Find out more about OLPC
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There are plenty of ways to find out more about the One Laptop per Child project. Here are a few of the communication channels:
- Read up and discuss OLPC on a mailing list
- Find out about what's going on in your region
- Chat about OLPC in IRC Chat
- Discover more about OLPC here on the wiki
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Donate
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- Simply give one or more laptops to be sent directly to children in developing countries
- Give many (100 or more laptops) to change the world, and designate where in the world you would like the laptops sent.
You can also donate to the project
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Get involved locally
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The first place you should look to get involved with OLPC is in your community. Chances are that there is someone else nearby that is also interested.
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Translate
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The XO Laptop is deployed to children in many languages; we ♥ people who can help us translate in many ways. You can:
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Help us provide free and open content for children along with their XO's.
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Testing
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New releases of software builds, activities and collections are always in need of testing. You can help by downloading, installing and giving us feedback.
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There is a strong developer community, strongly based in Free and Open Software. If you would like to participate:
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There are a few hardware opportunities for EE's and anyone interested in physical bits and bobs:
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- Want to get involved in helping run the OLPC servers and help fix infrastructure problems, and design and implement new systems?
- The OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group (VIG) supports the rt and trac ticket systems, the development code repository, git, and assists in planning and server bug tracking and fixing.
- There are opportunities for both experienced and novice sysadmins to help OLPC and have fun in an intellectually challenging way.
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Virtual opportunities
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There are many other ways to get involved online.
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- Work on your endeavors and investigations at the Minciu Sodas laboratory.
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Reach Out
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There are many other ways to get involved online.
Engage and support thinkers around the world such as:
- Samwel Kongere (Kenya) of Mendenyo (social enterprise)
- Kiyavilo Msekwa (Tanzania) of Learn How to Learn (hardware/software innovation)
- Janet Feldman (USA/Kenya) of Holistic Helping (AIDS response)
- Pamela McLean (UK/Nigeria) of Learning From Each Other (linking rich-bandwidth and poor-bandwidth people)
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