Suggestions de projets
Liste de projets suggérés par C. Scott Ananian
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/~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
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)
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
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
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( http://cscott.net/ )
