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Contents 1 Join a team 1.1 Deployment Team 1.2 Design Team 1.3 Development Team 1.4 Education Team 1.5 Infrastructure Team 1.6 Marketing Team 1.7 Testing Team 1.8 Wiki Team 2 Governance

Join a team

You can get involved in any of the Sugar Labs Teams.

Deployment Team

The mission of the Deployment Team is to voice the needs of Sugar deployments to the Sugar community, to find ways to support those needs, to organize forums for the exchange of experiences between Sugar users and Sugar developers, and to build local Sugar Labs organizations worldwide.

The Deployment Team needs help getting local chapters of Sugar Labs started. Join the team now.

Design Team

The mission of the Design Team is to make Sugar beautiful, elegant, and highly functional.

The Design Team needs help reviewing the roadmap for Sugar 9.1. Join the team now.

Development Team

The mission of the Development team is to build and maintain the core Sugar environment. This includes specifying and implementing new features in conjunction with the Design team, fixing bugs as they are found by the Testing team and the Sugar community, and generally making Sugar awesome in all ways.

The Development Team always needs help with fixing bugs and writing cool new activities. Join the team now.

Education Team

The mission of the education team is to explain why Sugar is an ideal platform for learning, and to provide guidance and feedback to those who are working on how Sugar enhances learning.

The Education team needs more teachers to get involved. Join the team now.

Infrastructure Team

The mission of the Infrastructure team is to keeping the project humming along nicely, by maintaining and developing Sugar Labs' collaboration and public-facing infrastructure.

The Infrastructure team can always use smart sysadmins. Join the team now.

Marketing Team

The mission of the Marketing team is to articulate the benefits of Sugar (simplify), to promote these benefits as widely as possible (amplify), and to recruit volunteers to improve the Sugar experience.

The Marketing team needs wordsmiths to refine the Sugar message, and mavens to spread that message. Join the team now.

Testing Team

The mission of the Testing team is to coordinate thousands of volunteers worldwide, working in different languages and on different hardware platforms, to "crowd-source" testing for Sugar.

The Testing team needs detail-oriented people to use Sugar, and to tell us when, how, and why it doesn't work! Join the team now.

Wiki Team

The mission of the Wiki team is to maintain the Sugar Labs wiki, and to help the Sugar Labs teams and the greater educational community to collaborate effectively.

The Wiki team needs talented wiki gardeners to take loving care of overgrown wiki pages. Join the team now.

Governance

The administrative arm of the Sugar Community is currently a non-profit organization endorsed by the Software Freedom Conservancy. This is explained in more detail in the Governance document.