There are so many subjects you could choose to profile, so why did you choose this one? What drew you into wanting to know more about the organization? How did you/your group decide on and agree?
Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with equal opportunity for a quality education.
The first commit was Apr 16, 2006. The latest commit was Apr 28, 2015.
Each core module and activity has it's own project lead and co-maintainers.
There are 62 people who have had commits accepted into the main project.
The core commiters have changed over time. At the beggining there were 3 major commiters who haven't added anything in awhile.
Daniel Varvaez is the Lead maintainer for the core sugar project.
There are different people working on the frontend and the backend.
Participation seems to be trending down recently but there was a big push between October 2014 and January 2015.
The project would pass the raptor test as there are multiple people running each team.
I don't think this project would pass the bus test. The documentations isn't as detailed as it could be.
Contributing to both the main process and adding new activities has a well documented getting started guide.
The documentation is well broken up so you only need to look at the things for the particular thing you're doing, such as the main project or an activiy.
I would contact the maintainers for whichever porition of the project I was working on, either by email or hopping into IRC.
Each individual portion of Sugar has it's own ruling group.
Technology/Product
Sugar Labs helped produce the operating system and environment that runs on the One Laptop Per Child laptops.
Sugar OS is based off of Fedora and includes the “Sugar software.”
Sugar software is typically written in Python which is then turned into a Sugar activity that can be installed on OLPC laptops.
Also provide “Sugar-on-a-stick” which is a live USB based off Fedora that can be booted on any computer to use the Sugar environment.
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