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[[Category:General public]]
 
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<div style="background-color:#b0dd93; border:1px solid #ac8; padding:5px; padding-left: 1.0em; font-size:100%">[[Trademark|Sugar Labs<sup>®</sup>]] is a member project of the [http://www.sfconservancy.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy], a not-for-profit organization, and is supported by our generous [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved|contributors]] and [[Sugar Labs/Thank You|sponsors]].
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===Mission===
 
===Mission===
The mission of Sugar Labs is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the [[What is Sugar?|Sugar learning platform]]; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, teach, and learn with the Sugar learning platform.
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Sugar is based on the following [[What is Sugar?|principles]]:
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* everyone is a teacher and a learner;
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* humans by their nature are social beings; 
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* humans by their nature are expressive;
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* you learn through doing; and
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* love is a better master than duty.
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See this Community news post from [[Archive/Current Events/2009-03-17|10-Mar-2009, on ...our '''“Big Overarching Vision Goals for 2009”''']]...
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[[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]] ==
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| [[Summer of Code]] |
 
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== Sugar Labs: a community ==
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== Sugar Labs: A community for learning and software-development ==
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The Sugar development platform is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs” is a member project of the [http://sfconservancy.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy] (a non-profit foundation to produce and distribute and support the use of free software) 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.
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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.
    
=== Education Goals ===
 
=== Education Goals ===
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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:
 
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:
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==[[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Community News]]==
 
==[[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Community News]]==
A [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|current events page]] updated each week (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].)
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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.
 
An '''[[Archive/Current Events|archive]]''' of Sugar Digests is available.
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Please visit these Local Labs:
 
Please visit these Local Labs:
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| [http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Laboratorios_Azúcar_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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�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] |
 
<div class="NavFrame "><div class="NavHead">'''Local Lab wiki portal''' </div><div class="NavContent">
 
<div class="NavFrame "><div class="NavHead">'''Local Lab wiki portal''' </div><div class="NavContent">
 
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