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There are many projects and proposals underway associated with OLPC. Active projects, and other ideas, can be found via the links in the sidebar to the right.

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

From: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/013696.html and http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-May/005980.html

I'll list a grab bag of project ideas in this email. Some of these are high priority, some are low, some have OLPC people working on them, some do not. The list is certainly not complete! Please respond to this email to list things I've left out or projects you're currently exploring, or to express interest. I've tried to list some email addresses by each idea of OLPC folk who are interested or could give more information.

(Help wiki-fying this list would be appreciated! See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals )

cscott (cscott at cscott.net)

PROJECTS, IN THE ORDER THEY POPPED INTO MY HEAD:

Sugar Labs

Bug activity

There should be an activity on the XO which makes it easier to submit a bug into OLPC's trac system. It should collect information about installed activities, activity versions, and the core OS version so the submitter doesn't have to, and make it as easy as possible to submit a quality bug report.

Bug Buddy, https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/bug-buddy, is installed on the gnome-session side of SoaS on Fedora 10. It may be a place to start.

Spanish wikipedia slice activity (cjb at laptop.org)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki_server

Wiki textbooks. (sj at laptop.org)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read
Collaborative PDF annotation might be a good start.
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MikMik (mako at atdot.cc)

Physics-learning games (like Phun and Elements)

School server management tools (martin at laptop.org)

Class management tools

Journal does auto-hand-in for assignments downloaded from Moodle.
Realtime collaborative classroom tool - teacher runs presentation, asks questions, everyone types/draws answers, teacher can choose (randomly or deliberately) an answer to continue discussion, or set up subgroups (pairs) to respond to each other's answers.
Formal exam/test tool.

Hunger project

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Malnutrition

Testing tools. (mstone at laptop.org)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Testing_Project
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Schoolserver_Testing
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tinderbox_Testing
(see also, "Build servers" below)

Build servers.

Docs to go w/ builds:

Remote debugging:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6447

Blogging platforms on XO

Email app

(Gmail, or lightweight local email)

Flashcards for the classroom.

(Make own flashcards on the XO)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Assimilate

Geography browser / quiz.

(Make own maps on the XO)

Edubuntu integration

(sugar chooser for edubuntu, edubuntu activities for XO)

KDE edutainment integration / ports

http://edu.kde.org/

Other Education software:

http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/04/25/2124228.shtml

Translations/localization (sayamindu at gmail.com)

https://dev.laptop.org/translate/
Also, integrating a "translate this" feature into the UI, or mouse-over translations using a small local dictionary.

Filesystems (cscott at laptop.org)

IPv6 tunnel endpoints (cscott at laptop.org)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles

Private Dynamic DNS for out-of-school uses of XO

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles

Activity upgrade activity (cscott at laptop.org)

Key Manager activity (cscott at laptop.org)

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428

Network manager maintainer. (dennis at laptop.org, cscott at laptop.org)

OLPC has deployment-specific hacks in NetworkManager; these need to be ported to FC9 Network Manager and/or reimplemented in a more general manner.

Initscripts work. (dennis at laptop.org, cscott at laptop.org)

We need to boot fast & start X sooner!

http://upstart.ubuntu.com/

Kernel power-management work (dilinger at laptop.org, dwmw2 at infradead.org, cjb at laptop.org)

Python performance tuning (sugar)

launching activities is slow (Trac #5228)

"How to use your new XO" activity (adam at laptop.org)

Large # of our support tickets are basic "how do I use this thing" issues

Emulators

Create/maintain builds designed to easy to install & run in emulators qemu, vmware, etc
Mexico (and other deployments) are doing teacher training in emulators, because they don't want to divert any XOs from the kids
Developers who don't have an XO also like to use emulators.

Android Emulator

Not for developing, but for installing the thousands of Apps that are available in the Android ecosystem.
There are literally thousands of free educational apps that are available to Android users.

Printer support (big scope!)

http://www.cups.org/

Security work (mstone at laptop.org)

Child-safe web filtering on XO

Regardless of its merits, CIPA requires it for XO deployments in US schools:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protection_Act

Kid-friendly Python IDE

Collaboration via Multi-pointer X (MPX)

Help updating/translating the Sugar FLOSS Manual

http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar

and the FLOSS Manuals for Sugar Activities

Unsorted

Some ideas for projects which a group could own long(er)-term:

Care & nourishment of the Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora packaging of Sugar
maintaining a Sugar live cd and/or
maintaining a one-click-install Windows emulator of Sugar for groups interesting in exploring Sugar or teacher training
a research fork investigating gestures for Sugar
a research group to tackle the best approaches for emulating keyboards on a touchscreen
research projects in collaboration or mesh technologies (http://open80211s.org/ and http://wiki.funkfeuer.at/ are good focal points for such work)
someone to revive/review alternate flash filesystems for the XO
care & feeding of adobe flash bundles for the XO
care & feeding of gnash on the XO (keeping us up to date, liasoning between community content and gnash developers)
similar work for patent-encumbered codecs (helps if you're outside the US)
care & feeding of Ogg and media on the XO (assembling good demos, optimizing encoder/decoder performance)
a research group on sound/video editing for kids
a research group to improve interoperability with non-Sugarized applications
someone to investigate alternate window managers for Sugar
someone to investigate Xinerama suport in Sugar, in anticipation of eventually running Sugar across two displays in Gen 2
a research group developing software for school management (Uruguay demonstrated a very nice database application tracking kids, XOs, theft reports, and repair history, but they had it developed under contract and the result is closed source -- it would be nice to provide an OSS alternative for other deployments).

Don't forget: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_program

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 There are many projects and proposals underway associated with OLPC.  Active projects, and other ideas, can be found via the links in the sidebar to the right.
+{{merge|Project proposals}}
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 ===Sugar Labs===
-See also http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/ProjectIdeas
+See also http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/ProjectIdeas, and http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas.
 ===Bug activity===
 There should be an activity on the XO which makes it easier to submit a bug into OLPC's trac system.  It should collect information about installed activities, activity versions, and the core OS version so the submitter doesn't have to, and make it as easy as possible to submit a quality bug report.
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 *http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Server
 *http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
+===Class management tools===
+*Journal does auto-hand-in for assignments downloaded from Moodle.
+*Realtime collaborative classroom tool - teacher runs presentation, asks questions, everyone types/draws answers, teacher can choose (randomly or deliberately) an answer to continue discussion, or set up subgroups (pairs) to respond to each other's answers.
+*Formal exam/test tool.
 ===Hunger project===
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 ===Flashcards for the classroom.===
 (Make own flashcards on the XO)
+* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Assimilate
 ===Geography browser / quiz.===
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 *Mexico (and other deployments) are doing teacher training in emulators, because they don't want to divert any XOs from the kids
 *Developers who don't have an XO also like to use emulators.
+=== Android Emulator ===
+* Not for developing, but for installing the thousands of Apps that are available in the Android ecosystem.
+* There are literally thousands of free educational apps that are available to Android users.
 ===Printer support (big scope!)===
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 Don't forget: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_program
+[[Category:Projects]]