OLPC Europe/Newsletter/Draft

This is a draft for the OLPC Europe Grassroots Newsletter

What is OLPC Europe

OLPC Europe is nothing but than a communication layer and a networking platform. The aim is to make commonication easier, basically between local grassroots, but also with the MIT. This can result in less work for everyone, and in a stronger focus on our common efforts and goals. Good communication has enormous potential for collaboration on projects and general information exchange, and also supports smaller grassroot organisations not to get lost in the mess :) Read more our vision here: OLPC_Europe/Vision

At the moment there are between 10 and 20 people volunteering for the basic setup of this platform. Find the people here: OLPC_Europe/Community#Volunteers

Grassroots Organisations

These are groups, which feel part of OLPC Europe (add yours :)

• OLPC Austria
• OLPC Bulgaria
• OLPC Croatia
• OLPC France
• OLPC Germany
• OLPC Netherlands
• OLPC Russia
• OLPC Slovenia
• OLPC Switzerland

Communication

General

• The grassroots list is our mailing list
• We mainly communicate via IRC in #olpc-europe, #olpc-groups (chat.freenode.net)
• We meet all 2 weeks on IRC, mostly thursday afternoon. Find meetings here: OLPC_Europe/Meetings

RL Meetings / Events

• We also try to meet in person, mostly at open-source/linux events in Europe.
  • In OLPC_Europe/Events, we list the events, someone from OLPC Europe participates
  • The next event is FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting) in Brussels, lasting from 23. to 24. February. The OLPC event takes place on Saturday, 23. February, from 15:00 to 17:00. Infos are collected in OLPC_Europe/Events/FOSDEM
  • After that, plenty of people will be at the CeBIT in Hannover, which lasts from 4. to 9. of March. The OLPC event here is on Saturday, 8. March, 11:15 a.m. @ LinuxForum

Pilot Projects

• List
• Status Quo
• Future Ideas

Software Projects

Is this too much?

bombski

• About: bombski is a bomberman-like multiplayer game. Fast paced fun, written with very effective pygame code. Short loading times and minimal cpu load will make it a very good experience on the xo laptop. The mesh and/or twisted is used for multiplayer action.
• Status: Multiplayer on one machine is working quite well. Inputs: keyboard, mouse, joystick
• Todo: Get started on the multiplayer / networking side of things
• Help Wanted: Basically, from game design, mechanics and programming to artwork and sound, any help is very welcome!
• Contact: chris

OpenWRT

• About:
• Status:
• Todo:
• Help Wanted:
• Contact: [[User:|User:]]

Segregation

• About: Segregation is a game from the Nordic Game Jam 08, and won the community award for the best game. It's written in pygame and a lot of fun.
• Status: Working stable and well on linux and windows; very slow on the xo laptop. Display size is only 800x450
• Todo: Speed up things on the xo, enlargen the background to the xo display size: 1200x825 (900 - 75 from the Toolbar on the top = 825)
• Help Wanted: Optimizing, Improvements
• Contact: chris

xo-get

• About: xo-get is a very simple package installer for the xo laptop.
• Status: Currently working very well
• Todo: there is a long list of improvements to make it perfect :) -- especially at the PyGTK user interface side of things
• Help Wanted: Programming and design help would be very welcome
• Contact: chris