Platform Team/Glossary

Glossary

Harmonic Distribution

The systematic approach to support full cycle of Sugar Learning Platform ecosystem. Harmonic Distribution consist of software, services and practices that make interacting within the Sugar community more useful. Harmonic Distribution consists of two major parts, Harmonic Distribution and Sugar Network.

Sweets Distribution

Provides base software in heterogeneous environment, i.e., most popular, within the Sugar community, GNU/Linux distributions and hardware platforms. Sweets Distribution provides the easy way to launch initial software and start exploring the rest of the Sugar related content using the Sugar Network.

Sugar Network

The system that is intended to share different kinds of content within the Sugar community, e.g., Sugar Activities, artifacts created by Sugar Activities, books, etc. Using social network mechanisms, setup the relations between community members to improve Sugar Network content. Sugar Network consists of one global server and arbitrary number of distributed servers (to support people who don't have direct access, e.g., due to lack on Internet connectivity, to the global one).