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english | 한국어 translations wanted

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see also: software projects, activities, Category:Tasks

Here is a (growing) list of requests related to other work described on this wiki.

• For tasks related to specific projects, see Projects.
• For more information about activities with their own sugar packaging, see the Activities page.
• For more information about activities that could use your help, see the Participate page.
• For a list of specific pages asked to be translated (see also Translating and its how-to)
• For art requests, see Art Wanted.

Help wanted

• See the list of everything in the Tasks Category.
• Icon design: Xbook et al (cf. Don Hopkins); Calculator; Game activities
• pygtk help: for music activities
• Help needed with Educational ideas
  • 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.
• Help needed with Educational activity ideas
  • 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.
• Help needed with 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.
  • See other Software ideas
• Free and open source educational content is needed.
• Develop a Class orchestra activity.

Help offered

• Translation/localization into En, from Es/De/Fr Sj talk
  • See also Translators
• Some online design/interface design help : Humanized.com (contact User:Ianb for more)
• Mentoring or hosting or site design : from name.com

Contractors wanted

now & urgent

Conall Ryan - looking for one contractor to work on reading apps and early-childhood game porting to sugar

Name.org - looking for someone to help them make their efforts more useful to OLPC; incl. at least one programmer

now & ongoing

UNICEF - constantly looking for python programmers; could use another 1-2 contractors to work on

Ben Nardone - looking for one volunteer to work on health-related work

in the future

World Food Program - theoretically looking for a programmer once they find support for a next-generation food-force game, perhaps in a few months.

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