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| | + | |<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Download_Mirabell.png|center|link=Downloads]]<br>[[Image:Sugarlabs_mainpage_01.png|link=Sugar Labs/Getting Involved]]</span> |
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| | + | ;First time visit?: Please take a look around our wiki and our [http://github.com/sugarlabs GitHub Page] |
| | + | ;Software Developer?: Check out our developer documentation on Github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs |
| | + | ;Google Summer of Code?: Go through our guide for GSoC, https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC |
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| + | ;Want to help?: Welcome to the Sugar Labs community! We are contributors of all types - teachers, writers, coders, designers, testers, and more - who work together from around the world on Sugar. Visit the '''[[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved | Getting Involved]]''' page, and find out how you can join in the fun of learning. We have some [[Vacancies]] and are always looking for maintainers and testers. There are also non-technical roles and tasks where help is wanted. If you'd like to volunteer to help out, please see our [[Help_Wanted]] page for more information. |
| − | 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.
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| − | Sugar Labs is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. | + | ;Using Sugar?: Get Activities from http://activities.sugarlabs.org |
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| − | ==Sugar features==
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| + | '''[[Sugar Labs/Current Events | News]] [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved | Join]] [[Downloads]] [[Sugar Labs/Contacts | Contact]] [[Sugar Labs | About Us]]''' |
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| − | '''Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration.'''
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| − | Write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with one mouse click.
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| − | '''There are no files, folders, or applications.'''
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| − | Sugar has <em>activities</em>. Activities includes an application, data, and history. Activities can be resumed at any time.
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| − | '''Everything is saved automatically.'''
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| − | Our goal is to make it impossible to lose any data.
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| − | '''A Journal is used for accessing data.'''
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| − | [[Image: home_journal.png]]
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| − | The Journal is a diary of what you make and do; it is a place to reflect upon your work.
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| − | '''Sugar is available on many GNU/Linux distributions.'''
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| − | 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.
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| − | '''Sugar is free software.'''
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| − | [[Image: home_opensource.png]]
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| − | 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.
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| − | '''Sugar is documented by its users.''' | |
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| − | 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!
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| − | ==Latest news==
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| − | * [[ActivityTeam]] formed. Our goal is to ensure that Sugar provides a complete set of high quality educational, collaborative, constructivist activities.
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| − | * [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."
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| − | * Sugar Labs is [http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html joining the GNOME Foundation] as part of the GNOME Advisory Board.
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| − | * Sugar Labs officially [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/09/sugar/ joins the Software Freedom Conservancy].
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| − | * 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].
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| − | * 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]].
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * We continue to make progress on the [[Supported_systems#Starch|LiveCD and LiveUSB]] versions of Sugar.
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| − | * 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.
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| − | * 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.
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| − | * [[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].
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| − | * [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] has been released.
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| − | * 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].
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| − | For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].
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| − | ==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]
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| − | [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]
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| − | ''Try'' Sugar by running it on top of your existing system (Please see the [[DocumentationTeam/Try_Sugar|Try Sugar]] page).
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| − | 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]]'''.
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| − | == Some Sugar Activities ==
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| − | 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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| − | [[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal Journal] ===
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| − | Object and activity browser
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| − | [[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy Pippy] ===
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| − | Python Programming language/environment
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| − | [[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse Browse] ===
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| − | Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
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| − | [[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys Etoys] ===
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| − | Learning / programming / authoring environment
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| − | [[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read] ===
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| − | Book/PDF reader
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| − | [[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art Turtle Art] ===
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| − | Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
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| − | [[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write Write] ===
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| − | Word processor
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| − | [[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Calculate Calculate] ===
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| − | Basic calculator
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| − | [[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/News_Reader News Reader] ===
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| − | News reader
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| − | [[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure Measure] ===
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| − | Oscilloscope and Data Logging
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| − | [[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Paint Paint] ===
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| − | Simple paint activity
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| − | [[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distance Distance] ===
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| − | Measure distance between two laptops
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record Record] ===
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| − | Still, video, and audio capture
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| − | [[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Analyze Analyze] ===
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| − | An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Log Log] ===
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| − | An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Terminal Terminal] ===
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| − | An activity version of the Sugar terminal
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| − | [[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam TamTam] ===
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| − | Music composition and synthesis.
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| − | === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat Chat] ===
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| − | Collaborative discussion
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| − | === And more ===
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| − | [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities many dozens more are available].
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| − | ==See also== | + | === Sugar Labs and its mission === |
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| − | * [[What is Sugar? | Learn more about Sugar...]] and join [[Sugar_Labs/Resources/How_to_Attend_a_Meeting|a discussion about Sugar]].
| + | ''[[Trademark|Sugar Labs Inc.<sup>®</sup>]] is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organization dedicated to a) promoting and supporting the "learn-by-doing" educational philosophy of constructionism; b) producing educational software embodying constructionist principles; c) empowering educators and educational institutions to incorporate constructionist learning tools into their curricula; and d) promoting lifelong learning through mentorship, and participation in the design and development of educational software.; its EIN is 84-3289298. |
| − | * A Sugar [[taxonomy]] and a matrix of [[supported systems]]
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| − | * A list of Sugar [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All Activities] and a proposal for an [[Activity portal]].
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| − | * The Sugar [[DevelopmentTeam/Release]] and [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap]] discussion pages
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| − | * Other pages of interest to [[:Category:Developer|developers]]
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| − | * A [[Sugar Labs/Background|background]] discussion on [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar]] and [[Sugar Labs]]
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| − | * [[Sugar Labs/FAQ|Frequently asked questions]]
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| − | * [[Sugar_Labs/About|About Sugar Labs]]
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| − | [[Category:General public]] | + | Sugar Labs Inc. is supported by through the generous [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved|volunteer efforts made by contributors]], [[Sugar Labs/Thank You|sponsorships]], and [[Sugar Labs/Donate|charitable donations]].'' |
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| − | <noinclude>{{Translations | [[Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs|english]] | [[Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs/lang-es|español]] | [[Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs/lang-pt_BR|português brasil]] | [[Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs/lang-ps|پښتو]] | [[Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs/lang-ru_RU|русский]] |}}{{ GoogleTrans-en | es =show | bg =show | zh-CN =show | zh-TW =show | hr =show | cs =show | da =show | nl =show | fi =show | fr =show | de =show | el =show | hi =show | it =show | ja =show | ko =show | no =show | pl =show | pt =show | ro =show | ru =show | sv =show }}</noinclude> | + | <noinclude> |
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| + | {{Translations | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki|english]] | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-es|español]] | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-pt_BR|português brasil]] | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-ps|پښتو]] | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-ru_RU|русский]]}} |
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