https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Simon&feedformat=atomSugar Labs - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T12:29:54ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.2https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=File:Activity-chat.png&diff=1459File:Activity-chat.png2008-05-28T14:13:44Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div></div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Talk:Design_Team/Logo_Ideas&diff=185Talk:Design Team/Logo Ideas2008-05-13T18:34:28Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>We shouldn't change the Sugar icon. It is the central metaphor for the child on the XO and it works well w/ the other icons in the mesh view. I have changed the main XO icon on my XO to the OLE Nepal logo and then changed it back because it made the mesh view absolutely confusing.<br />
[[User:BryanWB|BryanWB]] 04:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Right. I think that, regardless of what we chose as a logo for Sugar as an OS, it's critical to retain the XO representation for the people within the UI, at least by default. -[[User:Eben|Eben]]<br />
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Eben: I like your logo idea. It's simple and neutral and plays well with the sugar look and feel. I think that we could go with blue for the main color. A weakness of that design could be that it looks like s ugar, as if "ugar" was a word in itself. Can you also make a version with the words "sugar labs" in it? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 13:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Yeah, I feel like playing into the simple stroke/fill visual style is a good way to go, since that in itself is part of Sugar's identity. I agree with your comment regarding the kerning between the 's' and the 'ugar', but played with a number of possibilities and didn't find any I liked better. Feel free to glance at my [[Media:Logo_sketches.eben.jpg|sketches]] for insight into my process, and potentially food for further discussion. I feel that the "sugar cube" logo needs the 's' when it's used alone, but perhaps we could pull the 's' out of the cube for the logotype version. Also, I was aiming to find an identity of Sugar itself; do we need a "Sugar Labs" logo independent of that? Could we license the Sugar logo under CC and simply use a logotype with "labs" appended, perhaps in a lighter gray? -[[User:Eben|Eben]]<br />
:"Labs" could just be a little word beneath "sugar". As for the kerning problem, I don't know yet how to best solve that. Do you mind putting the source file (SVG?, AI?, EPS?) online, so I can play with it a bit? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 18:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
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I like it too (as well the colour blue as new maincolour) ... --[[User:Helga|Helga]] 13:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Talk:Design_Team/Logo_Ideas&diff=152Talk:Design Team/Logo Ideas2008-05-13T13:11:11Z<p>Simon: comment about eben's logo proposal</p>
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<div>We shouldn't change the Sugar icon. It is the central metaphor for the child on the XO and it works well w/ the other icons in the mesh view. I have changed the main XO icon on my XO to the OLE Nepal logo and then changed it back because it made the mesh view absolutely confusing.<br />
[[User:BryanWB|BryanWB]] 04:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:Right. I think that, regardless of what we chose as a logo for Sugar as an OS, it's critical to retain the XO representation for the people within the UI, at least by default. -[[User:Eben|Eben]]<br />
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Eben: I like your logo idea. It's simple and neutral and plays well with the sugar look and feel. I think that we could go with blue for the main color. A weakness of that design could be that it looks like s ugar, as if "ugar" was a word in itself. Can you also make a version with the words "sugar labs" in it? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 13:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki&diff=106Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki2008-05-10T15:07:07Z<p>Simon: Added paragraph about Sugar Labs</p>
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<div>== What is Sugar?? ==<br />
<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p><br />
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<td>[[Image:home_sharing.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration:</strong><br />Children can write documents or make music together with ease.</td><br />
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<td>[[Image: home_activities.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>There are no files, folders or applications:</strong><br />What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time.</td><br />
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<td>[[Image: home_backup.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>You can hardly lose data:</strong><br />Everything is saved and backed up automatically.</td><br />
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<td>[[Image: home_journal.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>You use a journal for accessing data:</strong><br />It's like a diary of stuff that you made.</td><br />
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<td>[[Image: home_opensource.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>It's all Open Source Software:</strong><br />There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> be free.</td><br />
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<tr><td></td><td>'''[[What is Sugar? | More information about Sugar...]]'''</td></tr><br />
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<blockquote style="color: #3b3c3e; font-size: 1.7em; font-style: italic; text-align: center; background: #f2f2f2; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #d6d6d6">"It's an education project, not a laptop project."</blockquote><br />
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==What are the Sugar Labs?==<br />
Sugar is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs”, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation will serve as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and create Sugar-compatible applications.<br />
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'''[[Sugar Labs | More information about Sugar Labs...]]'''<br />
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== Activities ==<br />
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Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default. Dozens more are available.<br />
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<table><br />
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<td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Journal''': Object and activity browser</td><br />
<td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Pippy''': Python Programming language/environment</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Browse''': Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Etoys''': Learning / programming / authoring environment</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Read''': Book/PDF reader</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Turtle Art''': Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Write''': Word processor</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Calculate''': Basic calculator</td><br />
</tr> <br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''News Reader''': News reader</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Measure''': Oscilloscope and Data Logging</td><br />
</tr> <br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Drawing Activity|Paint(Oficina)''': Simple paint activity</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Acoustic Tape Measure|Distance''': Measure distance between two laptops</td><br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Record''': Still, video, and audio capture</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Analyze''': An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool</td><br />
</tr><br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Log''': An activity version of the Sugar logging tool</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Terminal''': An activity version of the Sugar terminal</td><br />
</tr> <br />
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<td>[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td style="padding-right: 10px;">'''TamTam''': Music composition and synthesis. <br/>Tamtam has four separate activities : TamTam '''Jam''', '''Edit''', '''Synthlab''', and '''Mini'''.</td><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* The Sugar [[Release]] and [[Roadmap]] discussion pages<br />
* A [[Background]] discussion on Sugar and Sugar Labs<br />
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar the Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.<br />
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Hosted by [http://www.develer.com/ Develer]<br/><br />
[[Image:Develer_logo_small.png]]</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Sugar_Labs&diff=105Sugar Labs2008-05-10T15:01:08Z<p>Simon: Made the text a little bit mor scannable; added wiki tags for headers and numbered lists. Feel free to change back.</p>
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<div>==Sugar Labs: a software-development association==<br />
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The Sugar development platform is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs”, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation will serve as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and who have been creating Sugar-compatible applications. <br />
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===Goals===<br />
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Sugar supports the notions that learners should “share by default” and be able to “explore, express, debug, and critique.” Thus Sugar puts an emphasis on “activities” rather than “applications.” The foundation will focus on solving the challenges that are relevant to these aspects of the interface, namely:<br />
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# A goal is to make it “simple” to share Sugar activities. This will require an architecture that allows discovery of activities.<br />
# A second goal is to create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. It should be “simple” to install Sugar everywhere. Specifically, it means packaging for every distribution and every virtual machine—removing hardware-related dependencies wherever possible.<br />
# A third goal is to make it “simple” to write Sugar activities. This necessitates stable APIs and example code that uses these APIs.<br />
# A fourth goal is to make Sugar activities even more secure. Our principal user community is comprised of children; they must be protected from malware, phishing, botnets, etc.<br />
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In order for Sugar to be successful, it needs the participation of a large number of people who share a common goal while maintaining independence, so that each participant has the ability to act independently. For these reasons, Sugar Labs subscribes to these principles (from [http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-paradigm-of-the-open-organization/]):<br />
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====Identity====<br />
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* Clear mission – Full disclosed objectives.<br />
* Declared commitments – Affinities and aversions explained.<br />
* Explicit connections outside – Relationships with other organizations listed.<br />
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====Structure====<br />
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* Horizontal organization – Teams and facilitators work on responsibilities and agreements.<br />
* Identified contributors – Who is who, people are reachable.<br />
* Clear responsibilities – Who is in charge of what.<br />
* Activities described – All the ongoing work is acknowledged.<br />
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====Operation====<br />
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* Open participation – Anybody can access the information and get a first responsibility.<br />
* Meritocracy – Responsibilities are acquired (or lost) based on own skills and contributors’ support.<br />
* Voluntary (non-)engagement – Nobody is forced to be involved or to keep responsibilities.<br />
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====Information====<br />
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* Regular reports – Reported activities and future plans allow monitoring and participation.<br />
* Information accessible – Even internal operational information is available by default.<br />
* Explicit confidentiality – It is explained what areas are confidential, why and who can access them.<br />
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====Goods====<br />
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* Economic model – Feasibility and sustainability plans are exposed.<br />
* Resources – Inventory of items detailing who contributed what and why.<br />
* Public accounts – It’s clear where the money comes from and where it goes.</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki&diff=104Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki2008-05-10T14:55:34Z<p>Simon: Added more about sugar link</p>
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<div>== What is Sugar?? ==<br />
<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p><br />
<table><br />
<tr><br />
<td><br />
[[Image:sugarlabs_logo_big.png]]<br />
</td><br />
<td><br />
<table><br />
<tr><br />
<td>[[Image:home_sharing.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration:</strong><br />Children can write documents or make music together with ease.</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>[[Image: home_activities.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>There are no files, folders or applications:</strong><br />What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time.</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>[[Image: home_backup.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>You can hardly lose data:</strong><br />Everything is saved and backed up automatically.</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>[[Image: home_journal.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>You use a journal for accessing data:</strong><br />It's like a diary of stuff that you made.</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>[[Image: home_opensource.png]]</td><br />
<td valign="top"><strong>It's all Open Source Software:</strong><br />There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> be free.</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><td></td><td>'''[[What is Sugar? | More information about Sugar]]'''</td></tr><br />
</table><br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<blockquote style="color: #3b3c3e; font-size: 1.7em; font-style: italic; text-align: center; background: #f2f2f2; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #d6d6d6">"It's an education project, not a laptop project."</blockquote><br />
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== Activities ==<br />
<br />
Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default. Dozens more are available.<br />
<br />
<br />
<table><br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Journal''': Object and activity browser</td><br />
<td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Pippy''': Python Programming language/environment</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Browse''': Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Etoys''': Learning / programming / authoring environment</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Read''': Book/PDF reader</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Turtle Art''': Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Write''': Word processor</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Calculate''': Basic calculator</td><br />
</tr> <br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''News Reader''': News reader</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Measure''': Oscilloscope and Data Logging</td><br />
</tr> <br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Drawing Activity|Paint(Oficina)''': Simple paint activity</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Acoustic Tape Measure|Distance''': Measure distance between two laptops</td><br />
</tr> <br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Record''': Still, video, and audio capture</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Analyze''': An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Log''': An activity version of the Sugar logging tool</td><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td>'''Terminal''': An activity version of the Sugar terminal</td><br />
</tr> <br />
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><br />
<td>[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]</td><br />
<td style="padding-right: 10px;">'''TamTam''': Music composition and synthesis. <br/>Tamtam has four separate activities : TamTam '''Jam''', '''Edit''', '''Synthlab''', and '''Mini'''.</td><br />
<td></td><br />
<td></td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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==See also==<br />
<br />
* The Sugar [[Release]] and [[Roadmap]] discussion pages<br />
* A [[Background]] discussion on Sugar and Sugar Labs<br />
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar the Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.<br />
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Hosted by [http://www.develer.com/ Develer]<br/><br />
[[Image:Develer_logo_small.png]]</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Talk:Sugar_Labs/Background&diff=103Talk:Sugar Labs/Background2008-05-10T14:42:45Z<p>Simon: New page: '''Walter, you may want to check that sentence:''' "...each provides an agency through which positively impact learning, and consequently, everything that learning impacts, in particular, ...</p>
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<div>'''Walter, you may want to check that sentence:''' "...each provides an agency through which positively impact learning, and consequently, everything that learning impacts, in particular, economic development." It's a bit confusing but I can't rephrase it without changing the text too much. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 14:42, 10 May 2008 (UTC)</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Sugar_Labs/Background&diff=102Sugar Labs/Background2008-05-10T14:38:45Z<p>Simon: Made the text a little bit mor scannable; added wiki tags for bold, italics and numbered lists. Feel free to change back.</p>
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<div>The past two-to-three years has seen the advent of a number of efforts to bring about a global transformation of education through the provision of connected '''“ultra-low-cost” laptop computers''', notably the OLPC XO-1 laptop, the Intel Classmate, the ASUS EEE; the One2OneMate StudentMate, and, most recently, the HP Mini-Note and Elonex ONE. While there are distinctions between these various hardware offerings in terms of display quality, MIPS, power consumption, etc., each provides an agency through which positively impact learning, and consequently, everything that learning impacts, in particular, economic development.<br />
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These efforts, by both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, are ultimately about giving children who don't have the opportunity for learning that opportunity: it's about access; it's about equity; and it's about giving the next generation of children in the developing world a bright and open future. <br />
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These efforts are predicated on the fact that '''children lack opportunity, not capability''':<br />
# High-quality education for every child is essential to provide an equitable and viable society; <br />
# A connected laptop computer is the most powerful tool for knowledge creation; <br />
# Access on a sufficient scale provides real benefits for learning because critical mass is necessary to establish a sustainable community. <br />
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A connected laptop is ''not in itself'' a cure to the problems of poverty and ignorance, but it is an agency through which children, their teachers, their families, and their communities can ''manufacture a cure''. Computers are tools with which to think, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, measuring, composing, editing, mathematical thinking, programming, communication, and sustainable economic development. <br />
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'''How big an opportunity is this?''' In just its first six months of mass production, One Laptop per Child Association shipped 0.5 million laptops. Other vendors are claiming sales at a similar volume. Unequivocally, a market for an ultra-low-cost laptop computer is only just emerging and with it comes an opportunity to impact learning. The challenge now is to engage more people in participating in this '''global learning initiative''' and to shape the initiative such that it has not just maximum reach, but also maximum impact.<br />
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[[Learning learning]]</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=File_talk:Sugarlabs_logo_big.png&diff=59File talk:Sugarlabs logo big.png2008-05-09T14:12:56Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>Lovely... Can you do something about the stripes where they intersect at corners, so that it looks more like a physical peppermint stick might? [[User:Sj|Sj]] 01:11, 9 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks! :-) Yeah, I know that the corners look like crap. I can do something more elaborate there but I'm not sure if this temporary logo will stay long enough so this work will be worthwhile. Simon 03:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC+2)<br />
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So now I've smoothed the corners a bit, looks much better imho. - You might have to reload to see the change. [[User:Simon|Simon]] 16:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC+2)</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=File_talk:Sugarlabs_logo_big.png&diff=58File talk:Sugarlabs logo big.png2008-05-09T14:12:31Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>Lovely... Can you do something about the stripes where they intersect at corners, so that it looks more like a physical peppermint stick might? [[User:Sj|Sj]] 01:11, 9 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks! :-) Yeah, I know that the corners look like crap. I can do something more elaborate there but I'm not sure if this temporary logo will stay long enough so this work will be worthwhile. Simon 03:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC+2)<br />
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So now I've smoothed the corners a bit, looks much better imho. - You might have to reload to see the change. [User:Simon|Simon]] 16:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC+2)</div>Simonhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=File:Sugarlabs_logo_big.png&diff=57File:Sugarlabs logo big.png2008-05-09T14:10:27Z<p>Simon: uploaded a new version of "Image:Sugarlabs logo big.png": Smoothed the corners a bit and made it look more 3-dimensional.</p>
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