Project proposals

To propose a new project, create a section with the following:

==== [[Projects/PROJECTNAME|PROJECTNAME]] ====
 Project:
 Proposer:
 Other contributors:
 Audience or impact:
 Brief description:  (link to a full description at [[Projects/PROJECTNAME]])
 Relevant experience & other projects:
 Contact information (wiki, email, &c):
 [If requesting XOs] # of XOs needed, and their use: 

When requesting laptops: include the last line above. Some questions to answer:

• Have you tried emulation for this purpose?
• Could you use laptops for a limited time borrowed from a local community pool of machines?
• Similarly, would other projects be able to share these laptops, or would they be in constant use?
• What power supply or keyboard do you need?

Be sure you have a valid email address for your wiki account as one way to reach you.

Current applications

Note: please create an account on this wiki and sign your application below with four tildes: <tt>~~~~</tt>

freifunkprojekt

Project name: freifunkxo
Project proposer: Dhopkins
Other contributors: John, Chris, Aaron
Project audience or impact: the malleable minds of freifunkdom
Project description and relevant experience: test project description.  
  Will inspire others to write longer project descriptions.  For details, see Projects/freifunkprojekt
Need for laptops: green muses are hard to come by

lx700video

Project name: LX-700 hacking
Projekt proposer: Thorsten Haas
Other contributors: -
Project audience or impact: OLPC proper - new functionalities in the XO
Project description and relevant experience:
  See Projects/lx700video
Need for laptops: 1

Software Defined Radio

Project name: Software Defined Radio
Projekt proposer: Thomas Kleffel
Other contributors: -
Project audience or impact: OLPC could be used as shortwave data/audio receiver in remote areas
Project description and relevant experience: Projects/SDR
Need for laptops: 1
Have you tried emulation for this purpose? Doesn't work for assessing OLPC's performance (Sound IO / Processing Power)
Tk 07:04, 30 December 2007 (EST)

Status: handed out on 30th Dec 2007

Internet via GSM

Project name: GSM 4 XO
Project proposer: Olaf Emcke
Other contributors: -
Project audience or impact: Use a mobile to access internet via GSM
Project description: Projects/gsm4xo
Need for laptops: 1

Budget Robotics Kit

Project name: Robotics Kit
Projet proposer: Willibald Palatin
Other contributors: Chris
Project impact: Possibility to play with sensors and actuators
Project description: Build a budget robotics controller, based on the ATMega series (possibly use an arduino board).
Connected via USB, open source and easily assemble- and programmable, with a 
simple GTK interface. At least 10 pins to read sensor values or send/pulse +5V DC. 

Develop Teaching the Teachers to teach with OLPC

Project name: Teach Teachers to teach
Projet proposer: B-Ranger (@web.de)
Other contributors: 
Project impact: If you want Teachers in OLPC-Use-Areas to use the olpc in class you first need them to know what
they can do. That for you may want to develop ideas for them and a introduction that makes the teacher enthusiastic
about the olpc so that she/he can 'infect' her/his pupils. And for developing that "teach-the-teacher" you may want
to have a presentation, test and try-object.
The idea is to develop a program that teaches german/austrian (teaching) students, so they can take the olpc to a
foreign country and tell the ppl (esp. the local teachers) about it and show them the benefits.

QKD project

Project name: EntangleMe
Project proposer: National U. of Singapore
Project impact: show off XOs being used for science
Details: see projects/EntangleMe

MoinMoin wiki

Project name: MoinMoin
Project proposer: ThomasWaldmann
Other contributors: 
Project audience or impact: all users wanting to use a wiki (e.g. for notes, knowledge base, ...)
Project description and relevant experience: see http://moinmo.in/
 Proposer is project admin of MoinMoin project and a long term Python developer.
Need for laptops: 2 (to test wiki sync and collaboration)

Low cost microcontroller experimentation kit

Project: Low cost microcontroller experimentation kit
Proposer: User:deBaer
Audience or impact: Giving children the possibility to build their own hardware projects on a breadboard with a microcontroller.
Brief description: Developing a low-cost open source kit with a breadboard, a microcontroller, a few simple components (buttons,
     LEDs, ...) that is in-system programmable from the XO. Make an easy-to-use activity that shows the board setup and allows
     developing and programs the microcontroller code. Allow editing and sharing of those projects. See Projects/MicrocontrollerKit)
Relevant experience & other projects: Information Technology engineer, teaching in higher education, Linux developer since 1995
Contact information (wiki, email, &c): deBaer æt gmail døt com
XOs needed: 1 for getting into SUGAR development and testing microcontroller programming methods