Sugar Network

Sugar Network version cycle: | 1.0 |

This work was initially started by an International Research and Development Team affiliated with Sugar Labs Perú as part of the Hexoquinasa 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:

Productive interaction between content creators and users.
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.
Online + offline access to the content for all Sugar Network participants.
Support for localized and sustainable *collaborative activities*.

Terms of Use

In order to have identity on the Sugar Network you must be a user of the Sugar learning platform, otherwhise from the Internet everyone has access to the user "Demo".
When you're in the system, try to make the best use of the resources at your disposal.
Consider that the Sugar Network and its components are Commons therefore belong to all of us.
You must use free licenses for all content that you post (in accordance with the Licensing Policy of Sugar Labs).
The following type of content is not allowed:
- Inappropriate Content (violent, sexual, subversive, commercial, discriminatory)
- Licensing content Inappropriate
- The software must not contain binary contributed, however, must contain the sources and the rules for transforming binary sources.
By participating in the Network, you are providing usage statistics according to the philosophy and practice of Open Data.
The breach of the terms of use may mean the suspension of access to the network and / or the elimination of published content.

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.

There are two types of Sugar Network access:

Sugar Network clients.
Regular access for most of users. There are several clients that might have different audience:
- Web UI,
  client is mostly targeting to low age users;
- Contributor Hub,
  full featured access for content creators and providers as well as experienced users.
Sugar Network API.
Low level access for various programmable usage. See API home page for more details.

Easy way to try Sugar Network clients is Sugar Network testing Web sites with data synchronized with the Activity Library:

network-testing.sugarlabs.org, for Web UI;
network-testing.sugarlabs.org/hub, for Contributor Hub.

Write access is not yet implemented for testing Web access. To discover all implemented functionality, use developer server where anonymous users have administrative privileges:

network-devel.sugarlabs.org, for Web UI;
network-devel.sugarlabs.org/hub, for Contributor Hub.

Sugar Network clients can be used from local applications. Local applications have extra features, such as launch software by one click, or, seamless Journal integration. There are several distribution options:

Install Sugar from the Sweets Distribution and enable Sugar Network integration in the Sugar Shell;
On XO laptops, use one of reference images;
Or, on existing Sugar installation, install Sugar Network activity.

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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