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== What is Sugar? ==
<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p>
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<td valign="top"><strong>Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration:</strong><br />Children can write documents or make music together with ease.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_activities.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>There are no files, folders or applications:</strong><br />What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_backup.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>You can hardly lose data:</strong><br />Everything is saved and backed up automatically.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_journal.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>You use a journal for accessing data:</strong><br />It's like a diary of stuff that you made.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_opensource.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>It's all Free and Open-Source Software:</strong><br />There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> respect users' freedom.</td>
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                <tr><td></td><td>'''[[What is Sugar? | More information about Sugar...]]'''</td></tr>
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<blockquote style="color: #3b3c3e; font-size: 1.7em; font-style: italic; text-align: center; background: #f2f2f2; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #d6d6d6">"It's an education project, not a laptop project."</blockquote>
<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system. </p>
 
[[Image:home_sharing.png|left]]
 
=== Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration ===
 
Children can write documents or make music together with ease.
 
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[[Image: home_activities.png|left]]
 
=== There are no files, folders or applications ===
 
What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data.
You can resume any activity at any time.
 
<div class="visualClear"></div>
 
[[Image: home_backup.png|left]]
 
=== You can hardly lose data. ===
 
Everything is saved and backed up automatically.
 
<div class="visualClear"></div>
 
[[Image: home_journal.png|left]]
 
=== You use a journal for accessing data. ===
 
It's like a diary of stuff that you made.
 
<div class="visualClear"></div>
 
[[Image: home_opensource.png|left]]
 
=== It's all Free and Open-Source Software. ===
 
There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> respect users' freedom.
 
<div class="visualClear"></div>


==What are the Sugar Labs?==
==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. Sugarlabs software is found on the OLPC (one laptop per child). You can find more out about the project at laptop.org.
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. Sugarlabs software is found on the OLPC (one laptop per child). You can find more out about the project at laptop.org.


'''[[Sugar Labs | More information about Sugar Labs...]]'''
<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>


== Activities ==
== Activities ==


Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default. Dozens more are available [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities][http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris].
Sugar applications are called [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities Activities]. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default.  
 
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[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]
=== Journal===
Object and activity browser
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[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]
=== Pippy===
Python Programming language/environment
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[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]
<td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]</td>
=== Browse===
<td>'''Journal''': Object and activity browser</td>
Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
<td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''Pippy''': Python Programming language/environment</td>
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[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]
<td>[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]</td>
=== Etoys===
<td>'''Browse''': Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox</td>
Learning / programming / authoring environment
<td>[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''Etoys''': Learning / programming / authoring environment</td>
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[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]
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=== Read===
<td>[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]</td>
Book/PDF reader
<td>'''Read''': Book/PDF reader</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''Turtle Art''': Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language</td>
[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]
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=== Turtle Art===
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Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
<td>[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''Write''': Word processor</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''Calculate''': Basic calculator</td>
[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]
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=== Write===
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Word processor</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''News Reader''': News reader</td>
[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]
<td>[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]</td>
=== Calculate===
<td>'''Measure''': Oscilloscope and Data Logging</td>
Basic calculator
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<td>[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]</td>
[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]
<td>'''Paint''': Simple paint activity</td>
=== News Reader===
<td>[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]</td>
News reader
<td>'''Distance''': Measure distance between two laptops</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]</td>
[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]
<td>'''Record''': Still, video, and audio capture</td>
=== Measure===
<td>[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]</td>
Oscilloscope and Data Logging
<td>'''Analyze''': An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool</td>
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[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]
<td>[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]</td>
=== Paint===
<td>'''Log''': An activity version of the Sugar logging tool</td>
Simple paint activity
<td>[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]</td>
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<td>'''Terminal''': An activity version of the Sugar terminal</td>
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[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]
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=== Distance===
<td>[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]</td>
Measure distance between two laptops
<td style="padding-right: 10px;">'''TamTam''': Music composition and synthesis<br/>four distinct activities: '''Jam''', '''Edit''', '''Synthlab''', and '''Mini'''.</td>
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=== Record===
Still, video, and audio capture
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[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]
=== Analyze===
An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
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[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]
=== Log===
An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
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[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]
=== Terminal===
An activity version of the Sugar terminal
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[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]
=== TamTam===
Music composition and synthesis.
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=== And more ===
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris Dozens more are available].
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==See also==
==See also==
[[Image:sugarlabs_logo_big.png|right|150px]]


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