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Thus, '''[[wikipedia:Linux distribution|distribution]]''' no longer just means ''get the software onto an end user's computer'', where it can be stably configured for a single hardware environment.  The installation must be ready to be picked up and moved to another, wholly different environment.  This goal presents many technical challenges that are new, or made more significant by the goal's importance to the project's essence.

Thus, '''[[wikipedia:Linux distribution|distribution]]''' no longer just means ''get the software onto an end user's computer'', where it can be stably configured for a single hardware environment.  The installation must be ready to be picked up and moved to another, wholly different environment.  This goal presents many technical challenges that are new, or made more significant by the goal's importance to the project's essence.

Developing the social mechanisms to imagine, plan, and deploy this leap in technology is also at the core of the project. We must take existing community resources, often old and institutionalized, and reconstruct them around the movements of the learners and their collaborators.  Just as the human brain grows and develops in a social context, the Sugar Learning Platform aims to offer a constantly accessible, electronic, supplementary companion set of tools for learning, and ultimately, growing our capabilities.

Developing the social mechanisms to imagine, plan, and deploy this leap in technology is also at the core of the project. We must take existing community resources, often old and institutionalized, and reconstruct them around the movements of the learners and their collaborators.  Just as the human brain grows and develops in a social context, the Sugar Learning Platform aims to offer a constantly accessible, electronic, supplementary companion set of tools for learning, and ultimately, growing our capabilities in human society.

Having persistence of availability of the learner's Activities and collaborations permits repeated and deep exploration of concepts and phenomena, and moves the external system closer to being an adaptable learning appendage.

Having persistence of availability of the learner's Activities and collaborations permits repeated and deep exploration of concepts and phenomena, and moves the external system closer to being an adaptable learning appendage.