Sugar Labs is a community-run software project whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of Sugar, an open source desktop environment and learning platform.

[2][3][4] Sugar Labs was initially established as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, an umbrella organization for free software projects.,[5] but in 2021, it became an independent 501(c)(3) organization.

The Sugar Labs community participates in events for teachers, students, and software developers interested in the Sugar software, such as the Montevideo Youth Summit[8] and Turtle Art Day.

[9] Sugar Labs had participated in Google Code-in,[10] which served as an outlet for young programmers.

Sugar Labs is a long-time participant in Google Summer of Code.