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Sugar is designed for use with or without direct internet access, as most of the world's children do not have regular or reliable internet access yet.
Sugar is designed for use with or without direct internet access, as most of the world's children do not have regular or reliable internet access yet.
Sugar runs on inexpensive desktop computers, laptops, and a web based version is under development for tablets and phones.
Sugar runs on inexpensive desktop and laptop computers, and a web based version is under development for tablets and phones.
Sugar Activities are programs that encourage learning through self-discovery and encourage collaboration, expression, and reflection.
Sugar Activities are programs that encourage learning through self-discovery and encourage collaboration, expression, and reflection.
Every Activity respects every user's freedom to run, study, modify and redistribute it, using software licenses compatible with the GNU General Public License.
Every Activity respects every user's freedom to run, study, modify and redistribute it using software licenses compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
Sugar began in 2006 as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
Sugar began in 2006 as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
In 2016, the Sugar community is global, and we aspire to include users and contributors in all countries, all languages, and all cultures.
In 2016, the Sugar community is global, and we aspire to include users and contributors in all countries, all languages, and all cultures.
Sugar Labs is a volunteer-led and non-profit organization in service to the Sugar community.
We are Sugar Labs, a volunteer-led and non-profit organization in service to the Sugar community.
We facilitate knowledge and software sharing across all continents, and relate the software freedom movement to education.
We raise funds and use them to accelerate our Members' progress, enabling access to laptops, travel, and more.
We raise funds and use them to accelerate our Members' progress, enabling access to laptops, travel, and more.
Our 2016 goals include:
Our 2016 goals include:
* making XO-4s—the machine we aspired to build at OLPC in 2006 is available as the XO-4 laptop—available from us pre-installed with the 2016 release of Sugar;
* making XO-4s—the machine we aspired to build at OLPC in 2006 is available as the XO-4 laptop—available from us pre-installed with the 2016 release of Sugar individually or in batches of 20+ with 1+ school server units, so any developer can get one conveniently and any classroom-sized group anywhere can become a Local Lab with almost "1 click" like convenience if they have $X to put down;
* Providing a step-by-step guide on the homepage website to setting up a 2016 vintage deployment device—one that can be purchased in quantities of 30+ for under $100 each—that covers where to buy them, how install Sugar on all of them at the time of deployment;
* successfully completing 6 GSoC projects;
* successfully completing 6 GSoC projects;
* fully staffing all boards, offices, and committees;
* fully staffing all boards, offices, and committees;
* making 2 releases of Sugar;
* making 2 releases of Sugar;
* porting TARGET_AMOUNT Activities to Sugarizer, a web-based version of Sugar;
* porting 5 Activities to Sugarizer, a web-based version of Sugar;
* Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar (see email thread [REF??]);
* Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar;
* Make "Sugar On A Stick" into "Sugar Local Lab On A Stick," so that sugar communities without active/direct internet connections can do more to self-support themselves, and eventually upload what they have back to the central repos;
* Make "Sugar On A Stick" into "Sugar Local Lab On A Stick," so that sugar communities without active/direct internet connections can do more to self-support themselves, and eventually upload what they have back to the central repos;
** Sugarizer becomes self-translatable, and via sugar-web thus make sugar desktop self-translatable;
** Sugarizer becomes self-translatable, and via sugar-web thus make sugar desktop self-translatable;
* consolidating all active development to Github;
* consolidating all active development to Github;
** Making the github org membership a 'badge of honor' similar to [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html the old certificates];
** Making the github org membership a 'badge of honor' similar to [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html the old certificates];
* cleaning up all Sugar Labs websites, starting with the wiki and issue tracker;
* cleaning up all Sugar Labs websites, starting with the wiki and issue tracker;
* liberate the ''Learning To Change The World'' text;
* liberate the ''Learning To Change The World'' text;
* Localize all 5 activities/games that were produced in Collaboration with the Children of the Seed-Programmers Workshop+SugarCamp in Chía (La ciudad de la luna ;) Colombia on 2014;
* Localize all 5 activities/games that were produced in Collaboration with the Children of the Seed-Programmers Workshop+SugarCamp in Chía (La ciudad de la luna ;) Colombia on 2014;
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