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Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki

2009-05-02T23:50:16Z

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   The Sugar Labs wiki is where the community that comes together to develop and support the Sugar Learning Platform document their collaborations.
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==New Users; Parents, Teachers, and Students==
If you are visiting for the first time, please see [http://www.sugarlabs.org www.sugarlabs.org] for an introduction to Sugar.

Then visit the '''[[Sugar Labs/Contacts| Connect with Sugar Labs]]''' page, and find out how you can join the fun.

==Current Users==
If you are looking for new activities, please see [http://activities.sugarlabs.org activities.sugarlabs.org].

==New and Current Community Members==
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==Community news==
* Get acquainted with the [[Development Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84|latest Sugar features]] in Version 0.84
* Watch some videos of children in Uruguay explaining how they use Sugar [http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz here] and [http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i4m7lvmniztl here]
* Enjoy [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2009/01/anecdotes-of-plan-ceibal-in-durazno.html stories from the field] in Uruguay
* Read the latest [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Education_and_Psychology memo on learning] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky Marvin Minsky]
* Consider [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ the status of Sugar] after OLPC
* Join our [[Activity Team]]

For more current news about Sugar Labs, please see the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]]. There is also an archive of [[News|older news]].



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= Sucrose 0.84 Release Notes =

== Introduction ==
[http://sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities Sucrose] 0.84 is the latest version of the Sugar education platform, consisting of [http://sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Glucose:_The_base_Sugar_environment Glucose], the base system environment; and [http://sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Fructose:_The_set_of_demonstration_activities Fructose], a set of demonstration activities.

Sucrose is released every six months and contains many new features, improvements, bug fixes, and translations. Sucrose 0.84 continues this tradition and is our second well-planned release to date.

You can learn more about Sugar itself by studying the [http://sugarlabs.org/go/What_is_Sugar%3F Sugar definition] or by reading the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners comic strip] about the learning platform from Dongyun Lee.

== What is new for users ==

=== Resume Activity ===
In order to make it easier to continue past work, the Home View will display recent activity entries in the activity Palette.

[[Image:Resume_0.84.png‎]]

You can choose to resume past entries or, with the '''Start''' option in the Palette, start a new instance of the activity.

[[Image:Start_new_0.84.png‎]]

When clicking on the activity icon in the Favorites View, the last entry will be resumed by default. This is based on the assumption, that in most cases, one want to resume previous work rather than creating from scratch.

=== View Source ===
There were some great improvements to the View Source concept in this release cycle. You can display the source code of an activity using the activity Palette in the Frame or by using the keyboard short cut '''Shift+Alt+V''' when in an activity.

[[Image:View_source_palette_0.84.png]]

The View Source dialog will allow you to examine the content of the activity bundle and display it's files respectively.

[[Image:View_source_bundle_0.84.png]]

Further it allows you to survey the source of the current activity instance (the document). In the case of the Browse activity this would be the source of the HTML page currently displayed.

[[Image:View_source_instance_0.84.png]]

The coloured activity icon represents the source of the activity instance. The outlined activity icon represent the bundle source for the activity itself, the template. We use this to help draw a distinction between the activity instance and the activity bundle.

Using the uncoloured outline to represent the bundle vs the coloured icon to represent an instance has been the design cue all along.

=== Journal ===
A lot of work has gone into bringing the Journal implementation closer to its design. The Object Chooser can now be filtered by data type, which improves the experience in activities like Write that can fetch content from the journal, e.g. images.

[[Image:Objectchooser_0.84.png‎]]

A button has been added to the toolbar to filter for favorite entries to give a better way of marking entries as 'important'.

[[Image:Favorite_filter_0.84.png‎]]

Reading removable devices like usb sticks should be more reliable now that the Journal doesn't depend on an index on the removable device.

The Journal entry Palette shown in the list view has seen some great improvements. We added a '''View Details''' option that brings you to the details of the entry. Furthermore you do not need to go to the detail view any more to select the activity you want to start or resume the entry with - this option is now available in the Palette as well.

[[Image:Start_with_0.84.png‎]]

The Journal's search and browsing capabilities are less useful if all entries are named the same regardless of their actual content or meaning to the user. That is why an alert has been added that encourages the user to set the title and other properties of a newly created Journal entry. This alert is only shown on the creation of a new Journal entry, not on resume.

[[Image:Name_this_entry_0.84.png]]

=== Control Panel ===
Sugar now supports setting up a priority list of languages. Not all the activities have translations for all languages. You can create a list of languages in the Control Panel that are used to display messages in place of a missing translation.

[[Image:Languages 0.84.png]]

The ''About my XO'' section has been renamed to ''About my Computer'' to reflect the use of Sugar on non-XO hardware. As well the fields of the page has been changed accordingly. The ''Power Section'' is only displayed on XO hardware since the functionality is currently only available there.

Furthermore you can change the jabber server without having to restart Sugar.

=== Clipboard ===
For text clippings a preview is displayed so it's easier to spot the wanted clipping.

[[Image:Clipping_0.84.png]]

Several improvements were made to the detection of images dragged and dropped to the clipboard in the Frame.

=== New logic for the device positions ===
The logic to position the Frame devices has been reworked. Plug in your devices and try it out.
[500 external devices eg. USB drive]
[400 3rd party devices eg. speech]
[300 transient connection devices eg. AP]
[200 transient devices eg. camera]
[100 static devices eg. battery]

=== XO Menu ===
A logout option has been added to the XO menu. It is displayed in cases where we have a multi user system and allows therefore returning to a Login Manager like KDM or GDM. The menu is now accessible as well from the Groups and Mesh View and the Friends Tray.

[[Image:Xo_menu.png‎]]

=== File transfer ===
Some basic file exchanging functionality has been added, with plans to expand it in the next release. You will be able to interchange files from the Journal to other computers running Sugar if they are on the same local network and are '''not''' connected to a Jabber server (check the Network Section in the Control Panel).

Select an entry in the Journal you want to transfer to a friend. Note that you can only transfer an entry to a friend.

[[Image:‎FT_send_0.84.png]]

On the receiver side an entry for an incoming transfer will be added to the Frame. You can then choose whether accept or decline that transfer.

[[Image:FT_income_0.84.png]]

On the receiver side an entry for an outgoing transfer will be added to the Frame. The sender can cancel that transfer at any time.

[[Image:FT_outgoing_0.84.png]]

=== Palettes ===
The Palette highlighting on tray icons has been fixed.

[[image:Palette_0.84.png]]

The direct access on right click has been added to many places - for example the AP icons in the mesh view or the device icons in the frame.

=== New Fructose Activities ===
Three great activities have been added to Fructose, the [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/ImageViewer|Image Viewer activity]], [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/TurtleArt|TurtleArt]] and [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Jukebox | Jukebox]].

== What is new for developers ==
The following changes are important for developers using the Sucrose 0.84 developer platform. If you're not interested in changes for developers, you can skip forward to Section [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84#Internationalization_.28i18n.29_and_Localization_.28l10n.29|Internationalization and Localization]].

=== Widgets ===
A [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/graphics/colorbutton.py widget] to select the color has been introduced. It is similar to the gtk.ColorButton, but does not have any alpha support. Instead of a color selector dialog it will pop up a Palette. An example on how to use the ColorToolButton in your activity can be examined in the Write activity.

The Object Chooser can now be filtered by data type. An example is the import image functionality in Write.

Support for accelerators has been added to the [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/graphics/menuitem.py MenuItem] widget. The sub classed hippo.CanvasWidget, CanvasTextView has been moved to the toolkit.

=== API ===
An API policy has been figured out and modules have been marked as STABLE / UNSTABLE / DEPRECATED. There is a comment in the module that indicates it's current state.

Sugar moved to use [http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ GConf] as a back end to store the profile. This is another step into reducing diverts where not needed.

To handle view source [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/activityservice.py#line71 HandleViewSource and GetDocumentPath] have been added to the activity service. The former will handle the content of the activity bundle, the latter is the source of the current activity instance, in the case of Browse this would be the source of the HTML page currently displayed. Activity authors need to implement ''get_document_path'' and return the path to the document the dialog should display.

The method [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/activity.py#line717 ''get_preview''] has been changed to be public. It does return an image representing the state of the activity. Generally this is what the user is seeing in this moment. Activities can override this method and provide their own preview data.

=== Dependencies ===
For performance reasons Sugar is using exclusively ''cjson'', a [http://www.json.org/ JSON] processing module written in C. Pyjson and Simplejson have been dropped. All the Fructose activities that use JSON to serialize data have been changed to use ''cjson'' as well.

[http://www.squeakland.org Etoys] 4.0 has been released. The major version jump signifies the end of their two-year relicensing effort. Now we are looking forward to see etoys packaged for distributions that the Sugar users can enjoy that great educational environment there as well. Big Thanks to the Squeak community and Etoys developers!

=== Bundlebuilder===
[http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/activity/bundlebuilder.py Bundlebuilder] the module for packaging xo bundles, bundling source tarballs and installing activities on the system has been refactored, mainly to do a more standard system installation of activities. The install argument has a prefix option, ''mo'' files are installed in '/usr/share/locale' and ''po'' files are not installed. The ''release'' command has been dropped. For Glucose and Fructose components you can use the ''release'' script of the [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-tools/repos/mainline/blobs/master/release ''sugar-tools''] module instead.

=== Extensions ===
Extending the shell has never been so easy. With the new [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/trees/master/extensions extension layout] one can quickly add desired functionality. For example for a new Control Panel section, one need only to place a model and view...

=== Debugging ===
Since version 0.84 the configuration file '~/.sugar/debug' is created which gets read when Sugar starts. The file does contain logging options which are commented by default. Use your editor of choice and remove the '#' before the line 'export SUGAR_LOGGER_LEVEL=debug' to enable Sugar debug logging. More information about the Sugar logs can be found at [[BugSquad/GetLogs]].

=== Misc ===
* Restore minimal .xol support #459
* util.TempFilePath
* Listen for map in Window instead of in Canvas (alsroot) #428
* Use the same font size independent from scaling
* NM 0.7
* library efforts (libabiword, evince)

== What is new for packagers ==
* the Image Viewer activity, [[Activities/TurtleArt|Turtleart]] and Jukebox have been added to Fructose.
* Read - Evince >= 2.26
* Browse - Hulahop >= 0.4.8
* Write - Libabiword >= 2.6.8

== Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) ==
Thanks to members of the worldwide translation team, who can be found on the [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization localization mailing list], we have the following languages (listed alphabetically) which have significant support (more than 80% of the user interface translated):

*Chinese (China)
*Chinese (Taiwan)
*Dutch
*French
*German
*Italian
*Japanese
*Nepali
*Portuguese
*Russian
*Spanish
*Swedish
*Turkish
*Vietnamese

<gallery widths="500px" heights="350px" perrow="1" Caption="Screenshots of the translated Sugar interface">
Image:Sucrose86_zh_TW.png|Sugar in Chinese (Taiwan)
Image:Sucrose86_fr.png|Sugar in French
Image:Sucrose86_ne.png|Sugar in Nepali
Image:Sucrose86_vi.png|Sugar in Vietnamese
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Moreover, a number of languages have attained "partially supported" status, with more than half of the user interface strings translated.

== Compatibility ==
When you upgrade a computer that was running previously Sucrose 0.82,
* The old datastore will be updated to the new format.
* Your old profile (in <tt>.sugar/default/config</tt>) will be imported into GConf

If you later downgrade from Sucrose 0.84.x to an earlier version,
* The datastore is incompatible, so all data in the journal won't be accessible (but will be still there)
* You will be prompted to enter a new name and color like it would happen on first boot

Most of the activities in Sucrose 0.84.x should be compatible with Sucrose 0.82. An exception is Browse, which depends on new versions of Hulahop, Read which depend on the latest version of Evince and Write which depends on the latest version of libabiword.

== Getting the sources ==
If you want to package sugar for your favourite distribution or just want to examine sugar's lovely code ;) you can find all the source code of each module at the links below.

=== Glucose ===
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.84.0.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit 0.84.0]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.84.0.tar.bz2 sugar 0.84.0]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.84.0.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.84.0]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.84.0.tar.bz2 sugar-base 0.84.0]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.84.0.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.84.0]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.84.0.tar.bz2 sugar-presence-service 0.84.0]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2206.tar.gz etoys 4.0.2206]

=== Fructose ===
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Read/Read-65.tar.bz2 read 65]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/Chat-64.tar.bz2 chat 64]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Terminal/Terminal-23.tar.bz2 terminal 23]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ImageViewer/ImageViewer-6.tar.bz2 imageviewer 6]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Jukebox/Jukebox-7.tar.bz2 jukebox 7]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-41.tar.bz2 turtleart 41]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-105.tar.bz2 browse 105]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-100.tar.gz etoys 100]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Write/Write-63.tar.bz2 write 63]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Calculate/Calculate-28.tar.bz2 calculate 28]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Log/Log-17.tar.bz2 log 17]
* [http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/Pippy/Pippy-25.tar.bz2 pippy 25]

=== Fructose dependencies ===
* [http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/hulahop/hulahop-0.4.9.tar.bz2 hulahop 0.4.9]

== Detailed changes ==
=== Glucose ===
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Sugar|sugar]]
* sugar-toolkit
* sugar-base
* sugar-presence-service
* sugar-datastore
* sugar-artwork
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Etoys|etoys]]

=== Fructose ===
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Terminal|Terminal]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Read|Read]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Browse|Browse]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Chat|Chat]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Write|Write]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/ImageViewer|ImageViewer]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Jukebox|Jukebox]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/TurtleArt|TurtleArt]]
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84/Etoys|Etoys]]

=== Fructose dependencies ===
* hulahop

== Looking at the release cycle details ==
You can browse the notes of each development release in [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap/0.84#Schedule]]. Their respective sources are listed there as well.

== Looking Forward to 0.86 ==
Planning of the next release cycle has started at [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap/0.86]].

== Credits ==
Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible.

[[Category:DevelopmentTeam/Release]]

Downloads

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=Try Sugar:=
==Are you a Windows or Macintosh user?==
Windows users should try [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Windows|'''Sugar on a Stick''']] and both Windows and Mac (OSX) users should try [[Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox|'''VirtualBox''']]. Select your operating system below to give Sugar a try!

<span class="plainlinks">
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Windows http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/f/f9/Windows.gif]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_VirtualBox http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/76/Apple.gif]
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==Are you already using GNU/Linux?==
Select your favorite distribution below for instructions on installing Sugar.

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[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/17/Fedora-small.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/b/bf/Debian-small.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/74/Ubuntu-small.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Gentoo http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/7e/Gentoo-small.png]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/ALTLinux http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/12/Altlinux-small.png]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mandriva http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/6/67/Mandriva-small.png]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Magalh%C3%A3es http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/5/5b/Caixa_M%C3%A1gica-small.jpg]
[http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/e/ec/Suse-small.jpg]
</span>

==Do you have an OLPC XO-1?==
[[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC|Update your XO]] to the latest Sugar release.

<span class="plainlinks">
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/8/80/OLPCXO.png]
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==Are you looking for Sugar Activities?==
<span class="plainlinks">Please visit our dedicated [http://activities.sugarlabs.org Activities download site].</span>

<span class="plainlinks">
[http://activities.sugarlabs.org http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/2/2b/Sugarlabs_mainpage_02.png]
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==Are you a developer?==

Learn how to get setup on the [[Supported systems#Page_Index | Supported systems]] page.

<span class="plainlinks">
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/06/Gear.png]
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Here are some additional references you may find useful:
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild | jhbuild]]
* <span class="plainlinks">[http://git.sugarlabs.org Gitorious source code repository]</span>
* VM
* Linux Terminal Server
* Adding Sugar to your favorite distro...

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The learning engine for every child: Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computers and the Internet. With Sugar, even the youngest learner will quickly become proficient in using the computer as a tool to engage in authentic problem-solving. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection, developing skills that help them in all aspects of life.

Sugar Labs is a member project of the [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy].
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==Sugar features==

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===Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration.===
Write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with one mouse click.

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_01.png]]

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===There are no files, folders, or applications.===
Sugar has <em>activities</em>. Activities includes an application, data, and history. Activities can be resumed at any time.

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_02.png]]

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===Everything is saved automatically.===
Our goal is to make it impossible to lose any data.

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_03.png]]

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===A Journal is used for accessing data.===
The Journal is a diary of what you make and do; it is a place to reflect upon your work.

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_04.png]]

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===Sugar is available on many GNU/Linux distributions.===
Sugar is supported by and [[DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar|easily installed]] on [[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]], [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]], [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]], and [[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]]. Sugar runs on most computer hardware including netbooks.

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_05.png]]

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===Sugar is free software.===
It is written in Python and easy to customize. Sugar is licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL]; updates will <em>always</em> respect the freedom of its users.

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_06.png]]

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===Sugar is documented by its users.===
Our [http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar manual] was written by members of the Sugar community and teachers around the world are creating a wealth of pedagogical materials for Sugar. You can help!

[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_07.png]]

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==Latest news==
* Watch some videos of children in Uruguay explaining how they use Sugar ([http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz] and [http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i4m7lvmniztl]).
* and read [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2009/01/anecdotes-of-plan-ceibal-in-durazno.html these stories] from the field.
* The latest [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Education_and_Psychology memo on learning]] by Marvin Minsky
* The latest Sugar features (0.83.4) are documented [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.4|here]].
* [http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-status-of-sugar-post-olpc/ The status of Sugar, post-OLPC]
* [[ActivityTeam]] formed. Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.
* [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090107-olpc-downsizes-half-of-its-staff-cuts-sugar-development.html OLPC downsizes half of its staff, cuts Sugar development], but "OLPC's decision to end its participation in Sugar's evolution doesn't mean that Sugar itself will be coming to an end any time soon. Former OLPC president of software, Walter Bender, who left the organization last year, launched Sugar Labs to facilitate ongoing community-driven development of the Sugar project. Sugar Labs has done well for itself—it recently joined the GNOME Foundation and is currently in informal talks with some hardware vendors."
* Sugar Labs is [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html joining the GNOME Foundation] as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.
* Sugar Labs officially [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/09/sugar/ joins the Software Freedom Conservancy].
* Sugar Labs will be participating in FUDCon, which will be held at MIT (Cambridge, MA) 9–11 January. If you can attend, please ''sign up'' on the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 FUDConF11 wiki page].
* Walter Bender gave the keynote at the <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.netbookworldsummit.org/ Netbook World Summit]</span> in Paris on 1 December 2008. His notes from the conference are [[Sugar_Labs/Current_Events#Sugar_Digest|here]].
* [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008|SugarCamp]] was held 17–21 November in Cambridge. Notes for most of the meetings are linked from [[MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008/Schedule|here]].
* We continue to make progress on the [[Supported_systems#Starch|LiveCD and LiveUSB]] versions of Sugar.
* Read a Sugar community member's take on [http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/562 Sugar vs XP] and the [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080920181151638 Groklaw] take.
* Check out the [http://en.flossmanuals.net FLOSS manual] for [http://en.flossmanuals.net/write_activity Write] and write a manual for your favorite Activity.
* [[User:Aaron|Aaron Kaplan]] has ported Sugar to the Intel Classmate 2. You can read about it [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugarizing_it_intel_classmate_2.html here].
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] has been released.
* Sugar wins a silver medal in the [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772 International Design Excellence Awards '08].
For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].

==Try Sugar==
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[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/1/1e/Fedora.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/a/a1/Debian.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/e/e2/Ubuntu.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Gentoo http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/5/5e/Gentoo-logo-small.jpg]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/ALTLinux http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/5/55/Alt_linux_team_tiny.png]
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mandriva http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/2/2b/Mandriva.png]
[http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar http://en.opensuse.org/skins/opensuse/images/common/geeko.jpg]
</span>

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''Try'' Sugar by running it on top of your existing system (Please see the [[DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar|Try Sugar]] page).

There are many ways to ''get'' Sugar: as a '''[[Supported_systems#Starch|separate disk image]]''' on an existing machine; as a '''[[Supported_systems#Sucrose|session on a Linux distribution]]'''; or as part of a '''[[Supported_systems#Systems|complete hardware-software platform]]'''.

== Some Sugar Activities ==
Sugar applications are called "Activities". Activities include an application as well as sharing and collaboration capabilities, a built-in interface to the Journal, and other features such as the clipboard.

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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal Journal] ===
Object and activity browser
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy Pippy] ===
Python Programming language/environment
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse Browse] ===
Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys Etoys] ===
Learning / programming / authoring environment
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read] ===
Book/PDF reader
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:Activity-turtleart-grey.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art Turtle Art] ===
Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write Write] ===
Word processor
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Calculate Calculate] ===
Basic calculator
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/News_Reader News Reader] ===
News reader
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure Measure] ===
Oscilloscope and Data Logging
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Paint Paint] ===
Simple paint activity
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distance Distance] ===
Measure distance between two laptops
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record Record] ===
Still, video, and audio capture
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Analyze Analyze] ===
An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Log Log] ===
An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Terminal Terminal] ===
An activity version of the Sugar terminal
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam TamTam] ===
Music composition and synthesis.
</td>

<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-chat.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat Chat] ===
Collaborative discussion
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align: center;">
=== And more ===
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities many dozens more are available].
</td>

</tr>
</table>

==See also==

* [[What is Sugar? | Learn more about Sugar...]] and join [[Sugar_Labs/Resources/How_to_Attend_a_Meeting|a discussion about Sugar]].
* A Sugar [[taxonomy]] and a matrix of [[supported systems]]
* A list of Sugar [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All Activities] and a proposal for an [[Activity portal]].
* The Sugar [[DevelopmentTeam/Release]] and [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap]] discussion pages
* Other pages of interest to [[:Category:Developer|developers]]
* A [[Sugar Labs/Background|background]] discussion on [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar]] and [[Sugar Labs]]
* [[Sugar Labs/FAQ|Frequently asked questions]]
* [[Sugar_Labs/About|About Sugar Labs]]

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