XO Giving/Users

A question was asked on the question page about local user groups for owners of the "get 1" half of the "give 1 get 1" program. This page is a list of known user groups.

Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:

• this Wiki,
• Mailing lists,
• IRC,
• EPals.

This isn't an exhaustive list.

Groups might also set up their own Jabber server, since there isn't one set up for the owners as a whole, due to scale and cost issues.

North America

British Columbia, Vancouver

Jeremy Penner Looking to form an xo users group in Vancouver.

Alaska, Interior

Lylah Caldwell is interested in helping start a user group in the Fairbanks/North Pole area for XO users. She has started a Yahoo Group for that purpose located here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XO_interior

Arizona, Southern

Brian Basgen Looking to form an XO group for Southern Arizona, particularly the Tucson area, with a focus on using the laptop in our local school systems.

California, Berkeley

I'm looking to meet up with others in the area to work on OLPC software. --Wrachelson 00:54, 12 December 2007 (EST)

California, Los Angeles

We're starting to form a local group at [1].

California, Silicon Valley

1/1/08 I'd like to start an OLPC group meeting around Mountain View, perhaps weekly for the short term while everyone gets up to speed, and then monthly later on. We'll likely meet at the Dana Street Cafe. It will be informal chit chat in the beginning. Send me your email address, and I'll add you to the list. carllinde the_usual_at_goes_here gmail.com

I'm hosting a hacking at my house on Saturday, December 22. A group will likely form off of the Bay Area Python Interest Group (BayPiggies) --CharlesMerriam 16:42, 19 December 2007 (EST)

Connecticut, Middletown

We are collecting unneeded XO laptops and purchasing more for our Urban Village project in Middletown Middletown Childrens Project

District of Columbia, Washington DC

The OLPC News team is organizing a OLPC Learning Club for the DC Metro area. We'll be having our first meeting on December 18 with guest speakers and (hopefully) a mass XO mesh. Come by and co-learn!

• Blog
• OLPC Learning Club D.C. Wiki
• Listserv

Georgia, Atlanta

Tat Au is interested in forming an XO Learning Club in the Atlanta, Georgia area to allow young XO owners to get together, explore and have fun with XO and learn about OLPC.

Illinois, Chicago - ChiXO: Chicago Area XO User Group

An XO User Group has been formed at Moraine Valley Community College (in Palos Hills, IL, a southwest suburb of Chicago). XO users from Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois (and beyond) are welcome to join. The first club meeting will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2008. Contact Larry Langellier for additional details.

Massachusetts, CBUG - Cambridge-Boston User Group

See Bug Found. See Bug Squashed. CBUG forming..

- :) Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria 09:12, 22 November 2007 (EST)

Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Bill McTeer The Minnesota Chapter of the Independent Computer Consultants Association is starting a group. We would love to link up with others in the area. We have a Google Group located here: http://groups.google.com/group/icca-mn-olpc

Patrick Stein Bought an OLPC for my son Isaac, but I intend to develop some apps for it soon.

Oregon, Eugene

An XO user group is being formed in Eugene. Jane Krauss began the group on November 16.

Here's a link to our Eugene XO Users Workspace.

Jane hosts an XO educator group in Classroom 2.0 also. --Mark 14:29, 21 November 2007 (EST) NEWS: Eugene group meeting at Starbucks on Pearl and Broadway at 6:30 pm on Friday, January 4.

Oregon, Portland

Google group has been setup for Portland, Oregon.

PDX-OLPC Users (or PDXO): http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-olpc-users

Philadelphia/Delaware Valley

Any interest in a local user group? Give me a holler and we'll set something up! Ike9898 09:48, 9 January 2008 (EST)

St. Louis, MO

Andrew Jensen is looking for others with XO laptops in the St. Louis Area, with the goal of sharing resources and seeing how they work together. Contact at PlatonicJensen(at)yahoo.com.

Tallahassee, FL

Listen in Tally, FL would like to find out if any others in the area have gotten an XO laptop. It would be great to see how the XO works when there is more than one around.

I would like to help contact the govt about getting involved in the OLPC program and supply these machines to kids/schools in FL. In fact I have just found a page that helps you do this: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC4USALobbying. We need more sample letters on here so that more people will write to their Reps. Let Love Flow affiliatelinks(at)goct.net

Texas, Austin

Contact Anne Gentle if you are interested. Three of us got together Friday January 4th, 2008. We will try to meet again, perhaps at a Geek Austin event.

Eric Van Hensbergen - technically, the OLPC is my 10-year old daughters, but I'm developing software and content for her (and others as well. I'm also running a Jabber collaboration server for Austin (see Xo-austin)

Texas, Houston

Robert Nagel has started an XO User Club. See http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/start_xo_user_club_houston.html and http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83399673 for more information. The first meeting is on a Saturday the 2nd or 3rd week of January.

Washington, Seattle - SeaXO User Group

An XO user group is being formed in Seattle, Washington.

Check http://www.SeaXO.com for the latest information. As we're all waiting for our XO computers, there's not very much to announce just yet. Certainly, a meetup and a chance to try out the Mesh network capabilities will be high on everybody's list. In the next few weeks more will be added to the site.

Meanwhile if you'd like to receive any announcement and meeting information, email your contact information and interest to mailto:SeattleXO@gmail.com , or go to the SeaXO.com contact page[2].

Washington, Bainbridge Island (near Seattle) - XOBI Group

There appear to be a few people in our community with XO laptops - we'd love to find more, so created the XOBI google group at http://groups.google.com/group/xobi

Come join us!

Asia

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

A XO user group is starting at Games Cafe in Kaohsiung on Saturday afternoons. We're only on emulators now, but hopefully will be getting the real thing soon. Contact Tobey (at) Playgames (dot) tw for more info.

Europe

Ireland

I have one now in the South Dublin area. Does anyone else in Ireland have one? Feel like getting geeky in a pub?

Sweden

I have ordered 2 XO laptops through G1G1. When the laptops arrive to me it will be possible to look and feel them at Stockholm Linux User Group http://stockholm.lug.se/

Switzerland

Has anybody else in Switzerland or elsewhere in Europe ordered an XO through "Give 1 Get 1" (through a friend in 'North America', obviously...) ? Leave a note here to network (and to discuss how to advance this with our ministery of education...). Vorburger 15:05, 25 November 2007 (EST)

Duh, self-talk, future visitors, see OLPC_Switzerland! ;-) Vorburger 18:49, 4 January 2008 (EST)

United Kingdom

I have ordered a laptop to be delivered to my home (in Vermont) Hopefully I'll have it and am based in Leeds UK now anyone else getting one?

London here, if there is any other please get in touch! --Fbrutsch 11:16, 1 January 2008 (EST)

I live in Bournemouth but am in Reading and London most weeks. --Dave Crossland 12th January 2008

I have one, studying in Manchester but at home in Hertfordshire during the holidays. -DanielDrake 06:50, 18 January 2008 (EST)

FaceBook

There are a several groups forming on Facebook.

• XO Owners group
• XO Owners, Cambridge/Boston area

- :) Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria 09:12, 22 November 2007 (EST)

XO Educator Group in Classroom 2.0

Here's a link to Classroom 2.0 XO Educator Group a space where we can collect materials, pictures, meeting agendas/notes.