OLPC Europe/Meetings

IRC Meetings

• #olpc-europe
• irc.freenode.net

Next Meeting

• Thursday, 2008-03-27
• 17:00 UTC (18 CET)
• Summary

Last Meeting

• Thursday, 2008-03-13
• 17:00 UTC (18 CET)
• Summary

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Who is writing a summary?
3. Topic ideas
4. Topics
5. Any other business

Topic Suggestions

• next newsletter - when, who
• spare parts exchange Marten 14:09, 13 March 2008 (EDT)
• add a topic... :)

Fourth Meeting

• Thursday, 2008-02-21
• 17:00 UTC (18 CET)
• Summary

1. Welcome
2. Who is writing a summary?
3. Progress since last meeting
   1. projects from people / national grassroots
   2. communication topics with laptop.org
   3. infrastructure: domain name, email, project application
   4. newsletter
   5. contributor pogram
4. Fosdem Event
5. Pilot projects
6. T-shirts
7. legal structure of o-e
8. next meeting, when
9. any other business

Third Meeting

• Thursday, 2008-02-07
• 17:00 UTC (18 CET)
• Summary

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Who is writing a summary?
3. Progress since last meeting
   1. projects from people / national grassroots
   2. infrastructure: domain name, email, project application
   3. newsletter
   4. developer program
4. Fosdem
   1. Talk
   2. T-shirts
5. Pilot projects
6. next meeting, when
7. any other business

Second Meeting

• Thursday, 24.1.2008
• 17:00 UTC (18 CET)
• Summary

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Who is writing a summary?
3. Information Flow
   1. What are all people currently working on and interested in?
   2. Monthly (or Bi-Monthly) OLPC Europe Newsletter
4. Information Infrastructure
   1. Homepage (this), Domain names, and the future
   2. Emails
   3. Newsletters of participants
5. Pilot projects
6. T-shirts until FOSDEM? (end of february)
7. next meeting, when
8. any other business

Optional Topics

1. g1g1 Europe (no news yet)

First Meeting: "Brainstorm / Common Visions"

• Thusday, 10.1.2008, 18:00 CET
• Duration: 60 - 70 minutes
• Summary

Agenda

• Short introduction of ourselves (5 min)

• Brainstorm / Vision (15 - 20 min)
  • What purposes could OLPC Europe serve

• Participation (15 - 20 min)
  • Who wants to get involved
  • spending his/her time on what topic(s)

• Events (15 - 20 min)
  • Presentations / Workshops at events
  • Who will be where doing what? (if known yet)

• Which group would need how many xo laptops? (5 min)

• Next Meeting (5 min)

Events

2013 11 27 Sven AERTS OLPC Community talking about OLPC at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. This resulted in identifying several top players also active in the EU OLPC Community landscape, firing up spirits, stressing teams to document their efforts on this wiki.laptop.org so others could find out about them, link up, built upon projects etc..

Name and link where we develop this	Their Link	Date	Place	Contact User	Status	Infos
olpc community at EuropAid 2014 04 26 Lunch-time Conference "Launching the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2013/4:Supporting teachers to overcome the global learning crisis"	http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/infopoint/index_en.htm	Date: 2014 04 26	Place: EuropAid Info Point Brussels	Contact User --SvenAERTS 23:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)	Status: -	Infos: www.efareport.unesco.org Education for All Global Monitoring Report and http://ei-ie.org/en/websections/content_detail/5411 = federation of federations of teachers worldwide. More info obtained, cf. link above.
OLPC in Euronews; interview during the EU Africa Business	Their Link: http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/02/europe-and-africa-working-together-to-build-investment-opportunities/ (fastforward to 2:05)	Date: 2014/04/02/	Place: Brussels	Contact User: --SvenAERTS 13:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)	Status: not relevant	Infos: olpc community member Sven AERTS was filmed with an XO and interviewed for over 15'
More: olpc at the Eu Africa Business Forum 2014 Brussels	Their Link: http://www.euafrica-businessforum.eu/	Date: 20140331 & 20140401	Place: Brussels	Contact User: --SvenAERTS 09:51, 2 April 2014 (UTC)	Status	Infos: Major event with many presidents of state, kings, ministers and leaders s.a. Ms. MANDELA and business decision makers that followed them or thought this worth participating in the forum. The olpc-community was invited to participate in the session on eSchools and to formulate recommendations to the European Commission. More: olpc at the Eu Africa Business Forum 2014 Brussels
IDAY English and French Newsletter addressed to governmental and non-governmental leaders dealing with development issues.	Their Link: http://issuu.com/iday-international/docs/newsletter_spring_2014	Date: March Newsletter	Place: English and French Newsletter addressed to governmental and non-governmental leaders dealing with development issues.	Contact User: --SvenAERTS 10:01, 2 April 2014 (UTC)	Status	Infos:
OLPC and The BETT show	[1]	22. to 25. January 14 (every second half of january in every year)	London	--SvenAERTS 11:55, 16 January 2014 (UTC)	Status: Mentioned it to Giulia D'AMICO = Mgr OLPC Tablet	Infos: The learning technology event - The BETT show is the global meeting place for the education technology community, bringing together 35,000 educators and learning professionals every January. Attending the event is the best way to see the latest technology and innovative solutions that inspire, in order to shape and improve the way people learn from the classroom to the boardroom. olpc Community member Irini POUTAKIDOU confirmed that OLPC Uruguay gave a key-note presentation. --SvenAERTS 10:01, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Solutions Linux	[2]	29. to 31. January 08	Paris	florian	Fixed
FOSDEM	[3]	23. to 24. February 08 (every year)	Brussels	h0lger	Fixed	OLPC: Saturday, 23. February, 15:00 to 17:00
Chemnitzer Linuxtage	[4]	1. to 2. March 08	Chemnitz	daja77	Fixed	OLPC: Saturday, 1. March, 10:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
next >	CeBIT	[5]	4. to 9. March 08	Hannover	daja77	Fixed	OLPC: Saturday, 8. March, 11:15 a.m. @ LinuxForum
next >	OpenExpo 2008	[6]	12. and 13. March 08	Bern, Switzerland	vorburger, Michele	Planned
ApacheCon 08	[7]	7. to 11. April 08	Amsterdam	Marten	Talks
LinuxTag Berlin	[8]	28. to 31. May 08	Berlin	holger, joko	Fixed
OpenCommunityCamp	[9]	10-17th August 2008	Oegstgeest,The Netherlands	Marten	Fixed

2011 29 03: Sven AERTS OLPC Community talking about OLPC at the Committee of the Regions Assises Staten Generaal Development Tonu KARU EU representation of Lithuania in Brussels and the Ambassador or Ruanda in Den HAGUE. This resulted in identifying several top players also active in the EU OLPC Community landscape, firing up spirits, stressing teams to document their efforts on this wiki.laptop.org so others could find out about them, link up, built upon projects etc.