Projects

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.

• To find out more about getting XOs for your project, please visit the Contributors page.
• For a list of XO Laptop Lending Libraries, please visit the XO Laptop Lending Libraries page.
• 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.

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.

New and Exciting Projects! XO 1.5 Media Effort Helping out with raising media awareness for the upcoming release of the XO 1.5. Showcase capabilities, compare with the XO 1, make everyone interested in jumping aboard, even the non-programmers. XO Operating System Special Interest Group Creating and nurturing a community of contributors within Sugar Labs with knowledge and experience developing for the XO. Raising raise the visibility and importance of the XO within the Sugar community.... without violating upstream/downstream abstraction barriers. Aura: A new beginning Aura is a free and open source operating system,specially developed for youth. The objective is to provide free software to youth around the world :) See Official Phoenix-Team site for more info :D OPLC UK Pilot - London 2009 In developing OLPC (UK) we aim to establish a 100% volunteer organization and platform for OLPC in the United Kingdom. The intent of OLPC (UK) is to support the deployments of XO computers towards solving defined needs in UK schools paired with schools in developing countries. Notalon: Note-Taking Software Notalon is note-taking, simplified. Its aim is to streamline your focus on taking notes on books and during class lectures. HIV/AIDS Awareness among Kenyan children ages 4 – 16 (preliminary) Develop a curriculum to address the absence of good HIV/AIDS information in Kenyan education by using the XO interactive and individualized learning environment. The Development of the GreenThumb Activity The game allows an avenue for the conducting of biological/genetic-related experiments. It gives the player the chance to choose his/her own preferences in the various factors that will affect the experiment.

Activities and Collections See Activity queries. Abridged Wikipedia Age 5 Math Appropedia Children's Dictionary Colingo eduMagnet Video Player Etoys activity etoys toys (blog) FoodForce2, Teaching Sustainability Through Educational Game Feedbooks General Wikislice ICDL Lewis Carroll Multilingual Dictionary Music One NET Bible Notalon: Note-Taking Software Photos Smile activity Short Stories S.P.A.M: Super Pixel Art Maker 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	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 Evangel (2D graphical chat infrastructure) (blog, mentoring notes) Freifunk GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool gsm4xo Internet Math Tutoring Network for Kosodo Village - Ghana/Kenya (preliminary) Journal for Sugar 0.86 (NEW) LXDE Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment MicroControllerKit mfademo MMEduGamePack Project Model OOo4Kids (EducOOo) -- OOo4Kids & OpenOffice.org Education Project (1 2) 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. Touchscreen 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 XO / Sugar Labs Operating System Special Interest Group (mentoring notes)
Games 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) Primary XO Curriculum for Kenya: basic skills, reading and writing (preliminary) Meta-activities MIMAmusic OLPC KAGE True 3D educational game using Quake engine Typing Turtle lx700video Wiki Test	Grassroots, School Support, Activism and Advocacy Computer Outreach Program using XO CrossCollab (preliminary) Dokeos/LMS + OLPC / Peru Enfants pour l'Éducation (Kids for Education) (preliminary) Grassroots NL Hackerspaces Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan 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 * Southern California OLPC Projects Sugar Labs, DC / Chalatenango Free Software Education Project, El Salvador XO Pilot Projects in Russia MirDoc OPLC UK Pilot - London 2009 (NEW) XO-Contest Switzerland Vung Vieng Fishing Vietnam (mentoring notes) (NEW)
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 *	SpeechandTranslation Automatic Translation Software Content in French Listen and Spell Malaysian Textbook Reader Speech to Text Translations

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

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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