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Participate in our Fall board elections, help shape our future by completing our contributor survey. Also read about how we added dark mode to our (new!) homepage and a summary of exploring gen-AI in education through live conversations.

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The Sweet Spot – Issue 004

The Sweet Spot – Issue 004 Recent news for December 16, 2025 Welcome to the fourth issue of The Sweet Spot, a newsletter for Sugar Labs-related news in...

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Hear about #FreeSoftware's role in education, privacy and communication with #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs #FSF speakers #FSF40 https://www.fsf.org/live
FSF40 Celebration — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s
Electronic Frontier Foundation, F-Droid, and Sugar Labs leaders to speak at FSF's fortieth anniversary — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s
Electronic Frontier Foundation, F-Droid, and Sugar Labs leaders to speak at FSF's fortieth anniversary — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s
Electronic Frontier Foundation, F-Droid, and Sugar Labs leaders to speak at FSF's fortieth anniversary — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

I used Music Blocks today to figure out a complicated rhythm (3/4 divided into eight equal divisions and then back into 3/4).

Here's a video of me doing it: https://youtu.be/Tiw-tV-YCXM

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Using Music Blocks to practice advanced rhythms: 3/4 divided into eight equal beats

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In celebration of starting our second year of mentoring for DMP (Code for GovTech (C4GT)), Shubham Singh and @pikurasa created this: https://youtu.be/b9uZ8ZKWO-A 🎇 🎇 🎇

Everything you see in the video is code in Music Blocks, run in real time. The animation frames were designed and created in Figma by Shubham. Enjoy!

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Sugar Labs and DMP 2025: Let's do this!

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Today, Sugar Labs is hosting a Generative AI development showcase, where we're demoing audio-ti-midi musical transcription, a lesson plan generator, a playful "persona" app, and more. Make sure to attend it today at 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKyf_awMK4w

#SugarLabs #Learning #Teaching #Constructionism #Music #GenAI #Development #EdTech #Innovation

We're excited to be hosting "The role of AI in education" with special guest Ken Kahn, PhD.

Join us today at 1:00pm EDT (17:00 UTC) online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1jeQgKTOA

We'll be exploring the following topics and more:
* Role of gen-AI in education;
* Ethical implications of gen-AI in education; and
* Open (free/libre) source vs. closed/proprietary

We hope to see you there. If you have a question for us or Ken, please drop it in a comment, either here or on YouTube.

#Education #GenAI #SugarLabs

Role of generative AI in education

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