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Mailing lists

There are a number of mailing lists where deployment issues are discussed. We've agreed to use OLPC-Sur and IAEP as the primary channels for the moment.

• OLPC Sur OLPC in South America
• India OLPC in India
• Nepal OLPC in Nepal
• It's an education project (IAEP) A discussion list for Sugar and the learning theories that it espouses
• OLPC UK OLPC/Sugar in the United Kingdom

Deployment guides/ Sugar manuals

• OLPC deployment guide
• OLPC deployment workbook
• OLPCorps Technical Manual
• OLE Nepal deployment guide
• Guide to a small Sugar deployment
• Guide for Latin American Sugar deployments
• Guide to community outreach
• Sugar Manual (PDF)
• Sugar Activity manuals can be found here
• Herramientas pedagógicas – Pedagogical guides (in Spanish)
• Deployment Team/School Key – About deployments with LiveCDs and keys.
• Oceania notes and ideas for teacher training
• Nauru deployment guide
• File:ProgramaOLPC.pdf Peru OLPC program figures.
• OLPC Gabon PDF (French), Google Translation to English
• Paraguay deployment notes
• materials from Peru
• Peru deployment home page
• Introduction to Python in Sugar 1; 2; 3

Videos

We have a channel on dailymotion.com. Please add your Sugar videos.

Using Sugar

• Using the Journal
• Using View Source
• Turtle Art basics
• Turtle Art Portfolio basics
• XO Editor basics
• Waveplace Etoys video tutorials

More videos

• Creating a customized Memory game
• Hot-Cold game written in Turtle Art
• Installing a XO bundle in Sugar
• Installing InfoSlicer from Sugar Labs git repo
• Playing with OOo4Kids in Sugar
• Discovering the SocialCalc activity
• Discovering the Physics activity
• Introduction to Python in Sugar
• Overview of Sugar activity Read Etext
• Overview of the French Helpfr (Aide) activity for Sugar
• Turtle Art Continent Game
• Turtle Art State Game
• Gardner School Game
• Using the Physics Activity
• How to boot Sugar on a netbook
• Read Etexts: The Movie
• Reading With The Sugar Desktop
• Sugar on the OLPC in NZ

Background material

• Deployments in Haiti, St. John, Florida, and Nicaragua
• Birmingham Alabama deployment
• The King School in Cambridge, MA
• General videos about laptops in elementary schools from the Eastern Township School Board
• Sesión de aprendizaje de comunicación empleando la XO

Sugar-related blogs/wikis

Please contribute to these forums or set up your own and add it to this list.

• http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/ – blog about one computer per child in Uruguay
• http://walterbender.org/ – weekly digest about Sugar and deployment-related issues
• http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/ – blog focusing on learning (and occasional Sugar deployment issues)
• http://waveplace.com/news/blog/ – blog focusing on Waveplace deployments (featuring Sugar)
• http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/ – wiki maintained by students using Sugar in Australia
• http://olpclearningclub.org/ – Washington DC Sugar/OLPC group blog
• http://sugarlabscolombia.wordpress.com/ -Sugarlabs Colombia Blog

Meeting opportunities

What are some forums for meet-ups between teachers and developers? Please add to this list.

• http://www.web4dev.org/index.php/Main_Page
• CeibalJam (IV CeibalJam)