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There are many projects and proposals underway associated with OLPC. Active projects, and other ideas, can be found via the links in the sidebar to the right.



From: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/013696.html

I'll list a grab bag of project ideas in this email. Some of these are high priority, some are low, some have OLPC people working on them, some do not. The list is certainly not complete! Please respond to this email to list things I've left out or projects you're currently exploring, or to express interest. I've tried to list some email addresses by each idea of OLPC folk who are interested or could give more information.

(Help wiki-fying this list would be appreciated! See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals )

cscott (cscott at cscott.net)

PROJECTS, IN THE ORDER THEY POPPED INTO MY HEAD:

Spanish wikipedia slice activity (cjb at laptop.org)

Wiki textbooks. (sj at laptop.org)

Physics-learning games (like Phun and Elements)

School server management tools (martin at laptop.org)

Hunger project

Testing tools. (mstone at laptop.org)

Build servers.

Docs to go w/ builds:

Remote debugging:

Blogging platforms on XO

Email app

(Gmail, or lightweight local email)

Flashcards for the classroom.

(Make own flashcards on the XO)

Geography browser / quiz.

(Make own maps on the XO)

Edubuntu integration

(sugar chooser for edubuntu, edubuntu activities for XO)

KDE edutainment integration / ports

Other Education software:

Translations/localization (sayamindu at gmail.com)

Filesystems (cscott at laptop.org)

IPv6 tunnel endpoints (cscott at laptop.org)

Private Dynamic DNS for out-of-school uses of XO

Activity upgrade activity (cscott at laptop.org)

Key Manager activity (cscott at laptop.org)

Network manager maintainer. (dennis at laptop.org, cscott at laptop.org)

  • OLPC has deployment-specific hacks in NetworkManager; these need to be ported to FC9 Network Manager and/or reimplemented in a more general manner.

Initscripts work. (dennis at laptop.org, cscott at laptop.org)

We need to boot fast & start X sooner!

Kernel power-management work (dilinger at laptop.org, dwmw2 at infradead.org, cjb at laptop.org)

Python performance tuning (sugar)

E.g., launching activities is slow (Trac #5228)

"How to use your new XO" activity (adam at laptop.org)

  • Large # of our support tickets are basic "how do I use this thing" issues

Emulators

  • Create/maintain builds designed to easy to install & run in emulators qemu, vmware, etc
  • Mexico (and other deployments) are doing teacher training in emulators, because they don't want to divert any XOs from the kids
  • Developers who don't have an XO also like to use emulators.

Printer support (big scope!)

Security work (mstone at laptop.org)

Child-safe web filtering on XO

Regardless of its merits, CIPA requires it for XO deployments in US schools:

Kid-friendly Python IDE

Collaboration via Multi-pointer X (MPX)


Lots more at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals And don't forget: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_program

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