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The One Laptop per Child non-profit develops a low-cost laptop—the "XO Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our mission is to provide educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by giving each child a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop; and software tools and content designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

As of mid-2010, we have produced XO laptops for roughly 2 million children around the world, the majority of them in Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Rwanda, Haiti, and the United States. These laptops all run Sugar and Fedora Linux, and have customized software and content builds developed by their national deployment teams in collaboration with OLPC staff.

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XO
	13.2.11	2020-01-29
XS
	xs-0.7	2012-02-20

Quote of the Day
"This is not just a matter of giving a laptop to each child, as if bestowing on them some magical charm. The magic lies within -- within each child, within each scientist, scholar, or just plain citizen in the making. This initiative is meant to bring it forth into the light of day." —Kofi Annan

Current projects

Contributors program: We are currently offering free XO-1.5's to developers and content creators who are working on projects that will benefit deployments worldwide. To apply for this program, submit a description of the work you are planning along with your contact information.

Read more about our deployments, the latest sugar release and our upcoming XO 1.5 laptop, or other projects. Follow our news and submit new stories. To suggest your own project, or get free XO hardware to work with, submit a project proposal directly.

Kofi Annan and Jeff Sachs visit students in Bonsaaso, Ghana

School break at the pilot in Arahuay, Perú

OLPC project in Ethiopia

Get Involved

This wiki contains project pages describing work and ideas related to OLPC. Be bold - create new pages for your own projects, or learn how to get involved with those already in progress. You can also ask other community members about ways to contribute.

See our latest news including our newly overhauled Contributors Program, offering free XO Laptop loans and community mentoring to volunteers worldwide who pay it forward.

Overviews

Activities · Support · Community Forum · XO Handbook ⁺

There are overview pages dedicated to hardware, software, education and content. The XO's iconic software interface, Sugar, has its own human interface guidelines, here and on the Sugar Labs wiki. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions.

OLPC is designed around five core principles—Child Ownership, Low Ages, Saturation, Connection, and Free and Open Source tools, and each of these have their own portal sections as well.

Start of mass production at Quanta

News and updates

Weekly news · OLPC Planet · News archive ⁺

A new release of Sugar 0.84, built on F11, is being tested for the XO 1.5. See F11 for 1.5 and the devel mailing list for details on how to help test the base build or activities for it.
Uruguay became the first country in the world to achieve one laptop per child, when its President Tabaré Vázquez handed out the last of its 400,000 XOs on October 13.
XO Software Release 8.2 now offers point release 8.2.1. See USB instructions to upgrade. Please contact volunteer@laptop.org if you want to help kids worldwide by testing our upcoming Fedora 11 Remix for the XO-1.5.
For general news, see some of the OLPC news aggregators, including planet.laptop.org, the OLPC blog, and the independent OLPCNews blog.