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<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>
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[[Image:home_sharing.png|left]]
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=== Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration ===
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Children can write documents or make music together with ease.
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[[Image: home_activities.png|left]]
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=== There are no files, folders or applications ===
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What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data.
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You can resume any activity at any time.
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<div class="visualClear"></div>
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[[Image: home_backup.png|left]]
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=== It is almost impossible to lose data. ===
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Everything is saved and backed up automatically.
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<div class="visualClear"></div>
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[[Image: home_journal.png|left]]
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=== You use a journal for accessing data. ===
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It's like a diary of stuff that you made.
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<div class="visualClear"></div>
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[[Image: home_opensource.png|left]]
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=== It's all Free and Open-Source Software. ===
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There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> respect users' freedom.
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==What are the Sugar Labs?==
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Sugar is available under the free software 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. Sugar Labs software is found on the XO laptop. You can find more out about the project at laptop.org.
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<p style="font-size: 1.2em;">[[What is Sugar? | Learn more about Sugar...]] or [[Sugar Labs | learn about Sugar Labs, the organization behind Sugar]]'''</p>
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== Activities ==
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Sugar applications are called [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities Activities]. This is a list of some Activities that are installed by default. There is a proposal for an [[Activity portal]].
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[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal Journal] ===
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Object and activity browser
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy Pippy] ===
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Python Programming language/environment
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[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse Browse] ===
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Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys Etoys] ===
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Learning / programming / authoring environment
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read] ===
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Book/PDF reader
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art Turtle Art] ===
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Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write Write] ===
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Word processor</td>
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[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Calculate Calculate] ===
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Basic calculator
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/News_Reader News Reader] ===
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News reader
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[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure Measure] ===
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Oscilloscope and Data Logging
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[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Paint Paint] ===
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Simple paint activity
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distance Distance] ===
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Measure distance between two laptops
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[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record Record] ===
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Still, video, and audio capture
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</td>
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]
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=== Analyze ===
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An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
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[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Log Log] ===
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An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Terminal Terminal] ===
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An activity version of the Sugar terminal
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam TamTam] ===
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Music composition and synthesis.
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
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[[Image:activity-chat.png|40px]]
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=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat Chat] ===
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Collaborative discussion
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=== And more ===
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[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris Dozens more are available].
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</table>
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==See also==
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[[Image:sugarlabs_logo_big.png|right|150px]]
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* [[Community/GettingInvolved|Getting involved!]]
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* A Sugar [[taxonomy]] and a matrix of [[supported systems]]
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* The Sugar [[ReleaseTeam]] and [[ReleaseTeam/Roadmap]] discussion pages
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* Other pages of interest to [[:Category:Developer|developers]]
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* A [[Sugar Labs/Background|background]] discussion on [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar]] and [[Sugar Labs]]
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* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar The Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.
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* Help us [[UITeam/Logo-ideas|design a logo]] for Sugar Labs
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* [[Community/FAQ|Frequently asked questions]]
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[[Category:General public]]

Revision as of 07:32, 9 June 2008

english | español | português brasil HowTo [ID# 5836] 



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.

Home sharing.png

Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration

Children can write documents or make music together with ease.

Home activities.png

There are no files, folders or applications

What you do is an activity and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time.

Home backup.png

It is almost impossible to lose data.

Everything is saved and backed up automatically.

Home journal.png

You use a journal for accessing data.

It's like a diary of stuff that you made.

Home opensource.png

It's all Free and Open-Source Software.

There are no strings attached and updates will always respect users' freedom.

What are the Sugar Labs?

Sugar is available under the free software 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. Sugar Labs software is found on the XO laptop. You can find more out about the project at laptop.org.

Learn more about Sugar... or learn about Sugar Labs, the organization behind Sugar

Activities

Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activities that are installed by default. There is a proposal for an Activity portal.

Activity-journal.png

Journal

Object and activity browser

Activity-pippy.png

Pippy

Python Programming language/environment

Activity-web.png

Browse

Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox

Activity-etoys.png

Etoys

Learning / programming / authoring environment

Activity-read.png

Read

Book/PDF reader

Activity-turtleart.png

Turtle Art

Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language

Activity-write.png

Write

Word processor

Activity-calculate.png

Calculate

Basic calculator

Activity-news.png

News Reader

News reader

Activity-measure.png

Measure

Oscilloscope and Data Logging

Activity-draw.png

Paint

Simple paint activity

Activity-acousticmeasure.png

Distance

Measure distance between two laptops

Activity-record.png

Record

Still, video, and audio capture

Activity-analyze.png

Analyze

An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool

Activity-log.png

Log

An activity version of the Sugar logging tool

Activity-terminal.png

Terminal

An activity version of the Sugar terminal

Activity-tamtamjam.png

TamTam

Music composition and synthesis.

Activity-chat.png

Chat

Collaborative discussion

And more

Dozens more are available.

See also

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