As announced on many mailing lists in the local area, the Utah Open Source Foundation has teamed up with the Fedora Ambassadors and the XO/OLPC project to promote the XO Developer Program.

Here’s the email being sent around.  Feel free to share it with anyone you like to help get them involved in bettering the learning tools available using Free and Open Source Software.  I have added a few word changes and a couple additional links to help.

The Utah Open Source Foundation has been working with the Fedora Ambassadors and the XO/OLPC folks to promote a new project.  Due to some recent changes in their structure, they’re looking for more developers and packagers for this project.

If you are a python developer, interested in helping children learn on a cool bit of hardware that is very hard to break, have time to code between now and August and are willing to commit to working on the xo project for [at least] 1 year, the Fedora Project will provide you with a free XO laptop to keep.

This project is fourth grade math curriculum for the XO/OLPC.  The idea being that once the major bits of this curriculum are developed, creating other versions will be much simpler.

The requirements are that you give monthly updates on your progress to the Fedora Ambassadors.  It should also be obvious that you will be working with others to get requirements completed and development in for testing and released to packagers.

If you are interested, I can provide you a laptop within 1-2 weeks as well as help you get a developers key and get started right away.  For more information visit these links:

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_developers_XO_program
• http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs <– Contact info for Sugar Labs folks
• http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam <– info about development
• http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths <– info about the modules being developed
• http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath <– a new list for those developers joining up to help

The point of this email is to interest you folks who would love to develop something useful in the world.  To change the way kids learn and grow and show the way open source software can provide this change.  If you are seriously interested in participating in this project and have a few hours a week to give to it, please contact me off list.

If you are interested, contact me, <clint@utos.org> and we’ll get you started right away.

Cheers,

Clint