• Sucrose 0.84, the latest stable version of the Sugar educational platform has been released. A large number of bugfixes, new features, improvements and tweaks have gone in during the past six months, and to try out this release, you can use Sugar on a Stick.
• Sugarlabs (the organisation which is currently driving the development of Sugar) is a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2009. A list of ideas is currently on the Sugarlabs wiki.
• It looks like Google has decided to publish out-of-copyright books as ePub files for the Sony Reader. This is awesome news, all the more so since some of us have been working for the past few weeks to ensure that more ebook formats are supported in Sugar. As a part of that, I have created a Sugarized version of FBReader, which handles epub files superbly:
  
  

  FBReader Activity for Sugar

We have been informally discussing the idea of hosting GNOME Asia 2009 in India this year, and a initial TODO list and a set of ideas has been just posted on the gnome-india mailing list.
We would need a lot of effort to make this happen successfully, and if you are interested in helping out, by all means, please jump in . Join the mailing list, and start taking part in the discussion. There is also a set of pages on the wiki, please feel free to put in your thoughts and suggestions in those page as well.