Sugar

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Sugar: The OLPC Environment

Sugar is the core of the OLPC Python Environment. It's goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.

Download

The Sugar package is currently under heavy development. You can check it out from our source repository (sugar--devel) from our source repository. Learm more about it from the source repository page on the fedora project wiki.

Sugar is now also available in the OLPC's source repository.

• Setting Up a Sugar Development Environment on MacOS X
• Setting Up a Sugar Development Environment on Windows
• Setting Up a Sugar Development Environment on *IX OSes

Milestones

Notes, to-do lists, ideas, etc. for Sugar development are kept on the wiki.

• Sugar Demo #1: to-do list - Target: Seven Country Task Force Meeting, May 23rd 2006 (COMPLETE)
• Sugar Demo #2: to-do list - Target: GUADEC, June 24th 2006
• Sugar Design Review #2: Notes & Mockups

External Links

• Screenshots here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php
• Some notes on Sugar: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=200
• Notes on Sugar and Maemo project similarities
• Marc Eisenstadt's comments on the environment with some links to other similar projects.
• UI mockups for the OLPC are found here.