Open projects

Looking for something to work on? See these pages for more details. (Also see Projects for a more outdated page.)

OLPC projects

• Wiki server - Port the "wikipedia on the iphone" project to the XO. (code, testing, content curation)
  • Update WikiBrowse project page with latest status
  • Convert Simple and English Wikipedias to this format
• Ambient light detection - for low-power mode. (code)
• Power activity - Shows charging progress in a more detailed form. Especially useful for users/devs of non-AC chargers (solar, human-powered, etc). (code, hardware)
• Developer tutorials - making guides for new people to get started making stuff for the XO.
• Activity Handbook: wikify, convert to LaTeX (because DocBook sucks)
• OLPC pilots: comprehensive overview of where pilots are happening and contact info (if possible) for each pilot
• ProjectDB: clean up source-code
• sleep;-)

Upstream projects

• Mediawiki filter - A plugin architecture for selecting pages in a mediawiki that meet certain criterion.
• SimpleRPG (may be renamed) - tutorial for learning programming, pygame game development, and networking (sockets) all at once
• Sleep -- test the Alarm clock