Contributors

NEWS

Check back this site often! You will need to fill in more details and an official submission again later. For now it is ok to collect information project descriptions below. This will change as we move the whole thing into a DB.

Who?

The community of OLPC contributors includes many people working on

• outreach,
• testing,
• usability,
• content and
• software development, and
• hardware development and hacking,

which are improved by access to laptops. Software and hardware developers have long been able to get laptops through the software developers program; we are opening this process up to all projects from the community aimed at furthering OLPC's mission.

Contributors laptop program

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To apply for laptops for your project or proposal, please add a brief project description below, and list the contributors and participants working on the project, and how laptops would be helpful. Indicate any relevant experience or collaborations (Sugar emulation, education, usability and interface design, work with children; research partnerships, school partnerships, &c.).

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Project: UK Digital Divide with a G1G1 twist. Proposer: Mike Kiely Other Contributors: programmers from Predictable Network Solutions Audience or Impact; Our initial audience is BECTA, the UK GOV IT provisioning department for all Gov funded schools and colleges in the UK. Brief Descriptions; Two objectives. 1) Get the OLPC on BECTA assessment list for the £30m project to help poor uk kids to get connected to the internet, with a proposal that any purchase would also purchase an equivalent number for a developing country. 2) We also wish to assess the OLPC as a communication devicee for other disadvantaged groups, by loading and testing the ekiga sip client on several UK Broadband connections. The notion is to support other disadvantaged groups to get connected. Relevant expeience and other projects; 20 years creating and launching communication services in the UK. if needing Xo; 2 XO's needed for 6 months, happy to purchase.

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