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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a GNU/Linux distribution that enables children to reclaim computers for themselves in a world of computers made and managed for and by adults. SoaS aims to make it easy for local deployers to provide each student with a thumbdrive (stick) that can be booted into the student's personalized Sugar environment from any machine. Thus, the SoaS project advances in achieving its goal of giving each child in the world access to its free and open source learning environment to create, explore, reflect, and collaborate on any machine—at school, at home, and anywhere there is a suitable computing device.
We dream that Sugar will be a platform that lets people from around the world and from various contexts work together on content, activities, and pedagogy and learn together how to make computers valued, and cost-effective, learning tools.
We dream that Sugar will be a platform that lets people from around the world and from various contexts work together on content, activities, and pedagogy, and learn together how to make computers valued and cost-effective learning tools.
For general questions, please see the [[/FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for Sugar on a Stick]]. You can learn more from [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/02/05/sugar-beyond-the-xo-laptop-walter-bender-on-olpc-sucrose-084-and-sugar-on-a-stick/ Walter Bender's interview with Xconomy], [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/sugar_on_a_stick_netbooks.html Wayan Vota's video] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157613785006745/ Mike Lee's pictures].
For general questions, please see the [[/FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for Sugar on a Stick]]. You can learn more from [http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/02/05/sugar-beyond-the-xo-laptop-walter-bender-on-olpc-sucrose-084-and-sugar-on-a-stick/ Walter Bender's interview with Xconomy], [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/sugar_on_a_stick_netbooks.html Wayan Vota's video] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157613785006745/ Mike Lee's pictures].
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'''What exactly is on the Stick?''': Sugar + Fedora GNU/Linux. Taking advantage of the Fedora Live USB technology, it's possible to store everything you need to run Sugar on a single, USB memory stick. Different types of configurations are being designed to offer the options to run virtualizations or emulations and to use virtual machines on existing computers, saving the Sugar Journal (the learner's work) and settings on the Stick for use at another workstation. Our [[Sugar on a Stick/Resources| resources page]] contains more information about solutions we are working on.
'''What exactly is on the Stick?''': Sugar + Fedora GNU/Linux. Taking advantage of [[wikipedia:Live USB|Live USB]] technology, it's possible to store everything you need to run Sugar on a single, [[wikipedia:USB flash drive|USB flash memory stick]]. Compressed file systems are used to save space, and persistent overlay files are used to save changes to the system and user's files. See our [[Sugar on a Stick/Resources| '''resources page''']] to learn about different component configurations we are designing to offer the option to use [[wikipedia:Virtual machine|virtual machines]] on existing computers to host Sugar from a portable Stick and save the [[Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/The Journal|Sugar Journal]] (the learner's work) and personal settings on the Stick for use at another workstation.
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== Project Principles ==
== Project Principles ==
* ''Portability'' - The Sugar Learner's environment, saved Activities, and collaborations, must be available wherever they have access to suitable computing devices, at home, school, library, clubhouse in order to permit resumable, extended, and deep exploration of concepts and phenomena.
* ''Customizability'' - Deployments, as well as users, should be able to build their own SoaS easily. It is crucial for the success of SoaS to allow modifications and to make the process of creating derivatives as easy as possible.
* ''Customizability'' - Deployments, as well as users, should be able to build their own SoaS easily. It is crucial for the success of SoaS to allow modifications and to make the process of creating derivatives as easy as possible.
* ''Deployability'' - SoaS must be easy to deploy. It should take as little effort as possible to get to a working system, both for individual sticks and for bigger deployments in computer labs.
* ''Deployability'' - SoaS must be easy to deploy. It should take as little effort as possible to get to a working system, both for individual sticks and for collective deployments in computer labs.
* ''Local Support'' - We must encourage and foster the growth of local community support for deployments. If we build things in a way that means deployers can't fix most of their own problems, we're doing something wrong.
* ''Local Support'' - We must encourage and foster the growth of local community involvement in deployments. We must build things in a way that deployers can take over design and construction and fix most of their own problems.
'''Would you like to help?''' ...this is entirely a volunteer-run effort. Please [[/Getting Involved| get involved]]!
'''Would you like to help?''' ...this is entirely a volunteer-run effort. Please [[/Getting Involved| get involved]]!