Regional groups
For the latest live global map, please see http://olpcMAP.net.
Countries are not always the best - most logical regional entity to gather people: many borders / countries are artificial, remnants of wars or colonialism, cutting people with the same language and culture in two or worse. Hence the logic of this category: Regional Groups.
The Deployments page summarizes actual regional deployments of OLPC laptops.
There are many other interest groups, user groups, and advocacy groups around the world enthused about OLPC's mission and the XO laptop.
Check out the countries page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Countries . The software that makes this wiki has a great feature called "Categories". When you put at the bottom of your page the, the wiki software understands you want your page to be taken up in an overview page where all the countries are listed and it does that automatically. There's many categories that have been created: e.g. on deployment where all matter related to deployment and kick-starting new groups are grouped together, etc. Just keep it in mind.
20 Active Groups for groups.laptop.org
since December 2008
Wanted: an active HAITI group - Then please leave at least YOUR name and contact me. --SvenAERTS 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
- AU - Australia laptop.org.au
- AT - Österreich olpc.at
- BG - България olpc-bg.org
- CA - Canada ekiic org
- CA - Canada freegeekvancouver.org
- CN - 中国 olpcapac.org olpc.asia
- CO - Colombia wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia
- CY - Cyprus wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Cyprus
- DE - Deutschland olpc-deutschland.de
- FR - France olpc-france.org
- GR - Ελλάδα olpc.ellak.gr
- IN - भारत wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- IT - Italia olpc-italia.org
- NL - Nederland olpc-nl.org (redirects to wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Netherlands)
- PE - Perú wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru
- PH - Pilipinas wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines
- RU - Россия wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Russia
- CH - Suisse olpc.ch
- UK - United Kingdom wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK
- US - United States of America wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_US
- UY - Uruguay wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Uruguay (which links to ceibal.edu.uy)
Note: All these pages starting with OLPC and then a country name are actually reserved for the official representation of the NGO OLPC and mostly there is no registered national OLPC subsidiary. Probably you/they want to refer to a national/regional OLPC Community, but that just starts with the country name : so not OLPC Belgium but Belgium. When the dots have to be put on the "i", it is illegal to call yourself "OLPC Belgium", only a mandated entity by OLPC in the USA/MIT not for profit, can open up a regional OLPC office in Belgium. What you can do is create a starting page Belgium - but of course with your country name - and call yourselves "the OLPC Community in Belgium", and then you could e.g. put - on your country page - a list with regions in your country and start working out the page of your region if that's relevant at all, because mind yourself splitting-up/separating OLPC Community members. Learn to be open and collaborative. You are very few OLPC minded people in a country, unpaid most of the time. Your competitors are the paid commercial people from other for profit ICT companies. You will need all free energy/time available in a country to compete them.--SvenAERTS 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Some groups with upcoming events on wiki.laptop.org
Here is every XO user group page in this wiki annotated with a start date or an end date in the future. {{#ask:[[start date::>2024-12-22]] OR [[end date::>2024-12-22]]
|?start date |?end date |?Has location city=City |?Has location country=Country |sort=start date |default=No Category:XO User Group pages found with a start date in the future?
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Setting up a group
Add a section to the "Talk" page (click the [discussion] tab) if you're interested in meeting other users and there isn't already a group in your area.
Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:
- this Wiki
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- EPals
- forum.laptop.org and OLPCnews forums for XO groups
This isn't an exhaustive list, Community building and How to start a grassroots group have more ideas.
Groups might also set up their own Jabber server, since there isn't one set up for XO owners as a whole, due to scale and cost issues.
Larger regional groups
- OLPC Spanish America
- a portal about laptop distributions in Spanish America
- OLPC Europe
- a meta-grassroots group with their own newsletter and bi-monthly meetings
- OLPC Oceania
- covers the OLPC Australia and OLPC New Zealand as well as the Solomon Islands and many other countries. OLPC Friends is the regional community organisation
Online groups
Besides the regional groups listed on this page:
- XO Owners group on Facebook
- the Classroom 2.0 XO Educator Group
- OLPC-US Yahoo! group
National groups
Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:
Europe
- OLPC France — http://olpc-france.org
- OLPC France is a team of ~30 people who are active in government lobbying, as well as being involved in OLPC Haiti and at OLPC Madagascar/Nosy Komba
- OLPC Germany —
- OLPC Germany is a group of 15 people who are active in public demonstrations, software development and their own IRC chanel
- OLPC Greece — www.ellak.gr
- OLPC Netherlands —
- OLPC Poland — http://olpc.pl/english/
- OLPC Russia — http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/
- OLPC Slovenia — http://www.olpc.si/
- OLPC Switzerland —
- OLPC Turkey —
- OLPC United Kingdom —
Latin America & Caribbean
- OLPC Argentina — http://www.tuquito.com.ar
- OLPC Brasil —
- OLPC Colombia — http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/colombia
- OLPC Chile — http://ucpn.cl Un Computador Por Niño
- OLPC Commonwealth of Dominica Mons George-Dill re DAAS monageorge@cwdom.dm
- OLPC Ecuador — http://www.ecuadorolpc.org Un Computador Por Niño
- OLPC Guatemala
- OLPC Haiti —
- OLPC Jamaica — About 25 people from The University of The West Indies, Jamaican
- OLPC Bahamas Ryan Murray westvilla@hotmail.com - Contact to join
private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens
- OLPC Mexico —
- OLPC Peru —
- OLPC Uruguay — olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com
- OLPC Saint Lucia perrylendor@yahoo.co.uk Please Contact to Join
Caribbean
- OLPC Caribbean
- OLPC Curacao
- OLPC Commonwealth of Dominica Mons George-Dill re DAAS monageorge@cwdom.dm
- OLPC Haiti —
- OLPC Jamaica — About 25 people from The University of The West Indies, Jamaican
- OLPC Bahamas Ryan Murray westvilla@hotmail.com - Contact to join private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens
- OLPC Saint Lucia perrylendor@yahoo.co.uk Please Contact to Join
- OLPC Trinidad and Tobago SvenAERTS228 at gmail dot com Please Contact to Join --SvenAERTS 21:07, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Africa - Afrique
- Africa
- Afrique
- OLPC Ethiopia —
- OLPC Ghana — Winneba Ghana LUG
- OLPC Nigeria —
- OLPC South Africa — www.laptop.org.za
- OLPC Benin
- OLPC Egypt
- OLPC Ethiopia
- OLPC Guinea
- OLPC Libya
- OLPC Kenya
- OLPC Morocco
- OLPC Republic of Guinea
- OLPC Rwanda
- OLPC Senegal
- OLPC Somalia
- OLPC Uganda
- OLPC Zambia
- OPLC Zimbabwe
Asia and Oceania
- OLPC Australia —
- OLPC Bhutan —
- OLPC China —
- OLPC India — also see Khairat school trial
- OLPC Japan —
- OLPC Kashmir —
- OLPC Korea —
- OLPC Malaysia — http://olpcmalaysia.blogspot.com/
- OLPC Mongolia —http://laptop.gov.mn/
- OLPC Nepal —
- OLPC New Zealand — http://laptop.org.nz
- OLPC Pakistan —
- OLPC Philippines — http://olpcph.multiply.com/ OLPC Philippines
- OLPC Thailand — wiki.nectec.or.th, see the Bann Samkha school
- OLPC Vietnam — EG. Vung Vieng Fishing Village independent microdeployment
Asia
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
A XO user group is starting at Games Cafe in Kaohsiung on Saturday afternoons. We're only on emulators now, but hopefully will be getting the real thing soon. Contact Tobey (at) Playgames (dot) tw for more info.
Hong Kong
I would like to invite Hong Kong game designers and developers and software developers in general to start the Hong Kong XO Developers Group. Contact sdjrueda at polyu dot edu dot hk for more if interested. I would also be interested in starting or joining a users group. --Jarueda 07:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
North America
Canada
- OLPC Canada — http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev Toronto OLPC Developers list
- http://www.olpcug.org/ , an umbrella for Canadian OLPC user groups
British Columbia
Jeremy Penner Looking to form an xo users group in Vancouver.
Quebec
- XO-Québec, une communauté québécoise en développement à l'entour du OLPC et de son environnement d'apprentissage.
USA
See OLPC United States#User groups and unoffical groups
See also
- Community building
- Category:Community
- Category:XO User Group
- Repair centers
- Category:XO Lending Libraries
Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG