Volunteering
If you'd like to volunteer to help OLPC out, please start by signing up for an account here on the wiki.
There are a number of ways to help the OLPC project. See developers program and curators and coordinators for ways to get involved with software development or curation; see hardware ideas, software ideas and content ideas to contribute your thoughts and writing. Or send email to volunteers at laptop.org to offer specific help or expertise.
You can find out more about contributing content or add yourself to the author list if you're already involved in developing activities, community services, or designs for the laptop. If you want build a local community of OLPC enthusiasts, you can also find ideas on the wiki about how to do that.
"How to help" effort
Project: develop better 'how to help' introductions for people from a number of different background and fields.
Social and education networks:
- University students
- Free culture activists
- Non-profit organizations (local and global)
Open content:
Free and open software:
- Open source evangelists
- FOSS programers, see Getting started programming
Language
- Translators and linguists
- Local newsletter editing
- Interpretation and mentoring across language barriers
Communication and outreach
- Build Grassroots Communities to support OLPC
Request tracking
Todo: set up a separate tracker for volunteering requests. Keep records of new trackers on the wiki -- nothing beats global RC.
Open projects
mapping/geobrowsing | localization | midi/sound playback | video playback | mozilla/Browse optimization | sugar-jhbuild / development | emulation & live-cds | pygame, sdl and game development | offline wikipedia/dictionary browsing | intelligent tiered web caching for children : stories | math | science | art | languages (other than py) intros to : programming / gnukids & free licensing / social networks & safety