Becoming involved in XO software development?

[Patrick Dubroy]

Hi Rebecca,

I've only recently become involved with the OLPC project, so I was in
the same boat a few months ago. Here's what I can recommend:

For general info about the development process:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers

To get a feel for "what's in the box", set up a Sugar environment on
Linux or Windows (Instructions are here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Setup) or try out a LiveCD
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd)

If you want to contribute code to a specific application or part of
the system, see the list here:
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_projects>. From here you should be
able to find the relevant mailing lists, IRC channels, repository
location, etc. for that project.

Have fun!

Pat
--
Patrick Dubroy
http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming, usability, and hci

2008/4/1 Rebecca Janine Wise <jani at digitalelite.com>:
> This is a general question. I work with various Non-Profits and have become
> interested in developing for the XO. Can anyone recommend a path on how to
> become involved in some aspect of the software development side of the XO. I
> guess the main questions I have are:
>
> a) Is there a formal process for becoming involved or do you sort of just
> start contributing to the source for some part of the system an application?
> b) What's the best way to get a feel for what's "in the box" so you can
> figure out where you'd like (and be capable) of contributing?
>  c) Is the OLPC XO hardware (or a hardware emulator or something similar)
> available to developers?
> d) Are there any other questions I should be asking but haven't?
>
> Thanks so much,
> Rebecca
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