1SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Tomeu Vizoso, Collabora Ltd. Sugar The learning platform
2SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Talk outline - Sugar the learning platform - Sugar Labs and its mission - Why free software?
3SFK 2010 | | Prishtina This slides
4SFK 2010 | | Prishtina What is Sugar? -A platform for learning learning Why a platform? What means learning learning? An integral user experience Supports young learners
5SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Main features Collaboration centric Work-flow based on activities (tasks) Journal Clarity Low floor, no ceiling Every user can be contributor of content and code
6SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Why do something new? Existing alternatives were oriented to office workers, not for children to learn Nobody was interested in this “market” The targeted user base had no previous computer experience We don't know yet which tools will be used in years
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9SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Where is Sugar? As part of GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Trisquel, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, etc. Sugar on a Stick OLPC XO
10SFK 2010 | | Prishtina History of the project OLPC needed software for their machine Red Hat and Pentagram helped with the initial development Sugar Labs was created and Sugar got used outside from OLPC Volunteers and other organizations joined development
11SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Sugar Labs Foundation Mission: Produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform. A member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy Member of the GNOME Advisory Board
12SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Sugar Labs community Heterogeneous community: educators, hackers, activists, governments, businesses, parents, etc Local Labs: Self-replication is our way to scalability
13SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Who makes Sugar? OLPC Volunteers of many kinds Some OLPC deployments such as Paraguay and Uruguay Collabora Ltd. Activity Central Other FOSS communities
14SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Advantages of free software in education - Advantages it brings to the final user - Advantages for the deployer
15SFK 2010 | | Prishtina Thank you!