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Mail posted Tuesday 06 May 2008 22:54
From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@cscott.net>
To: "OLPC Devel" <devel@laptop.org>, its.an.education.project@tema.lo-res.org
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@laptop.org)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki_server
- Wiki textbooks. (sj@laptop.org)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read
Collaborative PDF annotation might be a good start.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MikMik (mako@atdot.cc)
- Physics-learning games (like Phun and Elements)
http://www.phun.at/
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Elements
- School server management tools (martin@laptop.org)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Server
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Malnutrition
- Testing tools. (mstone@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)
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
http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/
http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.py
http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.config
http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4132
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6447
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@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@laptop.org)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
- IPv6 tunnel endpoints (cscott@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@laptop.org)
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4951
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
- Key Manager activity (cscott@laptop.org)
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428
- Network manager maintainer. (dennis@laptop.org, cscott@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@laptop.org, cscott@laptop.org)
We need to boot fast & start X sooner!
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
- Kernel power-management work
(dilinger@laptop.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, cjb@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@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@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
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
