Ideas for Projects

This list was brainstormed as ideas for High School student groups, however, its totally appropriate for teens to grannies. Use this as a starting point and follow your own interests and skills.

Documentation

• There are hundreds of activities for Sugar, almost none of them have any documentation, tutorials for videos.
• Translate documentation.
• Scavenger hunt for what documentation and information there is about an activity and how its used and bring all that information together. This is especially good for Spanish speakers/learners as much of the usage is in South America.

Language

• Translate documentation and interface, especially with the help of their parents when they are native speakers.
• Translate an interesting post from the Spanish speaking list and post it on the English speaking list

Get Sugar on a Stick to work on their computers

• Document what they did and any problems.
• Document what their computer is, chipsets, spec
• Test performance on different types of equipment and help us find out what are the limiting factors

Take Sugar on a Stick to their old elementary school

• Do a lesson in the computer lab
• Work with a teacher and create a lesson aligned with the curriculum. Post the lesson plan, how it went and what curriculum standards it aligns to - Just imagine if we could get thousands of high school students doing a dozen of these each!
• Make a documentary of kids using Sugar

Programming

Sugarize means taking a program like Tux Paint or GCompris and have it use Sugar's special features of saving automatically to the Journal and sharing and collaboration. Many programs need Sugarizing.

• All the different GCompris pieces
• TuxPaint
• Scratch
• Many others that I don't know off the top of my head

Moodle Integration - Sugar already has single sign on but there is so much more to do.

• Launch a Sugar activity from Moodle
• Let a teacher create a Moodle activity that launches an activity in Sugar and then automatically saves to the Moodle drop box
• What-you-Paint-is-What-you-Get (wypiwig) plug-in for Moodle

Set up an XS and document what you did. Scalability test of XS and Jabber