User:Mchua/Templates/How to get involved
Anyhow, there's a ton of ways to get involved. The first thing to do would be to create an account on our wiki at http://wiki.laptop.org (there's a "sign in/create account" link at the top right) and let me know your username; if you've edited Wikipedia before you'll be right at home (if you're new to wikis let me know and I'll explain better and point you towards some starter resources).
What are you interested in helping out with? We've got engineers working on the hardware, programmers making games for kids to play with, artists making graphics for all the programs and activities, teachers designing lesson plans and writing free textbooks and curricula, entrepreneurs teaching local people how to start laptop-repair businesses, people translating content into all sorts of different languages, students starting university chapters to help out, lawyers and librarians working on getting more content available under open-source licenses, filmmakers shooting how-to videos and documentaries... tell me the things you love doing most in the world, and there's probably some way you can do it to help us.
Some ongoing projects:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content
We're starting a Summer of Content program and are looking for interns and mentors - especially people that can do projects in languages other than English, and folks from the developing world. If you're interested in participating, or know organizations or people from developing nations that might be interested, we could use help getting the word out in the next 2-3 days.
Organize and run a local Jam in your area, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jams. See the Boston Game Jam page for what we did at Olin. They're basically work-fests where people come together and make something, start to finish (a movie, a lesson plan, a computer game, whatever) in 2 days and test it with local schoolkids at the end of the weekend. You can make a Jam focusing on anything at all; if you're into swing-dancing, you could even have an OLPC Dance Jam - a whole bunch of dancers making instructional videos so that kids in Tanzania can learn how to Lindy.
