OLPC Austria

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Please note that quite a bit of the information on this page is currently outdated. ChristophD 14:54, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

[edit] About OLPC Austria

OLPC Austria is an open and versatile group of currently around 15 people supporting the OLPC project in many different ways. Everyone's invited to contribute!

Our projects / activities:

• exchange experience with other OLPC country organizations
• educate the general public about the project via presentations and workshops
• setup and support of European OLPC initiatives
• development of Open Source Software for the laptop
• hardware engineering for peripheral devices and gadgets
• research of new wireless network technologies (Mesh/WLAN)
• coordination of educational know-how and Open Source developers
• production and collection of novel educational content
• hosting of public competitions

For more information, you can reach us at office@olpc.at and visit our website www.olpc.at.

[edit] World travel, school visits

Some OLPCAustrians have visited OLPC sites around the world. See for instance Tanja Kohn's notices from Peru and Brazil.

[edit] Press material

• OLPC Austria einseitige Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch: Olpc_austria.pdf
• OLPC Austria one-page summary in English: Olpc_austria_english.pdf

[edit] Media reports from and about OLPC Austria

• 2007/12/15 daddyd writes about the OLPC Austria party
• 2007/12/06 ORF.at about Windows on the OLPC ? (pdf)
• 2007/12/04 pte about the XO and numbers
• 2007/11/14 Robert Glasshuettner on FM4 about olpc (pdf)
• 2007/11/13 ORF Futurzone story about G1G1 and give many
• 2007/11/07 derStandard.at story about mass production start and G1G1
• 2007/11/07 pte.at prouction starts
• 2007/10/30 Radio Fro recording from elevate.at
• 2007/10/30 ORF Futurzone story about G1G1, Give Many and the latest developments (pdf)
• 2007/10/17 computerwelt about OLPC.at
• 2007/10/15 Prof. Schatten's Software Engineering Podcast
• 2007/10/12 ORF Futurzone follows up on the features (pdf)
• 2007/10/?? networld.at about OLPC.at
• DiePresse reports about OLPC.at
• 2007/10/11 Salzburger Nachrichten
• 2007/10/11 silicon.de
• 2007/10/11 Kurier
• 2007/10/11 oe24
• 2007/10/11 Vorarlberg Online
• 2007/10/11 bvz
• 2007/10/11 OOeNachrichten
• ORF FutureZone reports about the Austria pilot
• Der Standard article from September 15, 2007. Also printed as a full-page report in the paper. (pdf)
• fm4 report from 27. July 2007
• OE24 wissen
• OLPCnews.com article from 26. June 2007
• Interview on Radio Orange from 11. June 2007
• Article at olpcnews from 10. June 2007
• ORF ZIB-20 report from 3. June 2007
• ORF futurezone report from 3. June 2007
• 2007/06/03 Volksblatt reports about the linuxwochen presentation
• Derstandard.at report from 2. June 2007
• Austrian press agency report from 1. June 2007