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Are you a Teacher? If so, please Read about the project and our first schools Get your students involved. Join this wiki and contribute educational content. Share your lesson plans and educational ideas with schools using XOs, and with the rest of us! Help document your and your students' experiences with the laptops Make a connection between your class ans an OLPC school elsewhere in the world. Have your students record stories from eachother and from their community, to share with children elsewhere; or have them read existing stories out loud.

Are you a Developer? Learn how to get involved: read our Developers manual and Developers/FAQ apply for our Developers program test or review one of the current Activities setup a sugar development environment Explore the operating stack of the laptops Read or contribute to our list of development issues Suggest particular projects of interest Join one of our many developer channels Help us gather documentation as you make your first contributions We expect to have monthly releases for a short while, followed by three-month update cycles; with activity developers soon able to follow their own cycles. We also host regular Jams to code activities of various sorts. Games and News activities have been topics of recent events.

Are you a Grade School Student? Students can: Test software and content by joining our review squad, attending testing Jams, or setting up a testing session with their class. Communicate with kids who have XO laptops. (Our penpals program is coming soon; see ePals for a related activity.)

Make things; share what you know! Everyone can Sign up to intern, mentor, or sponsor Summer of Content projects for 2008. Apply to become a topical curator or coordinator. Help others package materials and make activities. Host or participate in content jams.

Can you translate? Can you read? We ♥ Translation Localization and Internationalization Audio recordings of books and text Text transcriptions of songs, speeches, and videos We are looking for help translating this wiki, our most-used core software, and the many activities and content bundles being made.

For educational organizations Educational organization can help out too. Like individual teachers, your organization can Adapt materials for the XO laptops, Review existing materials and interfaces, Connect groups of students or participants in a specific program. Provide expert guidance to student groups working in certain fields We are working together to build a network of open projects and open source tools and materials. You can see some of the organizations that are getting involved, and sign up, at the Curators and coordinators page.

For large-scale ways to get involved, you might also want to look through Getting involved in OLPC. If you have a bit of time and want to get started quickly reading or editing, some other links are included here.

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Our community includes the educators, developers, writers, artists, translators, parents, and users of early machines. We invite you to join our community and contribute to OLPC's impact on education around the world.

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