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- Health and Science BioSensor Computer-aided Instruction in Medical Schools in Kenya & Illinois (USA) EntangleMe Diabetes_Prevention_through_eHealth_for_poor_postpartum_women Health Jam HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases/Hygiene Health Education Intervention Activity (Mozambique) HIV/AIDS Awareness among Kenyan children ages 4 – 16 (preliminary) HIV/AIDS Initiative in Tanzania w/ MIT & Clinton Foundation (preliminary) OLPC Tanzania Shining Star XOs for Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief The SpikerBox: Bringing Neurophysiology to Everyone * Contributors projects- Tools and Software Alternative Power Generator, Arkansas (preliminary) Atlas America Apache Proxy CRCsync and Finger-painting interface for the Moodle School server CRM Web form XO Coreboot firmware as compared to Open Firmware Educational toolkit EduMagnet + eduMagnet Live System Freifunk gsm4xo Internet Math Tutoring Network for Kosodo Village - Ghana/Kenya (preliminary) Journal for Sugar 0.86 (NEW) LXDE Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment MicroControllerKit mfademo Model OOo4Kids (EducOOo) -- OOo4Kids & OpenOffice.org Education Project OLPC Cross-Lingual Meaning to Word dictionary & Collection of NLP Tools OLPC Test Usability PaintWeb w/ Moodle Print Support RescoManager SDR SugarMail Support for heterogeneous computing. Video Editing Webified: Sugarizing Web Apps] WebQuest Server and Activity Wind Shear Detection for Small Airports - Northridge, CA (preliminary) XO Mail XO-1.5 Build Testing - UK OLPC as a client of Perfect Super Computer in Thailand Contributors projects - Games and Activities Booming Bang -Arcade funny game (preliminary) Game Development with Flash on the XO-1 Flixel Games Framework on XO] (preliminary) Intelligent Predictor Application for XO Karma Project klik Mathematics Fundamentals, Teaching in Kenya (preliminary) Meta-activities MIMAmusic OLPC KAGE True 3D educational game using Quake engine Typing Turtle lx700video Wiki Test Contributors projects- Speech and Translation Automatic Translation Software Content in French Listen and Spell Malaysian Textbook Reader Speech to Text Translations

Projects involving activities and collections See Activity queries. Abridged Wikipedia Age 5 Math Appropedia Children's Dictionary Colingo eduMagnet Video Player etoys toys FoodForce2, Teaching Sustainability Through Educational Game Feedbooks 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 Wikislice-En World Factbook WP WP-Animals-En WP-General-En Contributors projects- Grassroots School Support, Activism & Advocacy Computer Outreach Program using XO CrossCollab (preliminary) Dokeos/LMS + OLPC / Peru Enfants pour l'Éducation (Kids for Education) (preliminary) Grassroots NL Hackerspaces OLPC Bellingham OLPC-Catalonia OLPC-Turkey OLPC Grassroots Philippines Developer Program Preliminary: OLPC - Honduras (preliminary) Projects and Proposals Rural Design Collective 2009 (Oregon) Recruitment Revolution: Success Links, Los Angeles Science Link UK-Uganda Science Link Bettws(UK) and Uganda * Sugar Labs, DC / Chalatenango Free Software Education Project, El Salvador XO Pilot Projects in Russia MirDoc OPLC UK Pilot - London 2009 (NEW!)

Projects not using XOs using emulation, or other tools, or other parts of the hardware stack Standard, Temperature and Pressure Calculator(STP_Calc) (preliminary) 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 Austin Laptop Lending Library Texas (NEW) Australia / New Zealand (NEW) OLPCorps MIT Loaner Library Boston Leiden The Netherlands Europe up since may 2008 SF State Univ Lending Library (NEW!) UK (NEW!) Washington, DC (NEW) FAMLI/Audubon MS XO Library and Repair Center - Los Angeles (EMERGING) Under Discussion: Austria France Los Angeles [*] Montana [*] Munich Malaysia [*] Philippines San Francisco Bay Area

Contributors Projects for Testing

List here if your project is now ready for testing: Projects/Contributors_Project_for_Testing

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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