OLPC Europe/Meetings/2008-01-24

About

Summary of the second #olpc-europe irc meeting.

• 24.1.2008, 17:00 UTC, 70 minutes
• log, log_summary
• Participating
  • h01ger, crazy-chris, b457144n, aferti, atodorov, nbd, Gregor_de, groupsky, yokoy, samy, h_ivanov, jaume, l-fy

Summary

• (log) what are we all doing... many things all over europe :)

• (log) Information Infrastructure
  • olpc.eu, olpc.de, olpc.nl are squatted
  • we point olpc-europe.org and olpceurope.org to OLPC Europe
  • we need no seperate mailing list yet
  • many people like the name olpc-europe.org
  • discussion [country]@...? => move it to the mailing list
  • we may want to use contact@olpc-europe.org, which goes to all interested people (1 reply with cc) => mailing list
  • we'll use newsletter@ to send posts to the people compiling the newsletter
  • newsletter@ is the only @olpc-europe.org mail address currently in use

• (log) we want a monthly newsletter
  • publish on the wiki, and grassroots (and maybe communities)
  • keep the drafts in a public git repository
  • chris starts working on the first newsletter
  • holger makes a git structure for easy collaboration
  • all volunteers are invited to participate
  • we send articles, infos, posts, ... to newsletter@olpc-europe.org (to holger and chris at the moment)
  • fist newsletter on 10. February

• (log) Pilot Projects
  • a few pilots start all over europe in 2008
  • some people would be interested in initiating one
  • we start to collect everything in OLPC Europe/Pilots and subpages
  • everybody who is doing a pilot documents stuff on the way :)
  • set up a page with instructions on how to initiate a pilot => (who will do it?)
  • we want to exchange as much related information as possible (also via git), and help connecting the pilots
  • Gregor proposed a pilot project working group, and gets started to broadly discuss the idea

• (log) T-Shirts (until Fosdem)
  • holger and yokoy start working on that
  • sell them at fosdem? (=> put money into an olpc europe founding party pot)

• (log) we all still agree to the vision

• (log) Next Meeting: Thursday, 7. February 2008 - 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET)

Next Steps

• Chris: newsletter
• Holger: t-shirts, newsletter git
• Yoko: t-shirts, siebdruck
• Gregor: start a "pilot project working group" (discussion)
• Alexander: linux-compatible presentation
• Bastiaan: collect/focus pilot-related infos and resources (?)

• Open
  • Start a page on How to initiate a pilot project
  • Make a OLPC Europe T-Shirt logo

• All
  • focus infos on OLPC Europe and subpages
  • document all pilot related things for further exchange
  • think about infos for the first newsletter
  • have a good time :)