Sugar Network

Sugar Network version cycle: | 1.0 |

This work was initially started by an International Research and Development Team affiliated with Sugar Labs Perú as part of the Malla Project initiative in order to attend the needs identified during field work on Perú from 2007 to date.

Summary

These are the major goals of Sugar Network:

• Sharing different kinds of content within the Sugar community, e.g., Sugar Activities, artifacts created by Sugar Activities, books, etc. for friends, a class, parents, teachers, or Sugar Learners anywhere.
• Productive interaction between content creators and users.
• Online + offline access to the content for all Sugar Network participants.
• Support for localized and sustainable *collaborative activities*.

For a more detailed description, see these references:

• Red Azúcar - The first client of Sugar Network.
• brief introduction,
• declaration of purpose.
• Sugar Network Tutorial - A series of screen-shots of Sugar Network Factory 0.94

Sugar Network is a part of the Harmonic Distribution effort and also one of the main components of the Hexoquinasa Pilot Project.

Further reading

• Sugar Network declaration of purpose.
• Sugar Network Concept - A guide to basic Sugar Network concepts.
• Sugar Network technical implementation.
• Proyecto Piloto Hexoquinasa - The actual deployment scenario of the first iteration Sugar Network
• Sugar Network Policy.
• Sugar Network related part from the Hexoquinasa v0.2 report.

Try it

Note that current development version is not assumed to be perfect in all cases.

There are two types of Sugar Network access:

• Sugar Network clients.
  Regular access for most of users. There are several clients that might have different audience:
  • Web UI,
    client is mostly targeting to low age users;
  • Contributor Hub,
    full featured access for content creators and providers as well as experienced users.
• Sugar Network API.
  Low level access for various programmable usage. See API home page for more details.

Easy way to try Sugar Network clients is Sugar Network testing Web sites with data synchronized with the Activity Library:

• network-testing.sugarlabs.org, for Web UI;
• network-testing.sugarlabs.org/hub, for Contributor Hub.

Write access is not yet implemented for testing Web access. To discover all implemented functionality, use developer server where anonymous users have administrative privileges:

• network-devel.sugarlabs.org, for Web UI;
• network-devel.sugarlabs.org/hub, for Contributor Hub.

Sugar Network clients can be used from local applications. Local applications have extra features, such as launch software by one click, or, seamless Journal integration. There are several distribution options:

• Install Sugar from the Sweets Distribution and enable Sugar Network integration in the Sugar Shell;
• On XO laptops, use one of reference images;
• Or, on existing Sugar installation, install Sugar Network activity.

Donate

Help those working on the Sugar Network implementation on a regular basis.

See also

• Semantic XO project and its Features page.

Getting involved

• Submit your bug report or feature request.
• Browse our implementation discussions, and post your feedback. (You should join this discussion list in order to avoid having your messages postponed for moderation.)

Subpages

• Sugar Network/1.0
• Sugar Network/1.0/Issues
• Sugar Network/1.0/Roadmap
• Sugar Network/1.0/Testing
• Sugar Network/1.0/Todo
• Sugar Network/API
• Sugar Network/Concept
• Sugar Network/Contributor Hub
• Sugar Network/Declaration of purpose
• Sugar Network/Feedback
• Sugar Network/Logo
• Sugar Network/Node Statistics
• Sugar Network/Policy
• Sugar Network/Recipe Specification
• Sugar Network/Resources
• Sugar Network/Testing
• Sugar Network/Tutorial
• Sugar Network/Web UI