Sugar Network

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.

Try it

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

Install on XO laptops

To easily use on an XO laptop, download images built within the Hexokinase project:

For XO-1 laptops
hf6.img hf6.crc
For XO-1.5 laptops
hf6.zd

On XO-1 laptops

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download both image.img and image.crc files to the root directory of a USB stick or SD card.
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing (Esc) repeatedly during boot.
Type the command: copy-nand u:\image.img for a USB stick or copy-nand sd:\image.img for a SD card followed by (enter).
Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "ok" prompt to return
Type the command reboot followed by (enter)
The XO will reboot, finish writing, reboot itself, and take you to the naming and color choice process
During the reboots, keep the charger connected to allow OFW to self-update

On XO-1.5 laptops

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download image.zd to the root directory of a USB stick
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing (Esc) repeatedly during boot
Type the command: fs-update u:\image.zd followed by (enter)
Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "ok" prompt to return
Type the command reboot followed by (enter)
The XO will reboot and take you to the naming and color choice process

Install on existing GNU/Linux system

Being on one of the supported systems, install Sugar Network from Sweets Distribution's packages:

install sweets-desktop package from Factory Sweets repository;
follow usage instructions to run Sugar Shell;
enable Sugar Network integration in Sugar Shell.

From Web

Or, try Sugar Network from a demo web server:

network-testing.sugarlabs.org.

Donate

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

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.)

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