OLPC Austria

Please note that quite a bit of the information on this page is currently outdated.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

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.

World travel, school visits

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

Press material

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

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