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At Sugar Labs we make a collection of Free/Libre Software tools that learners use to *explore*, *discover*, *create*, and *reflect*. We distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning. To me, one important goal at Sugar Labs is to have our user community engage in the development process. Towards this end, we have provided scaffolding to support our users in their exploration of the tools themselves and how the tools are built. This has not been just an intellectual exercise. We design for end-user contributions, and we have seen learners taking ownership and the responsibility that comes with ownership. Sugar users, even when they don’t made contributions to the code, are active learners, who are immersed in a culture where they are encouraged to create as well as consume. Also see http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/docs/Learning-to-Change-the-World-Chapter-4.pdf and http://sites.ed.gov/oese/2016/04/open-discussion-on-the-role-of-education-technologies-in-early-childhood-stem-education/
At Sugar Labs we make a collection of Free/Libre Software tools that learners use to *explore*, *discover*, *create*, and *reflect*. We distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning. To me, one important goal at Sugar Labs is to have our user community engage in the development process. Towards this end, we have provided scaffolding to support our users in their exploration of the tools themselves and how the tools are built. This has not been just an intellectual exercise. We design for end-user contributions, and we have seen learners taking ownership and the responsibility that comes with ownership. Sugar users, even when they don’t made contributions to the code, are active learners, who are immersed in a culture where they are encouraged to create as well as consume. Also see http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/docs/Learning-to-Change-the-World-Chapter-4.pdf and http://sites.ed.gov/oese/2016/04/open-discussion-on-the-role-of-education-technologies-in-early-childhood-stem-education/
== Why do you contribute to Sugar? laura ==
I contribute to Sugar because there are thousands of children around me who use Sugar every day and they deserve appropriate and relevant software that helps them reshape their reality to a more just, verdant and collaborative world. We are just not there yet. I believe Sugar Labs provides basic infrastructure for developers but lacks a vision to articulate field needs and potentialities with talented people in a sustainable manner.