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Line 32: − − ==About Sugar Labs== − − === What is Sugar Labs? === − − Sugar Labs, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation, serves as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the Sugar platform and who have been creating Sugar-compatible applications. − − === What is the mission of Sugar Labs? === − − The overarching mission of Sugar Labs is to support the Sugar platform through software development, and community outreach and support. The purpose of the Sugar platform is provide a software and content environment that enhances learning. Towards this end, Sugar is designed to facilitate learners to “explore, express, debug, and critique.” − − === What are the principles that guide Sugar Labs? === − − Sugar Labs subscribes to principle that learning thrives within a culture of freedom of expression, hence it has a natural affinity with the free and open-source software movement (Please see [[Sugar_Labs#Principles|Principles]] page in this wiki for more details). The core Sugar platform has been developed under a GNU General Public License (GPL); individual activities may be under different licenses. − − === What is the relationship of Sugar Labs to One Laptop per Child? === − − Sugar was originally developed as the user interface (UI) for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO-1 laptop. Sugar Labs was established as an independent entity in order to facilitate the growth of Sugar beyond any single hardware platform. While Sugar Labs has a cooperative working relationship with OLPC, it is by no means an exclusive or proprietary relationship. Sugar Labs is not bound to any specific hardware platform or Linux distribution (Please see [[Supported systems]]). − − === Who is upstream for Sugar? === − − Sugar Labs is the upstream for the Sugar project. − − === Who is Sugar Labs? === − − Sugar is a community project, so it is the sum of those of you who participate. Sugar Labs was started by some Sugar-community members: [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]], [[User:ChristophD|Christoph Derndorfer]], [[User:Bert|Bert Freudenberg]], [[User:Marcopg|Marco Pesenti Gritti]], [[User:Bernie|Bernardo Innocenti]], Aaron Kaplan, [[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]], and [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]]. We are in the process of designing an initial set of rules of governance that will be refined and ratified in a process of public discussion. − − === How do I get involved? === − − Please see the [[Community/GettingInvolved|Getting Involved]] page in this wiki. − − === How do I learn more about Sugar Labs? === − − Please add new questions to the [[Talk:FAQ|discussion]] page or send email to press at sugarlabs.org. −
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There is a thread on the mailing list about success stories with the Eee: http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-May/000282.html Another pointer is: ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080321.pdf Many manufacturers are beginning to take an interest in supporting Sugar.
There is a thread on the mailing list about success stories with the Eee: http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-May/000282.html Another pointer is: ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080321.pdf Many manufacturers are beginning to take an interest in supporting Sugar.
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