Sugar Labs is will partner with developers of Sugar-compatible applications and other hardware...

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Bender jumps from OLPC, founds Sugar Labs

bizjournals.com     May 16, 2008          

Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - Mass High Tech After a recent title change, One Laptop Per Child's former president Walter Bender has left to found another nonprofit, Sugar Labs Foundation. Sugar is an open-source educational software platform originally developed for...

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Open Sugar & Microsoft: End of OLPC As We Know It?

gigaom.com     May 16, 2008          

However great an idea it might have seemed when it was first conceived, the One Laptop Per Child project has never been something I’ve been able to wrap my head around. I’ve always felt, despite the backers’ good intentions, that it was being shoved down the throats of emerging economies with...

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Bender forms group to promote OLPC's Sugar UI

infoworld.com     May 16, 2008          

Sugar Labs, founded by OLPC's former president of software and content, intends to use open source as a tool to promote a learning model By Agam Shah, IDG News Service Former One Laptop Per Child president of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will...

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Open Sugar & Microsoft: End of OLPC As We Know It? [GigaOM]

gigaom.com     May 16, 2008          

However great an idea it might have seemed when it was first conceived, the One Laptop Per Child project has never been something I’ve been able to wrap my head around. I’ve always felt, despite the backers’ good intentions, that it was being shoved down the throats of emerging economies with...

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OLPC's Open Source Sugar Platform Aims for New Hardware [OStatic]

gigaom.com     May 16, 2008          

As we reported last month, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort has had rocky times recently. The company has just announced a partnership with Microsoft to put Windows on OLPC laptops, although Linux-based open source versions of the sub-$200 laptops will stay in production....

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Announcing SugarLabs - SugarLabs

bibsonomy.org     May 16, 2008          

SUGAR LABS New foundation focused on taking the Sugar user interface to the next level of usability and utility Cambridge, Mass., May 15, 2008 – Sugar Labs Foundation is being established to further extend Sugar, the highly acclaimed open source “learn learning” software platform that was...

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