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Sugar has a growing community that is ready to help you. Because users and contributors span the globe, a key element to the project is communication. Mailing lists, forums, blogs, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Jabber, and email provide quick and easy ways to communicate. Also, try our new, community-powered support site and tell us what you you think.

Mailing Lists

See Mailing Lists.

Forums

Support Forums

forum.laptop.org - The official OLPC community support forum.

Total posts: 9344 • Total topics: 1922 • Total members: 3757 • _{26 March 2009 (EDT)}

Former sites—these have a short history of problems, but are no longer preferred by Sugar Labs.

http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs, & http://launchpad.net/soas

General Discussion

OLPC News Forums - A popular forum site, but not frequented by core developers.

Total posts: 28249 • Total topics: 3344 • Total members: 3742 • _{26 March 2006 (EDT)}

Blogs

Planet OLPC and Planet Sugar Labs - These aggregate a number of popular blogs on Sugar and OLPC. Contact mailto:planetmaster@sugarlabs-nospam.org for adding more blogs to this feed.

IRC, Internet Relay Chat

Sugar Labs no longer uses IRC as the primary mode of communication. Matrix is the preferred mode of communication. Nevertheless, the matrix and IRC channels are bridged using Matrix Appservice IRC. IRC channel only exists for backward compatibility.

The IRC activity allows access to IRC from within the Sugar environment.
You can use a computer-based client to log in to IRC, such as Pidgin or X-Chat. This link should work for such clients: irc://irc.libera.chat#sugar
Or, use a browser add-on, such as CIRC (for Chrome). Current versions of Firefox are no longer compatible with add-ons, so ChatZilla will only work if you are using a sufficiently older version of Firefox.

IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion 'channels', but allows for personal chat and data transfer as well.

Sugar Labs is moving sugar channels from Freenode.net to Libera.chat.

The Sugar Labs Community uses a series of channels in the irc.libera.chat network.

IRC channel discussion archives

Archives of many Sugar-related IRC channels are generated automatically by an IRC bot and are indexed here.

irc.freenode.net channels

General:
`#sugar` or `irc://irc.libera.chat#sugar`	For day-to-day Sugar development—a casual, friendly place where Sugar developers collaborate.
`#sugar-meeting` or `irc://irc.libera.chat#sugar-meeting`	A channel for scheduled Sugar Labs meetings. See the Sugar Labs event calendar. (not active, Meetings now happen on Matrix
`#fedora-olpc` or `irc://irc.freenode.net#fedora-olpc`	A channel for the Fedora development project for OLPC XOs and a Sugar distribution. See the project page.

irc.oftc.net channels

General:
`#schoolserver` or `irc://irc.oftc.net#schoolserver`	The meeting channel for the XS, the XO school Server. (Not active in September 2009.)
`#treehouse` or `irc://irc.oftc.net#treehouse`	The meeting channel for the Treehouse - Hosting

See also OLPC:Communication channels.

How to use IRC channels

A web-based chat for other channels is Mibbit, with nickname: (whatever you like), server: irc.oftc.net, and channel: #schoolserver (or whatever other channel you're trying to get into). It also includes an in-line translation service that is helpful when other languages are used.
Some helpful resources are here, and this tutorial, which also includes basic commands.
Learn about IRC etiquette. Try here, here, or here.
For IRC under sugar, install the latest Sugar IRC activity.
In Pidgin you can configure IRC and then Add a Chat to your Buddy list. Select the IRC channel from the drop-down menu, and enter the name of the channel. You can set Pidgin to open channels automatically whenever it starts up.
In a traditional IRC client, you join a channel with the /join command, for example, enter /join #sugar in the input box.
Connect to one of the above channels, and say hello. You will see a list of the handles (on-line names) of the people in the channel, and the conversation will appear in a scrolling window. Type your message in the command entry area, and press return.
Instructions for using the meeting log robot are here.

Jabber Networks

While the OLPC XO-1 is designed with mesh wireless networking built in (where users can connect to each other without having a central wireless internet router/connection), Sugar users around the world may not be able to connect with others using the platform unless it's through the Internet, since mesh networking relies on a concentration of users (for example, in a classroom, school or business environment).

Jabber networks link Sugar users to each other in order to chat, interact and collaborate. There are global Sugar Jabber networks, or regional ones hosted by organizations and individuals around the world. You can choose whichever Jabber network you wish to connect to. Connecting Sugar to one of these networks will greatly enhance your Sugar experience.

See olpc:Jabber and
olpc:Community Jabber Servers

Video

We have a Sugar Labs channel at Dailymotion.
Dailymotion also has an OLPC-compatible portal at olpc.dailymotion.com with videos encoded with the free OGG Theora/Vorbis codecs, and they have OLPC-relevant content.
OLPC TV is dedicated to collecting videos related to OLPC. The site needs help recoding videos to play in Gnash, the Free Flash viewer.
Video Using Sugar and Video Testing Sugar have links to other videos as well.