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| Formation | May 15, 2008 [1] |
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| Type | NGO and Non profit organization |
| Purpose | Educational |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | Contributors approved via community consensus |
President | Walter Bender |
| Staff | 0 |
| Volunteers | 100+ |
| Website | www |
Sugar Labs is a community-run software project whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of Sugar, an open source desktop environment and learning platform. [2] [3] [4] Sugar Labs was initially established as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, an umbrella organization for free software projects, [5] but in 2021, it became an independent 501(c)(3) organization. [6]
About every six months, the Sugar Labs community releases a new version of the Sugar software. The most recent stable release is available as a Fedora Linux spin. [7] Through on-going support from Nexcopy's RecycleUSB program, Sugar Labs provides Sugar on a Stick to elementary schools.
The Sugar Labs community participates in events for teachers, students, and software developers interested in the Sugar software, such as the Montevideo Youth Summit [8] and Turtle Art Day. [9]
Sugar Labs has participated in Google Code-in, [10] which served as an outlet for young programmers. Sugar Labs is a long-time participant in Google Summer of Code.
