1. 1SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina Tomeu Vizoso, Collabora Ltd. Sugar The learning platform

2. 2SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina Talk outline - Sugar the learning platform - Sugar Labs and its mission - Why free software?

3. 3SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina This slides http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Presentations

4. 4SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina What is Sugar? -A platform for learning learning  Why a platform?  What means learning learning?  An integral user experience  Supports young learners

5. 5SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | 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

6. 6SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | 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 10-15 years

7. 7SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina

8. 8SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina

9. 9SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | 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

10. 10SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | 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

11. 11SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | 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

12. 12SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina Sugar Labs community  Heterogeneous community: educators, hackers, activists, governments, businesses, parents, etc  Local Labs: Self-replication is our way to scalability

13. 13SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina Who makes Sugar?  OLPC  Volunteers of many kinds  Some OLPC deployments such as Paraguay and Uruguay  Collabora Ltd.  Activity Central  Other FOSS communities

14. 14SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina Advantages of free software in education - Advantages it brings to the final user - Advantages for the deployer

15. 15SFK 2010 | 26.09.2010 | Prishtina Thank you! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Presentations