Boston, MA, December 9 2008: Sugar Labs today announced its membership
in the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organization of free and open
source software projects. Sugar Labs supports the free and open source
desktop environment, Sugar, originally created for the One Laptop per
Child Project (OLPC). The Sugar community now has an active global
developer base that is focused on engaging young children in learning
through computing and the Internet. As a member of the Conservancy the
Sugar community will work to accelerate the adoption of the Sugar
learning platform and strengthening the project by attracting new
industry members and community contributors.

In May 2008, the Sugar project became independent of OLPC, making
Sugar available to a wider community of Sugar developers and users.
Subsequently Sugar has been ported to Debian, Ubuntu, and other
GNU/Linux distributions. Sugar can now run on almost any computer
hardware. In October 2008, Sugar Labs released Sugar Version 0.82,
which features enhanced usability and stability. In November, Sugar
announced the availability of the pre-alpha version of "Sugar on a
Stick", a LiveUSB image of Sugar that gives children access to Sugar
on any computer with just a USB key. Joining the Conservancy is an
important milestone in the path towards making Sugar available to
children everywhere.

Founded in March 2006, the Conservancy allows developers of its member
projects to unite under a common organization which provides
much-needed administrative services to them. This structure spares
each software project the burden of starting and maintaining its own
independent non-profit organization. Sugar labs has joined as the
Conservancy's fifteenth member project.

And Sugar is now listed on the
http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/members page at the
conservancy. A tip of the hat to Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler for
their hard work on behalf of Sugar Labs.