<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hello<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
One of the reasons we start Sugar Labs nine months ago was that we<br>
anticipated these changes at OLPC. It was clear to many of us at the<br>
time that the Sugar learning platform could and should be made more<br>
widely available and that in order for Sugar to grow, it would have to<br>
become a community project, without extensive ties or dependencies on<br>
any single company or organization. The Sugar Labs community is<br>
expanding. The downsizing of OLPC's engineering efforts, while<br>
significant to OLPC deployments in the short term, is actually a<br>
catalyst for a needed change. It compels the deployments to be more<br>
self-sufficient and more interconnected. Indeed, one direct<br>
consequence of the events of last week is the acceleration of plans<br>
for local Sugar Labs around the world. A decentralize approach, where<br>
engineering investments in support of Sugar and learning are made<br>
locally, is one of our great strengths.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>An example are the new efforts on the road to make a Local Lab in Brasil <br><br><a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Brasil">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Brasil</a> <br><br> </div></div><br>