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Find out more about OLPC There are plenty of ways to find out more about the One Laptop per Child project. Here are a few of the communication channels: Read up and discuss OLPC on a mailing list Find out about what's going on in your region Chat about OLPC in IRC Chat Discover more about OLPC here on the wiki	Donate Simply give one or more laptops to be sent directly to children in developing countries Give many (100 or more laptops) to change the world, and designate where in the world you would like the laptops sent. You can also donate to the project
Get involved locally The first place you should look to get involved with OLPC is in your community. Chances are that there is someone else nearby that is also interested. Get involved in, or start, a regional group Help out at a nearby Pilot... or start one! Create a Community Repair Center Put yourself on the World Map of XO's	Translate The XO Laptop is deployed to children in many languages; we ♥ people who can help us translate in many ways. You can: Help translate this wiki Help translate some of our content Help translate our software
Content Help us provide free and open content for children along with their XO's. Help format and edit our wiki Create electronic textbooks Create mathematics learning materials Get involved in artwork projects Select the best WikiHow articles for the XO Get involved in the OLPC Health group	Testing New releases of software builds, activities and collections are always in need of testing. You can help by downloading, installing and giving us feedback. Help test the weekly Friends in testing Sugar build Help test by downloading and trying Activities Help test library content by downloading library bundles from the Collections page
Software Development There is a strong developer community, strongly based in Free and Open Software. If you would like to participate: Read the Developers manual on getting started Review Activities and develop an activity Look at the list of open projects Apply for the Developers program	Hardware There are a few hardware opportunities for EE's and anyone interested in physical bits and bobs: Get involved in Community Repair Centers Develop Peripherals for the XO like the PyDuino Document additional Power generation options
Volunteer Infrastructure Group Want to get involved in helping run the OLPC servers and help fix infrastructure problems, and design and implement new systems? The OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group (VIG) supports the rt and trac ticket systems, the development code repository, git, and assists in planning and server bug tracking and fixing. There are opportunities for both experienced and novice sysadmins to help OLPC and have fun in an intellectually challenging way.	Virtual opportunities There are many other ways to get involved online. Support others directly — helping eager participants by email or phone! Help build and transform the information on this Wiki Join the discussion on our Mailing lists and Forums Chat with us on IRC

Other ways to get involved

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Dream

Work at the Minciu Sodas laboratory for independent thinkers:

• on your endeavors
• on your investigations

Reach Out

Engage and support thinkers around the world such as:

• Samwel Kongere (Kenya) of Mendenyo (social enterprise)
• Kiyavilo Msekwa (Tanzania) of Learn How to Learn (hardware/software innovation such as the Includer)
• Janet Feldman (USA/Kenya) of Holistic Helping (AIDS response)
• Pamela McLean (UK/Nigeria) of Learning From Each Other (linking rich-bandwidth and poor-bandwidth people)

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