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==== [[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
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Preparing a Pilot Leiden, The Netherlands
Project: 2012 Leiden Proposer: Marten Other contributors: a local team Audience or impact: - Teachers (Training) - University Leiden (research) - Content Owners/Builder - Childern, building cases of experiential learning Brief description: Currently Preparing a pilot, Train Teachers, Test Content/XS/Backups. To get an impression presentation Relevant experience & other projects: Read more here more about me Contact information : Marten I have tested emulation and still use it. If have asked grassroot_nl to use these, however the 3 XO's are sufficient for all grassrooters in NL. When not in use I will share these XO's with Grassroots_nl and other XO-projects. XO's needed 3, European Standards, 220V | desired keyboard layout : US English - Train teachers, - Content testing at the Content Compagny - Demonstation Model when talking Government, Sponsors, University
Marten 16:18, 13 March 2008 (EDT)
OLPC India Student Chapter
Project: OLPC India Student Chapter Proposer: Gaurav Chachra Other contributors: Rahul Vats, Bhola Nath Audience or impact: Universities, Colleges, Schools and a few known personalities of North India and making them realize the need and importance of OLPC in India. Brief description: OLPC India Student Chapter is a team of students of India to spread awareness about OLPC by delivering detailed presentations, demonstrations and accepting comments about OLPC from different Universities, Schools and a few famous personalities of India. We're also designing fliers, brochures, etc. to effectively spread our message. As the team grows, we'll spread our domain to include content development for XO (tutorials aimed at small children, hardware and software development, etc.). Through the university officials, the Student Chapter will attempt to reach Human Resource & Development Ministry to give approval to OLPC in India. Relevant experience & other projects: The team has already delivered a presentation on 5th February 2008 at a seminar in engineering department of Panjab University, Chandigarh. The seminar was presided by Dr. Daljit Singh (Former Counselor (Science & Tech.), Embassy of India in USA) and Dr. US Shivhare (Editor, International Journal of Food Technology, USA). The OLPC project got overwhelming response of the audience (numbering about 100 people). Contact information (wiki, email, &c): My Userpage Requirement: Currently we don't need XOs (though we may need it in future), but as of now this is just a request for a few email accounts of the domain laptop.org . To communicate formally with other institutions and dignified people, such email accounts are desired.
Gaurav 05:27, 22 February 2008 (EST)
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
Status: handed out on 30th Dec 2007
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: Projects/SDR Need for laptops: 1 Have you tried emulation for this purpose? Doesn't work for assessing OLPC's performance (Sound IO / Processing Power) Tk 07:04, 30 December 2007 (EST)
Status: handed out on 30th Dec 2007
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
MoinMoin wiki
Project name: MoinMoin Project proposer: ThomasWaldmann Other contributors: Project audience or impact: all users wanting to use a wiki (e.g. for notes, knowledge base, ...) Project description and relevant experience: see http://moinmo.in/ Proposer is project admin of MoinMoin project and a long term Python developer. Need for laptops: 2 (to test wiki sync and collaboration)
Low cost microcontroller experimentation kit
Project: Low cost microcontroller experimentation kit Proposer: User:deBaer Audience or impact: Giving children the possibility to build their own stand-alone hardware projects on a breadboard with a microcontroller. Brief description: Developing a low-cost open source kit with a breadboard, a microcontroller, a few simple components (buttons, LEDs, ...) that is in-system programmable from the XO. Make an easy-to-use activity that shows the board setup and allows developing and programs the microcontroller code. Allow editing and sharing of those projects. See Projects/MicrocontrollerKit) Relevant experience & other projects: Information Technology engineer, teaching in higher education, Linux developer since 1995 Contact information (wiki, email, &c): deBaer æt gmail døt com XOs needed: 1 for getting into SUGAR development and testing microcontroller programming methods
Integration with CMS back-end storage
Project: Use OLPC laptopts to create digital storage of lectures in elementary and secondary schools Proposer: User:dpavlin Audience or impact: Students of elementary and secondary schools (age 6-18) Brief description: We are developing portal for schools which would be ideal place to collect lectures which could be captured using OLPC camera for other students who are unable to attend lectures (sick friends, and similar) Relevant experience & other projects: Implementation of current CMS system for the last two years with 330 schools currently connected to system (from total of 3300) Contact information (wiki, email, &c): dpavlin@carnet.hr XOs needed: 1 to test integration with CMS, later it will end up in one of the schools
Introduce XO to Rotterdam (the Netherlands) schools
Project: Trial of OPLC laptop in elementary schools for possible city wide deployment. Proposer: MaartenM79 Audience or impact: Students of elementary and secondary schools (age 6-18) Brief description: I would like to test out the XO in elementary schools in Rotterdam. Relevant experience & other projects: As chairman of the youth political party CDJA in Rotterdam I am very interested in promoting information technology, especially for young children. Our party has the councilor of education in Rotterdam and I would like to promote the laptop to him. Contact information (wiki, email, &c): m.menheere at gmail.com XOs needed: 2 for demonstration purposes (on loan is ok too), i'm looking for contacts. 20 for classroom test
Game based eVideo for XO mesh networks
Project: Evaluation of video- and game based (e)learning scenarios. Proposer: Anja C. Wagner 09:02, 2 January 2008 (EST) Other contributors: Fabian Topfstedt, Henrik Regensburg, Hans L. Cycon, WiseWoman Audience or impact: Teachers and students in schools, high schools, universities, and continuing education need dynamic learning scenarios for motivation. Some scenarios include the use of video and video conferencing. Brief description: The use of instructional video - especially with the possibility of including localized subtitles or dubbed audio - provides an excellent platform for presenting international open educational resources. Video conferencing allows direct, synchronous communication within classrooms or beyond classroom walls. We are developing new scenarios, sometimes called (e)learning 2.0, that includes video and video conferencing for educating learners using new technologies for personal needs. In order to motivate people to educate themselves, we are also investigating narrative and competitive structures from the gaming industry. We want to see if our video formats perform on the XO computers with their special displayes and evaluate different video conferencing tools to work with the wireless mesh network. Relevant experience & other projects: As an interdisciplinary project team in the context of a University for Applied Sciences, at the FHTW Berlin, we have acquired much experience in the area of video formats (also called codecs) and video conferencing and in their application in the area of (e)learning. Our most recent project is concerned with developing technical and methodological skills on the use of video and game based learning scenarios - using video and video conferencing. See the eVideo Project Blog (in German). Contact information (wiki, email, &c): acw ÄT edufuture PÜNKT de XOs needed: 3 for collaborative testing of new video-based learning scenarios. XO requirements: Power supply 220V/50Hz to use in Germany and Austria. Preferred keyboard layouts are 2x de_DE and 1x intl. (or en_EN, en_US). XOs will be in constant use in Berlin/Germany and Vienna/Austria for communication purposes, emulation isn't possible due to the need of physical access to camera and microphone)
Project: Navigation System on XO Proposer: parabelboi Brief description: Add Sugar support to a Linux based Navigation System. It looks like Navit is suitable for that purpose. It already has pluggable and extensible Code. A Sugar GUI backend has to be written. XOs needed: 1
SSR on the OLPC
Project: Mesh Network Comparison Proposer: Thomas Fuhrmann and Benedikt Elser 10:04, 8 January 2008 (EST) Impact: Improvement of OLPC's mesh networking capabilities Brief description: Compare the Current OLPC Mesh Networking implementation to an alternative implementation, namely the scalable source routing (SSR) protocol and the virtual ring routing (VRR) protocol. See publications: Fuhrmann, IFIP Networking 2005 and Caesar et al., SIGCOMM 2006 and SSR XOs needed: 3 For handing out to Students and testing
Video Editing for the XO
Project: "Arrange", "Edit", and "Mix" Proposer: Robert Ochshorn Impact: Arrange is an addition to the "Record" activity, Edit and Mix form a new core application Brief description: "Arrange" allows basic sequencing of media in Record, "Edit" allows advanced track-based sequencing of audio and video, "Mix" auto-generates montages. See Projects/VideoEditing) Need for laptops: 1
Pilot study Communication and Collaboration scripts for Children
Project: "Collaborate - communicate": partnerschips between kids in different cultural environments Proposer: "Michele Notari / Martin Hofmann / Beat Doebeli Honegger" [[1]] Impact: "Getting involved in how to use the XO as tool for learning, focussing collaboration and communication in informal learning situations" Brief description: "Collaboration": We want to analyse mechanismes and concepts of collaboration and communication of kids using the Xo' in (formal and) informal learning situations. We will formulate needs do's and dont's for using XO's in target countries. We plan partnerships with teacher education universities in other countries and will connect the participating swiss children with children in the other countries. Communication and collaboration might take place with non textual media (image / sound /). Need for laptops: 50 Power supply 220V/50Hz to use in Switzerland. Preferred keyboard layouts are de_DE ). XOs will be in constant use in St. Gallen and Schwyz, emulation isn't possible due to the fact, that we want to equip two classes of children in primary schools with the XO's. Collaboration among the children should take place using mesh network. We wish to compare the two classes.
PATH
Project: PATH Proposer: Seth(isforinsects) on behalf of Path Other contributors: Path, SeattleXO Audience or impact: Path is a multi-national NGO health care organization. They are interested in deploying the XO as a rugged laptop for some of their workers in some of their 18 countries of operation. Brief description: Giving Path these machines would allow for them to give the XO a full trial for implementation and research further contributions towards Health projects with OLPC> (link to a full description at Projects/PATHdeployment) Relevant experience & other projects: Contact information (wiki, email, &c): [If requesting XOs] # of XOs needed, and their use:
XO Software development in hacker spaces around Cologne/Bonn, Germany
Project: XO Software development in hacker spaces around Cologne/Bonn, Germany Proposer: Jens Ohlig, jens@ccc.de Other contributors: various Audience or impact: local community of young and gifted hackers, eager to churn out new exciting software for the OLPC XO. We want to hack, learn, share, and teach software development on the OLPC XO. Brief description: Hackerspaces in the Cologne/Bonn region in Western Germany have a tradition of bringing together young people to work on projects. We want to form a software development group for these. (link to a full description) Relevant experience & other projects: Experience with hacker spaces for more than ten years. Running a hacking project with young people since 2002 (U23). Contact information (wiki, email, &c): jens@ccc.de Cologne space: http://koeln.ccc.de Bonn space: http://netzladen.org # of XOs needed, and their use: 3 (1 for the space in Cologne which already has one, 2 other for the space in Bonn. 2 XOs are needed in each place in order to do experiments with the mesh networking)
Suspend-Resume QA as well as GASP development
Project: Suspend-Resume QA Proposer: FFM Other contributors: Matthew Gallagher, Thomas Doggette, and various others Audience or impact: local high school (Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia), would be testing builds that would eventualy be released, reducing the number of bugs found in the field. Brief description: We would test Suspend/resume and it's effect on different activities, and also wether the XO properly compensates for losses in the mesh. We would test our own activities, as well as assue that S/R works properly in the latest builds. Relevant experience & other projects: We currently work on GASP, and already do (albeit limited) hardware testing on our B4s. Contact information (wiki, email, &c): FFM
[If requesting XOs] # of XOs needed, and their use:
One to two MPs (C2+), since B4s have documented suspend-resume issues. We currently have 3 B4s and could exchange some of them if needed, however we would like to allow more people at our location to collaberate on this. We would, in addition to S/R and normal HW QA, also give them to our developers to work on GASP.
Have you tried emulation for this purpose?
- Since this testing requires hardware by its very nature,
Could you use laptops for a limited time borrowed from a local community pool of machines?
- Yes, but see below.
Similarly, would other projects be able to share these laptops, or would they be in constant use?
- They would also be able to be used by other students on the GASP project and others, and would (most likely) be returned by the studens once they discontinued their work on the project and the laptops redistributed.
What power supply or keyboard do you need?
- US power supply. English keyboard prefered, but any MP laptop will do.