Project proposals

To propose a new project, create a section with the following:

==== [[Projects/PROJECTNAME|PROJECTNAME]] ====
 Project:
 Proposer:
 Other contributors:
 Audience or impact:
 Brief description:  (link to a full description at [[Projects/PROJECTNAME]])
 Relevant experience & other projects:
 Contact information (wiki, email, &c):
 [If requesting XOs] # of XOs needed, and their use: 

When requesting laptops: include the last line above. Some questions to answer:

• 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?
• What power supply or keyboard do you need?

Be sure you have a valid email address for 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

lx700video

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.

QKD project

Project name: EntangleMe
Project proposer: National U. of Singapore
Project impact: show off XOs being used for science
Details: see projects/EntangleMe