Sugar, software, Bender and Opensource

Submitted by keithb on June 1, 2008 - 9:29am.
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OLPC - Sugar -Constructionism

The New York times has an article about Walter Bender leaving the One Laptop Per Child project. It seems that the decision to work with Microsoft and to use their software led his departure. Bender is pretty interesting and the Sugar project seems to be important to our work...

Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs - SugarLabs
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page

-- a new non-profit started from Walter Benders departure from OLPC

Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/why-walter-bender-left-one-laptop-per-child-edited-hold-for-wed-am/

-- NYtimes article on Bender's departure