Mailing lists

An introduction to mailing lists

Mailing lists are used extensively for communication amongst members of the OLPC community. They are used for software/hardware development, user and deployment support, general disussion, community outreach, and more. With some exceptions, OLPC mailing lists are public, meaning that anyone can subscribe and post, and anyone (even those without subscriptions) can read the archives.

A list of OLPC-related mailing lists is shown below. Clicking the links below will lead to the list's individual page, where a more thorough description and forms for subscribing can be found. This list may be incomplete, see http://lists.laptop.org for the most up-to-date listing.

General

OLPC Open	General OLPC community discussion and chit-chat
Accessibility	Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC
Community News	Weekend community news
Health	OLPC Health
Library	OLPC Library and content discussions
Localization	Localization mailing list
Repairs	Discussion about and for grassroots repair centers
Support Gang	Community Support Volunteers
Testing	Testing discussions related to Sugar and OLPC
Wiki Gang	Wiki maintenance volunteers
OLPC Sysadmin	Mailing list for OLPC sysadmin team

Education

Educators	Educators and OLPC
Research	Academic and field research about OLPC and its impacts

Grassroots groups

Grassroots	Grassroots OLPC groups. Exchange and share experiences in building up a grassroots OLPC group
OLPC Sur	OLPC en castellano para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores
OLPC Boston	Boston, MA USA Users Group
OLPC Chicago	OLPC Chicago
OLPC LCDC	OLPC Learning Club DC
OLPC SF	OLPC San Francisco
OLPC Workshop	OLPC Workshops
Toronto Dev	Discussion list for Toronto area OLPC developers
Roadshows	XO roadshows
University Chapters	Grassroots OLPC chapters at colleges and universities

Country lists

Africa

Egypt Open Source	Discussion of open source in Egypt
Ethiopia	OLPC Ethiopia
Nigeria Open Source	Discussion of open source in Nigeria
OLPC ZA	OLPC South Africa

Asia

OLPC India Announce	OLPC India
India	OLPC India
Nepal	OLPC Nepal
OLPC Indonesia	OLPC Indonesia
OLPC Philippines	OLPC Philippines
OLPC saudi arabia	OLPC saudi arabia

Europe

OLPC CH	OLPC Switzerland
OLPC DE	OLPC Deutschland
OLPC Europe	OLPC Europe
OLPC France	OLPC in France and francophone countries

South America

Argentina	OLPC Argentina
Brasil	OLPC Brasil
Colombia	OLPC Colombia/Grassroots Organization
Kreyol	Haitian Kreyol translation
Peru	OLPC Peru
OLPC Haiti	OLPC Haiti
OLPC Uruguay	OLPC Uruguay

Development

Bugs	OLPC bugtracker mailing list
Devel	A low-volume list for announcement of interest to developers. Not for general discussion!
OpenEC	Discussion of OpenEC development
Security	Discussion of linux and bitfrost security, activity isolation, 'rainbow' (our security subsystem), and theft deterrence measures.
Server Devel	School server development discussion
Sugar	Discussion of OLPC design, desktop platform and user experience

OLPC hardware

Peripherals

Discussion for XO peripherals

Activity development

EduBlog	EduBlog mailing list
Etoys	Discussion of the Etoys multi-media authoring environment on OLPC
Games	Games for the OLPC
SocialCalc	SocialCalc mailing list
Wiki	Discussion of WikiReaders and related tech