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.

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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 wit the curriculum. Post the lesson plan, how it went and what curriculum standards it aligns to - Just image if we could get thousands of high school students doing a doze 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 app from Moodle
   * Let a teacher create a Moodle activity that launches an app in Sugar  and then automatically saves to the Moodle drop box
   * What you Paint is What you Get plug in for Moodle

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