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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]]
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.
** OLPC Spanish America is a portal that tracks information on Laptop Distributions in Spanish America

* [[OLPC Europe|Europe]]
The [[Deployments]] page summarizes actual regional deployments of OLPC laptops.
** OLPC Europe is a meta-grassroots group with their own newsletter and bi-monthly meetings

* [[OLPC Oceania|Oceania]]
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.
** 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

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.

== 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. --[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 09:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

* [[OLPC Australia|AU - Australia]] laptop.org.au
* [[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]].
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)

== Some groups with upcoming events on {{SERVERNAME}} ==
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.
{{#ask:
[[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?
}}

== 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.

Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:
*this Wiki
*[[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.

== 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:
* [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7357447124 XO Owners group] on Facebook
* the [[Classroom 2.0 XO Educator Group]]
* [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OLPC-US/ OLPC-US Yahoo! group]


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


===Europe===
* [[OLPC Argentina]] &mdash; [http://www.tuquito.ar http://www.tuquito.ar]
* [[OLPC Austria]] &mdash; [http://www.olpc.at/ http://www.olpc.at/]
* [[OLPC Austria]] &mdash; [http://www.olpc.at/ http://www.olpc.at/]
* [[OLPC Brasil]] &mdash; [http://digitalmediauniverse.blogspot.com/ http://digitalmediauniverse.blogspot.com] DMU - revista sobre OLPC no Brasil
* [[OLPC Bulgaria]] &mdash; [http://olpc.openfmi.net/ http://olpc.openfmi.net]
* [[OLPC Bulgaria]] &mdash; [http://olpc.openfmi.net/ http://olpc.openfmi.net]

* [[OLPC Canada]] &mdash; [http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev] Toronto OLPC Developers list
* [[OLPC Colombia]] &mdash; http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/colombia
* [[OLPC France]] &mdash; [http://olpc-france.org http://olpc-france.org]
** 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]]
* [[OLPC Chile]] &mdash; [http://ucpn.cl http://ucpn.cl] Un Computador Por Niño
* [[OLPC China]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Ecuador]] &mdash; [http://www.ecuadorolpc.org http://www.ecuadorolpc.org] Un Computador Por Niño
* [[OLPC Ethiopia]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC France]] &mdash; [http://www.relire.org/olpc-france-blog/ http://www.relire.org/olpc-france-blog/]
** OLPC France is a team of ~15 people who are active in government lobbying, as well as being involved in [[OLPC Haiti]]
* [[OLPC Germany]] &mdash;
* [[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 Germany is a group of 15 people who are active in public demonstrations, software development and their own IRC chanel
* [[OLPC Ghana]] &mdash; {{broken link | http://www.wilugghana.org}} Winneba Ghana LUG
* [[OLPC Greece]] &mdash; [http://www.ellak.gr/component/option,com_openwiki/itemid,84/id,ellak:ellhnopoihsh_ma8htikou_ypologisti.txt/ www.ellak.gr]
* [[OLPC Greece]] &mdash; [http://www.ellak.gr/component/option,com_openwiki/itemid,84/id,ellak:ellhnopoihsh_ma8htikou_ypologisti.txt/ www.ellak.gr]
* [[OLPC Haiti]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC India]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Japan]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Korea]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Nepal]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Netherlands]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Netherlands]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Nigeria]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Poland]] &mdash; [http://olpc.pl/english/ http://olpc.pl/english/]
* [[OLPC Philippines]] &mdash; http://olpcph.multiply.com/ OLPC Philippines
* [[OLPC Russia]] &mdash; [http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/ http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/]
* [[OLPC Russia]] &mdash; [http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/ http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/]
* [[OLPC South Africa]] &mdash; [http://www.laptop.org.za www.laptop.org.za]
* [[OLPC Slovenia]] &mdash; [http://www.olpc.si/ http://www.olpc.si/]
* [[OLPC Switzerland]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Switzerland]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Thailand]] &mdash; [http://wiki.nectec.or.th/nectecpedia/index.php/OLPC-TH wiki.nectec.or.th]
* [[OLPC Turkey]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Turkey]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Uganda]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC United Kingdom]] &mdash;

* [[OLPC United Kingdom]] &mdash;
===Latin America & Caribbean===
* [[OLPC Argentina]] &mdash; [http://www.tuquito.com.ar http://www.tuquito.com.ar]
* [[OLPC Brasil]] &mdash;
* [[OLPC Colombia]] &mdash; http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/colombia
* [[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 Uruguay]] &mdash; [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/ olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com]
* [[OLPC Saint Lucia]] perrylendor@yahoo.co.uk Please Contact to Join


=== USA State Groups ===
====Caribbean====
* [[OLPC Caribbean]]
* [[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)


==== Alabama ====
=== Africa - Afrique===
* [[OLPC Birmingham]]
* [[Africa]]
* [[Afrique]]
** OLPC Birmingham has both a Grassroots 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
* [[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]]


==== Arizona ====
=== Asia and Oceania ===
* [[AZ XO]]
* [[OLPC Australia]] &mdash;
* [[Bhutan|OLPC Bhutan]] &mdash;
** 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.
* [[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


==== California ====
== Asia ==
=== Kaohsiung, Taiwan ===
* [[OLPC California]] has
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.
** [[OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea]] is a group of OLPC enthusiasts in San Francisco and around, meets on the second Saturday or third of the month.
**[http://groups.google.com/group/sv_olpc Silicon Valley OLPC Users' Group] Meets in South Bay Area, monthly on third Thursday evenings


==== Connecticut ====
* Connecticut has two XO User groups, a [[Yale Interest Group]] and a small test deployment [[Middletown Childrens Project]]
** [[Middletown Childrens Project]] - Dedicated to providing XO laptops and support to elementary children in this Urban Village
** [[Yale Interest Group]]


==== Georgia ====
=== 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.
* [[Atlanta]] has a small ad-hoc user group. An elementary school in Fulton County is piloting a lending program with 10 XO laptops that arrived August '08.[www.creekview.org]
--[[User:Jarueda|Jarueda]] 07:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
[[http://wiki.laptop.org/images/d/db/Olpc-creekview.JPG]]


==== Illinois ====
== North America ==
* Chicago is the home of [[OLPC Chicago] and [[ILXO]], with the [[IMSA]] campus chapter in Aurora
** [[OLPC Chicago]] is a grassroots group backing several innitives, including the Illinois Low Cost Laptop Act
** [[IMSA]] is a Highschool campus chapter (Aurora), they have several XO's and are active in testing and debugging
** [[ILXO]] is squad of full-time OLPC volunteers who have created a local office for OLPC in Chicago


==== Massachusetts ====
=== Canada ===
* Massachusetts has three different active user groups: Lexington and Olin
** Lexington: [http://groups.google.com/group/lexo LeXO: Lexington XO Users Group] is focused on spreading information on OLPC
** Needham/Wellesley: [[Olin university chapter]] - is active, helps with tech support and is setting up a repair center
** [[OLPC Boston]] is an active XO Users group.


* [[OLPC Canada]] &mdash; [http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev] Toronto OLPC Developers list
==== Mississippi ====
* http://www.olpcug.org/ , an umbrella for Canadian OLPC user groups
* [[Picayune Interest Group]]
==== British Columbia ====
** Interest has been expressed but no group has yet formed

==== Missouri ====
* The Grassroots projects in Missouri have two different mailing lists, but no groups yet.
**[[xo-stl|XO-StL]] (USA, Missouri, Saint Louis) &mdash; [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xo-stl/tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xo-stl/ list1]
** [[xo-kc|XO-KC]] (USA, Missouri, Kansas City) &mdash; [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xo-kc list2]

====Montana====
* [[Native Ascent]] (USA, Bozeman, MT) http://www.abaetern.com/nativeascent
** Is working with Ft. Belknap Indian Resevation in Montana and the Marsabit District in Northern [[Kenya]]

====New Mexico====
* [[Santa Fe Complex OLPC Community]]
** The Santa Fe community contains several members from the [[WorldVistA]] project and work in several [[Health]] projects.

==== New York ====
* Three areas in New York are attempting to organize Local User Groups
** New York Metro Area is meeting: [[OLPC New York]]
* [[Long Island]] is still in the process of organizing
* [[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY|OLPC Rochester, NY]] is a student group that has worked on testing the XO

==== North Carolina ====
* [[North Carolina]]
** This group is centered among Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and can be reached at their [http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-rdu mailing list]

==== Ohio ====
* Cincinnati contains both a [http://groups.google.com/group/xohio user's group] and a [[OLPCinci|repair center]]

==== Oregon ====
* [[Oregon]] is home to two user groups, one in Portland and one in [[Eugene XO User Group|Eugene]]
** The [[Portland]] group is managed by users: [[user:mburns|mburns]] and [[User:znmeb|Ed Borasky]]
** The [[Eugene XO User Group]] had around 10 members, but is no longer meeting.

==== Pennsylvania ====
* [[OLPC Pennsylvania]]
** This state has a couple of interested members on our wiki, but haven't yet formed as a group.

==== Rhode Island ====
* Rhode Island
** A Rhode Island group formed for a few meetings, and appears to have a couple [[user:bjepson|avid contributors]], but seem to not have continued as a grassroots group.

==== South Carolina ====

* [[South Carolina|http://wiki.laptop.org/go/South_Carolina]] Groups in South Carolina have been talking to OLPC for years.


[[User:jerpenner|Jeremy Penner]] Looking to form an xo users group in Vancouver.
==== Texas ====
:: 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]
* [[xo-austin|XO-Austin]]
** In Austin, Texas, the local user group has a community Jabber server for it's users. At least one member of the group is an active technical writer for various documentation projects.


==== Vermont ====
==== Quebec ====
* [http://www.xo-quebec.org XO-Québec], une communauté québécoise en développement à l'entour du OLPC et de son environnement d'apprentissage.
* [[OLPC Vermont]] Vermont Development and Grassroot Group.
** The Vermont group is focusing on emulating the [[Sugar] UI and is spreading info about OLPC locally.


==== Washington ====
=== USA ===
* Washington is home to two distinct XO user communities; [[SeaXO]] and [[OLPC Bellingham]]
** [[SeaXO]] The Seattle XO User Group meets once a month to help support local users and is very active in [[Health|OLPC Health]]
** [[OLPC Bellingham]] is a small user group run by [[User:Ixo|Iain Davidson]] and contains a [[Local Repair Center]]


See [[OLPC United States#User groups and unoffical groups]]
==== Washington, DC ====
* [[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]].


== See Also ==
== See also ==
* [[Community building]]
* [[Community building]]
* [[:Category:Community]]
* [[:Category:Community]]
* [[:Category:XO User Group]]
* [[:Category:XO User Group]]
* [[Repair Centers]]
* [[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::>2024-07-22]] OR [[end date::>2024-07-22]] 

 |?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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