OLPC Project suggestions.

Wed May 7 00:43:00 EDT 2008

Another set of ideas and projects could be found at

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas

Some unaccepted students have  shown interest on keep on doing the ideas no
matter the money ;).

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:

> I'll list a grab bag of project ideas in this email.  Some of these
> are high priority, some are low, some have OLPC people working on
> them, some do not.  The list is certainly not complete!  Please
> respond to this email to list things I've left out or projects you're
> currently exploring, or to express interest.  I've tried to list some
> email addresses by each idea of OLPC folk who are interested or could
> give more information.
>
> (Help wiki-fying this list would be appreciated!  See
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals )
>  --scott
>
> PROJECTS, IN THE ORDER THEY POPPED INTO MY HEAD:
>
> Spanish wikipedia slice activity (cjb at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki_server
>
> Wiki textbooks. (sj at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read
>  Collaborative PDF annotation might be a good start.
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MikMik (mako at atdot.cc)
>
> Physics-learning games (like Phun and Elements)
>  http://www.phun.at/
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Elements
>
> School server management tools (martin at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Server
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
>
> Hunger project
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Malnutrition
>
> Testing tools. (mstone at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Testing_Project
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Schoolserver_Testing
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tinderbox_Testing
>  (see also, "Build servers" below)
>
> Build servers.
>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5279
>  http://buildbot.net/trac
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pilgrim
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_custom_images
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Puritan
>
> Docs to go w/ builds:
>  http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/joyride-1477-api/>
>  http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.py<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.py>
>  http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.config<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.config>
>  http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/
>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4132
>
> Remote debugging:
>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6447
>
> Blogging platforms on XO
>  http://moodle.org/
>  http://wordpress.org/
>
> Email app (Gmail, or lightweight local email)
>
> Flashcards for the classroom. (Make own flashcards on the XO)
>
> Geography browser / quiz.  (Make own maps on the XO)
>
> Edubuntu integration (sugar chooser for edubuntu, edubuntu activities for
> XO)
>
> KDE edutainment integration / ports
>  http://edu.kde.org/
>
> Other Education software:
>  http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/04/25/2124228.shtml
>
> Translations/localization (sayamindu at gmail.com)
>  https://dev.laptop.org/translate/
>
>  Also, integrating a "translate this" feature into the UI, or
>  mouse-over translations using a small local dictionary.
>
> Filesystems (cscott at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
>
> IPv6 tunnel endpoints (cscott at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles
> Private Dynamic DNS for out-of-school uses of XO
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles
>
> Activity upgrade activity (cscott at laptop.org)
>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4951
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
>
> Key Manager activity (cscott at laptop.org)
>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428
>
> Network manager maintainer. (dennis at laptop.org, cscott at laptop.org)
>  OLPC has deployment-specific hacks in NetworkManager; these need to
>  be ported to FC9 Network Manager and/or reimplemented in a more
>  general manner.
>
> Initscripts work. (dennis at laptop.org, cscott at laptop.org)
>  We need to boot fast & start X sooner!
>  http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
>
> Kernel power-management work
>  (dilinger at laptop.org, dwmw2 at infradead.org, cjb at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Power_management
>  http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2007/view_abstract.php?content_key=264
>  http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Sleepy_Linux
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
>
> Python performance tuning (sugar)
>
> "How to use your new XO" activity (adam at laptop.org)
>  Large # of our support tickets are basic "how do I use this thing" issues
>
> Create/maintain builds designed to easy to install & run in emulators
>  qemu, vmware, etc
>  Mexico (and other deployments) are doing teacher training in
>  emulators, because they don't want to divert any XOs from the kids
>  Developers who don't have an XO also like to use emulators.
>
> Printer support (big scope!)
>  http://www.cups.org/
>
> Security work (mstone at laptop.org)
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
>
> Child-safe web filtering on XO
>  Regardless of its merits, CIPA requires it for XO deployments in US
> schools:
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protection_Act
>
> Kid-friendly Python IDE
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop
>   http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/icon-draw-activity
>
> Collaboration via Multi-pointer X (MPX)
>  http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/
>  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015602.html
>
> Lots more at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals
> And don't forget: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_program
>
> --
>  ( http://cscott.net/ )
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
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