Contributors
NEWS
Check back this site often! You will need to fill in more details and an official submission again later. For now it is ok to collect information project descriptions below. This will change as we move the whole thing into a DB.
Who?
The community of OLPC contributors includes many people working on
- outreach,
- testing,
- usability,
- content and
- software development, and
- hardware development and hacking,
which are improved by access to laptops. Software and hardware developers have long been able to get laptops through the software developers program; we are opening this process up to all projects from the community aimed at furthering OLPC's mission.
Contributors laptop program
To apply for laptops for your project or proposal, please add a brief project description below, and list the contributors and participants working on the project, and how laptops would be helpful. Indicate any relevant experience or collaborations (Sugar emulation, education, usability and interface design, work with children; research partnerships, school partnerships, &c.).
SprayPlay
- Project name: Spray Play
- Project proposer: Eric Jordan
- Other contributors: Brian Jordan, Gregory Jordan
- Project description: Spray Play is a game developed in Python using Pygame during the 2007 OLPC Game Jam in Massachussetts. It is based on the real world game Crossfire, where players shoot metal marbles at pieces on the playing field and try to knock them into the opposite team's goal. A laptop would be helpful because our code needs to be properly optimized and debugged on a real XO - if available, a pair would be ideal so that we could get multiplayer mesh networking up and running (the game is for two players, and right now they must both be at the same keyboard since the mesh networking was still not running during the game jam).
- After SprayPlay is done, we would like to create more games for the XO, assuming the laptops are not urgently needed elsewhere.
- Need for laptops: 1 or 2, depending on availability
