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Are you a Teacher?

If so, please

Read about the project and our first schools
Get your students involved.
Join this wiki and contribute educational content.
Share your lesson plans and educational ideas with schools using XOs, and with the rest of us!
Document your and your students' experiences with the laptops
Connect your class with an OLPC school elsewhere in the world.
- Have students record stories from eachother, to share with children elsewhere; or simply read existing stories out loud.

Are you a Developer?

Learn how to get involved:

read our Developers manual and Developers/FAQ
apply for our Developers program
test or review one of the current Activities
- setup a sugar development environment
- Explore the operating stack of the laptops
- Read or contribute to our list of development issues
- Suggest particular projects of interest
- Join one of our many developer channels
- Help us gather documentation as you make your first contributions

We expect to have monthly releases for a short while, followed by three-month update cycles; with activity developers soon able to follow their own cycles.

We also host regular Jams to code activities of various sorts. Games and News activities have been topics of recent events.

Are you a Grade School Student?

If you are a student, you can:

Make an account here on the wiki, and write about what projects you are working on
Start a new project with a friend, or suggest one you want to start
Test the laptops with others; join a review squad, or set up a review session with their class.
Communicate with other students around the world. (A penpals program is in the coming; see ePals for a related activity.)

Make things; share what you know!

Everyone can

Sign up to intern, mentor, or sponsor Summer of Content projects for 2008.
Apply to become a topical curator or coordinator.
Help others package materials and make activities.
Join our mailing lists or forums and share your ideas for improving education
Host or participate in content jams.
Point others to this page!

Can you translate? Can you read?

We ♥

Translation
Localization and Internationalization
Audio recordings of books and text
Text transcriptions of songs, speeches, and videos

We are looking for help translating this wiki, our most-used core software, and the many activities and content bundles being made.

For educational organizations

Educational organization can help out too. Like individual teachers, your organization can

Adapt materials for the XO laptops,
Review existing materials and interfaces,
Connect groups of students or participants in a specific program.
Provide expert guidance to student groups working in certain fields

We are building open projects and open source tools and materials. To sign up, see the Curators and coordinators page.

For an older overview of getting involved, see the more detailed page Getting involved in OLPC. Some other links are included here for quick perusal:

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!

Help finding a task.

Add a Task

To add a new task:

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

Help adding a task.

Some related feeds

Recent

segmented Recent changes )(

Meta

organizing organizing
revisiting submission templates for projects/ideas/material

OLPC Blogs

OLPC newsfeed

Current events has its own rss feed, though it is basically superceded by the community-news mailing list.

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 If you are a student, you can:
-* Make an account here on the wiki, and write about what projects you are working on, on your own and with others.
+* Make an account here on the wiki, and write about what projects you are working on
-* Start a new project with a friend, or suggest one you want to start, involving a laptop or just a long-distance connection.
+* Start a new project with a friend, or suggest one you want to start
-* Test software and content; join a [[review squad]], or setting up a testing session with their class.
+* Test the laptops with others; join a [[review squad]], or set up a review  session with their class.
-* Communicate with students who have their own XO laptops.  (A penpals program is in the coming; see [[ePals]] for a related activity.)
+* Communicate with other students around the world.  (A penpals program is in the coming; see [[ePals]] for a related activity.)
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 * Apply to become a topical [[curators and coordinators|curator or coordinator]].
 * Help others [[Creating a content bundle|package materials]] and [[creating an activity|make activities]].
+* Join our [[mailing lists]] or [[forums]] and share your ideas for improving education
 * Host or participate in [[Jams|content jams]].
+* Point others to this page!
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