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<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's ''clarity of design'', children and their teachers have the opportunity to use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a [[Community/GettingInvolved|community project]]; it is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p>

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=== Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration. ===

Children write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with ease.

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=== There are no files, folders, or applications. ===

The basic unit of interaction is an <em>activity</em>; it includes an application, data, and a history of the interaction that can be used to resume the activity at any time.

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=== It is almost impossible to lose data. ===

Everything is saved and backed up automatically.

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=== A Journal is used for accessing data. ===

The Journal is a diary of things that you make and actions you take; it is a place to reflect upon your work.

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=== Sugar is free and open-source software. ===

Sugar is licensed under [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL]; updates will <em>always</em> respect the freedom of its users.

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==Latest news==
* Sugar wins a silver medal in the International Design Excellence Awards '08 (See [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772])
[[Image:Sugar-labs-meeting-milano.jpg|thumb|Sugar Labs meeting in Milano, Via Monte Napoleone]]
* [[Sugar Labs/Meeting Minutes-30-06-2008|Minutes]] from the Sugar Labs meeting in Milan on 30 June 2008.
* A draft proposal for a governance model for Sugar Labs has been posted to the wiki (Please see [[Sugar Labs/Governance|the governance page]]). Feel free to make corrections and [[_talk:Sugar Labs/Governance|add comments]].
* [[ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.81.2|Sucrose 0.81.2]] (Development Release) has been released.
* Wolfgang Rohrmoser reports that a new release (080607) of the Livebackup XO-LiveCD is available ([http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd/build-708+joyride-2024 XO-LiveCD]).

For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].

==What are the Sugar Labs?==
Sugar is available under the free software GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs”, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation will serve as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and create Sugar-compatible applications. Sugar Labs software is found on the XO laptop. You can find more out about the project at laptop.org.

<p style="font-size: 1.2em;">[[What is Sugar? | Learn more about Sugar...]] or [[Sugar Labs | learn about Sugar Labs, the organization behind Sugar]]</p>
<p style="font-size: 1.2em;">[[Community/GettingInvolved | Get involved ]] in the Sugar [[DevelopmentTeam | development]] and [[Community/GettingInvolved#Join_a_Team | community]] efforts.</p>

==Getting Sugar==
There are many ways to run 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]]'''.
 
== Activities ==
Sugar applications are called [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities Activities]. This is a list of some Activities that are installed by default. There is a proposal for an [[Activity portal]].

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[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal Journal] === 
Object and activity browser
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<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
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<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
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art Turtle Art] === 
Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write Write] === 
Word processor</td>
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[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Calculate Calculate] === 
Basic calculator
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/News_Reader News Reader] === 
News reader
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure Measure] === 
Oscilloscope and Data Logging
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Paint Paint] === 
Simple paint activity
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distance Distance] === 
Measure distance between two laptops
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[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record Record] === 
Still, video, and audio capture
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[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Analyze Analyze] === 
An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
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[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Log Log] === 
An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
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<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
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[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam TamTam] === 
Music composition and synthesis.
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[[Image:activity-chat.png|40px]]
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat Chat] === 
Collaborative discussion
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=== And more ===
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris many dozens more are available].
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==See also==

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* [[Community/GettingInvolved|Getting involved!]]
* A Sugar [[taxonomy]] and a matrix of [[supported systems]]
* The Sugar [[ReleaseTeam]] and [[ReleaseTeam/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]]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar The Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.
* Help us [[UITeam/Logo-ideas|design a logo]] for Sugar Labs
* [[Community/FAQ|Frequently asked questions]]

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