OLPC-NL meetings

Meetings of OLPC-NL

6th OLPC NL meeting 13th December 2008

• When: 13th December 2008 11;00 till 15:00 (max 16:00h)
• Where: DWARS, Oude Gracht 229, 3511 NJ Utrecht (map) (public transport) [1]
• Agenda:

This is an agenda in progress. Please add topics you would like to have discussed at our meeting.

Presentation of foundation "Meters maken voor Millennium", OLPC projects in Russia, Mongolia and Nepal. By Harrie Vollaard File:MMvMOLPCNL13122008.ppt

Presentation of foundation "OpenWijs.nl", OLPC projects in the Netherlands and Nicaragua. By Frits Hoff

Presentation of Sogos, OLPC proposals in Suriname / Moodle. By Pieter van der Hijden.

Presentation of OLPC proposal in Tanzania. By Reinier Heeres

Not confirmed yet: presentation of "MartenVijn.nl": Dutch repaircentre, small OLPC project in Leiden. By Marten Vijn

Discussion about OLPC, what is good, what needs to be improved? Who can help?

If there is time left: developments in Netbooks (Classmate 2, EEE pc's, XO 2 etc)

Zaterdag 13 december a.s. om 11:00u is er een informatiebijeenkomst voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in OLPC in Nederland en Vlaanderen. De bijeenkomst vindt plaats aan de Oude Gracht 229 in Utrecht. Een ideale gelegenheid om meer te leren over het concept OLPC, de laptop XO, de software Sugar, de toepassing in Nederland / Vlaanderen en ontwikkelingslanden etc. In Nederland zijn 5 organisaties actief met OLPC. Op 13 december zijn er een aantal presentaties over de ervaringen van dit project in het afgelopen jaar. Aan het woord komen: Stichting OpenWijs.nl met projecten in Maastricht en Rama (Nicaragua), de stichting Meters maken voor Millennium met projecten in Rusland, Mongolië, India en Nepal, Marten Vijn met projecten en het reparatiecentrum in Leiden, Reinier Heres met een project in Tanzania en Sofos die actief is in Suriname.

• Who's coming:
  • Urso Wieske
  • Reinier Heeres
  • Harrie Vollaard
  • Gertie Clabbers
  • Bastiaan Bakker
  • Frits Hoff
  • Pieter van der Hijden
  • Hans de Zwart
  • PieterJan Heyse
  • Ernst Roelofs
  • Marcel de Leeuwe
  • Jeroen van der Ent

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5th OLPC NL meeting 19th April 2008

• When: 19th April 2008 11;00 till 16:00
• Where: Orionocodreef 7-9 Utrecht (map) [2] (public transport) [3]
• Agenda:
• Who's coming:
  • Marten Vijn - certain
  • Remko Siemerink - almost certain (het staat in m'n agenda; ik heb m'n XO vandaag eindelijk binnen !!! jeej!)
  • Ewoud Bras - certain
  • Urso Wieske - tentative, I am waiting on my Baseball season schedule.
  • Gerard Mourits - certain

Techmeeting 28 Mar 2008

• Informal meeting with no agenda about tech on olpc
• When 28 Mar 2008 20:30 - 23:00
• Where at Marten's home: Scholtenstraat 13 2313 GK Leiden map
• Who tech people....
• What to bring:
  • cake/cookies
  • notebooks / XS / XO

4th OLPC NL meeting 15 Mar 2008

• When: Saturday, March 15th 2008, starting at 2 pm

• Where: 'Canvas op de 7e' (Horeca & Exhibitions), Wibautstraat 150 (oude Volkskrant gebouw), Amsterdam; take the elevator to the 7th floor.

• Getting there: I won't even start about parking your car in Amsterdam... but the Metro station Wibautstraat is basically in front of the building (btw, all metro lines from central station will stop at Wibautstraat).

• Available infrastructure at the location: fast and free wireless, a beamer, enough comfty seats, an open bar and a spectacular view.

• Agenda:

This is an agenda in progress. Please add topics you would like to have discussed at our meeting.

1. Selforganisation of OLPC NL grassroots (vereniging), define goals and ways to work together. Make a decision on it. In advance: discussion on the mailinglist. Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
2. Setup of workgroups/interestgroups and suggestions on projects for grassroots. Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
3. Setup of our online presence/communications, incl. clear definitions of ownership, licence, etc. Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
4. Presentations of enthusiasts on ideas, projects, etc.
5. Sitting together in interestgroups and have some good discussions and some fun coding going on (suggestion: at least 2 hours reserved for that). Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
6. Marten preso about piloting (ideas and plans) slides

• Who's coming:
  • Sabine Hengeveld-Auer - certain.
  • Carlo Smouter - certain.
  • Reinier Heeres - was certain, but probably have to cancel...
  • Ewoud Bras - certain.
  • Marten Vijn - certain.
  • Harrie Vollaard - certain.
  • Gerard Mourits - certain.
  • Urso Wieske - certain, must leave earlier.
  • Sjoerd Simons - certain

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Techmeeting 14 Mar 2008

• Informal meeting with no agenda about tech on olpc
• When 14 Mar 2008 20:30 - 23:00
• Where at Marten's home: Scholtenstraat 13 2313 GK Leiden map
• Who tech people....
• What to bring:
  • cake/cookies
  • notebooks / XS / XO

Structuremeeting 05 Mar 2008

• Informal meeting with agenda about structure on olpc
• When 05 Mar 2008 20:30 - 23:00
• Who active people.... Please, limited place, so mail me in front
• What to bring:
  • cake/cookies

3rd OLPC NL meeting: 16 Feb 2008 in Leiden!

• When: Saturday, Februari 16th 2008, starting at 2 pm to latest 6 pm (we'll find a place to eat together around 6, for whoever is still there and hungry then)
• Where:Marinus Van de Lubbe zaal, Koppenhinksteeg 2, 2312 HX Leiden
• Getting there: map
• Internet: 3000/512 Kb/s on wifi and a switch
• Bar: coffee and tea are free (limited), other drink are available at the bar.
• Beamer: for presentations a beamer is available.
• Donations: There be a "pot" to leave donations. The money will be spend on organizing this kind of meetings.

Like always, everyone is welcome to join our 'gezellige knutselmiddag'. We hope to be again a colorful mix of people from various backgrounds like information technology, electro technology, education, media, non-profit organizations, international business, politics, to name just a few. Please add yourself to the list below to give us an indication of how many people we'll be. We are promoting this meeting again just P2P, therefore forward the invitation to all people you think might also be interested in the idea is much appreciated. Thank you!

Agenda:

Name	Topic(s)	Presentation or Discussion	Approx. time	Slides
Eric	Short discussion about forum and website promotion olpc-nl, use OX-sugar on Ubuntu laptop - test yourself =;) ..	Sorry everyone, the flu 'killed' me !	00
Marten	Building sugar on Ubuntu. The slides are here.	Presentation to group	20-30
ewoud bras	special interest groups		30-50?

Coming:

Name	Topic(s)	Confirmation
Marten Vijn	tech / network / community / schools in Leiden	certain
Gerard Mourits	network / community / schools / organizational issues	certain
Sabine Hengeveld-Auer	OLPC-NL grassrooting - the usual ;)	certain
Ed Kikkert	tech / network / community	certain
Bastiaan Bakker	OLPC-NL, OLPC-Europe, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?)	very likely
Eric Oosterbaan	olpc.be, website promotion, Engineering - Ubuntu demo Sugar	very likely
Harrie Vollaard	Project Making Miles for Millennium, visiting OLPC Projects in Asia)	certain
Reinier Heeres	Sugar etc.	certain
ewoud bras		certain
Frits Hoff	Organisation / Dutch pilots	certain
Just Vecht	- Linux user, interested in OLPC from the start.	very likely
Urso Wieske	Will come alone. Information Technology.	certain

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IRC Brainstorming-Session on Sponsoring Jan 26th 2008, 20:30h

If you are interested in joining the IRC brainstorming-session on sponsoring of our expenses, please join channel #olpc-nl on the FreeNode IRC server on Saturday at 20:29h CET. Bine 16:38, 24 January 2008 (EST)
Please list points you'd like to discuss in advance (and leave your stamp by typing 4 time '~') here:

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Hands-on Workshop Jan 25th 2008 in Leiden

• Goal setting up sugar (development setup) with sugarjhbuilder
• When Jan 25th 2008 20:00 - 23:00
• Where at Marten's home: Scholtenstraat 13 2313 GK Leiden map
• Who People who want build sugar on linux, max 5 people so register!
• What to bring:
  • Laptop with Linux installed, and if possible spare laptop disks
  • tried some steps in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Installing_Sugar
  • cake/cookies
• registered (max 5):
  • Marten
• Tip for use of sugar on Ubuntu: Use the latest OS ( 7.10 or more ) then sugar will run OK. Regards Eric

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2nd OLPC NL meeting: 19 Jan 2008 in Delft!

Promotion Poster

• When: Saturday, January 19th 2008, starting at 2 pm to latest 6 pm (we'll find a place to eat together around 6, for whoever is still there and hungry then)

• Where: Mensenvereniging Wolbodo (Sociëteit NOVUM), Verwersdijk 102, 2611 NK Delft

• Getting there: directions; it's about a 10 minute walk from the trainstation Delft; parking is best possible at the Paardenmarkt, along Phoenixstraat (below the tracks) or in the parking garages Phoenixstraat or Zuidpoort

• Available infrastructure at the location: a beamer, a bar and hopefully a wireless router that works ;) and, most important: A number of XOs will be available for playing around.

• Agenda:

This is an agenda in progress. If you like to do a presentation on what you've been working on or introduce ideas, please add your topic here. For the rest we will sit together in interest-groups, playing and brainstroming. Bine 14:48, 10 January 2008 (EST)

Name	Topic(s)	Presentation or Discussion	Approx. time	Slides
Sabine	Short introduction OLPC/XO for newbies	Presentation to group	30
Reinier Heeres	Software development for XO	Presentation to group	30	File:Sugar getting started.pdf
Frits Hoff	Benchmarking the XO with ASUS EEE, Classmate, Everex Cloudbook, etc	Presentation to group	30
Sabine	Workgroups within our grassroots / structuring ourselves	Discussion in group	30
Sabine	Dutch Pilot ideas	Discussion in group	30

• Who's coming:

Like always, everyone is welcome to join our 'gezellige knutselmiddag'. We hope to be again a colorful mix of people from various backgrounds like information technology, electro technology, education, media, non-profit organizations, international business, politics, to name just a few. Please add yourself to the list below to give us an indication of how many people we'll be. We are promoting this meeting again just P2P, therefore forward the invitation to all people you think might also be interested in the idea is much appreciated. Thank you! Bine 14:48, 10 January 2008 (EST)

Name	Topic(s)	Confirmation
Marten Vijn Kobus	Marten: tech/network/community, Kobus: hardware testing, random key generation	confirmed
Gerard Mourits	tech/network/community	certain
Bastiaan Bakker	OLPC-NL, OLPC-Europe, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?)	certain
Reinier Heeres	Sugar, Calculate, Read	certain
Eric Oosterbaan	olpc.be(nl), Promotion XO at dental exhibition , Technical engineering	depend on job-planning
Sjoerd Simons	Telepathy	certain
Sabine Hengeveld-Auer	OLPC-NL, Communications, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?), barmaid and cleaning lady Wolbodo that day	certain
Pascal Scheffers	Health content, Translations, some coding	certain
Fabienne Kulakowski		certain
Ewoud Bras	Will bring partner and perhaps our puppy. Am interested in ideas, pilot, promotion & education methods.	certain
Frits Hoff	OLPC-NL, OLPC-Europe, Dutch OLPC Pilot, open educational resources, benchmark (with ASUS EEE, Classmate, Everex Cloudbook, etc) G1G1. My son Floris (age 15) will come to test the XO, in comparison with the EEE.	certain

More information on the meeting to come (via wiki and our mailinglist (registration: http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc-nl). Bine 15:10, 10 January 2008 (EST)

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1st OLPC NL meeting: 15 Dec 2007 in Amsterdam!

Our very first gathering will be

• When: Saturday, December 15th 2007, starting at 2 pm

• Where: 'Canvas op de 7e' (Horeca & Exhibitions), Wibautstraat 150 (oude Volkskrant gebouw), Amsterdam; take the elevator to the 7th floor.

• Getting there: I won't even start about parking your car in Amsterdam... but the Metro station Wibautstraat is basically in front of the building (btw, all metro lines from central station will stop at Wibautstraat).

• Available infrastructure at the location: fast and free wireless, a beamer, enough comfty seats, an open bar and a spectacular view.

• Agenda:

This is an agenda in progress. Please add topics you would like to have discussed at our first meeting. Bine 15:26, 2 December 2007 (EST)

1. Short general introduction of OLPC, XO, Sugar
2. Short introduction OLPC-NL incl. discussion (how to organize ourselves, etc)
3. We are looking for people who want to demonstrate what they have been working on. Please add yourself to the list incl. name, contact, title of presentaion, estimated time needed for presentation): We know that lockwood (activity game) and others are planning on demonstrations. Bine 10:27, 9 December 2007 (EST)
4. Hopefully a video livestream with the European grassroots meeting that is taking place at the same time in Vienna
5. Sitting together and exchanging ideas - gezellig, gewoon.

• Who's coming:
  • Sabine Hengeveld-Auer - certain.
  • Bastiaan Bakker - certain. will bring one XO borrowed from Reinier. Bastiaan 09:50, 10 December 2007 (EST)
  • Carlo Smouter - certain (presentation ~20min, me,my project, my thoughts about olpc-nl)
  • Sjoerd Simons - will bring two XO B4s, Bastiaan 21:50, 5 December 2007 (EST)
  • Arline Blanker - maybe, after 17:00 (since that's pretty late in the afternoon, we'll see how many people are still there - if not enough, Arline will hold the presentation at our next meeting in January. Bine 11:01, 9 December 2007 (EST)). Arline will present the G1G1 project her foundation Suri-Bridge is planning for Suriname. Bastiaan 22:55, 5 December 2007 (EST)
  • Vesna Manojlovic - maybe
  • Pascal+Maja - will bring one B4 (+Kleuter+peuter)
  • bas
  • Gawin
  • Frits Hoff - certain (benchmark with EEE / presentation ~20min, me, my work, my thoughts about olpc-nl)
  • Rop Gonggrijp
  • ewoud bras - certain but later.
  • Wouter Tebbens - certain (will catch a plane at 19:00, but very pleased to join the meet!)
  • Gerard Mourits

More information on the meeting to come (via wiki, and our new mailinglist (registration: http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc-nl). Bine 18:37, 30 November 2007 (EST)

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