Participate

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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! Document your and your students' experiences with the laptops Connect your class with an OLPC school elsewhere in the world. Have students record stories from each other, to share with children elsewhere; or simply read existing stories out loud. Volunteer to support other users directly!

Are you a Developer or Tester? It may be easiest at the moment for developers to get involved. You can read our Developers manual and Developers/FAQ apply for our Developers program test or review one of the current Activities; start at the Testing page 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 volunteer to support other users directly 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? If you are a student, you can: Make an account here on the wiki, and write about what projects you are working on Start a new project with a friend, or suggest one you want to start Test the laptops with others; join a review squad, or set up a review session with their class. Communicate with other students around the world. (A penpals program is in the coming; 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. Join our mailing lists or forums and share your ideas for improving education Host or participate in content jams. Point others to this page! Connect via web-links to local countries.

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 and teachers with one another, Provide expert guidance to student groups We are building open projects and open source tools and materials in every field. To sign up, see the Curators and coordinators page.

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For an older overview of getting involved, see the more detailed page Getting involved in OLPC. Some other links are included here for quick perusal:

OLPC Community pages Community channels online this wiki, for active recent changes Mailing lists, for threaded discussions IRC channels, for live feedback Forums, for discussion board interaction Getting involved in OLPC, for large-scale project descriptions (needs cleanup badly!) Our community includes the educators, developers, writers, artists, translators, parents, and users of early machines. Please join us and contribute to OLPC's impact on education around the world. Some related feeds Meta organizing revisiting submission templates for projects/ideas/material segmented Recent changes from OLPC Blogs and lists Planet OLPC and OLPC Cambridge OLPC Ceibal OLPC PERU Current events has its own rss feed, though it is basically superceded by the community-news mailing list.

Find a Task An exploratory way to to find open tasks: by time. by skill. by browsing! See also our FAQ and Ask OLPC a Question, which always need active pruning and archiving. This is a task which lets you review the tasks and project ideas of others. Help finding a task. Add a Task To add a new task: Create a new task page. Categorize it according to the task template (included on task page). Add a link and description on the Projects or Activities page (if relevant). Help adding a task.