Please also see these other projects.
Projects
OLPC Contributor projects include developing creative activities and software, creating and sharing collections of content and resources, testing and assessment of other projects, and a wide assortment of related work, from the theoretical to the experimental.
- To find out more about getting XOs for your project, please visit the Contributors page.
- For a list of XO Laptop Lending Libraries, please visit the XO Laptop Lending Libraries page.
- For more information about activities that could use your help such as hardware and firmware work, interface design, or integration and aggregation of material, please see the Participate page.
The following lists will give you an idea of current projects underway that are contributing to the OLPC Community.
Most people taking part in the Contributor's Program are involved in at least one project; if you are a contributor, 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.
 New and Exciting Projects!
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- RIT Projects for Math 4 - a university course for students supporting the OLPC project and the Sugar Labs Math4 curriculum.
- XO 1.5 Media Effort Helping out with raising media awareness for the upcoming release of the XO 1.5. Showcase capabilities, compare with the XO 1, make everyone interested in jumping aboard, even the non-programmers.
- XO Operating System Special Interest Group Creating and nurturing a community of contributors within Sugar Labs with knowledge and experience developing for the XO. Raising raise the visibility and importance of the XO within the Sugar community.... without violating upstream/downstream abstraction barriers.
- Aura: A new beginning Aura is a free and open source operating system,specially developed for youth. The objective is to provide free software to youth around the world :) See Official Phoenix-Team site for more info :D
- Please leave your comments here : support_AT_fossfy_DOT_co_DOT_cc
- OLPC UK Pilot - London 2009 In developing OLPC (UK) we aim to establish a 100% volunteer organization and platform for OLPC in the United Kingdom. The intent of OLPC (UK) is to support the deployments of XO computers towards solving defined needs in UK schools paired with schools in developing countries.
- Notalon: Note-Taking Software Notalon is note-taking, simplified. Its aim is to streamline your focus on taking notes on books and during class lectures.
- The Development of the GreenThumb Activity The game allows an avenue for the conducting of biological/genetic-related experiments. It gives the player the chance to choose his/her own preferences in the various factors that will affect the experiment.
- OLPC Vietnam project is progressing to a full fledge OLPC project by building a supporters community and bringing communities, educational institutions and officil partners together. Ultimate goal of the project is a large scale deployment to support and foster the change of frontal teachers centralized methods to a learner and learning focused methodology in Vietnam. OLPC Vietnam support a holistic approach that puts students in the center and fosters active participation, learning in the digital society and using IT for a change to the better.
- GaiaBB - distributed Social Networks GaiaBB aims to be an easily modifiable, localizable peer to peer forum. The idea is to allow kids to create their own social networks, and easily share them with friends (online and offline).
- OLPC Deployment to Mafi Dove, Ghana Starting with a planned deployment of at least 20 XOs to the middle school in this rural village in Ghana, we hope to expand to their entire school over time, and then work out to neighboring villages.
- Sankamup - News distribution and production facilitation Sankamup is initially targetted at the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, which suffered major setbacks in education and communications as the result of a protracted civil war. Sankamup looks to address wireless communications issues, local language support; and the porting of Scribus an Opensource Desktop publishing application, and Celtx an Opensource application for Scriptwriting and other Pre-production activities - to facilitate "tribal" storytelling and capture.
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Projects Not Using XOs
Using emulation, or other tools, or other parts of the hardware stack.
Contributors Projects for Testing
List here if your project is now ready for testing:
- BoomingBang, project Alpha Version Ready, releasing November 2009.
Please contact Abhishek Indoria, at hackerboymayabhi_AT_gmail_DOT_com if you can help.
Projects/Contributors_Project_for_Testing
Help wanted
There are many other ways in which you could contribute to the OLPC Community. There are needs to be filled in translation, Datalogging, Basic Teacher Training, many Educational ideas, semantics, icon design work, and other suchTasks.
If you are interested in working on software development, there are many ideas found at the Software ideas page.
Help offered
You are not alone! Our many volunteers and mentors can help you with your contributions to the OLPC Community in many ways. Here are a couple of ways we can offer you help!
- Translation/localization is offered into English, from Es/De/Fr please contact Sj talk
This Project page is also available in other languages.
Subpage index
The automatically generated links on this subpage index listing may help you find a project page.
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