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Are you a Teacher? If so, please Read about the project and our first schools Get your students involved. Join this wiki and contribute educational content. Share your lesson plans and educational ideas with schools using XOs, and with the rest of us! Document your and your students' experiences with the laptops Connect your class with an OLPC school elsewhere in the world. Have students record stories from eachother, to share with children elsewhere; or simply read existing stories out loud.

Are you a Developer? Learn how to get involved: read our Developers manual and Developers/FAQ apply for our Developers program test or review one of the current Activities setup a sugar development environment Explore the operating stack of the laptops Read or contribute to our list of development issues Suggest particular projects of interest Join one of our many developer channels Help us gather documentation as you make your first contributions We expect to have monthly releases for a short while, followed by three-month update cycles; with activity developers soon able to follow their own cycles. We also host regular Jams to code activities of various sorts. Games and News activities have been topics of recent events.

Are you a Grade School Student? If you are a student, you can: Make an account here on the wiki, and write about what projects you are working on, on your own and with others. Start a new project with a friend, or suggest one you want to start, involving a laptop or just a long-distance connection. Test software and content; join a review squad, or setting up a testing session with their class. Communicate with students who have their own XO laptops. (A penpals program is in the coming; see ePals for a related activity.)

Make things; share what you know! Everyone can Sign up to intern, mentor, or sponsor Summer of Content projects for 2008. Apply to become a topical curator or coordinator. Help others package materials and make activities. Host or participate in content jams.

Can you translate? Can you read? We ♥ Translation Localization and Internationalization Audio recordings of books and text Text transcriptions of songs, speeches, and videos We are looking for help translating this wiki, our most-used core software, and the many activities and content bundles being made.

For educational organizations Educational organization can help out too. Like individual teachers, your organization can Adapt materials for the XO laptops, Review existing materials and interfaces, Connect groups of students or participants in a specific program. Provide expert guidance to student groups working in certain fields We are building open projects and open source tools and materials. To sign up, see the Curators and coordinators page.

For an older overview of getting involved, see the more detailed page Getting involved in OLPC. Some other links are included here for quick perusal:

OLPC Community pages

Community channels online

• this wiki, for active recent changes
• Mailing lists, for threaded discussions
• IRC channels, for live feedback
• Getting involved in OLPC, for large-scale project descriptions

Our community includes the educators, developers, writers, artists, translators, parents, and users of early machines. We invite you to join our community and contribute to OLPC's impact on education around the world.

Find a Task

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Add a Task

To add a new task:

1. Create a new task page.
2. Categorize it according to the task template (included on task page).
3. Add a link and description on the Projects or Activities page (if relevant).

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