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

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Developers_program/tmp. (Discuss)

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 description:

[If requesting XOs] Use of laptops to further the project:
The best way to contact you (wiki, email, &c)

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. Please add a valid email address to your wiki account as one way to reach you.

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

Internet via GSM

Project name: GSM 4 XO
Project proposer: Olaf Emcke
Other contributors: -
Project audience or impact: Use a mobile to access internet via GSM
Project description: Projects/gsm4xo
Need for laptops: 1

Budget Robotics Kit

Project name: Robotics Kit
Projet proposer: Willibald Palatin
Other contributors: Chris
Project impact: Possibility to play with sensors and actuators
Project description: Build a budget robotics controller, based on the ATMega series (possibly use an arduino board).
Connected via USB, open source and easily assemble- and programmable, with a 
simple GTK interface. At least 10 pins to read sensor values or send/pulse +5V DC. 

Develop Teaching the Teachers to teach with OLPC

Project name: Teach Teachers to teach
Projet proposer: B-Ranger (@web.de)
Other contributors: 
Project impact: If you want Teachers in OLPC-Use-Areas to use the olpc in class you first need them to know what
they can do. That for you may want to develop ideas for them and a introduction that makes the teacher enthusiastic
about the olpc so that she/he can 'infect' her/his pupils. And for developing that "teach-the-teacher" you may want
to have a presentation, test and try-object.
The idea is to develop a program that teaches german/austrian (teaching) students, so they can take the olpc to a
foreign country and tell the ppl (esp. the local teachers) about it and show them the benefits.