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Find out more about OLPC There are plenty of ways to find out more about the One Laptop per Child project. Here are a few of the communication channels: Read up and discuss OLPC on a mailing list Find out about what's going on in your region Chat about OLPC in IRC Chat Discover more about OLPC here on the wiki	Donate Simply give one or more laptops to be sent directly to children in developing countries You can also donate to the project Donate your time, apply for the Contributors program. Redonate your XO see where to send your XO to a kids program Donate_Your_Get_One
Get involved locally The first place you should look to get involved with OLPC is in your community. Chances are that there is someone else nearby that is also interested. Get involved in, or start, a regional group Help out at a nearby Pilot... or start one! Create a Community Repair Center Put yourself on the World Map of XO's	Translate The XO Laptop is deployed to children in many languages; we ♥ people who can help us translate in many ways. You can: Join the Localization mailing list Help translate this wiki Help translate some of our content Help translate our software
Content Help us provide free and open content for children along with their XO's. Create electronic textbooks Help format and edit our wiki Get involved in artwork projects Get involved in an OLPC Health project Create various calculating, data analysis and visualization, and financial tools. Develop an activity or collection: a class orchestra, math problems, or how-tos.	Testing New releases of software builds, activities and collections are always in need of testing. You can help by downloading, installing and giving us feedback. Join the Testing mailing list Report bugs and review problems at https://dev.laptop.org Try one of the Sugar distribution downloads Help test the weekly Friends in testing Sugar build Help test by downloading and trying Activities Help test library content by downloading library bundles from the Collections page
Software Development There is a strong developer community, strongly based in Free and Open Software. If you would like to participate: Read the Developers manual on getting started Review Activities and develop an activity Look at the list of Software ideas Get involved with Sugar Labs Apply for hardware in the Contributors program	Hardware There are a few hardware opportunities for EE's and anyone interested in physical bits and bobs: Apply for hardware in the Contributors program Get involved in Community Repair Centers Develop Peripherals for the XO like the PyDuino Document additional Power generation options
Volunteer Infrastructure Group Want to get involved in helping run the OLPC servers and help fix infrastructure problems, and design and implement new systems? The OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group (VIG) supports the rt and trac ticket systems, the development code repository, git, and assists in planning and server bug tracking and fixing. There are opportunities for both experienced and novice sysadmins to help OLPC and have fun in an intellectually challenging way.	Virtual opportunities There are many other ways to get involved online. Support others directly — working alongside dedicated volunteers — to help eager participants online, by phone or in person! Help build and transform information posted on the OLPC Wiki Join the discussion on our Mailing lists Chat with us on IRC

Other ways to get involved

Reach Out

Engage and support thinkers around the world such as:

• Samwel Kongere (Kenya) of Mendenyo (social enterprise)
• Kiyavilo Msekwa (Tanzania) of Learn How to Learn (hardware/software innovation such as the Includer)
• Janet Feldman (USA/Kenya) of Holistic Helping (AIDS response)
• Pamela McLean (UK/Nigeria) of Learning From Each Other (linking rich-bandwidth and poor-bandwidth people)