Sugar Creation Kit/sck/References

Sugar 0.96 feature list

 * Accepted and Deferred features of next Sugar version

FileShare

 * FileShare is an activity that allows the user to share files from their journal.
 * Note small files can be posted to sites like pastebin for sharing


 * Also see: Send a file to a Friend from within sugar.

logo

 * Book: Challenging Programs in Logo

surf browser

 * alternate to sugar-browse
 * Included in latest f15 sugar 0.92.1 as the main web browser
 * Works in situations where sugar-browse will not start


 * Download: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo
 * git: http://git.sugarlabs.org/surf
 * WebKit Development: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/WebKit

Razor-qt Desktop

 * Razor-qt is an open source and free project. GPL and LGPL
 * Blog Post:http://yarpen.cz/rants/?p=43
 * http://www.qtdesktop.org/

Firefox for Sugar
I have packaged full Firefox for Sugar in the past, there were no obvious blockers there (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firefox/Obsolete) C. Scott Ananian

Firefox/sharemenot
ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them.
 * http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ MIT license

Hardware Compatibility

 * EeePC: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc
 * key-to-press-to-access-bios-for-various-oem-and-computer-systems


 * smolt profiles:http://www.smolts.org/
 * http://smolts.org/smolt-wiki/Main_Page#Usage


 * XO-pixelqi Display: http://www.pixelqi.com/
 * XO-1 Display screen technology

Share files with a MAC
"Mac OS X offers various forms of file service so that other operating systems can connect to your computer with built-in tools or common application programs"

Notes on Live File Systems

 * LiveOS image
 * This page shares some information about the LiveOS design that helps Sugar on a Stick Learners make better use of their disc resources.


 * Clarify writing ISO to USB
 * (Discussion on what is supported in fedora)
 * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/134


 * Technical Discussion of Live USB's: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Data_Persistence
 * Limited Lifetime of Persistent Overlay

One very important note about using the "primary" persistent overlay for system changes is that due to the way it's currently implemented (as a LVM copy-on-write snapshot), every single change to it (writes AND deletes) subtracts from its free space, so it will eventually be "used up" and your USB stick will no longer boot. Because of these limitations, it is advisable to use the system-level persistence sparingly, for configuration changes and important security updates only. For a truly persistent write-many (vs write-once) overlay, use the --home-size-mb option to create a home directory filesystem image for personal files. Unlike the primary system overlay image, the home.img can be re-used and loop mounted outside of the liveusb environment.

Cautions with u3 USB sticks

 * USB sticks with u3 partition will not boot with liveusb-creator
 * CAUTION: Formatting the USB-stick will not remove the hidden (virtual CD-ROM drive)
 * How to remove hidden u3 partition
 * Linux: http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/
 * Windoz: Insert u3 Stick then click on tray icon for u3; select delete u3 partition, once it is deleted the USB-stick will work with liveusb-creator
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3

Commercial source of SoaS-loaded media

 * USB Flash Drives: -4gb-8gb-16gb-32gb (32 and 64-bit PC)
 * http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora
 * http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-16-sugar-on-a-stick-4gb-usb-flash-drive-pc.html
 * Note: Ordered One. In testing; It is Not Persistent  -satellit_ 6 December 2011
 * Long Delay on shutdown as it is "waiting for the CD to be removed from the Drive"
 * Visible if you hit on shutdown


 * SDHC Flash Cards: -2gb-4gb-8gb-16gb-32gb (32 and 64-bit PC)
 * http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-16-sugar-on-a-stick-4gb-sdhc-flash-card-pc.html
 * - see listing on site for more -

WiFi

 * Wifi (Open FirmWare for WiFi networks): http://www.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/
 * http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/


 * "free" Wifi Models:http://www.h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/undef/undef
 * http://www.h-node.com/wifi/view/en/2/BCM4311--rev-02-/1/1/Broadcom/undef/undef/undef/undef
 * http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices
 * http://www.h-node.com/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/USB/undef
 * Mesh Networking: http://hothardware.com/News/Nonprofit-Group-Releases-Open-Source-WiFi-Software/

FileShare

 * FileShare is an activity that allows the user to share files from their journal.
 * Note small files can be posted to sites like pastebin for sharing


 * Also see: Send a file to a Friend from within Sugar.

logo

 * Book: Challenging Programs in Logo

surf browser

 * alternate to sugar-browse
 * Included in latest f15 sugar 0.92.1 as the main web browser
 * Works in situations where sugar-browse will not start


 * Download: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo
 * git: http://git.sugarlabs.org/surf
 * WebKit Development: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/WebKit

Razor-qt Desktop

 * Razor-qt is an open source and free project. GPL and LGPL
 * Blog Post:http://yarpen.cz/rants/?p=43
 * http://www.qtdesktop.org/

Firefox/sharemenot
ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them.
 * http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ MIT license

DVD covers; artwork & screenshots

 * sugarlabs_SoaS-Creation-Kit_avery_cd_label_2up.pdf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarlabs_SoaS-Creation-Kit_avery_cd_label_2up_Mirabelle.pdf
 * sugarlabs_Sugar-demo_avery_cd_label_2up.pdf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarlabs_Sugar-demo_avery_cd_label_2up_Mirabelle.pdf
 * Flyer_englisch.pdf *http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Flyer_englisch.pdf (Poster-Sugar Learning Program; 2-sided with text from past Show)
 * Booth_Banners Marketing Team/Booth Banners
 * LinuxTag http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656470@N02/sets/72157620524327203/ SeanDaly
 * F16 Artwork: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Artwork/Submissions/Banners#Release_Banner_.28small.29_SubmissionsFedora
 * Screen Shots Marketing Team/Screen Shots
 * Marketing Team/T-Shirt nice collection of images
 * Fedora 15 GNOME 3 Desktop with sugar-emulator: Community/Distributions/Fedora

Sugarlabs_mainpage_07.pngFloss Manuals
(Important Manuals on how to use Sugar Applications and Features)
 * READ THESE FIRST!


 * Sugarlabs Download Page
 * (Local ARCHIVE of the.pdf files shown below:)


 * Source Links:


 * Introduction to Sugar http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar
 * como-hacer-una-actividad-sugar
 * MakeYourOwnSugarActivities Internet Archive Publishing Quality
 * In PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Full Text. DjVu formats
 * MakeYourOwnSugarActivities-es with corrected index
 * Introduction to the command line
 * What is Sugar http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/What_is_Sugar_28Oct08.pdf
 * Browse http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Browse_06Sep08.pdf
 * Chat http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Chat_09Sep08.pdf
 * Collaboration http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Collaboration_31Jan10.pdf
 * SugarCollaboration http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/SugarCollaboration
 * FunWithTheJournal http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Fun_with_the_journal_09Nov10.pdf
 * Linux Command Line http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Linux-command-line_16Apr09.pdf
 * ActivitiesGuideSugar-English  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Activitys_Guide-sugar_en_09Nov10.pdf
 * Record http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Record_06Sep08.pdf
 * The Terminal http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Terminal_06Sep08.pdf
 * Turtle Art http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/TurtleArt_06Sep08.pdf
 * Write http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Write_27Sep08.pdf
 * Reading_and_sugar: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Reading_and_sugar_28Sep10.pdf
 * Text to Speech: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Text_and_Speak_09Nov10.pdf
 * e-book resources:http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
 * Tam-Tam:http://booki.flossmanuals.net/fun-with-tam-tam/_full/

Linux Commands pdf

 * Very complete Linux Command reference
 * Use Download icon on right end of top bar to save as a .pdf

Open_Education_Resources

 * Open Education Resources (OERs) are digital replacements for textbooks available under some form of Free license, such as Creative Commons

Python Programming

 * Extensive list of references
 * Online Python Tutor
 * Learn and practice Python programming in your web browser

Replacing_Textbooks - Booki

 * Replace textbooks


 * Booki
 * booki user guide
 * Blog
 * Booki importing-a-book
 * FLOSS Manuals WRITE

Download or listen to Classical Music
Musopen (www.musopen.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

TunesViewer

 * TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access iTunes-University media and podcasts in Linux.
 * Tunesviewer works well even on older computers, but you must have pygtk >= 2.16 and lxml available.

Trisquel 5.5 (Ubuntu)

 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/tunesviewer/files/tunesviewer_1.4.deb/download
 * Works as installed

f17 RC4 Desktop Installation

 * Still Testing-Does not work 


 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/tunesviewer/files/tunesviewer-1.4.noarch.rpm/download
 * yum install *lxml*
 * Install Amarok; Movie Player and exaile in Add/Remove Software

Khan Academy videos in OGV format

 * Only OGV format seems to work in Fedora-17-Beta-TC1-i686-Live-Desktop

You can download around 1000 of the Khan Academy videos in OGV format (playable on XO laptops) from Archive.org  Here's an English/Spanish index of relevant categories If you're skeptical or haven't seen his videos, his talk sparked a great discussion about math education on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307532 For more recent videos, including YouTube, there's this media guide: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MediaGuide Regards, Nick Doiron
 * Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content  04/05/2011
 * link:http://www.khanacademy.org/
 * Review: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

Online Free Courses

 * http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
 * https://www.coursera.org/courses

Adobe Flash

 * a proprietary player for Flash media


 * Adobe Flash
 * Adobe Flash

Flash Player

 * needed for firefox viewing of Khan academy lectures


 * http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Flash

Gnash

 * GNU Flash movie player and as a plugin to Browse is the default Flash player on the XO. It is the free software counterpart to the Adobe Flash player.


 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Gnash

Flash Video Replacer

 * http://www.webgapps.org/add-ons/flashvideoreplacer/download-firefox
 * http://www.webgapps.org/add-ons/flashvideoreplacer/compatibility

How to make your own custom Sugar-Creation_Kit.iso file

 * (How this DVD was converted to an .iso file)


 * Collect, annotate and sort the files you want in a folder on your Desktop.
 * Burn the contents of this folder to a CD or DVD.
 * Use the following command in Terminal as the root user:
 * /dev/sr0 is the device name for your DVD/CD drive
 * /dev/sr0 is the device name for your DVD/CD drive

 dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Sugar-Creation-Kit.iso 5555584+0 records in 5555584+0 records out 2844459008 bytes (2.8 GB) copied, 232.86 s, 12.2 MB/s 
 * Sample output:
 * the resulting .iso file can be sent over the internet or used to make copies by burning to a DVD

copy items between a USB drive and Sugar Journal

 * copy files between the sugar-journal and a 2nd USB-stick
 * install an .xo file from a 2nd USB-stick

Guide to GNOME 3 desktop

 * https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5/alternative-status-menu/
 * Replaces GNOME Shell Status Menu with one showing Suspend/Hibernate and Power Off as separate items 
 * Packaged in fedora repos

gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu.noarch
 * Gnome cheatsheet
 * GNOME 3 release notes
 * Gnome_shell_software_rendering


 * Gnome IRC Channels
 * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeIrcChannels

Start Gnome3 in Fallback Mode
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'gnome-fallback'
 * "You can force fallback mode from a VT,much faster than trying to get through the control center, with this command:
 * With live CD or USB liveuser
 * run it as user - not root - then log out and back in again.

Switching between text consoles in a Linux virtual machine When the CTRL + ALT + F1 key combination is used to switch to another text console (terminal) on a Linux virtual machine, the host switches to a text console instead of the guest. Resolution The CTRL + ALT combination is used by VMware to direct the keyboard input to the host. Press CTRL + ALT + Space, press the F1 key (or desired Function key) while still holding down CTRL + ALT.

Workaround for Alacarte
Change menu items by editing the *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications/
 * Edit gnome3 menus

How to Sugarize an Application

 * Instructions on how to make a program appear in the (F3) Home view of Sugar as an icon
 * http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarize/wiki-sugarize.txt
 * Running Linux Applications Under Sugar


 * Ceibal:sugarizar-una-aplicacion
 * This seems to be the same script as listed here: Sugarize which has these insructions: How to sugarize a program used with permission: Albert Cahalan's compiled libsugarize file. --Satellit 17:45, 18 January 2012 (EST)

Translated from Spanish with google translate: There is a special package for an existing program sugarizar X11 using a bash script and a library specially created for it, here let the package be zipped for download: Sugarizar_software.zip Just unzip the file and run the script found in the package and you answering the questions, the script will generate a directory with the activity for sugar, then you should give the required permissions to each file and directory as explained in the main page this site and package the directory to download the activity from the x or directly copy the entire directory to / home / olpc / Activities on the XO.

fedora Licensing Guidelines

 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses

Scratch Licensing

 * http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Source_GPL

Re work LiveCD

 * Scheduled for f17 - Under discussion ATM
 * May affect spins and remixes.
 * How it works livemedia-creator

Download Methods
There are many alternative methods to install Sugar. The options can be very confusing because of the technical details and features that may be unfamiliar. This page begins to itemize some of the many options that are available for those interested in learning more about the possibilities.

HTMLDOC
HTMLDOC software, version 1.8.27. HTMLDOC converts Hyper-Text Markup Language ("HTML") input files into indexed HTML, Adobe® PostScript®, or Adobe Portable Document Format ("PDF") files.
 * http://www.htmldoc.org/documentation.php/Introduction.html

WLAN configuration of NetworkManager
nm-tool
 * http://blog.nixpanic.net/2012/03/wlan-configuration-of-networkmanager.html
 * Display connections:

HTTrack
HTTrack allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

E-books

 * Education Team/Creating textbooks
 * Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
 * http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
 * calibre e-book reader:http://calibre-ebook.com/about
 * calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books


 * Read the Docs :http://readthedocs.org/ hosts documentation

offline-reader-available-for-sugar

 * The Offline Wikipedia reader Kiwix has recently been extended to read offline Wikipedia files on the Sugar operating system!

epub reader

 * EPUBReader is a Firefox addon which lets you read ePub-files just in the browser. You don't need to install additional software!
 * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/epubreader/
 * Suggested uses:


 * Example: in an install of Ubuntu plus sweets-distribution sugar 0.94.1
 * Download an epub book with Get Books Activity in sugar.
 * Close Get Books.
 * Click on Sugar Journal
 * drag drop the epub file from the sugar journal to the documents folder in the bottom left of the frame.
 * exit sugar and use firefox (with EPUBReader addon) to "open with" command to open the EPUB file from the Documents folder of Ubuntu.

OLPC Map

 * http://olpcmap.net/home