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Line 1: + − == What is Sugar? == − <p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p> − <table> − <tr> − <td> − [[Image:sugarlabs_logo_big.png]] − </td> − <td> − <table> − <tr> − <td>[[Image:home_sharing.png]]</td> − <td valign="top"><strong>Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration:</strong><br />Children can write documents or make music together with ease.</td> − </tr> − <tr> − <td>[[Image: home_activities.png]]</td> − <td valign="top"><strong>There are no files, folders or applications:</strong><br />What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time.</td> − </tr> − <tr> − <td>[[Image: home_backup.png]]</td> − <td valign="top"><strong>You can hardly lose data:</strong><br />Everything is saved and backed up automatically.</td> − </tr> − <tr> − <td>[[Image: home_journal.png]]</td> − <td valign="top"><strong>You use a journal for accessing data:</strong><br />It's like a diary of stuff that you made.</td> − </tr> − <tr> − <td>[[Image: home_opensource.png]]</td> − <td valign="top"><strong>It's all Free and Open-Source Software:</strong><br />There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> respect users' freedom.</td> − </tr> − <tr><td></td><td>'''[[What is Sugar? | More information about Sugar...]]'''</td></tr> − </table> − + + + + + + + − ==What are the Sugar Labs?==+ − Sugar is available under the free software GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs”, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation will serve as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and create Sugar-compatible applications. Sugarlabs software is found on the OLPC (one laptop per child). You can find more out about the project at laptop.org. − '''[[Sugar Labs | More information about Sugar Labs...]]'''+ − == Activities ==+ − Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default. Dozens more are available [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities][http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris].+ + + + − <table>+ − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Journal''': Object and activity browser</td> − <td style="width: 60px">[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Pippy''': Python Programming language/environment</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Browse''': Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Etoys''': Learning / programming / authoring environment</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Read''': Book/PDF reader</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Turtle Art''': Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Write''': Word processor</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Calculate''': Basic calculator</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''News Reader''': News reader</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Measure''': Oscilloscope and Data Logging</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Drawing Activity|Paint(Oficina)''': Simple paint activity</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Acoustic Tape Measure|Distance''': Measure distance between two laptops</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Record''': Still, video, and audio capture</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Analyze''': An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Log''': An activity version of the Sugar logging tool</td> − <td>[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]</td> − <td>'''Terminal''': An activity version of the Sugar terminal</td> − </tr> − <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> − <td>[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]</td> − <td style="padding-right: 10px;">'''TamTam''': Music composition and synthesis. <br/>Tamtam has four separate activities : TamTam '''Jam''', '''Edit''', '''Synthlab''', and '''Mini'''.</td> − <td></td> − <td></td> − </tr> − </table> − ==See also==+ − * Please join our [http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project Education Mailing List]+ − * A Sugar [[taxonomy]] − * The Sugar [[Release]] and [[Roadmap]] discussion pages − * Other pages of interest to [[:Category:Developer|developers]] − * A [[Background|background]] discussion on [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar]] and [[Sugar Labs]] − * [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar The Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more. − * Help us [[Logo-ideas|design a logo]] for Sugarlabs − + + + + + + +
Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki (view source)
Revision as of 17:09, 31 December 2021
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;First time visit?: Please take a look around our wiki and our [http://github.com/sugarlabs GitHub Page]
;Software Developer?: Check out our developer documentation on Github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs
;Google Summer of Code?: Go through our guide for GSoC, https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC
;Want to help?: Welcome to the Sugar Labs community! We are contributors of all types - teachers, writers, coders, designers, testers, and more - who work together from around the world on Sugar. Visit the '''[[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved | Getting Involved]]''' page, and find out how you can join in the fun of learning. We have some [[Vacancies]] and are always looking for maintainers and testers.
;Using Sugar?: Get Activities from http://activities.sugarlabs.org
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'''[[Sugar Labs/Current Events | News]] [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved | Join]] [[Downloads]] [[Sugar Labs/Contacts | Contact]] [[Sugar Labs | About Us]]'''
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=== Community News ===
''[[Trademark|Sugar Labs Inc.<sup>®</sup>]] is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in the state of New Jersey of the United States of America; its EIN is 84-3289298.
Sugar Labs Inc. is supported by our generous [[Sugar Labs/Getting Involved|contributors]] and [[Sugar Labs/Thank You|sponsors]].''
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=== History ===
Sugar Labs was formerly a member project of the [http://www.sfconservancy.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy], a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, but is now an independent 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization.
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