Sugar Network version cycle: | 1.0 |
This work was initially started by the Peru Local Lab to accomplish the needs that Lab people faced during the work on Puno pilot program.
Summary
The major goal of Sugar Network is providing sufficient functionality to share various types of information between:
- Students and teachers from different off-line schools;
- Students, teachers and people who support this particular deployment but are located far from schools and can't visit schools on regular basis;
- Students, teachers, supporters and the rest of Sugar community.
The purposes of this sharing are:
- Provide technical and educational support to student and teachers in off-line schools;
- Support social activity of student and teachers in off-line schools;
- Connect student and teachers from off-line schools with the rest of Sugar community for, e.g., getting a feedback from the field.
The goal will be accomplished by:
- Providing users interface on a Network participant side to read and write various kinds of information;
- The regular activity in the Network will require connection to a server, to the global one (on-line case) or to a server located in schools (off-line case);
- The limited functionality will be provided for server-less case, e.g., students are out of a school.
The Sugar Network should be useful for both kinds of environments, off-line and on-line.
Further reading
- Sugar Network Concept - A guide to basic Sugar Network concepts.
- Sugar Network Architecture - A technical overview of the Sugar Network.