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== 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.
* [http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Activity_handbook 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
* Translation of teacher preparation materials and education activities from Nepali to English

* 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)

* Screw location diagrams for [[Repair Centers]]
* Open Content [[transcoding]] web interface
* Clean up namespace, and add more redirects[[Talk:Organizing_the_wiki]]
* produce documentation for G1G1 2008
* Porting chumby flash-widgets functionality to the XO g1g1 users
* One or two activities targeted at G1G1 users
* Advanced photography activity, flesh out iso


=== Health ===
* Pascal's Health Hesperian books

== 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

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