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** Physics simulators (Newtonian) |
** Physics simulators (Newtonian) |
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** Biological simulators (population simulators) |
** Biological simulators (population simulators) |
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** Genealogy software |
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** Dynamic system simulators (e.g. ecological simulators, economic simulators) |
** Dynamic system simulators (e.g. ecological simulators, economic simulators) |
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** Geography (mapping) software, coordinates, maps, data-overlays, GIS operations |
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* Physical Education and Training |
* Physical Education and Training |
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** Training program tracker |
** Training program tracker |
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** VoIP phone |
** VoIP phone |
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** Conferencing system, virtual classroom |
** Conferencing system, virtual classroom |
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** Email client (gmail-for-children?) |
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** Voice-mail (voice email and standard voicemail) |
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** Web-page editor (wikidpad?) |
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* Educational |
* Educational |
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** Role-playing systems |
** Role-playing systems |
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** Mind-mapping systems (outliners, free-form note-taking tools) |
** Mind-mapping systems (outliners, free-form note-taking tools) |
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* Games (see also [Games]) |
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** Game console emulators (needs content) |
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** Strategy games |
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** Simulation games |
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** eToys games |
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= Porting Existing Software = |
= Porting Existing Software = |
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Revision as of 22:01, 23 March 2007
| Projects and proposals +/- | |
| Content ideas | Content projects |
| Hardware ideas | Hardware projects |
| Software ideas | Software projects |
This page is a brainstorming space for ideas which may eventually become Software projects. Keep in mind that the projects here are merely proposals or ideas. If you would like to add a new project idea, try to be reasonably thorough in your description.
When brainstorming, try to let your mind run free. When reading and looking for a project to start, keep in mind that we are looking for projects that encourage Playful Learning instead of Edutainment.
Application Classes
This section discusses whole application-classes that might be useful to have available on the OLPC laptops. That is, these are "requirements"-focussed ideas for what type of thing we want to provide:
- Mathematics
- Simple Calculations
- Calculators, Basic and Scientific
- Spreadsheet software
- Graphing Calculators
- Higher mathematics
- Typesetting/equation editing
- Algebraic solvers
- Geometric exploration (e.g. PyGeo)
- Fractal explorers
- Simple Calculations
- Language
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Audio-book reader
- Science
- Starfield explorers
- Chemical simulators
- Physics simulators (Newtonian)
- Biological simulators (population simulators)
- Genealogy software
- Dynamic system simulators (e.g. ecological simulators, economic simulators)
- Geography (mapping) software, coordinates, maps, data-overlays, GIS operations
- Physical Education and Training
- Training program tracker
- Art
- Vector graphic creation (illustration)
- Raster graphic creation (painting, sketching)
- Collage operations (eToys?)
- Music
- Voice training
- Score display and creation (TamTam?)
- Communications
- VoIP phone
- Conferencing system, virtual classroom
- Email client (gmail-for-children?)
- Voice-mail (voice email and standard voicemail)
- Web-page editor (wikidpad?)
- Educational
- Role-playing systems
- Mind-mapping systems (outliners, free-form note-taking tools)
- Games (see also [Games])
- Game console emulators (needs content)
- Strategy games
- Simulation games
- eToys games
Porting Existing Software
Mathematics
- Calc for more basic tasks, BC for more difficult ones, and SC or a GUI based spreadsheet, perhaps.
- LaTeX, this is free and quite powerful editor
- Mathematica for children, for modeling and calculating
Updates
- An update/software manager to handle updates and new software that come out after the laptop is given to the child