Regional groups

Larger Regional groups

• Spanish America
• Europe
• Oceania

National groups

Canada

• Toronto OLPC Developers (mailing list)

Ghana

• Winneba Ghana LUG working on wireless and computers for development

Nigeria

• Fantsuam Foundation promoting rural community wireless networks and relevant technologies for development in northern Nigeria

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

• OLPC Argentina — www.tuquito.ar
• OLPC Brasil — digitalmediauniverse.blogspot.com DMU - revista sobre OLPC no Brasil
• OLPC Bulgaria — olpc.openfmi.net
• OLPC Chile — ucpn.cl Un Computador Por Niño
• OLPC Greece — www.ellak.gr
• OLPC Nepal —
• OLPC Philippines — OLPCPH - OLPC Philippines @ Multiply.Com
• OLPC Russia — community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/
• OLPC South Africa — www.laptop.org.za
• OLPC Thailand — wiki.nectec.or.th
• OLPC Uruguay — olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com

• In this wiki
  • Other sources may be present in each country page. Current 'green' countries are:

    Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Libya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Thailand, United States, Uruguay

  • 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

USA State Groups

Alabama

• 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

Arizona

• AZ XO
  • 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.

California

• OLPC California
  • OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea
  • Silicon Valley Linux User Group Meets at Symantec monthly, holds an install fest at Google monthly
  • 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 [1]
  • Silicon Valley OLPC Users' Group Meets in South Bay Area, monthly on third Thursday evenings

Connecticut

• Middletown Childrens Project - Dedicated to providing XO laptops and support to elementary children in this Urban Village
• Yale Interest Group

Georgia

• Atlanta: Charles, Jim and 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 Tat to find out when/where their next meeting will be at. Charles is interested in development on and for the OLPC.

Illinois

• Chicago Interest Group
• IMSA campus chapter (Aurora)
• Moraine Valley Chapter

Massachusetts

• Massachusetts has two different active user groups: Lexington and Olin
  • Lexington: 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

Mississippi

• Picayune Interest Group
  • 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 (USA, Missouri, Saint Louis) — list1
  • XO-KC (USA, Missouri, Kansas City) — list2

Montana

• Native Ascent (USA, Bozeman, MT) [2]
  • 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, 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 mailing list

Ohio

• Cincinnati contains both a user's group and a repair center

Oregon

• Oregon is home to two user groups, one in Portland and one in Eugege
  • The Portland group is managed by users: mburns and 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 avid] contributors, but seem to not have continued as a grassroots group.

Texas

• 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

• 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

• 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 OLPC Health
  • OLPC Bellingham is a small user group run by Iain Davidson and contains a Local Repair Center

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.

Community Repair Centers

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

See Also

• Community building
• Category:Community
• Category:XO User Group

Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG