OLPC Europe/Meetings/2008-01-10

Summary of the first OLPC Europe IRC Meeting

• Thursday, 10.1.2008 18:00 CET
• Log
• Log-Summary

Introduction

People participating

  1. h01ger		Germany
  2. crazy-chris	Austria
  3. Gregor_Marco	Germany
  4. sjoerd		Netherlands
  5. l-fy		Romania
  6. ChristophD		Austria
  7. b457144n		Netherlands
  8. ryd		
  9. rwh		
 10. yokoy		Germany
 11. sj			North America
 12. _bernie		
 13. aferti		
 14. samy		

First Part

Set of common guidelines

• Crazy-chris sent out File:Olpc europe mindmap.pdf and File:Olpc europe text.pdf
  • We basically agreed on all points
  • and to remove "political"
  • Discussion: political / not, / by default / in which ways

Visions

• Agreed: OLPC Europe can be a good contact point between Boston and local groups
• Agreed: Help in Remote Deployment
• Agreed: OLPC Europe doesn't do pilots but helps the grassroots

Organisation

• Agreed: the olpc europe guidelines need a proper voting procedure or something to find consensus (today we said "agreed" when in fact not everybody agreed but only 90%)
• Agreed: most people want to keep the infrastructure focused on laptop.org with discussions about extensions if required
• Log: most people want to get involved / contribute time to olpc europe

Infrastructure

• Log: mburns and isforinsects (Seth woodworth) are talking about a consolidated blog, covering pilots and other communities
• Basically Agreed: use OLPC Europe as a starting point
• Basically Agreed: use grassroots mailing list at the moment (l-fy protested)

Events

Please see OLPC Europe/Events for a list of events and people participating

FOSDEM

• Log: People at FOSDEM: Bastian, Sjoerd, Jens, Holger (Maybe: Chris, Joko)
• h01ger has three main goals with the fosdem event: 1. meet each other. 2. tell others we exist. 3. start olpc europe (this already happens \o/) - h01ger expects people from >30 european countries at fosdem

Other Conferences

• Log: Florian prepares something at Solutions Linux in paris from 29. to 31. January 08
• Log: LinuxTag Berlin: Holger und Joko
• Log: CeBIT: OLPC Austria
• ApacheCon: Chris

Who has / needs how many laptops

• Log
• In France is 1 xo, there will be one borrowed via OLPC Austria for the Solutions Linux
• NL Group has also only 1 xo

Next Steps

OLPC Europe/ToDo

• Use and extend OLPC Europe/ToDo for topics to think/act upon

Project at dev.laptop.org

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