Walter Bender

Abstract:"Activity: Sugar Camp"

The mission of Sugar Labs is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, teach, and learn with the Sugar learning platform. This week, we will have held a Sugar Camp; we gathered together our lead developers from around the world to work on the roadmap for our 0.88 release and to write code. We also will have taken advantage of the presence of the Gnome team to exchange ideas and find opportunities for collaboration. This short talk is of a summary of the week.

Biography

Walter Bender is the founder and executive director of Sugar Labs, whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the free software Sugar learning platform. Bender is past-president for software and content development of One Laptop per Child, a not-for-profit association that has put free-software education tools into the hands of more than one-million children worldwide. Before taking his leave of absence from MIT, Bender was executive director of the MIT Media Laboratory, where he encouraged the use of the GPL.