[IAEP] Sugar Network initiative

[Aleksey Lim]

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Hi all!

This is an initial announce of the Sugar Network effort.

    This work was initially started by the [http://somosazucar.org/ Peru
    Local Lab] to accomplish the real needs that Lab people faced during
    the work on [[Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno|Puno pilot program]].

    The Sugar Network is an initiative to try to leverage collaborative,
    contributing, and learning behaviour in Sugar Learning Platform. It
    was started as the only possible option for Sugar deployments which
    lack Internet connectivity, in particular Peru, but it also targets
    Internet-enabled environments.

    This initiative is tailored by the following decisions:

    * Be more concentrated on interactions between humans rather than
      between computers;
    * There is a real need to support Internet-less environments (but
      not only those);
    * The list of provided services should cover the full circle of
      collaboration behavior within the Sugar community to make Sugar
      Network the central place for collaboration;
    * Not trying to reinvent the Internet by duplicating all services
      available there making them off-line;
    * The list of provided services should be thought to make the Sugar
      Network useful also when operating on-line;
    * Support decentralized collaboration model to stimulate direct
      contacts (e.g.: between software creators and users);
    * Stimulate a "doing" workflow.

    Think about the Sugar Network more in meaning of
    [[Wikipedia:Social_network|Social networks]] rather in meaning of
    [[Wikipedia:Tcp/ip|TCP/IP networks]]. The intentions might be better
    explained by the [[Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Concept#Needs|Needs]]
    that Sugar Network is trying to solve.

This is not about launching [one more] social network service around Sugar
community in the Internet, but the effort to have feasible solution that
can work in the Internet-less one teachers schools that will take part
in Puno pilot program[1]. That should help with keeping this discussion
constructive.

Further reading:

* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Concept
  more detailed overview
* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Concept
  discussion page
* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/Architecture
  technical overview

Any improvements, feedback and suggestions are welcome.


[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno
    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Peru/Puno/Roadmap

-- 
Aleksey