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Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child project and related projects and communities. We currently have {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} pages; please join us and share your ideas. For a project overview, there is also the non-wiki [http://laptop.org/ laptop.org]. For help, see our '''[[support|help]]''' page and [[Support FAQ|FAQ]].
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Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, home to collaborative notes about the One Laptop per Child project and related projects and communities. We currently have {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} pages, and roughly two-thousand files and two-thousand registered contributors; please join us and share your ideas.

: For a project overview, there is also a non-wiki [http://laptop.org/ laptop.org].
: For help, see our '''[[support|help]]''' page and [[Support FAQ|FAQ]].


== What's new ==
== What's new ==

[[Image:Uruguay.jpg|thumb|[http://radian.org/notebook/first-deployment The real deal in Uruguay]]]
[[Image:Uruguay.jpg|thumb|[http://radian.org/notebook/first-deployment The real deal in Uruguay]]]
[[Image:StartOfMP.jpg|thumb|Start of Mass Production at Quanta]]
[[Image:StartOfMP.jpg|thumb|Start of Mass Production at Quanta]]

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Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child project and related projects and communities. We currently have 9,909 pages; please join us and share your ideas. For a project overview, there is also the non-wiki laptop.org. For help, see our help page and FAQ.

What's new

Start of Mass Production at Quanta

Weekly updates can be found in Current events, for archives see Old News.

  • We've only just begun. Uruguay has started the first mass-production deployment of OLPC! (See Ivan Krstić's blog for more details.) Next stop: Peru.



About One Laptop per Child

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It's an education project, not a laptop project.
Nicholas Negroponte

This is the wiki for the non-profit One Laptop per Child association. The mission of this association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Why do children in developing nations need laptops? Laptops are a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to think. They are a wonderful way for all children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.

OLPC espouses five core principles: (1) child ownership; (2) low ages; (3) saturation; (4) connection; and (5) free and open source.

see also: more about the Laptop and OLPC's vision for learning.

Want to know more? Perhaps get involved?

A good place to start is the One Laptop per Child page, which gives an overview of the project. There is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ); a place to ask a question; places to get involved, participate and current job openings; We can use some extra help translating and preparing content bundles in general, for example. There are numerous pages on hardware, software, content, and the developers program—and a separate wiki for software development. The XO's interface, Sugar, has its own interface guidelines. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions. An extended table of contents is also available.

If you want to try out the laptop, you can emulate the XO on your PC. Better yet: you can support us by getting the real deal with Give 1 Get 1. The latest build is always available here. The latest stable build is always available here. (Please use 406.15 for B1 and B2 machines; please use Ship.2 (650) for more recent machines, e.g., B3, B4, and C machines.)

OLPC is also carefully filling some full-time positions.

About this wiki

The purpose of this wiki is to both share information about the project and to solicit ideas and feedback. The articles and discussion vary from technical to epistemological. We invite comments on every page (please use the "discussion" tab at the top of each page). Please restrict edits to the article pages themselves to facts, not opinions. You are encouraged to sign your work and to make liberal use of citations and links. (Please make an account and please use ~~~~ as a signature for your comments.) Please note that pages that include the {{OLPC}} template—such as this one—are maintained by the OLPC team and are generally representative of the current state of the project. Other pages—created and maintained by the public—should be read with that in mind.