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Are you a Teacher? If so, please Read about the project and our first schools Get your students involved. Join this wiki and contribute educational content. Share your lesson plans and educational ideas with schools using XOs, and with the rest of us! Help document your and your students' experiences with the laptops Make a connection between your class ans an OLPC school elsewhere in the world. Have your students record stories from eachother and from their community, to share with children elsewhere; or have them read existing stories out loud.

Are you a Developer? Learn how to get involved: read our Developers manual and Developers/FAQ apply for our Developers program test or review one of the current Activities setup a sugar development environment Explore the operating stack of the laptops Read or contribute to our list of development issues Suggest particular projects of interest Join one of our many developer channels Help us gather documentation as you make your first contributions We expect to have monthly releases for a short while, followed by three-month update cycles; with activity developers soon able to follow their own cycles. We also host regular Jams to code activities of various sorts. Games and News activities have been topics of recent events.

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.)

Share what you know; make things You can Sign up to intern, mentor, or sponsor Summer of Content projects for 2008. Apply to become a topical curator or coordinator. Help others package materials and make activities. Host or participate in 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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