Sugar Labs/Communication channels

Connect with Sugar Labs

Sugar has a growing community that is ready to help you. Because users and contributors span the globe, a key element to the project is communication. Mailing lists, forums, blogs, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Jabber, email, and this wiki provide quick and easy ways to communicate.

Support Forums

 * forum.laptop.org - The official OLPC community support forum.
 * Total posts: 10815 • Total topics: 2384 • Total members: 6398 • 28 October 2011


 * FORO RAP-CEIBAL - (en español) The RAP-Ceibal support forum.
 * Social Help - A new forum for asking questions about Sugar and Sugar Activities.


 * Former sites—these have a short history of problems, but are no longer preferred by Sugar Labs.
 * http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs, & http://launchpad.net/soas

General Discussion

 * OLPC News Forums - A popular forum site.
 * Total posts: 31763 • Total topics: 3823 • Total members: 2408 • 28 October 2011

Jabber Networks
While the OLPC XO-1 is designed with mesh wireless networking built in (where users can connect to each other without having a central wireless internet router/connection), Sugar users around the world may not be able to connect with others using the platform unless it's through the Internet, since mesh networking relies on a concentration of users (for example, in a classroom, school or business environment).

Jabber networks link Sugar users to each other in order to chat, interact and collaborate. There are global Sugar Jabber networks, or regional ones hosted by organizations and individuals around the world. You can choose whichever Jabber network you wish to connect to. Connecting Sugar to one of these networks will greatly enhance your Sugar experience.


 * See Jabber and
 * Community Jabber Servers

Video

 * We have a Sugar Labs channel at Dailymotion.
 * Dailymotion also has an OLPC-compatible portal at olpc.dailymotion.com with videos encoded with the free OGG Theora/Vorbis codecs, and they have OLPC-relevant content.
 * OLPC TV is dedicated to collecting videos related to OLPC. The site needs help recoding videos to play in Gnash, the Free Flash viewer.
 * Video Using Sugar and Video Testing Sugar have links to other videos as well.

Sugar Labs contacts
Sugar Labs has an Oversight Board. The executive director is Walter Bender (walter AT sugarlabs DOT org).

We also have an ombudsman who will help mediate any disputes (ombudsman AT sugarlabs DOT org).

Journalists can call +1.857.254.1100 or e-mail Sugar Labs Public Relations (pr AT sugarlabs DOT org).

See Sugar Labs/Contacts and our community contacts index for additional contacts.