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Want to help OLPC?

Are you a teacher? Teachers get their students involved and contribute educational content. Soon we hope to have an easy method for teachers to share their lesson plans and educational materials with schools using XOs. Are you a student? Students can

Are you a Developer? Developers help code. Create Content for Children! People with expertise (especially related to content interesting to children) contribute and help curate, coordinate, and package content. You may want to look at the Curators and coordinators page to see the kinds of content that may be contributed.

For large-scale ways to get involved, see Getting involved in OLPC. If you have a bit of time and want to get started quickly reading or editing, some other links are included here.

Many people volunteer in a few specific ways:

• Developers help code.
• Teachers get their students involved and contribute educational content. Soon we hope to have an easy method for teachers to share their lesson plans and educational materials with schools using XOs.
• People with expertise (especially related to content interesting to children) contribute and help curate, coordinate, and package content. You may want to look at the Curators and coordinators page to see the kinds of content that may be contributed.

OLPC Community pages

Community channels online

• this wiki, for active recent changes
• Mailing lists, for threaded discussions
• IRC channels, for live feedback
• Getting involved in OLPC, for large-scale project descriptions

Our community includes the educators, developers, writers, artists, translators, parents, and users of early machines. We invite you to join our community and contribute to OLPC's impact on education around the world.

Find a Task

I have time.

I have a skill.

I want to explore!

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Add a Task

To add a new task:

1. Create a new task page.
2. Categorize it according to the task template (included on task page).
3. Add a link and description on the Projects or Activities page (if relevant).

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