Projects

Projects : Activities · Collections · Testing

OLPC projects include creative activities and software, collections of content and resources, testing and assessment of other projects, and a wide assortment of related work, from the theoretical to the experimental.

Other projects include

• Hardware and Firmware work
• Interface design and Accessibility
• Integration and aggregation of material

For more information about activities that could use your help, see the Participate page.

Project Categories

Most people taking part in the developer's program are involved in at least one project; please make sure that yours is listed below or on a related page. Click on the name of any linked activity for detailed information about its design and development status.

active projects

• OLPC KAGE
• Game Development with Flash on the XO-1
• WebQuest Server and Activity
• BioSensor
• Content in French
• Educational toolkit
• EntangleMe
• Grassroots NL
• gsm4xo
• Hackerspaces
• Health Jam
• klik
• lx700video
• XOs for Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief
• Projects/mfademo
• Projects/SugarMail
• Projects/MicrocontrollerKit
• Projects/Meta-activities
• Projects/MIMAmusic
• Projects/OLPC Bellingham
• Projects/RescoManager
• Projects/XO pilot projects in Russia
• Projects/olpc-catalonia
• Projects/olpcturkey
• OLPC Grassroots Philippines Developer Program
• Projects and proposals
• Projects/xomail
• Projects/SDR
• Projects/TestUsabilityOLPC
• Projects/translations
• Projects/Typing_Turtle
• Projects/VideoEditing
• Projects/wiki test
• Projects/Atlas_America
• Projects/Shining_Star

summaries of activities and collections See Activity queries. Projects/Abridged Wikipedia Projects/Age 5 Math Projects/Appropedia Projects/Children's dictionary Projects/Colingo Projects/General wikislice Projects/ICDL Projects/Lewis Carroll Projects/Multilingual dictionary Projects/Music One Projects/NET Bible Projects/Photos Projects/Short stories Projects/TeleHealth Projects/Tux Paint Projects/Uniwiki Projects/Web design Projects/WikiBooks Projects/WikiHow Projects/Wikipedia featured pictures Projects/Wikipedia overview Projects/Wikislice Projects/Wikislice/animals Projects/Wikislice/general Projects/World Factbook Projects/Wowio books Projects/Write Projects/abridged wikipedia Projects/icdl Projects/wikislice-en Projects/world factbook Projects/wp Projects/wp-animals-en Projects/wp-general-en

meta

• Projects/Bot List

in other languages

• Projects/lang-ko

Help wanted

Requested projects

• Translating/Suggestions has a list of requests for translation

  (see also Translating and its how-to)

• Art Wanted

General

• See the Tasks Category

Pedagogy

• Outline the best way to use the XO as a Datalogger; update the OLPC as Datalogger page with this information.
• Flesh out ideas about teaching students to make tools for art creation in resource-poor areas; create wiki page with these ideas linked from Educational ideas.
• If you are an educator with experience using computers in the classroom, we need your input on questions listed at Basic Teacher Training.
• Outline the steps needed to set up a functioning Key Pals program that connects children using XOs either with children in developed countries or with children using XOs in other countries.
• Implement semantic fields in either squeak or etoys.

Design

• Icon design: Xbook et al (cf. Don Hopkins); Calculator; Game activities
• Pygtk help: for music activities

Software

See also Software ideas

• Create various calculating, data analysis and visualization, and financial tools.
• Develop language-learning tools and ask content owners to contribute free language resources (dictionaries, thesauruses, etc) in OLPC-friendly formats.
• Develop or adapt for XOs science-learning tools.
• Develop programs that use XOs to aid in physical education and training.
• Develop XO programs for creation and recording of art.
• Develop XO programs for music education (make sure you look at TamTam before beginning).
• Develop XO communications applications (VOIP, email, etc).
• Develop XO educational tools.
• Develop XO games. A variety of games are currently in development; try searching the wiki to get an idea of what's being done.
• Free and open source educational content is needed.
• Develop a Class orchestra activity.

Help offered

Translation

• Translation/localization into En, from Es/De/Fr Sj talk

Other

• Online design/interface design help : Humanized.com (contact User:Ianb for more)
• Mentoring or hosting or site design : from name.com

Contractors / interns Wanted

• UNICEF - looking for another 1-2 contractors to work on mapping and children's storytelling