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This is the project page for the Sugar Labs application to Google Code In. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due on 28 Oct 2013.
This is the project page for the Sugar Labs application to Google Code In. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due on 28 Oct 2013.
== Message to potential participants ==
It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.
It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.
'''Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: [[Google Code In 2013/Participate#Students]].'''
'''Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: [[Google Code In 2013/Participate#Students]].'''
== Why we are participating ==
Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.