OLPC UK

OLPC UK is a community effort to bring together UK-based OLPC supporters and contributors, and to create structured support for the OLPC project in and from the Has location country::United Kingdom.

Mission Statement

To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

Details

• Next meeting: Start date::June 17, 2009 6:30pm onwards at 111 Old Broad Street, EC3N 1AP, Has location city::London.
• most recent meeting's minutes
• Mailing list: olpc-uk@lists.laptop.org about mailing lists
• IRC channel: #olpc-uk on freenode (irc.freenode.net)

Activities and their Teams

• /Pilots/London2009 - Team - current draft proposal
• /Marketing - Team
• /Lending Library and Repair Centre - Team

Meeting minutes

The meeting minutes page has been transcluded here for easy access:

• OLPC UK/Meetings/20090527 - meeting 3
• OLPC UK/Meetings/20090506 - meeting 2
• OLPC UK/Meetings/20090408 - initial meeting in central London

Media

The BBC has produced some of the best media coverage in the history of the organisation, although it is a bit outdated in the present day.

The Racepoint Group, one of OLPC's media partners in the US, has a UK office with a group who assist OLPC by generating media attention in the UK.

Members

Please list your name and location if you would be interested in participating in UK OLPC activities. Please ensure that there is some obvious way of contacting you (e.g. put your email address on your user page, and link to it).

Please also list what you can offer to the community. Offers of help from those who can offer resources critical to UK community formation (e.g. venues for events, sponsorship, media contacts, etc) are especially appreciated.

Finally, please sign up to the mailing list (details above) so that you will receive information on any developments.

• Alan Bell
• Alan Lord
• Martin Dengler
• Tom Hannen
• Frankie Roberto, Manchester. XO owner.
• Jeff Plante Leeds
• Chris Lawrie, Aberdeen
• Mark Simpkins, London. XO user.
• Shanmuhanathan Thiagaraja, Reading. XO user.
• Dave Lee - Conisbrough, South Yorkshire
• Gani Bhagavathula, Norwich UK. XO User. Experimenting with Ubuntu.
• Louie Christie, London UK. System Admin, Ex-programmer, Youth Worker, Social Entrepreneur
• Daniel Drake, nr London
• Peter Robinson, London. Fedora packager
• Gary Martin, Edinburgh, freelance developer.
• Mark Bools, Leicester, freelance IT consultant
• Joe Kelleher, West Midlands, developer and (parent of) XO owner
• David Craddock, Kent, developer with XO
• Vaz Singh, Hertfordshire & South-East London.
• Tony Vroon, Peterborough, sysadmin. G1G1 order placed.
• Edward Mooney, Brighton, Sussex. Teacher and e-learning co-ordinator. Could, with some grovelling, offer the use of a real life school as a venue for any OLPC UK events.
• Mark Hadman, Sheffield. Imported my XO from the US way back in early 2008. Running the DebXO OS.
• Kev Thomas, Glasgow. support/development background. Keen to see UK education pick up on XOs. Start small in Scotland and aim high!
• Faisal Khan, London.
• Christel Dahlskjaer, Nr London. FOSS Geek, XO User.
• Roger Turner, London, XO owner.
• Miles Berry, Surrey, XO Owner, Headteacher, Open Source Schools
• Kunal Vora, London, Physicist, Ubuntu User, FOSS Advocate, XO owner.

Ideas for UK community activities

• Social events
• User support groups
• Repair Centre
• Media outreach
• London pilot
• Working with government for OLPC adoption in the UK education system
• Formation of a non-profit/charity organisational structure
• XO demonstrations to potential community members
• Make a logo and website for the group
• Link people/organisations who want to Give Many, to increase scope of UK-backed deployments in other parts of the world
• Create corporate support programme. Provide companies with opportunities to be Corporate supporters of OLPC UK and participation in sponsorship. Have various sponsorship bands: silver, bronze, gold, etc.
• Target XO deployment to the most poorest and deprived parts of UK.
• Form partnerships with like-minded organisations, such as the EWB UK.
• Appoint a famous person to be an Ambassador for OLPC UK.