Open projects

Looking for something to work on? See these pages for more details. (Also see Projects for a more outdated page.)

OLPC projects

• Wiki server - Port the "wikipedia on the iphone" project to the XO. (code, testing, content curation)
  • Update WikiBrowse project page with latest status
  • Convert Simple and English Wikipedias to this format
• Ambient light detection - for low-power mode. (code)
• Power activity - Shows charging progress in a more detailed form. Especially useful for users/devs of non-AC chargers (solar, human-powered, etc). (code, hardware)
• Developer tutorials - making guides for new people to get started making stuff for the XO.
• Activity Handbook: wikify, convert to LaTeX (because DocBook sucks)
• OLPC pilots: comprehensive overview of where pilots are happening and contact info (if possible) for each pilot
• Projectdb: clean up source-code
• activity to control power on USB port (for keyboard illumination)
• sleep ;-) (and test the Alarm clock activity)
• Set up a build server of your own
  • One for a Demo build
  • One for a joyride-with-activities-and-fun-things build

• Find a non-(physical)space consuming alternative for the touchpad
• On screen volume indicator
• Demos and pages describing the installation of alternative user interfaces to sugar:
  • Barebones / fast (e.g. blackbox, fluxbox and kin).
  • Lightweight desktop: (e.g. XFCE, ROX).
  • Tabbing window manager (e.g. Ion, xmonad, stumpwm)

Upstream projects

• Mediawiki filter - A plugin architecture for selecting pages in a mediawiki that meet certain criterion.
• SimpleRPG (may be renamed) - tutorial for learning programming, pygame game development, and networking (sockets) all at once