OLPC Friends

For information on OLPC in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, please see sites below.

OLPC Australia

• Home page (participate)
• Technical development (participate)

OLPC New Zealand

• Home page

OLPC Oceania

• Blog

If you are interested in purchasing XOs, you can try the OLPC Australia Developers' Programme.

The contents of this page are considered outdated and some of the information may be stale. Please use information here with caution, or update it.

OLPC Friends is a community project for OLPC enthusiasts, developers and volunteers in the Australia/New Zealand/Pacific region. It is being launched in November 2008 and will include forums, volunteer and project registrations, news about OLPC in the region and ways to get involved.

Visit the OLPC Friends website for the announcements mailing list, community forums, regional community news and more! Projects and community discussion can be found on the OLPC Friends Forum.

Please participate, get involved, and help support the OLPC vision in the region!

Project badge

Want to add a Project badge on your wiki user page? Copy this to your page:

{{userboxtop}} {{User OLPC Friends}} {{userboxbottom}}

It should end up looking like:

This user is a member of the OLPC Friends Project.

Activities

• User Groups
  • Wellington Testers Group
  • Sydney User Group
  • Melbourne XO Club
  • Gold Coast OLPC
  • Seaton OLPC User Group (South Australia)
• OLPC Friends volunteer list - please register your details to volunteer!
• Ongoing task list
• Expressions of Interest - please add your name, school/organisation and email address if you are interested in running a trial or deployment.

Australian/NZ community purchases of XO laptops

• This is a wiki page for local people interested in purchasing an XO (although people do also have the option of borrowing an XO or two for demos or development projects). Please

We encourage participants to contribute upstream to the OLPC global efforts wherever possible (eg, documentation, code, etc).

Please find deployments we are involved in below:

Deployments

• Australia's first deployment
• Oceania deployments
• First test of laptops in remote Indigenous community. Hopefully to lead to trial.

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