OLPC-NL meetings

Meetings of OLPC-NL

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

• 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
Sabine	Short introduction OLPC/XO for newbies	Presentation to group	30
Sabine	Workgroups within our grassroots / structuring ourselves	Discussion in group	15
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 a colorful mix of people from various backgrounds again, 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 will be coming. Since we are spreading the word about the meeting P2P, we'd appreciate if you could forward the invitation to all people you think might also be interested in the idea. Thank you! Bine 14:48, 10 January 2008 (EST)

Name	Topic(s)	Confirmation
Marten Vijn	tech/network/community	awaiting confirmation
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), Translations, Technical engineering	certain
Sjoerd Simons	Telepathy	certain
Sabine Hengeveld	OLPC-NL, Communications, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?), barmaid and cleaning lady Wolbodo that day	certain

More information on the meeting to come (via wiki, and our new 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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