Contributors

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Check back this site often! You will need to fill in more details and an official submission again later. For now it is ok to collect information project descriptions below. This will change as we move the whole thing into a DB.

Who?

The community of OLPC contributors includes many people working on

• outreach,
• testing,
• usability,
• content and
• software development, and
• hardware development and hacking,

which are improved by access to laptops. Software and hardware developers have long been able to get laptops through the software developers program; we are opening this process up to all projects from the community aimed at furthering OLPC's mission.

Contributors laptop program

To apply for laptops for your project or proposal, please add a brief project description below, and list the contributors and participants working on the project, and how laptops would be helpful. Indicate any relevant experience or collaborations (Sugar emulation, education, usability and interface design, work with children; research partnerships, school partnerships, &c.).

Proposing a new project

Project name:
Project proposer:
Other contributors:
Project audience or impact:
Project description and relevant experience:
  (please include a link to a full description where available)

Applying for an XO

To request one or more laptops for use in a project, please add to the end of the brief project descriptoin:

Use of laptops to further the project:

When answering, consider:

• Have you tried emulation for this purpose?
• Could you use laptops for a limited time borrowed from a local community pool of machines?
• Similarly, would other projects be able to share these laptops, or would they be in constant use?

Indicate how many laptops, and what power supply or keyboard would be most appropriate, if relevant.

Current applications

Note: please create an account on this wiki and sign your application below with four tildes: <tt>~~~~</tt>

freifunkprojekt

Project name: freifunkxo
Project proposer: Dhopkins
Other contributors: John, Chris, Aaron
Project audience or impact: the malleable minds of freifunkdom
Project description and relevant experience: test project description.  
  Will inspire others to write longer project descriptions.  For details, see Projects/freifunkprojekt
Need for laptops: green muses are hard to come by

video

Project name: LX-700 hacking
Projekt proposer: Thorsten Haas
Other contributors: -
Project audience or impact: OLPC proper - new functionalities in the XO
Project description and relevant experience:
  See Projects/lx700video
Need for laptops: 1

Software Defined Radio

Project name: Software Defined Radio
Projekt proposer: Thomas Kleffel
Other contributors: -
Project audience or impact: OLPC could be used as shortwave data/audio receiver in remote areas
Project description and relevant experience:
  The basic Idea would be to attach a cheap SDR design to the OLPC. 
  USB and/or audio line in would be good for that. 
  Such hardware is already available, for example [[1]], [[2]], [[3]]. 
  While the OLPC doesn't have enough processing power to support sophisticated digital 
  modulation like COFDM it will probably work for narrow band data transmission like PSK31. 
Need for laptops: 1