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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hi SoCal Open Source and OLPC/XO/Sugar enthusiasts!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Lots of great news and info...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">First of all, congratulations are in order to Divinity Barkley for getting her OLPC Contributors Program project going full swing with 10 XO-1s now in Uganda where a group of students from USC will be working this summer with laptops and children in the Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association. Here is a link to their Facebook page:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133705150192">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133705150192</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">And a link to their project page on the OLPC wiki:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Amagezigemaanyi">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Amagezigemaanyi</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you scroll down that page, you will see what their winning Contributors Program project proposal looked like. If you have an idea you would like to have considered for the Contributors Program, here is a link to info about how to do that:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Be sure to see all the different types of proposals that have been approved! You don't have to be a developer to apply.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">More good stuff.... If you don't have an XO but would like to try the Sugar Software on your intel based PC or Mac (not Power Macs, alas), there are several great new options for you.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Three versions of Sugar to download to a usb stick and use on your computer (a boot helper disk is needed to do this on a Mac. If you need help, ask!):</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Version 1 Strawberry (very stable, good for all users)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Version 2 Blueberry (also suitable for everyone... has more Activities)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">And for adventurous developer-types who want to help beta-test the newest</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Version 3 Mirabelle (that's a kind of plum)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Beta">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Beta</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">More exciting stuff is coming soon!</p>
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