What is Sugar?

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.

Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration: Children can write documents or make music together with ease. There are no files, folders or applications: What you do is an activity and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time. You can hardly lose data: Everything is saved and backed up automatically. You use a journal for accessing data: It's like a diary of stuff that you made. It's all Free and Open-Source Software: There are no strings attached and updates will always respect users' freedom. More information about Sugar...

"It's an education project, not a laptop project."

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.

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Activities

Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default. Dozens more are available [1][2].

	Journal: Object and activity browser		Pippy: Python Programming language/environment
	Browse: Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox		Etoys: Learning / programming / authoring environment
	Read: Book/PDF reader		Turtle Art: Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language
	Write: Word processor		Calculate: Basic calculator
	News Reader: News reader		Measure: Oscilloscope and Data Logging
	Paint: Simple paint activity		Distance: Measure distance between two laptops
	Record: Still, video, and audio capture		Analyze: An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool
	Log: An activity version of the Sugar logging tool		Terminal: An activity version of the Sugar terminal
	TamTam: Music composition and synthesis four distinct activities: Jam, Edit, Synthlab, and Mini.

See also

• Please join our Education Mailing List
• A Sugar taxonomy
• The Sugar Release and Roadmap discussion pages
• Other pages of interest to developers
• A background discussion on Sugar and Sugar Labs
• The Sugar category on olpcwiki for more.
• Help us design a logo for Sugarlabs