Sugar Labs

Sugar Labs
Formation 2008-05-15[1]
Type NGO and Non profit organization
Purpose Educational
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Region served
 Worldwide
Membership
 Contributors approved via community consensus
President
 Walter Bender
Staff
 0
Volunteers
 100+
Website www.sugarlabs.org

Sugar Labs is a software-development and learning community.

Sugar Labs is a community-run software project whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform.[2][3][4] Sugar Labs supports the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and who have been creating Sugar Activities. A community project, Sugar is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) and free to anyone who wants to use or extend it.

Sugar Labs is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organization composed of free software (FLOSS) projects.[5] "As a fiscal sponsor for FOSS projects, the Conservancy provides member projects with free financial and administrative services, but does not involve itself with technological and artistic decisions."

On roughly a six-month cycle, the Sugar Labs community releases a new version of the Sugar software. The most recent stable release is Version 0.102. Release Candidate Sucrose 0.103.1 unstable release is available for testing.

On 2009-06-23, Sugar Labs announced the availability of Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry, the first of a series of Live USB images that are used to reboot any PC or netbook directly into the Sugar environment.[6] On 2009-07-23, Recycle USB.com went live with a program to reflash used USB keys with the Sugar software and donate them to schools.[7] Updates to Sugar on a Stick are released approximately every six months as Fedora spins. Trisquel also makes a Live USB image with Sugar (TOAST). Version 7 incorporates Sugar 0.102.

The Sugar Labs community organizes events for teachers, students and software developers interested in the Sugar software, such as the Montevideo Youth Summit [8] and Turtle Art Day [9]

Sugar Labs also participates in Google Code-in,[10] which serves as an outlet for young programmers who grew up using Sugar.

Sugar Resources

Name Description
Academy training hand-book This is a PDF file. It shows almost every feature useful on Sugar
All about Sugar This is a full documentary about Sugar. It just has everything a beginner wants.
All about Sugar - 2 This is a full documentary about Sugar. It just has everything a beginner wants.
Download and burn latest sugar to CD/DVD A step-by-step guide showing us how to download and Burn sugar to a CD/DVD.
Everything about Sugar for everyone. This is a guide which has every information about Sugar.
Install Sugar for Fedora Core 18 A step-by-step guide showing us to how install Sugar.
Quick Look : Sugar on a Stick Video: This is a video tutorial to run Sugar on a stick. This is a basic video for Sugar.
Review on Sugar This is a review on Sugar, who wants to use Sugar. It shows some features too.
Sugar Everything about sugar. It is a guide on Wikipedia.
5 minutes with Sugar Video: This is a quick video tutorial for the one who are new to Sugar.
Install Sugar on a low-cost device A guide showing us to install Sugar on a low-cost device.
How to Install Sugar on a Stick to a Flash Drive on Windows This is a step-by-step tutorial to install Sugar On a Stick in Windows. This tutorial works on any Windows PC.
How to install Sugar on a Virtual Machine Video: This shows how to install Sugar on a virtual machine. This is a video tutorial on YouTube.
Sugar on a stick on a HP mini note (can be installed on any PC) Video: Shows us to install SOAS. In this tutorial HP mini note is used, but can be done on any PC.
Information about Sugar A detailed description of Sugar On a Stick (SOAS).

References

  1. ↑ "New foundation focused on taking the Sugar user interface to the next level of usability and utility". press release (Sugar Labs). 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  2. ↑ Jonathan Fildes (2008-05-16). "$100 laptop' platform moves on". BBC News Online (BBC). Retrieved 2008-10-17.
  3. ↑ NYT:Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child
  4. ↑ BusinessWeek: OLPC: The Educational Philosophy Controversy
  5. ↑ Sugar Labs Joins Conservancy, 2008-12-09, retrieved 2009-03-18
  6. ↑ $100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC, Technology Review, 2009-06-24
  7. ↑ RecycleUSB.com - Donate your Flash Drives for a Good Cause, Everything USB, 2009-07-23
  8. ↑ Encuentro de jóvenes programadores de todo el mundo, ANEP, 2014-09-25
  9. ↑ Hoy es el Día de TortugArte, en Caacupé, ABC Color, 2013-10-12
  10. ↑ 3, 2, 1 Code-in: Inviting teens to contribute to open source, Google Open Source Blog, 2014-12-01

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