1. 1FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Tomeu Vizoso Developer Sugar Labs Foundation tomeu@sugarlabs.org The Sugar platform Why GNOME may care?

2. 2FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Talk outline –Sugar the learning platform –Sugar Labs and its mission –Sugar architecture –Opportunities for GNOME

3. 3FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels This slides http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Presentations

4. 4FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels What is Sugar?  A platform for learning learning  Why a platform?  What means learning learning?  Supports young learners

5. 5FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Main features  Collaboration centric  Work-flow based on activities (tasks)  Clarity  Low floor, no ceiling  Every user can be contributor of content and code

6. 6FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels 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

7. 7FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Sugar Labs community  Heterogeneous community: educators, hackers, activists, governments, businesses, parents, etc  Local Labs: Self-replication is our way to scalability

8. 8FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Sugar dependencies  Python and PyGTK  D-Bus, NetworkManager, HAL, Gconf  Telepathy  CSound  Xulrunner, Abiword, Evince, Etoys,...  Pygame  Gnash

9. 9FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Sugar components  Frame (panel)  Zoom levels (desktop window)  Journal (file manager)  Activities (applications)  Extensions: control panels, device icons, global key handlers, etc

10. 10FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Biggest issues  Journal not yet what we wanted it to be  Lots of opportunities to upstream stuff  Slow startup of activities  High general memory usage  Evince buffering whole rendered pages in memory

11. 11FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Opportunities for GNOME  Experiment with changes to the user experience  Put into use new components not yet in the GNOME platform  Share most code between a number of Sugar activities and GNOME applications

12. 12FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Thank you!

13. 13FOSDEM 2009 | 07.02.2009 | Brussels Contact Tomeu Vizoso Developer Sugar Labs tomeu@sugarlabs.org