Participate

There are plenty of ways to find out more about the One Laptop per Child project. Here are a few of the communication channels:

• Read up and discuss OLPC on a mailing list
• Find out about what's going on in your region
• Chat about OLPC in IRC Chat
• Discover more about OLPC here on the wiki

• Simply give one or more laptops to be sent directly to children in developing countries

You can also donate to the project

• Donate your time, apply for the Contributors program.
• Redonate your XO see where to send your XO to a kids program Donate_Your_Get_One

The first place you should look to get involved with OLPC is in your community. Chances are that there is someone else nearby that is also interested.

• Get involved in, or start, a regional group
• Help out at a nearby Pilot... or start one!
• Create a Community Repair Center
• Put yourself on the World Map of XO's

The XO Laptop is deployed to children in many languages; we ♥ people who can help us translate in many ways. You can:

• Join the Localization mailing list
• Help translate this wiki
• Help translate some of our content
• Help translate our software

Help us provide free and open content for children along with their XO's.

• Create electronic textbooks
• Help format and edit our wiki
• Get involved in artwork projects
• Get involved in an OLPC Health project
• Create various calculating, data analysis and visualization, and financial tools.
• Develop an activity or collection: a class orchestra, math problems, or how-tos.

New releases of software builds, activities and collections are always in need of testing. You can help by downloading, installing and giving us feedback.

• Join the Testing mailing list
• Report bugs and review problems at https://dev.laptop.org
• Try one of the Sugar distribution downloads
• Help test the weekly Friends in testing Sugar build
• Help test by downloading and trying Activities
• Help test library content by downloading library bundles from the Collections page

There is a strong developer community, strongly based in Free and Open Software. If you would like to participate:

• Read the Developers manual on getting started
• Review Activities and develop an activity
• Look at the list of Software ideas
• Get involved with Sugar Labs
• Apply for hardware in the Contributors program

There are a few hardware opportunities for EE's and anyone interested in physical bits and bobs:

• Apply for hardware in the Contributors program
• Get involved in Community Repair Centers
• Develop Peripherals for the XO like the PyDuino
• Document additional Power generation options

• Want to get involved in helping run the OLPC servers and help fix infrastructure problems, and design and implement new systems?
• The OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group (VIG) supports the rt and trac ticket systems, the development code repository, git, and assists in planning and server bug tracking and fixing.
• There are opportunities for both experienced and novice sysadmins to help OLPC and have fun in an intellectually challenging way.

There are many other ways to get involved online.

• Support others directly — working alongside dedicated volunteers — to help eager participants online, by phone or in person!
• Help build and transform information posted on the OLPC Wiki
• Join the discussion on our Mailing lists and Forums
• Chat with us on IRC