OLPC Jamaica

About

OLPC Jamaica is a general interest group for OLPC in Jamaica. The group started at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica on 5th September, 2008. OLPC Jamaica intends to foster interest, generate ideas and learn from experiences about OLPC both on the UWI campus and in its neighboring communities.

Mailing List

http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-jamaica This is a public list and anyone can join.

Event and Media Materials

An article by Marguerite Orane in Jamaica Gleaner from November 2006.

Business card-like information slip with all relevant URLs. get PDF here and original in Open document format here

Imagine: One Laptop Per (Jamaican) Child! A set of slides by Marguerite Orane

OLPC Workshop at UWI Mona Campus (Sept 16, 2008)

We had a meeting/workshop to introduce the project to a wider audience at UWI and around. Slides.

Software Freedom Day (Sept 18, 2008)

At SFD 2008 at UWI Jamaica XO laptops will be around for people to see and try. We'll also try to have Sugar running on some old machines.

ICT4D Jamaica Networking Event (Sept 19, 2008)

We were invited by ICT4D Jamaica (http://cms.ict4djamaica.org/) to host a table with OLPC Jamaica information. It was one of the busiest tables there. In fact, we had to turn people away so that they could start the presentations! Sorry ICT4D for hogging the attention...the XOs are just way too cute to pass up though :-)

Check out the pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157607392432344/

We also passed along a bunch of information slips to people. Feel free to do so yourself as well. http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/03/Infocard.pdf