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The One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) is looking for quality educational content and learning software to spread to children around the world. Some of these tools and materials will be included on the XO laptops, some will be made available on local school servers, and some will be made available online.
Content ideas
OLPC is extending a call for content creators, publishers, and archivists to suggest educational material for inclusion in our digital library network. We are particularly interested in materials that are designed for children and teachers; designed for ease of localization, customization, and other reuse; available in many languages; and available under a free content license. Materials can include the following.
- Texts – stories and poems; textbooks, workbooks, how-tos and lab manuals;
- Reference works – encyclopedias, dictionaries, maps and atlases;
- Images – symbols and fonts, blueprints, sketches, photographs and art;
- Multimedia content – animations, audio books, songs and audio recordings, videos;
- Software – games, tools, scripts, simulations, self-assessments and interactive tools
Copyright
All material installed on the laptops will be available under a free license, such as the GNU General Public License, GFDL, or the Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution/Share-alike licenses (The Creative Commons No-derivatives and Non-commercial licenses are too restrictive and should not be used). The full list is: gpl, gfdl, cc-by, and cc-by-sa, public domain and equivalents, mit, bsd, and cc-noattrib. Materials under other Free licenses may be included in school and regional libraries, but only in extreme cases.
- We should be primarily about contributing to the public domain, from every region and culture. We waste too much time talking about licenses, when these discussions are in many cases diametrically opposed to sharing. Collaboration is about process and community and mutual respect, not about rights and law and anxiety.
How to license your work
The recommended licences are Public Domain for text and other media, and GPL for code. See the Licenses page for more information.
How to contribute
- Suggest an idea for content that could be included on the XO by adding your idea directly to the educational content ideas page, the software ideas page, or the hardware ideas page.
- Learn more about developing content for OLPC by joining one of our mailing lists. (The library and devel lists are good places to start.)
- Apply for project hosting by filling out a project hosting application.
- Test your content directly on an XO by running an emulator on your own computer or applying to our developers program.
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Examples
School books become mini-websites
Once publishers/authors share their normally printed materials (so that electronic versions can be formed), children will be able to -at the teacher's instruction- turn to page-x simply by clicking on the shortcut icon (or bookmarked web page) of the "eBook" in question and instantly go to page-x; and will be able to associate their assignments directly with a page in the book.
Wikitexts
If you have text material which you want to be made available to anyone for editing, localization, and inclusion in learning packages or lesson plans, you can upload it as a file to this wiki (you must be logged in to do this), create a new project page for it here, or add it directly to Wikibooks in the language of your choice and link to it from this wiki.
Software for learning
If you have software tools, simulations, or packages for learning, you can create a new software project and host it on OLPC servers or on Sourceforge and link to it from this wiki.
