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OLPC projects include creative activities and software, collections of content and resources, testing and assessment of other projects, and a wide assortment of related work, from the theoretical to the experimental.
Other projects include
- Hardware and Firmware work
- Interface design and Accessibility
- Integration and aggregation of material
For more information about activities that could use your help, see the Participate page. For miscellaneous tasks, see also the request board.
Requested projects
- Translating/Suggestions has a list of requests for translation
- (see also Translating and its how-to)
- Art Wanted
Current projects
see also: activities, collections, testing
Most people taking part in the developer's program are involved in at least one project; please make sure that yours is listed below or on a related page. Click on the name of any linked activity for detailed information about its design and development status.
| Project Name | Description | In use | Updated in Build | l10n | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware Extensions | |||||
| Peripherals | Inexpensive peripherals to distribute with laptops | ||||
| School Server Extensions | |||||
| Moodle | A classroom management system for students and teachers, including forums and a Wiki. | See http://www.moodle.com/. | |||
| Firmware | |||||
| Mesh | |||||
| Userspace tools | Collabora, et al: Tubes & presence integration with sugar | ||||
| Network manager | |||||
| Firmware/drivers | Integration issues | ||||
| Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech | |||||
| Multimedia | |||||
| Helix media activities | a Helix Media Activity and helix browser plugins; both a fully free version (for olpc) and one with all available integrated codecs (for developer use) | version 3+ available; not for anyone to download (licensing) but for devs who request it. Works well with rm and rv formats, okay with ogg formats (at low framerates), not yet with mpeg. | |||
| Gstreamer activities | a Gstreamer browser plugin and possible standalone activity... | Works with hacking; no full integration or separate codebase yet. Check with J5 about latest status. We need stronger Gstreamer contacts for this to be sustainable. | |||
| Educational Activities, Lesson Plans, and Templates | |||||
| Etoys templates | Examples of what to do with etoys, how to use it in the classroom and on one's own, great ideas to experiment with | video, pdf | |||
| Example activities | Examples of how to use the XO for learning, and to expand/enhance existing educational activities. | Template: Activity_template | |||
| Game Libraries | |||||
| PyGame | A python library for developing graphical games; abstracting out the implementation of widgets, buttons, and screen manipulation | ||||
| Gnash | A free software Flash implementation; cf #gnash on irc.freenode.net and Rob Savoye | Working; supports much of Flash 7, a little later ActionScript; active development, responsive to specific requests. | |||
| Content Bundles | |||||
| Game Jam Bundle | Games developed during the June 2007 Game Jam. | To be packaged for the June 25th internal release. | |||
| Community Organizing | |||||
| Participate wiki | Site to collect/direct the OLPC community. | Currently on the OLPC wiki. To be merged with the OLPC development site. Ideas welcome. | |||
| Infrastructure | |||||
| OLPC Library Portal | Spec in progress. | ||||
Help wanted
General
- See the Tasks Category
Pedagogy
- Outline the best way to use the XO as a Datalogger; update the OLPC as Datalogger page with this information.
- Flesh out ideas about teaching students to make tools for art creation in resource-poor areas; create wiki page with these ideas linked from Educational ideas.
- If you are an educator with experience using computers in the classroom, we need your input on questions listed at Basic Teacher Training.
- Outline the steps needed to set up a functioning Key Pals program that connects children using XOs either with children in developed countries or with children using XOs in other countries.
- Implement semantic fields in either squeak or etoys.
Design
- Icon design: Xbook et al (cf. Don Hopkins); Calculator; Game activities
- pygtk help: for music activities
Software
See also Software ideas
- Create various calculating, data analysis and visualization, and financial tools.
- Develop language-learning tools and ask content owners to contribute free language resources (dictionaries, thesauruses, etc) in OLPC-friendly formats.
- Develop or adapt for XOs science-learning tools.
- Develop programs that use XOs to aid in physical education and training.
- Develop XO programs for creation and recording of art.
- Develop XO programs for music education (make sure you look at TamTam before beginning).
- Develop XO communications applications (VOIP, email, etc).
- Develop XO educational tools.
- Develop XO games. A variety of games are currently in development; try searching the wiki to get an idea of what's being done.
- Free and open source educational content is needed.
- Develop a Class orchestra activity.
Help offered
Translation
Other
- Online design/interface design help : Humanized.com (contact User:Ianb for more)
- Mentoring or hosting or site design : from name.com
Contractors / interns Wanted
- Conall Ryan - looking for one contractor to work on reading apps and early-childhood game porting to sugar
- Name.org - looking for someone to help them make their efforts more useful to OLPC; incl. at least one programmer The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
- UNICEF - looking for another 1-2 contractors to work on mapping and children's storytelling
- Ben Nardone - looking for one volunteer to work on health-related work. Has someone for the time being...
- World Food Program - looking for a python programmer to help with a potential future Food Force game.