User:Inkyfingers/Getting Started(0)
This page is under active construction at this time. Please check back shortly for updated information.
--Inkyfingers 04:51, 19 November 2011 (EST) Hope to finish early December.
mid construction note
This page is what remains of Getting Started after the creation of proposed new page, currently called User:Inkyfingers/Getting Started(1). To resolve:
- Newcomers, getting started before install. Possibly there is already some duplication in this area, but I would like to see some link from the wiki sidebar > Get started to the correct material.
- Adults, planning to demonstrate Sugar to others.
About Sugar
Sugar is a desktop environment that is an alternative to the ones typically used in Microsoft Windows, Apple's OS X or other GNU/Linux operating systems. It is conceived as a platform upon which children learn with Sugar Activities. The platform provides mechanisms for collaboration, reflection, and exploration. Sugar Activities cover a broad range of applications: browsing, drawing, composing, writing, programming, etc.
The Sugar desktop has multiple full-screen views: a Home view from which Activities are launched; a Neighborhood view where learners can connect to each other through a Jabber network; a Journal view, which can be used as a lab notebook; and the Activity view, where Sugar Activities are run.
Sugar Activities have no Save menu: everything is saved automatically. While the interface uses very little text, additional information is revealed when the user hovers over icons.
Sugar is Free Software. It is developed in Python and runs on a GNU/Linux Kernel, originally from the Fedora Project, and now from a variety of GNU/Linux distributions.
For an overview of the components composing a Sugar system see the Sugar System Stack.
Getting Sugar
For installing Sugar on your computer or a flash drive, see Downloads. For purchase information for Sugar pre-installed on a bootable USB flash drive, see Sugar on a Stick.
For more technical information, please see the Supported systems page for a list of the different ways that Sugar may be run on a computer.
Release notes
Release notes for Sugar 0.121 are available here.
Sugar platform release version cycle: | 0.82 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.96 | 0.98 | 0.100 | 0.102 | 0.104 | 0.106 | 0.108 | 0.110 | 0.112 |
Other resources
What is required here is a 3 line paragraph helping to orientate a new user to the wiki, and link to the areas he/she might most need.
Other resources are listed on the Deployment Team/Resources page. Is this the most useful link?
The Sugar Lab Teams are listed on the wiki sidebar.
Presentation - Sugar in action
The page Video Using Sugar shows a selection of clips of Sugar in action.
The following statement requires verification/correction. This page seems to require a modern browser similar to Firefox 4 to display correctly.
This page will not display correctly in a default new install of Sugar on a Stick.
Presentation Tutorials.
Ideas for How to present Sugar.
Tech Coordinator Guide and other training materials prepared by Teaching Matters(R) for OLPC in NYC