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The One Laptop per Child association is developing a low-cost laptop—the "XO Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our mission is "to provide educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

Take part in our winter giving program! Give a laptop to a child in the developing world, and Get one for someone in the US or in other countries.

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 children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.

Get Involved

Anyone can participate in OLPC and many already do. To introduce yourself, consider:

contacting existing contributors who share your interests,
editing pages on this wiki
writing to a mailing list,
chatting with us on Internet Relay Chat,
befriending a contributor and visiting in person,
attending a conference,
interning with a mentor or deployment
or organizing your own club or event

We'll be happy to help you find ways to contribute or to assist you with your own ideas, so please try us!

P.S. - If you prefer to start participating by reading or by doing, rather than by talking, then the participation page is for you.

Learn more

Activities · Support · Community Forum · Guide

You can read more and discuss new ideas about hardware, software, education and content; The XO's interface, Sugar, has its own human interface guidelines. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions.

Our five core principles— Child Ownership, Low Ages, Saturation, Connection, and Free and Open Source.

What's new

Weekly news · OLPC Planet · News archive ⁺

+	Software
XO
	13.2.11	2020-01-29
XS
	xs-0.7	2012-02-20

OLPC launched its second Give One, Get One ("G1G1") program on November 17, 2008, following last year's popular program which supported the production of over 150,000 XOs. This year the XO laptops will be shipped to donors through Amazon.com, and the program includes Europe. Visit laptop.org/xo.

The XO Software Release 8.2.0 is out: with a redesigned interface, software updater, and 19 languages. Read the release notes.

For more news, check out dedicated OLPC news aggregators like:

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+The [[One Laptop per Child]] association is developing a low-cost laptop&mdash;[[XO|the "XO Laptop"]]&mdash;to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our [[Mission|mission]] is "'''to provide educational opportunities''' for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."''
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-[[One Laptop per Child]] association is developing a low-cost laptop&mdash;[[XO|the "XO Laptop"]]&mdash;to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new [[Learning Vision|opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves]].
+<div style="text-align:left; padding:0.3em 0em 0.8em 0em;">
-Why children need [[XO|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 children to [[learning learning|learn learning]] through independent interaction and exploration.<br clear="all"/>
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+'''Take part in our winter [[G1G1 2008|giving program]]!'''
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+Give a laptop to a child in the developing world, and Get one for someone [http://laptop.org/xo in the US] or in [http://laptop.org/global other countries].
+</span>
+''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 children to [[learning learning|learn learning]] through independent interaction and exploration.''
-== What's new ==
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-* OLPC launched its second Give One, Get One ("G1G1") program on November 17, 2008, following last year's popular program which supported the production of over 150,000 XOs. This year the XO laptops will be shipped to donors through Amazon.com, and the program includes [[XO_Giving/G1G1EU|Europe]]. Visit [http://laptop.org/xo '''laptop.org/xo'''].
-* The '''[[Announcements/8.2.0|XO Software Release]] 8.2.0''' is out: with a redesigned interface, [[software updater]], and 19 languages.  ''Read the [[Release Notes/8.2.0|release notes]]. ''
-* Are you interested in being an OLPC mentor?  Add yourself to the [[Profiles]] page!
-'''Deployments'''
-* [http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/09/ethiopias-first-olpc-deployment/ ecbp begins deployments in Ethiopia] ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157607436386087/ photos]). The 5,000 XO laptops were donated to Ethiopia as a result of the 2007 [[Give One Get One]] promotion.
-* [http://waveplace.com '''Waveplace'''] has done pilots in '''Nicaragua''' ([http://waveplace.com/locations/nicaragua/movie.jsp?id=80 video], [http://waveplace.com/news/blog/archive/cat_location_nicaragua.jsp reports]),  '''Florida''' ([http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91891812 NPR story], [http://waveplace.com/locations/florida/movie.jsp?id=79 video]), '''Haiti''' ([http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/ videos]), and the '''Virgin Islands''' ([http://waveplace.com/locations/usvi/ videos], [http://waveplace.com/news/blog/archive/cat_location_virgin_islands.jsp reports]). Watch our [http://waveplace.com/awards/ Waveplace Awards show] to see children from each pilot greet each other and the world.
-* [http://www.olenepal.org/images/olpc-model-in-nepal.pdf Academic Commentary] authored by OLE Nepal Education Director, titled "Tackling the Problems of Quality and Disparity in Nepal’s School Education: The OLPC Model."
-* [http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22041/ Laptop Training Begins in Peru]
-* Our [[Deployment Guide]] is now posted to the wiki. Please help us improve it.
-* [http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay '''Astounded in Arahuay'''] &mdash; Ivan describes a followup visit to the site of Peru's 8-month OLPC pilot.
-* The Inter-American Development Bank will finance a pilot project testing one-to-one computing with OLPC in Haiti (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere). They are distributing XOs to 13,200 students and 500 teachers in 60 Haitian primary schools.
-* [[Ulaanbaatar|Our Mongolia project]] is the first deployment made possible by the generosity of the [[Give One Get One]] participants. Many thanks from OLPC and the Mongolian children to those who contributed through the program.
-'''Developments'''
-* Attendees and presenters from 20 countries attend the [[Country workshops/May 2008|May country workshop]].
-* [[XO-2]] laptop designs were revealed in May 2008
-* More [[Marvin_Minsky_essays|essays on learning]] by Marvin Minsky
-* Chumby's [http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=218 Bunnie] "tears down" an XO laptop... worth the read.  To try this at home, see our [[disassembly|disassembly notes]] and [[manual/Insides|photos]].
-* Mary Lou Jepsen has posted [[Hardware Testing|safety and inspection certificates]].
-'''[[Press|In the news]]'''
-* Listen to the [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91891812 two-part NPR story] on Waveplace's XO pilot in Immokalee, Florida
-* Read [http://www.xconomy.com/2008/02/01/the-xo-laptop-its-the-software-stupid/ Xconomy's review] of the XO laptop's software.
-* [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297 Groklaw interviews] former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen
-* OLPC's statement on [[Intel#INTEL RESIGNS FROM OLPC|Intel's resignation]] from the OLPC board and association.
-'''[[Wiki|This wiki]]'''
-* [[Conventions]] now contains two [[Conventions#Active Proposals:|active proposals]] for changing large numbers of wiki articles.
 == Get Involved ==
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-'''[[Educators]]'''       &nbsp;&nbsp; &middot; &nbsp;&nbsp;
-'''[[Developers]]'''       &nbsp;&nbsp; &middot; &nbsp;&nbsp;
-'''[[Friends in Testing|Testers]]'''       &nbsp;&nbsp; &middot; &nbsp;&nbsp;
-'''[http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&action=edit&section=new '''Submit&nbsp;new&nbsp;content''']'''
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+Anyone can [[participate]] in OLPC and many already do. To introduce yourself, consider:
-Anyone can [[participate]] in OLPC and Sugar Labs. Whatever your knowledge, skills, and experience, you have something that children around the world should know about. We need software [developers]] and [[Localization|localizers/translators]], of course, and [[educators]]. That goes without saying. But we also need writers, artists, musicians, people from every occupation and from every country. Most of all, we need children. We have many communication channels for a variety of needs. You will find a suitable place to ask your questions, and help in getting started on any project.
+* contacting [[profiles|existing contributors who share your interests]],
-See some of the faces behind OLPC on our [[profiles]] page.
+* editing pages on [[wiki|this wiki]]
+* writing to a [http://lists.laptop.org mailing list],
+* chatting with us on [[IRC|Internet Relay Chat]],
+* befriending a contributor and visiting in person,
+* attending a [[XOcamp|conference]],
+* [[Internships|interning]] with a [[Profiles|mentor]] or [[Deployments|deployment]]
+* or organizing your own [[club]] or [[event]]
+We'll be happy to help you find ways to contribute or to assist you with your own ideas, so please try us!
-If you have and interesting idea or project, or want to start a local OLPC group, you can request an XO through our [[developers program|contributors and developers program]].  You can also '''[[Emulation|emulate our Sugar environment]]''' on your PC.
+: ''P.S. - If you prefer to start participating by reading or by doing, rather than by talking, then the [[participate|participation]] page is for you.''
-While most of the opportunities to get involved are through our [[participate|volunteer community]], there are also a few specific [http://laptop.org/en/jobs.shtml current job openings].
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+<!--<div style="float:right; border:0px solid #eff; margin: 10px 0px 10px 30px;">{{support-nav}}</div>-->
 You can read more and discuss new ideas about [[Hardware specification|hardware]], [[software_components|software]], [[educators|education]] and [[content|content]];
-The XO's interface, [[Sugar]], has its own [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines|human interface guidelines]]. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and [[Countries|country-specific]] discussions. <!--- An extended '''[[Table of Contents|table of contents]]''' is also available.  not currently updated --->
+The XO's interface, [[Sugar]], has its own [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines|human interface guidelines]]. There are also discussion pages on issues of [[Deployments|deployment]] and [[Countries|country-specific]] discussions.
+:Our five '''[[core principles]]'''&mdash; '''[[core principles#Child Ownership|Child Ownership]]''', '''[[core principles#Low Ages|Low Ages]]''', '''[[core principles#Saturation|Saturation]]''', '''[[core principles#Connection|Connection]]''', and '''[[core principles#Free and Open Source|Free and Open Source]]'''.
+<br style="clear:all;"/>
+== What's new ==
+{{news-nav}}
+{{Latest Releases | firmware = inline | devel = inline | rc = inline | livecd = inline |extra = inline }}
+* OLPC launched its second Give One, Get One ("G1G1") program on November 17, 2008, following last year's popular program which supported the production of over 150,000 XOs. This year the XO laptops will be shipped to donors through Amazon.com, and the program includes [[XO_Giving/G1G1EU|Europe]]. Visit [http://laptop.org/xo '''laptop.org/xo'''].
+* The '''[[Announcements/8.2.0|XO Software Release]] 8.2.0''' is out: with a redesigned interface, [[software updater]], and 19 languages.  ''Read the [[Release Notes/8.2.0|release notes]]. ''
+* For more news, check out dedicated OLPC news aggregators like:
-:Our five '''[[core principles]]'''&mdash;
+** [http://blog.laptop.org the official OLPC blog]
-:''' [[core principles#Child Ownership|Child Ownership]]''': ''I wear my XO like my pair of shoes.''
+** [http://planet.laptop.org the OLPC blog aggregator]
-:'''[[core principles#Low Ages|Low Ages]]''': ''I have good XO shoes for a long walk.''
+** [http://olpcnews.com OLPCNews]
-: '''[[core principles#Saturation|Saturation]]''': ''A healthy education is a vaccination, it reaches everybody and protects from ignorance and intolerance.''
-: '''[[core principles#Connection|Connection]]''': ''When we talk together we stay together.''
-: '''[[core principles#Free and Open Source|Free and Open Source]]''':  ''Give me a free and open environment and I will learn and teach with joy.''

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