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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.
Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) enables children to reclaim computers. SoaS aims to make it easy for children, parents, or local deployers to provide each student with a small device (stick) that can starts any computer with the student's personalized Sugar environment. We would like to see [[Sugar]]'s presence, journal, and clarity principles usable on any machine — at school, at home, and anywhere there is a suitable computing device.
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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.
* ''Portability'' - One's Sugar environment, saved Activities, and Journal are available wherever one has 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, can build their own SoaS easily.
* ''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.
* ''Deployability'' - SoaS is easy to deploy, both for individual sticks and for multiple-instances deployed in computer labs.
* ''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.
* ''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.
Please let us know how it goes. You can always [[Sugar on a Stick/Contacts| get in touch]] with us!
Please let us know how it goes. You can always [[Sugar on a Stick/Contacts| get in touch]] with us!
See these other [[:Category:Live USB|portable Sugar distributions]] that share the Sugar on a Stick goals.
== More information ==
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].
== Related work ==
See these other [[:Category:Live USB|portable Sugar distributions]] that share some of these goals.