Mailing lists

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If you are new to the use of mailing lists in open-source projects, please see An introduction to mailing lists.

Mailing lists are used extensively for communication amongst members of the OLPC community. They are used for software/hardware development, user and deployment support, general disussion, community outreach, and more. With some exceptions, OLPC mailing lists are public, meaning that anyone can subscribe and post, and anyone (even those without subscriptions) can read the archives.

A list of OLPC-related mailing lists is shown below. Clicking the links below will lead to the list's individual page, where a more thorough description and forms for subscribing can be found.

Note: This is only a partial listing. See http://lists.laptop.org and http://lists.sugarlabs.org for the full listing of OLPC and Sugar mailing lists.

For mailing lists that are related to OLPC's mission but are not solely OLPC focused, see Outside mailing lists.

Primary mailing lists

The mailing lists shown below are the most active of those available, and are generally the first point of contact for new contributors and wide-reaching discussions.

OLPC Open	General OLPC community discussion and chit-chat.
Devel	OLPC hardware and software development. Not for general discussion.
Sugar-devel	Sugar and Sugar-related development.
Server-devel	School server development and deployment.
It's An Education Project (IAEP)	Sugar and the learning theories that it espouses.
Localization	Software localization.
Testing	Testing discussions related to Sugar and OLPC. Other mailing lists These mailing lists may be less active (or totally inactive), and new contributors are advised to start with the mailing lists shown above. However, these quieter and more-specific lists can often be woken up by new contributors expressing interest to get involved. Education Educators Educators and OLPC Research Academic and field research about OLPC and its impacts Health OLPC Health Library OLPC Library and content discussions Grassroots groups Grassroots Grassroots OLPC groups. Exchange and share experiences in building up a grassroots OLPC group Repairs Discussion about and for grassroots repair centers OLPC Sur OLPC en castellano para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores OLPC Boston Boston, MA USA Users Group OLPC Chicago OLPC Chicago OLPC LCDC OLPC Learning Club DC OLPC NYC OLPC NYC OLPC SF OLPC San Francisco OLPC-SoCal OLPC Southern California OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education!) OLPC Workshop OLPC Workshops Toronto Dev Discussion list for Toronto area OLPC developers Roadshows XO roadshows University Chapters Grassroots OLPC chapters at colleges and universities Africa Egypt Open Source Discussion of open source in Egypt Ethiopia OLPC Ethiopia Ghana Open Source Discussion of open source in Ghana in Tanzania OLPC PTN in Tanzania Nigeria Open Source Discussion of open source in Nigeria OLPC ZA OLPC South Africa OLPC MA OLPC Morocco OLPC NG OLPC Nigeria Ambassadors OLPC ZA OLPC Gambia Uganda Open Source' Discussion of open source in Uganda Asia OLPC India Announce OLPC India India OLPC India Nepal OLPC Nepal OLPC Indonesia OLPC Indonesia OLPC Philippines eKindling OLPC Philippines OLPC saudi arabia OLPC saudi arabia OLPC Kuwait OLPC Kuwait OLPC Malaysia OLPC Malaysia OLPC Vietnam OLPC Vietnam Europe OLPC CH OLPC Switzerland OLPC DE OLPC Deutschland OLPC Europe OLPC Europe OLPC France OLPC in France and francophone countries South America Argentina OLPC Argentina Bolivia OLPC Bolivia Brasil OLPC Brasil Colombia OLPC Colombia/Grassroots Organization Kreyol Haitian Kreyol translation Peru OLPC Peru OLPC Haiti OLPC Haiti OLPC Uruguay OLPC Uruguay Development and technology Accessibility Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC Bugs OLPC bugtracker mailing list olpc The Fedora-OLPC Project list for olpc operating system development. OpenEC Discussion of OpenEC development Security Discussion of linux and bitfrost security, activity isolation, 'rainbow' (our security subsystem), and theft deterrence measures. Peripherals Discussion for XO peripherals Power Discussions on XO laptop power - See Category:Battery & Power EduBlog EduBlog mailing list Etoys Discussion of the Etoys multi-media authoring environment on OLPC Games Games for OLPC SocialCalc SocialCalc mailing list Wiki Discussion of WikiReaders and related tech Members-only groups Support Gang Community Support Volunteers Wiki Gang Wiki maintenance volunteers OLPC Sysadmin Mailing list for OLPC sysadmin team Sugar Labs Systems Mailing list for the Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team Starting a new list The best way to start a new mailing list is to begin a discussion on a related list that already exists, and once the discussion becomes active, to ask for a separate list for that topic or that sort of traffic. When you have a critical mass of people regularly talking about the same topic, request a mailing list by emailing the following information to sysadmin at laptop dot org: The name you want for your mailing list, with alternative names if the first one is taken A description of the list, its purpose, and why it's needed (being able to say "we've been talking on this other list for a while, and the discussion has grown too big - see these archive links" is helpful) The name/email of the list admin, and of at least one other moderator (minimum one admin and one moderator) At least 10 names/emails of people who want to be the initial subscribers It may take a while (usually several days) to hear a response back, so please be patient! List subscribers The subscribers for many lists with non-private rosters can be viewed by visiting this web address, http://lists.laptop.org/mailman/roster/<listname>. (Community-news and Devel, at least, have private rosters.) One must first have joined a list and signed in at the http://lists.laptop.org/options/<listname> address. (The "Visit Subscriber List" button on the listinfo page (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/<listname>) does not currently work.) Subscribers may also be retrieved by using the email interface to Mailman (see also [1]). From your registered email address, send a note without a subject line that includes a line patterned like the following: who accountpassword to listname-request@lists.laptop.org