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===Mission===
===Mission===
[[Trademark|Sugar Labs<sup>®</sup>]] is a volunteer-driven 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Originally part of the One Laptop Per Child project, Sugar Labs coordinates [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved|volunteers]] around the world who are passionate about providing educational opportunities to children through the Sugar Learning Platform. Sugar Labs® is supported by donations and is seeking [[Donate|funding]] to accelerate development.
== [[:Category:Team|Teams]] ==
== [[:Category:Team|Teams]] ==
This [[:Category:Team | ''Team'' category page]] collects all Sugar Labs wiki pages with a ''Team'' tag.
This [[:Category:Team | ''Team'' category page]] collects all Sugar Labs wiki pages with a ''Team'' tag.
== [[:Category:Project|Projects]] ==
== [[:Category:Project|Projects]] ==
Sugar Labs is supporting a few projects focused on delivering specific goals in a defined time period. Please see these project home pages:
Sugar Labs is working on a few [[:Category:Project|projects]] focused on delivering specific goals in a defined time period. The '''Projects''' panel in the wiki sidebar holds our premier projects. Please also see these project home pages:
[[Sugar on a Stick]] | [[Gardner Pilot Academy]] | [[Shaw Elementary School]] | [[Math4Team |Math4 Project]]
| [[Harmonic Distribution]] | [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose] | [[Sugar Creation Kit]] | [[Sugar on a Stick]] |
| [[Replacing Textbooks]] | [[Math4Team |Math4 Project]] |
| [[Summer of Code]] |
==[[Sugar Labs/Events | Events Calendar]]==
== Sugar Labs: A community for learning and software-development ==
The Sugar development platform is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs, Inc. and serves as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and who have been creating Sugar-compatible applications.
==[[:Category:Roadmap|Roadmap]]==
=== Education Goals ===
Sugar is useful only to the extent it is used by the learning community. Thus, Sugar Labs is working with educators around the world to focus on these learning challenges:
* To make Sugar and Sugar activities freely and readily available to learners everywhere
* To make Sugar and Sugar activities freely and readily available to learners everywhere;
* To explore and share best practices
* To explore and share best practices
* To provide a forum for discussion and support for technology for learning
* To provide a forum for discussion and support for technology for learning
* To make it “simple” to share Sugar activities. This will require an architecture that allows discovery of activities.
* To make it “simple” to share Sugar activities. This will require an architecture that allows discovery of activities.
* To create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. It should be “simple” to install Sugar everywhere. Specifically, it means packaging for every distribution and every virtual machine—removing hardware-related dependencies wherever possible.
* To create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. It should be “simple” to install Sugar everywhere. Specifically, it means packaging for every distribution and every virtual machine—removing hardware-related dependencies wherever possible.
* To make it “simple” to write Sugar activities. This necessitates stable APIs and example code that uses these APIs.
* To make it “simple” to write Sugar activities. This necessitates stable APIs and example code that uses these APIs.
* To make Sugar activities even more secure. Our principal user community is comprised of children; they must be protected from malware, phishing, botnets, etc.
* To make Sugar activities even more secure. Our principal user community is comprised of children; they must be protected from malware, phishing, botnets, etc.
====Identity====
====Identity====
* Clear mission – Full disclosed objectives.
* Clear mission – Fully disclosed objectives.
* Declared commitments – Affinities and aversions explained.
* Declared commitments – Affinities and aversions explained.
* Explicit connections outside – Relationships with other organizations listed.
* Declared outside connections – Relationships with other organizations explicitly listed.
====Structure====
====Structure====
* Identified contributors – Who is who, people are reachable.
* Identified contributors – Who is who, people are reachable.
* Clear responsibilities – Who is in charge of what.
* Clear responsibilities – Who is in charge of what.
* Activities described – All the ongoing work is acknowledged.
* Activities described – All of the ongoing work is acknowledged.
See [[Wiki_Team/Guide/Wiki_Structure | Wiki Structure]] for a guide to how the wiki models Sugar Labs' structure.
====Operation====
====Operation====
* Open participation – Anybody can access the information and get a first responsibility.
* Open participation – Anybody can access the information and get a first responsibility.
* Meritocracy – Responsibilities are acquired (or lost) based on own skills and contributors’ support.
* Meritocracy – Responsibilities are acquired (or lost) based on one's skills, results, and contributors’ support.
* Voluntary (non-)engagement – Nobody is forced to be involved or to keep responsibilities.
* Voluntary (non-)engagement – Nobody is forced to be involved or to keep responsibilities.
* Regular reports – Reported activities and future plans allow monitoring and participation.
* Regular reports – Reported activities and future plans allow monitoring and participation.
* Information accessible – Even internal operational information is available by default.
* Information accessible – Even internal operational information is available by default.
* Explicit confidentiality – It is explained what areas are confidential, why and who can access them.
*: We try to operate '''''[[Archive/Current_Events/2009-06-10#En_plein_air|en plein air]]'''''.
* Explicit confidentiality – It is explained what matters are confidential, why, and who can access them.
====Goods====
====Goods====
* Resources – Inventory of items detailing who contributed what and why.
* Resources – Inventory of items detailing who contributed what and why.
* Public accounts – It’s clear where the money comes from and where it goes.
* Public accounts – It’s clear where the money comes from and where it goes.
* A special [[Sugar Labs/ThankYou|thanks]] to our contributors.
* A special [[Sugar Labs/Thank You|thanks]] to our contributors.
=== [[Sugar Labs/Governance|Governance]] ===
=== [[Sugar Labs/Governance|Governance]] ===
Informed by the above principles, Sugar Labs has a [[Sugar Labs/Governance|governance model]].
Informed by the above principles, Sugar Labs has a [[Sugar Labs/Governance|governance model]].
==[[Sugar Labs/Roadmap|Roadmap]]==
The [[Sugar Labs/Roadmap|Sugar Community roadmap]] is used to guide our community efforts:
* Mission, Vision, Values
* Distribution
* Deployments
* Quality Assurance
* Infrastructure
==[[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Community News]]==
A [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|current events page]] is updated weekly (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The Sugar Digest is also sent to the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/community-news community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org] list and blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].)
An '''[[Archive/Current Events|archive]]''' of Sugar Digests is available.
==[[Sugar Labs/Events | Events Calendar]]==
Sugar [[Sugar Labs/Events | community events]] are posted in a public calendar within the Google Calendar system. The calendar is available in a variety of formats: <span class="plainlinks"> [[Image:XML.gif|link=http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic]] [[Image:ICal.gif|link=http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics]] [[Image:HTML.gif|link=http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York]].
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Please contact [[User:Walter]] if you'd like to post an event to the calendar. Or simply post it below and it will be included.
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== [[Local Labs]] ==
A local Sugar Lab adapts the technology and pedagogy to an area's culture and resources (''e.g.'', developing activities and content specific to a region); helps translate Sugar to the local language(s); supports Sugar deployments in area schools; creates a local community devoted to the Sugar Labs principles, making Sugar more open and sustainable; provides for communication, between the local communities and the global Sugar Labs community; develops Local content and software that can be used not only for local purposes but also for the overall community; hosts, co-hosts or partners in the organization of conferences, workshops, talks and meetings related to the use or development of Sugar.
Please visit these Local Labs:
| [http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Laboratorios_A
�car_Colombia Sugar Labs Colombia] | [http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Página_Principal Sugar Labs Chile] | [[Sugar Labs DC]] | [http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs Peru] | [http://ar.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs Argentina] |
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