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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>
 
 
[[Image:home_sharing.png|left]]
 
 
=== Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration. ===
 
 
Children write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with ease.
 
 
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[[Image: home_activities.png|left]]
 
 
=== 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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[[Image: home_backup.png|left]]
 
 
=== It is almost impossible to lose data. ===
 
 
Everything is saved and backed up automatically.
 
 
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[[Image: home_journal.png|left]]
 
 
=== 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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[[Image: home_opensource.png|left]]
 
 
=== 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==
 
* [[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].
 
*[[ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] (Development Release) has been released.
 
* We have begun the election of the Sugar Labs oversight board; polls close 31 August. The list of candidates can be found [[Sugar_Labs/Oversight_Board_Candidates_August_2008|here]].
 
* [[Sugar_Labs/OversightBoard/Minutes#Friday_1_August_2008_-_14.00_.28UTC.29|Minutes]] from the Sugar Labs meeting on 1 August 2008.
 
* 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])
 
* A governance model for Sugar Labs has been posted to the wiki (Please see [[Sugar Labs/Governance|the governance page]]). Feel free to [[_talk:Sugar Labs/Governance|add comments]].
 
 
* 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>
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<p style="font-size: 1.2em;">[[Community/GettingInvolved | Get involved ]] in the Sugar [[DevelopmentTeam | development]] and [[Community/GettingInvolved#Join_a_Team | community]] efforts.</p>
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;First time visit?: Please take a look around our wiki, our [https://www.sugarlabs.org/ website] and our [http://github.com/sugarlabs GitHub Page]
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;Software Developer?: Check out our developer documentation on Github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs
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;Google Summer of Code?: Go through our guide for GSoC, https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC
  
==Try Sugar/Get Sugar==
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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.
''Try'' Sugar by running it on top of your existing system (Please see the [[Documentation/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]]'''. (Please see [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Sugar on Ubuntu]] for instructions on how to load Sugar on your Ubuntu distribution.)
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;Using Sugar?: Get Activities from http://activities.sugarlabs.org
 
== 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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[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]
 
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy Pippy] ===
 
Python Programming language/environment
 
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'''[[Sugar Labs/Current Events | News]] [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved | Join]] [[Downloads]] [[Sugar Labs/Contacts | Contact]] [[Sugar Labs | About&#x2004;Us]]'''
=== [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]]
 
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys Etoys] ===
 
Learning / programming / authoring environment
 
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[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]
 
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read] ===
 
Book/PDF reader
 
</td>
 
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[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]
 
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art Turtle Art] ===
 
Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
 
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[[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
 
</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
 
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
 
[[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
 
</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>
 
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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
 
</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>
 
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;">
 
=== And more ===
 
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris many dozens more are available].
 
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==See also==
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=== Sugar Labs and its mission ===
  
[[Image:sugarlabs_logo_big.png|right|150px]]
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''[[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.
  
* [[Community/GettingInvolved|Getting involved!]]
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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]].''
* 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]]
 
  
[[Category:General public]]
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{{Translations | [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki|english]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-es|español]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-pt_BR|português brasil]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-ps|پښتو]] &#124; [[Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki/lang-ru_RU|русский]]}}
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Latest revision as of 14:14, 22 October 2024


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First time visit?
Please take a look around our wiki, our website and our 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
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 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.
Using Sugar?
Get Activities from http://activities.sugarlabs.org

Sugar Labs and its mission

Sugar Labs Inc.® 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.

Sugar Labs Inc. is supported by through the generous volunteer efforts made by contributors, sponsorships, and charitable donations.