OLPC Netherlands

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About OLPC The Netherlands

OLPC The Netherlands (OLPC-NL for short) is a grassroots group interested in contributing to the OLPC project. We are just starting up and are looking for more like minded people.
Please contact us at contact@olpc-nl.org for further information.

To Do List

1. find more people
2. have a brainstorm session to gather cool ideas for this grassroots group
3. document what projects we are working / want to work on
4. start regular meetings, besides Bine & Bastiaan's discussions during carpooling :-)
5. create a forum or irc channel (als voorbeeld) (just start using olpc-nl on FreeNode)
6. create a mailing list
7. request 1 or 2 XO laptops for demonstration and development/test purposes (e.g. for WhatsThatSound)
8. create a multi user wordpress blog for dutch members

People

Bastiaan Bakker
User:Bastiaan

• Software Engineer
• Interested in: developing fun activities for the XO
• Lives in: Zoetermeer

Sabine Hengeveld-Auer
User:Bine

• Communications
• Interested in: spreading the word about OLPC in the Netherlands
• Lives in: Pijnacker

Don Hopkins
User:Dhopkins

• Software Engineer
• Interested in: SimCity, Python, Visual Programming
• Company: TomTom
• Lives in: Amsterdam

Pascal Scheffers [1]:

• pascals on IRC
• Working on Push to Talk and documenting APIs

lockwood

• lockwood_dev on IRC freenode
• Working on a educative math game (pygame)
• Uses Windows XP and Fedora 8
• Lives in: Almere

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Mailing List

Work In Progress. Please check again later.

Meetings

We aim to have regular meetings, provided there is enough interest.
The first meeting is planned for saturday, December 15th, 14:00 hours, location TBD. We are looking for people who want to demonstrate what they have been working on.

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