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Welcome to the OLPC Wiki, a collaborative site about the One Laptop per Child project and related communities. We currently have 9,909 pages; please join us and share your ideas. For a project overview, see also www.laptop.org.

For developers, there is a development site for tracking bugs and browsing source code, dev.laptop.org.

For XO users, we have an online Getting Started Guide; for more detailed help with your XO, please visit our XO Help and Support FAQ pages.

What's new

Give One Get One XOs arrive in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The first laptops donated from the G1G1 program arrive in Mongolia

The real deal in Uruguay

Start of Mass Production at Quanta

Pilot in Arahuay, Perú

Weekly updates: Current events   ·   Archives: Old News.

• More pictures from our first Mongolia deployment can be found here; this deployment is the first one that was made possible by the generosity of the Give One Get One participants. Many thanks from OLPC and the children of Mongolia.

• Krstić explains what OLPC is doing with the Microsoft Windows XP team.

• An OLPC response to The Economist "Clunky Laptop" article.

• Bunnie "tears down" an XO laptop... worth the read.

• Read an interview with former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen on Groklaw

• Our "Preliminary Objection" regarding the Nigerian Keyboard

• OLPC's statement in regard to Intel's resignation from the OLPC board and association.

• The Give One Get One program concluded on 31 December 2007. Thanks to all who participated!

• The Chicago Tribune has a wonderful AP article on how the XO laptop and OLPC are transforming a remote Peruvian village.

• Mary Lou Jepsen has begun posting our many safety and inspection certificates on the Hardware Testing page.

• We've only just begun. Uruguay has started the first mass-production deployment of OLPC! (See Ivan Krstić's blog for more details.) Next stop: Peru.

Notes on G1G1 shipment

During the reconciliation process of the “get” laptops shipped during Give One Get One, a number of unfulfilled order records were uncovered. The OLPC team has been working hard with our partners to resolve all open issues. We expect another ~5000 XO laptops will be shipped on Monday. The remaining orders pose an extra challenge as they either have incomplete or no shipping and contact information. If you have not yet received your XO laptop, you should be getting an individualized email that addresses your specific situation. If you are scheduled to receive your laptop next week, you will also be getting a follow-up email with tracking information. We'll be adding additional phone lines and shifting agents to reduce wait times. A further reconciliation of the data will be conducted this week, although hopeful, we can anticipate additional incomplete orders. Our apologies for these delays.

About One Laptop per Child

It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte

This is the wiki for the non-profit One Laptop per Child association. The mission of this association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Why do children in developing nations need laptops? Laptops are a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to think. They are a wonderful way for all children to learn learning through independent interaction and exploration.

OLPC espouses five core principles: (1) child ownership; (2) low ages; (3) saturation; (4) connection; and (5) free and open source.

see also: more about the Laptop and OLPC's vision for learning.

Want to know more? Perhaps get involved?

A good place to start is the One Laptop per Child page, which gives an overview of the project. There is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ); a place to ask a question; places to get involved, participate and current job openings; We can use some extra help translating and preparing content bundles in general, for example. There are numerous pages on hardware, software, content, and the developers program—and a separate wiki for software development. The XO's interface, Sugar, has its own interface guidelines. There are also discussion pages on issues of deployment and country-specific discussions. An extended table of contents is also available.

If you want to try out the laptop, you can emulate the XO on your PC.

OLPC is also carefully filling some full-time positions.

About this wiki

The dual purposes of this wiki are to both share information about the project and to solicit ideas and feedback. The articles and discussion vary from technical to epistemological.

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