Projects

see also: software projects, activities,

Here is a (growing) list of projects being worked on for/around the XO laptops, including hardware, firmware, integration and aggregation of material, interface design, accessibility, and more. Click on the name of any linked activity for detailed information about its design and development status.

• For more information about activities with their own sugar packaging, see the Activities page.
• For more information about activities that could use your help, see the Participate page.
• For miscellaneous tasks, see the request board.

Everyone who is part of the developer's program is involved in at least one project; please make sure that yours is listed below or on the activities page.

OLPC Project List

Project Name	Description	In use	Updated in Build	l10n	Status
Hardware Extensions
Peripherals	Inexpensive peripherals to distribute with laptops
School Server Extensions
Moodle	A classroom management system for students and teachers, including forums and a Wiki.				See http://www.moodle.com/.
Firmware
Mesh
Userspace tools	Collabora, et al: Tubes & presence integration with sugar
Network manager
Firmware/drivers		Integration issues
Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech
Multimedia
Helix media activities	a Helix Media Activity and helix browser plugins; both a fully free version (for olpc) and one with all available integrated codecs (for developer use)				version 3+ available; not for anyone to download (licensing) but for devs who request it. Works well with rm and rv formats, okay with ogg formats (at low framerates), not yet with mpeg.
Gstreamer activities	a Gstreamer browser plugin and possible standalone activity...				Works with hacking; no full integration or separate codebase yet. Check with J5 about latest status. We need stronger Gstreamer contacts for this to be sustainable.
Educational Activities, Lesson Plans, and Templates
Etoys templates	Examples of what to do with etoys, how to use it in the classroom and on one's own, great ideas to experiment with				video, pdf
Example activities	Examples of how to use the XO for learning, and to expand/enhance existing educational activities.				Template: Activity_template
Game Libraries
PyGame	A python library for developing graphical games; abstracting out the implementation of widgets, buttons, and screen manipulation
Gnash	A free software Flash implementation; cf #gnash on irc.freenode.net and Rob Savoye				Working; supports much of Flash 7, a little later ActionScript; active development, responsive to specific requests.
Content Bundles
Game Jam Bundle	Games developed during the June 2007 Game Jam.				To be packaged for the June 25th internal release.
Community Organizing
Participate wiki	Site to collect/direct the OLPC community.				Currently on the OLPC wiki. To be merged with the OLPC development site. Ideas welcome.
Infrastructure
OLPC Library Portal					Spec in progress.

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with projects. (Discuss)

see also: software projects, activities, Category:Tasks

Here is a (growing) list of requests related to other work described on this wiki.

• For tasks related to specific projects, see Projects.
• For more information about activities with their own sugar packaging, see the Activities page.
• For more information about activities that could use your help, see the Participate page.
• For a list of specific pages asked to be translated (see also Translating and its how-to)
• For art requests, see Art Wanted.

Help wanted

• See the list of everything in the Tasks Category.
• Icon design: Xbook et al (cf. Don Hopkins); Calculator; Game activities
• pygtk help: for music activities
• Help needed with Educational ideas
  • Outline the best way to use the XO as a Datalogger; update the OLPC as Datalogger page with this information.
  • Flesh out ideas about teaching students to make tools for art creation in resource-poor areas; create wiki page with these ideas linked from Educational ideas.
  • If you are an educator with experience using computers in the classroom, we need your input on questions listed at Basic Teacher Training.
• Help needed with Educational activity ideas
  • Outline the steps needed to set up a functioning Key Pals program that connects children using XOs either with children in developed countries or with children using XOs in other countries.
  • Implement semantic fields in either squeak or etoys.
• Help needed with Software ideas
  • Create various calculating, data analysis and visualization, and financial tools.
  • Develop language-learning tools and ask content owners to contribute free language resources (dictionaries, thesauruses, etc) in OLPC-friendly formats.
  • Develop or adapt for XOs science-learning tools.
  • Develop programs that use XOs to aid in physical education and training.
  • Develop XO programs for creation and recording of art.
  • Develop XO programs for music education (make sure you look at TamTam before beginning).
  • Develop XO communications applications (VOIP, email, etc).
  • Develop XO educational tools.
  • Develop XO games. A variety of games are currently in development; try searching the wiki to get an idea of what's being done.
  • See other Software ideas
• Free and open source educational content is needed.
• Develop a Class orchestra activity.

Help offered

• Translation/localization into En, from Es/De/Fr Sj talk
  • See also Translators
• Some online design/interface design help : Humanized.com (contact User:Ianb for more)
• Mentoring or hosting or site design : from name.com

Contractors wanted

now & urgent

Conall Ryan - looking for one contractor to work on reading apps and early-childhood game porting to sugar

Name.org - looking for someone to help them make their efforts more useful to OLPC; incl. at least one programmer

now & ongoing

UNICEF - constantly looking for python programmers; could use another 1-2 contractors to work on

Ben Nardone - looking for one volunteer to work on health-related work. Now has someone, with a wiki account here...

World Food Program - theoretically looking for a programmer once they find support for a next-generation food-force game, perhaps in a few months.