Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki

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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.

Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration

Children can write documents or make music together with ease.

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.

You can hardly lose data.

Everything is saved and backed up automatically.

You use a journal for accessing data.

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

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.

Journal Object and activity browser	Pippy Python Programming language/environment	Browse Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
Etoys Learning / programming / authoring environment	Read Book/PDF reader	Turtle Art Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
Write Word processor	Calculate Basic calculator	News Reader News reader
Measure Oscilloscope and Data Logging	Paint Simple paint activity	Distance Measure distance between two laptops
Record Still, video, and audio capture	Analyze An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool	Log An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
Terminal An activity version of the Sugar terminal	TamTam Music composition and synthesis.	Chat Collaborative discussion
And more Dozens more are available.

See also

• Getting involved!
• A Sugar taxonomy and a matrix of supported systems
• The Sugar ReleaseTeam and ReleaseTeam/Roadmap discussion pages
• Other pages of interest to developers
• A background discussion on Sugar and Sugar Labs
• The Sugar category on olpcwiki for more.
• Help us design a logo for Sugar Labs
• Frequently asked questions