Projects
OLPC projects include creative activities and software, collections of content and resources, testing and assessment of other projects, and a wide assortment of related work, from the theoretical to the experimental.
Other projects include
- Hardware and Firmware work
- Interface design and Accessibility
- Integration and aggregation of material
For more information about activities that could use your help, see the Participate page. For miscellaneous tasks, see also the request board.
Project categories
see also: activities, collections, testing
Most people taking part in the developer's program are involved in at least one project; please make sure that yours is listed below or on a related page. Click on the name of any linked activity for detailed information about its design and development status.
Project pages
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Older project categories
Help wanted
Requested projects
- Translating/Suggestions has a list of requests for translation
- (see also Translating and its how-to)
- Art Wanted
General
- See the Tasks Category
Pedagogy
- Outline the best way to use the XO as a Datalogger; update the OLPC as Datalogger page with this information.
- Flesh out ideas about teaching students to make tools for art creation in resource-poor areas; create wiki page with these ideas linked from Educational ideas.
- If you are an educator with experience using computers in the classroom, we need your input on questions listed at Basic Teacher Training.
- Outline the steps needed to set up a functioning Key Pals program that connects children using XOs either with children in developed countries or with children using XOs in other countries.
- Implement semantic fields in either squeak or etoys.
Design
- Icon design: Xbook et al (cf. Don Hopkins); Calculator; Game activities
- Pygtk help: for music activities
Software
See also Software ideas
- Create various calculating, data analysis and visualization, and financial tools.
- Develop language-learning tools and ask content owners to contribute free language resources (dictionaries, thesauruses, etc) in OLPC-friendly formats.
- Develop or adapt for XOs science-learning tools.
- Develop programs that use XOs to aid in physical education and training.
- Develop XO programs for creation and recording of art.
- Develop XO programs for music education (make sure you look at TamTam before beginning).
- Develop XO communications applications (VOIP, email, etc).
- Develop XO educational tools.
- Develop XO games. A variety of games are currently in development; try searching the wiki to get an idea of what's being done.
- Free and open source educational content is needed.
- Develop a Class orchestra activity.
Help offered
Translation
Other
- Online design/interface design help : Humanized.com (contact User:Ianb for more)
- Mentoring or hosting or site design : from name.com
Contractors / interns Wanted
- UNICEF - looking for another 1-2 contractors to work on mapping and children's storytelling
