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For the latest live global map, please see <big>''http://olpcMAP.net''</big>.
== Larger Regional groups ==
* [[OLPC Spanish America|Spanish America]]
* [[OLPC Europe|Europe]]
* [[OLPC Oceania|Oceania]]


Countries are not always the best - most logical regional entity to gather people: many borders / countries are artificial, remnants of wars or colonialism, cutting people with the same language and culture in two or worse. Hence the logic of this category: Regional Groups.
== National groups ==


The [[Deployments]] page summarizes actual regional deployments of OLPC laptops.
=== Canada ===
* [http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev Toronto OLPC Developers] (mailing list)


There are ''many'' other interest groups, [[:Category:XO User Group|user groups]], and advocacy groups around the world enthused about OLPC's mission and the XO laptop.
=== Ghana ===
* [http://www.wilugghana.org/ Winneba Ghana LUG] working on wireless and computers for development


Check out the countries page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Countries . The software that makes this wiki has a great feature called "[[Categories]]". When you put at the bottom of your page the [[ Category:Countries ]], the wiki software understands you want your page to be taken up in an overview page where all the countries are listed and it does that automatically. There's many categories that have been created: e.g. on deployment where all matter related to deployment and kick-starting new groups are grouped together, etc. Just keep it in mind.
=== Nigeria ===
* [http://www.fantsuam.org/ Fantsuam Foundation] promoting rural community wireless networks and relevant technologies for development in northern Nigeria


== 20 Active Groups for groups.laptop.org ==
Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:
''since December 2008''
* [[OLPC Argentina]] &mdash; [http://www.tuquito.ar www.tuquito.ar]
* [[OLPC Brasil]] &mdash; [http://digitalmediauniverse.blogspot.com/ digitalmediauniverse.blogspot.com] DMU - revista sobre OLPC no Brasil
* [[OLPC Bulgaria]] &mdash; [http://olpc.openfmi.net/ olpc.openfmi.net]
* [[OLPC Chile]] &mdash; [http://ucpn.cl ucpn.cl] Un Computador Por Niño
* [[OLPC Greece]] &mdash; [http://www.ellak.gr/component/option,com_openwiki/itemid,84/id,ellak:ellhnopoihsh_ma8htikou_ypologisti.txt/ www.ellak.gr]
* [[OLPC Nepal]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Philippines]] &mdash; [http://olpcph.multiply.com/ OLPCPH - OLPC Philippines @ Multiply.Com]
* [[OLPC Russia]] &mdash; [http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/ community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/]
* [[OLPC South Africa]] &mdash; [http://www.laptop.org.za www.laptop.org.za]
* [[OLPC Thailand]] &mdash; [http://wiki.nectec.or.th/nectecpedia/index.php/OLPC-TH wiki.nectec.or.th]
* [[OLPC Uruguay]] &mdash; [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/ olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com]


Wanted: an active HAITI group - Then please leave at least YOUR name and contact me. --[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
* In this wiki
** Other sources may be present in each [[:Category:Countries|country page]]. Current '[[OLPC_world_map|green]]' countries are:
**: {{Status green countries}}
** [[OLPC Austria]]
** [[OLPC Brazil]]
** [[OLPC Colombia]]
** [[OLPC Ethiopia]]
** [[OLPC France]]
** [[OLPC Germany]]
** [[OLPC Korea]]
** [[OLPC Netherlands]]
** [[OLPC Russia]]
** [[OLPC Switzerland]]
** [[OLPC Uganda]]
** [[OLPC United Kingdom]]


* [[OLPC Australia|AU - Australia]] laptop.org.au
=== USA State Groups ===
* [[OLPC Austria|AT - Österreich]] olpc.at
* [[OLPC Bulgaria|BG - България]] olpc-bg.org
* [[OLPC Canada|CA - Canada]] ekiic org
* [[OLPC Canada|CA - Canada]] freegeekvancouver.org
* [[OLPC China|CN - 中国]] olpcapac.org olpc.asia
<br>
* [[OLPC Colombia|CO - Colombia]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia
* [[OLPC Cyprus|CY - Cyprus]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Cyprus
* [[OLPC Deutschland|DE - Deutschland]] olpc-deutschland.de
* [[OLPC France|FR - France]] olpc-france.org
* [[OLPC Greece|GR - Ελλάδα]] olpc.ellak.gr
<br>
* [[OLPC India|IN - भारत]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
* [[OLPC Italy|IT - Italia]] olpc-italia.org
* [[OLPC Netherlands|NL - Nederland]] olpc-nl.org (redirects to wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Netherlands)
* [[OLPC Peru|PE - Perú]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru
* [[OLPC Philippines|PH - Pilipinas]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines
<br>
* [[OLPC Russia|RU - Россия]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Russia
* [[OLPC Switzerland|CH - Suisse]] olpc.ch
* [[OLPC UK|UK - United Kingdom]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_UK
* [[OLPC US|US - United States of America]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_US
* [[OLPC Uruguay|UY - Uruguay]] wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Uruguay (which links to ceibal.edu.uy)


Note: All these pages starting with [[ OLPC and then a country name]] are actually reserved for the official representation of the NGO OLPC and mostly there is no registered national OLPC subsidiary. Probably you/they want to refer to a national/regional OLPC Community, but that just starts with [[ the country name ]]: so not [[OLPC Belgium]] but [[Belgium]].
==== Alabama ====
When the dots have to be put on the "i", it is illegal to call yourself "OLPC Belgium", only a mandated entity by OLPC in the USA/MIT not for profit, can open up a regional OLPC office in Belgium. What you can do is create a starting page [[Belgium]] - but of course with your country name - and call yourselves "the OLPC Community in Belgium", and then you could e.g. put - on your country page - a list with regions in your country and start working out the page of your region if that's relevant at all, because mind yourself splitting-up/separating OLPC Community members. Learn to be open and collaborative. You are very few OLPC minded people in a country, unpaid most of the time. Your competitors are the paid commercial people from other for profit ICT companies. You will need all free energy/time available in a country to compete them.--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
* [[OLPC Birmingham]]
** OLPC Birmingham has both a Grasroots group and a planned full scale implementation of 15,000 machines. On the grassroots side, their team of volunteers is experimenting with the School Servers and and recently took part in BarCampBirmingham


== Some groups with upcoming events on {{SERVERNAME}} ==
==== Arizona ====
Here is every [[:Category:XO User Group|XO user group]] page in this wiki annotated with a [[Property:Start date|start date]] or an [[Property:End date|end date]] in the future.
* [[AZ XO]]
{{#ask:
** The Arizona XO user group has been meeting since February of 2008 and has over 10 members. They have their own forum, mailing list, and are starting to work with the local Global Literacy Foundation.
[[Category:XO User Group]][[start date::>{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}]] OR [[end date::>{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}]]
<!-- |?Category should be useful to show this but some pages have a lot of extraneous categories -->
|?start date
|?end date
|?Has location city=City
|?Has location country=Country
|sort=start date
|default=No [[:Category:XO User Group]] pages found with a start date in the future?
}}


==== California ====
== Setting up a group ==
Add a section to the "[[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}|Talk]]" page (click the [discussion] tab) if you're interested in meeting other users and there isn't already a group in your area.
* [[OLPC California]]
** [[OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea]]
** [http://www.svlug.org/ Silicon Valley Linux User Group] Meets at Symantec monthly, holds an install fest at Google monthly
**[http://www.baypiggies.org/ Bay Area Python Interest Group] meets at Google monthly
**[[OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea]] - a group of OLPC enthusiasts in San Francisco and around, meets on the second Saturday of the month. Current meetings are at SF State University. We are looking for other SF Bay Area locations! Please contact Sameer Verma [mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu]
**[http://groups.google.com/group/sv_olpc Silicon Valley OLPC Users' Group] Meets in South Bay Area, monthly on third Thursday evenings


Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:
==== Connecticut ====
*this Wiki
* [[Middletown Childrens Project]] - Dedicated to providing XO laptops and support to elementary children in this Urban Village
* [[Yale Interest Group]]
*[[Mailing lists]]
*[[IRC]]
*[[EPals]]
* [http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewforum.php?f=1304 forum.laptop.org] and [http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?board=4.0 OLPCnews] forums for XO groups
This isn't an exhaustive list, [[Community building]] and [[How to start a grassroots group]] have more ideas.


Groups might also [[Run_your_own_jabber_server|set up their own Jabber server]], since there isn't one set up for XO owners as a whole, due to scale and cost issues.
==== Georgia ====
* Atlanta: Charles, Jim and [[User:tkau|Tat]] had their first gathering on January 12, 2008. They had a lot of fun sharing how XO works and exploring new features. They don't have a permanent home yet. If you are interested in joining them, you may contact [[User:tkau|Tat]] to find out when/where their next meeting will be at. [[User:Cshapiro|Charles]] is interested in development on and for the OLPC.


== Larger regional groups ==
==== Illinois ====
* [[Chicago Interest Group]]
; [[OLPC Spanish America]]
: a portal about laptop distributions in Spanish America
* [[IMSA]] campus chapter (Aurora)
; [[OLPC Europe]]
* [http://www.morainevalley.edu/ Moraine Valley Chapter]
: a meta-grassroots group with their own newsletter and bi-monthly meetings
; [[OLPC Oceania]]
: covers the [[OLPC Australia]] and [[OLPC New Zealand]] as well as the [[Solomon Islands]] and many other countries. [[OLPC Friends]] is the regional community organisation


==== Massachusetts ====
== Online groups ==
Besides the regional groups listed on this page:
* Boston : [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 16:27, 18 October 2007 (EDT) (B4)
* Lexington: [http://groups.google.com/group/lexo LeXO: Lexington XO Users Group]
* [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7357447124 XO Owners group] on Facebook
* the [[Classroom 2.0 XO Educator Group]]
* Needham/Wellesley: [[Olin university chapter]] - active and can help with tech support
* [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OLPC-US/ OLPC-US Yahoo! group]


==== Mississippi ====
== National groups ==
* [[Picayune Interest Group]]


Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:
==== Missouri ====
* [[xo-stl|XO-StL]] (USA, Missouri, Saint Louis) &mdash; [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xo-stl/tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xo-stl/]
* [[xo-kc|XO-KC]] (USA, Missouri, Kansas City) &mdash; [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xo-kc]


====Montana====
===Europe===
* [[Native Ascent]] (USA, Bozeman, MT) [http://www.abaetern.com/nativeascent]
* [[OLPC Austria]] &mdash; [http://www.olpc.at/ http://www.olpc.at/]
* [[OLPC Bulgaria]] &mdash; [http://olpc.openfmi.net/ http://olpc.openfmi.net]
* [[working with Ft Belknap Indian Resevation in Montana and the Marsabit District in Northern Kenya]]


* [[OLPC France]] &mdash; [http://olpc-france.org http://olpc-france.org]
====New Mexico====
** OLPC France is a team of ~30 people who are active in government lobbying, as well as being involved in [[OLPC Haiti]] and at [[OLPC Madagascar/Nosy Komba]]
* [[Santa_Fe_Complex_OLPC_Community]]
* [[OLPC Germany]] &mdash;
** OLPC Germany is a group of 15 people who are active in public demonstrations, software development and their own IRC chanel
* [[OLPC Greece]] &mdash; [http://www.ellak.gr/component/option,com_openwiki/itemid,84/id,ellak:ellhnopoihsh_ma8htikou_ypologisti.txt/ www.ellak.gr]
* [[OLPC Netherlands]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Poland]] &mdash; [http://olpc.pl/english/ http://olpc.pl/english/]
* [[OLPC Russia]] &mdash; [http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/ http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/]
* [[OLPC Slovenia]] &mdash; [http://www.olpc.si/ http://www.olpc.si/]
* [[OLPC Switzerland]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Turkey]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC United Kingdom]] &mdash;


==== New York ====
===Latin America & Caribbean===
* [[OLPC Argentina]] &mdash; [http://www.tuquito.com.ar http://www.tuquito.com.ar]
* New York Metro Area: See [[user:cheesebuyer]]. Interested in forming an XO laptop user group? We have members from New York City and Connecticut. '''Everyone within reach is welcome'''. First order of business: establish online and live meeting places. See [[OLPC New York]] for the beginnings of a grassroots group page.
* [[OLPC Brasil]] &mdash;
* Long Island - We are starting to build a group based at Stony Brook University. Please send an email to chuck@rovenet.com if you need more information or to participate.
* [[OLPC Colombia]] &mdash; http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/colombia
* [[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY|OLPC Rochester, NY]]
* [[OLPC Chile]] &mdash; [http://ucpn.cl http://ucpn.cl] Un Computador Por Niño
* [[OLPC Commonwealth of Dominica]] Mons George-Dill re DAAS monageorge@cwdom.dm
* [[OLPC Ecuador]] &mdash; [http://www.ecuadorolpc.org http://www.ecuadorolpc.org] Un Computador Por Niño
* [[OLPC Guatemala]]
* [[OLPC Haiti]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Jamaica]] &mdash; About 25 people from The University of The West Indies, Jamaican
* [[OLPC Bahamas]] Ryan Murray westvilla@hotmail.com - Contact to join
private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens
* [[OLPC Mexico]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Peru]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Uruguay]] &mdash; [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/ olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com]
* [[OLPC Saint Lucia]] perrylendor@yahoo.co.uk Please Contact to Join


==== North Carolina ====
====Caribbean====
* [[OLPC Caribbean]]
* Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, RTP: http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-rdu
* [[OLPC Curacao]]
* [[OLPC Commonwealth of Dominica]] Mons George-Dill re DAAS monageorge@cwdom.dm
* [[OLPC Haiti]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Jamaica]] &mdash; About 25 people from The University of The West Indies, Jamaican
* [[OLPC Bahamas]] Ryan Murray westvilla@hotmail.com - Contact to join private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens
* [[OLPC Saint Lucia]] perrylendor@yahoo.co.uk Please Contact to Join
* [[OLPC Trinidad and Tobago]] SvenAERTS228 at gmail dot com Please Contact to Join --[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 21:07, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


==== Ohio ====
=== Africa - Afrique===
* [[Africa]]
* Cleveland: [http://goto.case.edu/ CWRU Hacker Society]
* [[Afrique]]
* [[OLPC Ethiopia]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Ghana]] &mdash; Winneba Ghana LUG
* [[OLPC Nigeria]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC South Africa]] &mdash; [http://www.laptop.org.za www.laptop.org.za]
* [[OLPC Benin]]
* [[OLPC Egypt]]
* [[OLPC Ethiopia]]
* [[OLPC Guinea]]
* [[OLPC Libya]]
* [[OLPC Kenya]]
* [[OLPC Morocco]]
* [[OLPC Republic of Guinea]]
* [[OLPC Rwanda]]
* [[OLPC Senegal]]
* [[OLPC Somalia]]
* [[OLPC Uganda]]
* [[OLPC Zambia]]
* [[OPLC Zimbabwe]]


=== Asia and Oceania ===
* Cincinnati: [http://groups.google.com/group/xohio XOhio user's group]
* [[OLPC Australia]] &mdash;
** request to join the [http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/62584/083EE32DBE94/ LinkedIn Group]
* [[Bhutan|OLPC Bhutan]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC China]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC India]] &mdash; also see [[Khairat school]] trial
* [[OLPC Japan]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Kashmir]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Korea]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Malaysia]] &mdash; http://olpcmalaysia.blogspot.com/
* [[OLPC Mongolia]] &mdash;http://laptop.gov.mn/
* [[OLPC Nepal]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC New Zealand]] &mdash; http://laptop.org.nz
* [[OLPC Pakistan]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Philippines]] &mdash; http://olpcph.multiply.com/ OLPC Philippines
* [[OLPC Thailand]] &mdash; [http://wiki.nectec.or.th/nectecpedia/index.php/OLPC-TH wiki.nectec.or.th], see the Bann Samkha school
* [[OLPC Vietnam]] &mdash; EG. [[Vung Vieng Fishing Vietnam|Vung Vieng Fishing Village]] independent microdeployment


==== Oregon ====
== Asia ==
=== Kaohsiung, Taiwan ===
* Oregon : see [[user:mburns]] and [[User:znmeb|Ed Borasky]] http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-olpc-users/
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.
* [[Eugene XO User Group]]


==== Pennsylvania ====
* Delaware County PA: see [[user:ginafioravanti]] I'm interested in forming an XO group in PA. I gave a laptop in the give one /get one phase in October.
**I'm in. I live in Montgomery County PA. To form a group I think we need a few more local users. Any idea how to find them? (It's best to contact me directly < ike9898 at yahoo dot com >) [[User:Ike9898|Ike9898]] 18:24, 27 April 2008 (EDT)


==== Rhode Island ====
=== Hong Kong ===
I would like to invite Hong Kong game designers and developers and software developers in general to start the Hong Kong XO Developers Group. Contact sdjrueda at polyu dot edu dot hk for more if interested. I would also be interested in starting or joining a users group.
* Rhode Island : see [[user:bjepson]] and http://rinexus.com/forum/general-discussion/xo-laptop-meetup-ri
--[[User:Jarueda|Jarueda]] 07:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


==== Texas ====
== North America ==
* [[xo-austin|XO-Austin]] (USA, Texas, Austin) - Jabber server, more coming


==== Vermont ====
=== Canada ===
* [[OLPC Vermont]] Vermont Development and Grassroot Group. See more at our wiki page.


* [[OLPC Canada]] &mdash; [http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev] Toronto OLPC Developers list
==== Washington ====
* http://www.olpcug.org/ , an umbrella for Canadian OLPC user groups
* Seattle XO User Group: [[SeaXO]]
==== British Columbia ====
* Volunteer/Support - [[OLPC Bellingham|Whatcom County, Bellingham]] (with local repair center), See [[User:ixo|iXo - Ixo X oxI]].


[[User:jerpenner|Jeremy Penner]] Looking to form an xo users group in Vancouver.
==== Washington, DC ====
:: A Vancouver OLPC XO User Group Meeting was held February 16th, 2008. [http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080214.html Details]; [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcmetroblogger/tags/vbcxo/ Photos]
* [[OLPC Learning Club D.C.]]
** The OLPC Learning Club has several very active members, including Mike Lee and Ian Daniher. The group gives educational demonstrations, contributes to various content projects and develops software for the XO, such as [[GASP]].


==== Quebec ====
== Community Repair Centers ==
* [http://www.xo-quebec.org XO-Québec], une communauté québécoise en développement à l'entour du OLPC et de son environnement d'apprentissage.


=== USA ===
Over a dozen volunteer-run [[Repair centers]] have been proposed in the USA and Canada, often hosted at larger universities.


See [[OLPC United States#User groups and unoffical groups]]
== See Also ==

== See also ==
* [[Community building]]
* [[Community building]]
* [[:Category:Community]]
* [[:Category:Community]]
* [[:Category:XO User Group]]
* [[:Category:XO User Group]]
* [[Repair centers]]

* [[:Category:XO Lending Libraries]]


'''Keywords''': User Group; Special Interest Group SIG
'''Keywords''': User Group; Special Interest Group SIG


[[Category:Countries]]
[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:Community]]
[[Category:Community]]
[[Category:Guides]]
[[Category:Deployment planning]]

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For the latest live global map, please see http://olpcMAP.net.

Countries are not always the best - most logical regional entity to gather people: many borders / countries are artificial, remnants of wars or colonialism, cutting people with the same language and culture in two or worse. Hence the logic of this category: Regional Groups.

The Deployments page summarizes actual regional deployments of OLPC laptops.

There are many other interest groups, user groups, and advocacy groups around the world enthused about OLPC's mission and the XO laptop.

Check out the countries page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Countries . The software that makes this wiki has a great feature called "Categories". When you put at the bottom of your page the, the wiki software understands you want your page to be taken up in an overview page where all the countries are listed and it does that automatically. There's many categories that have been created: e.g. on deployment where all matter related to deployment and kick-starting new groups are grouped together, etc. Just keep it in mind.

20 Active Groups for groups.laptop.org

since December 2008

Wanted: an active HAITI group - Then please leave at least YOUR name and contact me. --SvenAERTS 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)




Note: All these pages starting with OLPC and then a country name are actually reserved for the official representation of the NGO OLPC and mostly there is no registered national OLPC subsidiary. Probably you/they want to refer to a national/regional OLPC Community, but that just starts with the country name : so not OLPC Belgium but Belgium. When the dots have to be put on the "i", it is illegal to call yourself "OLPC Belgium", only a mandated entity by OLPC in the USA/MIT not for profit, can open up a regional OLPC office in Belgium. What you can do is create a starting page Belgium - but of course with your country name - and call yourselves "the OLPC Community in Belgium", and then you could e.g. put - on your country page - a list with regions in your country and start working out the page of your region if that's relevant at all, because mind yourself splitting-up/separating OLPC Community members. Learn to be open and collaborative. You are very few OLPC minded people in a country, unpaid most of the time. Your competitors are the paid commercial people from other for profit ICT companies. You will need all free energy/time available in a country to compete them.--SvenAERTS 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Some groups with upcoming events on wiki.laptop.org

Here is every XO user group page in this wiki annotated with a start date or an end date in the future. {{#ask:[[start date::>2024-11-24]] OR [[end date::>2024-11-24]] 

 |?start date
 |?end date
 |?Has location city=City
 |?Has location country=Country
 |sort=start date
 |default=No Category:XO User Group pages found with a start date in the future?

}}

Setting up a group

Add a section to the "Talk" page (click the [discussion] tab) if you're interested in meeting other users and there isn't already a group in your area.

Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:

This isn't an exhaustive list, Community building and How to start a grassroots group have more ideas.

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

Larger regional groups

OLPC Spanish America
a portal about laptop distributions in Spanish America
OLPC Europe
a meta-grassroots group with their own newsletter and bi-monthly meetings
OLPC Oceania
covers the OLPC Australia and OLPC New Zealand as well as the Solomon Islands and many other countries. OLPC Friends is the regional community organisation

Online groups

Besides the regional groups listed on this page:

National groups

Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:

Europe

Latin America & Caribbean

private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens

Caribbean

Africa - Afrique

Asia and Oceania

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.


Hong Kong

I would like to invite Hong Kong game designers and developers and software developers in general to start the Hong Kong XO Developers Group. Contact sdjrueda at polyu dot edu dot hk for more if interested. I would also be interested in starting or joining a users group. --Jarueda 07:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

North America

Canada

British Columbia

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

A Vancouver OLPC XO User Group Meeting was held February 16th, 2008. Details; Photos

Quebec

  • XO-Québec, une communauté québécoise en développement à l'entour du OLPC et de son environnement d'apprentissage.

USA

See OLPC United States#User groups and unoffical groups

See also

Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG

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