Projects

Classroom deployment in Ulanbaatar, Mongolia.

Contributor Projects provide new and creative ways to enhance the educational experience of the OLPC program. Projects have included the development of creative activities and software; the creation of content, collections, and resources; the testing and assessment of other ideas; and a wide variety of related work--from the theoretical to the experimental. All proposals have been subject to review by OLPC members.

The following table provides a list of active projects contributing to the OLPC vision. Click on the name of any linked activity for detailed information about its design and development status.

If you are a contributor please make sure that your project is listed in one of the sections below or on a related page.

Recently Approved Projects! AMAGEZI GEMAANYI - KNOWLEDGE IS POWER - to promote the Amagezi Gemaanyi Computer Lab as a safe learning space for children (ages 6-11) and youth (ages 12-20) by implementing a project that will supplement the Ugandan Primary and Secondary School reading, writing, and mathematics syllabus using the interactive games and applications within the XO laptop as a fun, innovative teaching aid. Got Game?! Web version - A service learning project between high school students in Texas and students in Ghana using XO laptops as a communication tool to create relationships and educational math tools while supporting the Touch A Life organization's goal of educating the world on child slavery and human trafficking. Check out our progress DP Blog Westview Centennial Secondary School Computer Club - A high school computer club aiming to engage students in collaborative educational projects using open-source technology. Giving Dominican Children an Encyclopedic Resource - an eagle scout project for Benji Smith that will provide XO Laptops for Los Tocones de las Galeras de Semaná near La Playa Rincόn. Improving School Attendance and Performance in Kenya (also on this wiki) - a project that aims to Improve school attendance rate and performance using the XO Laptops. RIT Projects for Math 4 - a university course for students supporting the OLPC project and the Sugar Labs Math4 curriculum. S.P.A.M: Super Pixel Art Maker ... is a robust pixel editing tool that can produce industry standard pixel sprite art/animation. Projects/Booming Bang   game is soon releasing. Expected Release Date: Last week of November, 2009. XO 1.5 Media Effort Helping out with raising media awareness for the upcoming release of the XO 1.5. Showcase capabilities, compare with the XO 1, make everyone interested in jumping aboard, even the non-programmers. XO Operating System Special Interest Group Creating and nurturing a community of contributors within Sugar Labs with knowledge and experience developing for the XO. Raising raise the visibility and importance of the XO within the Sugar community.... without violating upstream/downstream abstraction barriers. Aura: A new beginning Aura is a free and open source operating system,specially developed for youth. The objective is to provide free software to youth around the world :) See Official Phoenix-Team site for more info :D Please leave your comments here : support_AT_fossfy_DOT_co_DOT_cc OLPC UK Pilot - London 2009 In developing OLPC (UK) we aim to establish a 100% volunteer organization and platform for OLPC in the United Kingdom. The intent of OLPC (UK) is to support the deployments of XO computers towards solving defined needs in UK schools paired with schools in developing countries. Notalon: Note-Taking Software Notalon is note-taking, simplified. Its aim is to streamline your focus on taking notes on books and during class lectures. HIV/AIDS Awareness among Kenyan children ages 4 – 16 (preliminary) Develop a curriculum to address the absence of good HIV/AIDS information in Kenyan education by using the XO interactive and individualized learning environment. The Development of the GreenThumb Activity The game allows an avenue for the conducting of biological/genetic-related experiments. It gives the player the chance to choose his/her own preferences in the various factors that will affect the experiment. OLPC Vietnam project is progressing to a full fledge OLPC project by building a supporters community and bringing communities, educational institutions and officil partners together. Ultimate goal of the project is a large scale deployment to support and foster the change of frontal teachers centralized methods to a learner and learning focused methodology in Vietnam. OLPC Vietnam support a holistic approach that puts students in the center and fosters active participation, learning in the digital society and using IT for a change to the better. GaiaBB - distributed Social Networks GaiaBB aims to be an easily modifiable, localizable peer to peer forum. The idea is to allow kids to create their own social networks, and easily share them with friends (online and offline). OLPC Deployment to Mafi Dove, Ghana Starting with a planned deployment of at least 20 XOs to the middle school in this rural village in Ghana, we hope to expand to their entire school over time, and then work out to neighboring villages. Sankamup - News distribution and production facilitation Sankamup is initially targetted at the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, which suffered major setbacks in education and communications as the result of a protracted civil war. Sankamup looks to address wireless communications issues, local language support; and the porting of Scribus an Opensource Desktop publishing application, and Celtx an Opensource application for Scriptwriting and other Pre-production activities - to facilitate "tribal" storytelling and capture. Turtle Art Curriculum Project of Olin College. This lab-based curriculum is designed to teach a variety of math and engineering concepts through Turtle Art. It will be running for the first time as a after school program for 3rd - 5th graders at John Eliot Elementary School in Needham, MA in spring 2010. Kenya Measuring XO Discovery Learning HOC teams will teach a math curriculum designed during the last 5 months using XO Turtle Art and Pippy problem solving learning tasks to demonstrate student skill development made using the XO in conventional Kenyan exams (CATs). After school and weekend XO access will provide additional learning time.

Activities and Collections See Activity queries. Abridged Wikipedia Age 5 Math Appropedia Children's Dictionary Colingo eduMagnet Video Player Etoys activity etoys toys (blog) FoodForce2, Teaching Sustainability Through Educational Game Feedbooks General Wikislice ICDL Lewis Carroll Multilingual Dictionary Music One NET Bible Notalon: Note-Taking Software Photos Smile activity Short Stories S.P.A.M: Super Pixel Art Maker TeleHealth Tux Paint Uniwiki Web Design Wikibooks WikiHow Wikipedia Featured Pics Wikipedia Overview Wikislice Wikislice Animals Wikislice General World Factbook Wowie Books Write Wikislice-En World Factbook WP WP-Animals-En WP-General-En FotoToon (blog in Spanish)	Tools and Software Alternative Power Generator, Arkansas (preliminary) Atlas America Apache Proxy CRCsync and Finger-painting interface for the Moodle School server CRM Web form XO Coreboot firmware as compared to Open Firmware Educational toolkit EduMagnet + eduMagnet Live System Evangel (2D graphical chat infrastructure) (blog, mentoring notes) Freifunk GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool gsm4xo Internet Math Tutoring Network for Kosodo Village - Ghana/Kenya (preliminary) Journal for Sugar 0.86 (NEW) LXDE Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment MicroControllerKit mfademo MMEduGamePack Project Model OOo4Kids (EducOOo) -- OOo4Kids & OpenOffice.org Education Project (1 2) OLPC Cross-Lingual Meaning to Word dictionary & Collection of NLP Tools OLPC Test Usability PaintWeb w/ Moodle Print Support RescoManager SDR SugarMail Support for heterogeneous computing. Touchscreen Video Editing Webified: Sugarizing Web Apps] WebQuest Server and Activity Wind Shear Detection for Small Airports - Northridge, CA (preliminary) XO Mail XO-1.5 Build Testing - UK OLPC as a client of Perfect Super Computer in Thailand XO / Sugar Labs Operating System Special Interest Group (mentoring notes)
Games Booming Bang -Arcade funny game (preliminary) Game Development with Flash on the XO-1 Flixel Games Framework on XO] (preliminary) Intelligent Predictor Application for XO Karma Project klik Mathematics Fundamentals, Teaching in Kenya (preliminary) Primary XO Curriculum for Kenya: basic skills, reading and writing (preliminary) Meta-activities MIMAmusic OLPC KAGE True 3D educational game using Quake engine Typing Turtle lx700video Wiki Test	Grassroots, School Support, Activism and Advocacy See also this showcase of Community Deployments seeking XO Donations. OLPC-Saigon Computer Outreach Program using XO CrossCollab (preliminary) Dokeos/LMS + OLPC / Peru Enfants pour l'Éducation (Kids for Education) (preliminary) Grassroots NL Hackerspaces Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan OLPC Bellingham OLPC-Catalonia OLPC-Turkey OLPC Grassroots Philippines Developer Program Preliminary: OLPC - Honduras (preliminary) Projects and Proposals Rural Design Collective 2009 (Oregon) Recruitment Revolution: Success Links, Los Angeles Science Link UK-Uganda Science Link Bettws(UK) and Uganda * Southern California OLPC Projects Sugar Labs, DC / Chalatenango Free Software Education Project, El Salvador XO Pilot Projects in Russia MirDoc OPLC UK Pilot - London 2009 (NEW) XO-Contest Switzerland Vung Vieng Fishing Vietnam (mentoring notes) (NEW)
Health and Science BioSensor Computer-aided Instruction in Medical Schools in Kenya & Illinois (USA) EntangleMe Diabetes_Prevention_through_eHealth_for_poor_postpartum_women Health Jam HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases/Hygiene Health Education Intervention Activity (Mozambique) HIV/AIDS Awareness among Kenyan children ages 4 – 16 (preliminary) HIV/AIDS Initiative in Tanzania w/ MIT & Clinton Foundation (preliminary) OLPC Tanzania Shining Star XOs for Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief The SpikerBox: Bringing Neurophysiology to Everyone *	Speech and Translation Automatic Translation Software Content in French Listen and Spell Malaysian Textbook Reader Speech to Text Translations

Projects Not Using XOs

Using emulation, or other tools, or other parts of the hardware stack.

• Standard, Temperature and Pressure Calculator(STP_Calc) (preliminary)
• Reflective backscreen

Contributors Projects for Testing

List here if your project is now ready for testing:

• BoomingBang, project Alpha Version Ready, releasing November 2009.

Please contact Abhishek Indoria, at hackerboymayabhi_AT_gmail_DOT_com if you can help. Projects/Contributors_Project_for_Testing

Help wanted

There are many other ways in which you could contribute to the OLPC Community. There are needs to be filled in translation, Datalogging, Basic Teacher Training, many Educational ideas, semantics, icon design work, and other suchTasks.

If you are interested in working on software development, there are many ideas found at the Software ideas page.

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