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Are you a Teacher? Teachers can: Learn about the project Get their students involved. Contribute educational content. Share their lesson plans and educational ideas with schools who may be using XOs.

Are you a Developer? Learn how to get involved: at our Developers page by applying for our Developers program by testing or reviewing one of our Activities We also host regular Jams to code activities of various sorts. Games and News activities have been topics of recent jams.

Are you a Grade School Student? Students can: Test software and content by joining our review squad, attending testing Jams, or setting up a testing session with their class. Communicate with kids who have XO laptops. (Our penpals program is coming soon; see ePals for a related activity.)

Create Content for Children! We are currently looking for: Interns, mentors, and organizations to join Summer of Content 2008. Curators and coordinators. People who can help package content and build interfaces for automatic activity-bundling. Hosts and participants for content jams.

Can you Translate? We ♥ Translation Localization Internationalization We're looking for translation help for this wiki and for software, activities, and other content for the XO laptops.

Educational Organizations can help! Your educational organization can help by adapting your educational materials for the XO laptops. We need these materials to be open source. You can see some of the organizations that are getting involved at the Curators and coordinators page.

For large-scale ways to get involved, you might also want to look through Getting involved in OLPC. If you have a bit of time and want to get started quickly reading or editing, some other links are included here.

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