Projects

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

For more information about activities that could use your help such as hardware and firmware work, interface design, or integration and aggregation of material, please see the Participate page.

Project Categories

The following lists will give you an idea of current projects underway that are contributing to the OLPC Community. Most people taking part in the Contributor's Program are involved in at least one project; if you are a contributor, 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.

Contributors projects OLPC Cross-Lingual Meaning to Word dictionary & Collection of NLP Tools OLPC KAGE OLPC Tanzania Game Development with Flash on the XO-1 WebQuest Server and Activity BioSensor Content in French Computer Outreach Program using XO Educational toolkit EduMagnet + eduMagnet Live System EntangleMe Grassroots NL gsm4xo Hackerspaces Health Jam klik lx700video XOs for Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief mfademo SugarMail MicroControllerKit Meta-activities MIMAmusic OLPC Bellingham RescoManager XO Pilot Projects in Russia OLPC-Catalonia OLPC-Turkey OLPC Grassroots Philippines Developer Program Automatic Translation Software Projects and Proposals XO Mail SDR OLPC Test Usability Translations Typing Turtle Video Editing Wiki Test Atlas America Shining Star Model LXDE Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment MirDoc Speech to Text CRM Web form XO Listen and Spell Sugar Labs, DC / Chalatenango Free Software Education Project, El Salvador Coreboot firmware as compared to Open Firmware PaintWeb w/ Moodle Support for heterogeneous computing. Apache Proxy CRCsync and Finger-painting interface for the Moodle School server

Projects involving activities and collections See Activity queries. Abridged Wikipedia Age 5 Math Appropedia Children's Dictionary Colingo eduMagnet Video Player etoys toys General Wikislice ICDL Lewis Carroll Multilingual Dictionary Music One NET Bible Photos Short Stories TeleHealth Tux Paint Uniwiki Web Design Wikibooks WikiHow Wikipedia Featured Pics Wikipedia Overview Wikislice Wikislice Animals Wikislice General World Factbook Wowie Books Write Abridged Wikipedia ICDL Wikislice-En World Factbook WP WP-Animals-En WP-General-En FoodForce2, Teaching Sustainability Through Educational Game Feedbooks

Projects not using XOs using emulation, or other tools, or other parts of the hardware stack Standard, Temperature and Pressure Calculator(STP_Calc) Reflective backscreen XO Laptop Lending Libraries Borrow an XO Laptop to start your own project! Or Pioneer your own Community Library! Category:XO_Lending_Libraries Australia / New Zealand (EMERGING NOW) Leiden The Netherlands Europe up since may 2008 OLPCorps MIT Loaner Library Boston (NEW) Austin Laptop Lending Library Texas (OPENING SOON!) UK (OPENING SOON!) Washington, DC (OPENING SOON!) Under Discussion: Malaysia [*] Philippines France Austria [Francisco State University] Los Angeles [*] Montana [*] Munich

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.

Help offered

You are not alone! Our many volunteers and mentors can help you with your contributions to the OLPC Community in many ways. Here are a couple of ways we can offer you help!

Translation

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