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Are you a Teacher? Teachers can: Get their students involved. Contribute educational content. (Coming soon) Share their lesson plans and educational materials with schools using XO laptops.

Are you a Developer? Developers are enormously useful. Learn how to get involved: at our Developers page. at the Developers program page. You may want to look at some of the Activities being developed for XO laptops. We also host regular Jams to code games and other activities.

Are you a Grade School Student? Students can: Test software and content by joining our Review squad and attending testing Jams. Communicate with kids who have XO laptops. (Our penpals program is coming soon.)

Create Content for Children! We need plenty of help with Content. We're looking for: Interns, mentors, and organizations to join Summer of Content 2007. Wikimaniacs! Curators and coordinators. People who can help package content. Participants for our Curriculum Jams.

Can you Translate? We ♥ Translation Localization Internationalization We're looking for translation help for this wiki and for software, activities, and other content for the XO laptops.

Educational Organizations can help! Your educational organization can help by adapting your educational materials for the XO laptops. We need these materials to be open source. You can see some of the organizations that are getting involved at the Curators and coordinators page.

For large-scale ways to get involved, you might also want to look through 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.

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