OLPC Switzerland

There are 4 national languages in Switzerland. English (which is not a national language) is probably the best way to reach the largest audience. That is the reason why we publish in English here.

olpc-ch is a non profit association

In June 2008 the non profit association olpc-ch has been founded. To become a member you have to subscribe to the mailing list and send a mail to the president of the association Michele Notari.

To make a donation please use Swiss postal account OLPC-ch nr: PC-60-487139-0

Articles of Association: OLPC-ch

olpc-ch mailing list

If you are interested in following the OLPC.ch grassgroots group efforts, please do join our olpc-ch mailing list, by subscribing at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch. When you subscribe, it would be nice if you would briefly introduce yourself via an email to the list.

Objectives of OLPC Switzerland

1. Demonstrate that the concept is worth promoting by using XOs in Switzerland
2. Show that OLPC is not just a cheap PC for developing countries by using XOs in one of the world's wealthiest countries
3. Promote the dissemination of XOs in German, French and Italian speaking regions by adapting XOs to these languages.
4. Promote the programming environment Squeak in the German speaking area by adequate examples and ideas developed in Swiss pedagogic universities and tested in Swiss schools.
5. Emphasize the importance of basic concepts in contrast to product knowledge by using non-commercial hardware and software.
6. Demonstrate the possibilities of digital learning tools to the Swiss education environment.

Our Flyer (also Flyer in German as RTF and Flyer in French as PDF) is a handy summary you may find of interest too.

More generally speaking, we also aim at participating in the OLPC Europe group, and share the OLPC_Europe/Vision.

See also the VIDEO (in French) where Michael Vorburger of OLPC.ch speaks about the XO and OLPC Switzerland.

News from Switzerland

• 2008-06-25: The olpc-ch association has been founded
• 2008-03-26: Chat conference - minutes
• 2008-02-14: finally the two XO from Austria arrived.. this wiki edit is written with one of them... ;-)
• 2008-01-26: OLPC.ch mailing list opened
• 2008-01-15: First face to face meeting of OLPC Switzerland, in Bern (minutes?)

Upcoming Events

• 2008-10-22: olpc-ch Meeting in Bern.. MeetingOctoberBern
• 2008-09-09: SFIB Meeting: http://www.educa.coop/dyn/9.asp?url=83277%2Easp : plenary speach: presentation of the project
• 2008-08-29: Informatica 08: Participation to the 'Tag der Informatik' in Zürich: http://informatica08.ch/de/Tag_der_Informatik.html Workshop for children and presentation of the project: see program; http://extra.informatica08.ch/Dokumente/informatica08/TdI08_Programm_farbig.pdf

Past Events

• 2008-06-04: Meeting in Berne: Meeting-June-Berne

• 2008-05-24: OSS an Schulen, Weiterbildungstagung
• 2008-03-26: Conference call for interested participants.
  • Wednesday, March 26. 19:00 Swiss local time (http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ - http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/)
  • 2008-03-26: Phone conference - minutes
• 2008-03-12 to 2008-03-13: OLPC Switzerland/Events/OpenExpo2008 OpenExpo in Bern; see Infotext distributed there, and Some Photos from OpenExpo and Some Videos from OpenExpo
• 2008-03-03: BarCamp at Lausanne EPFL
• 2008-02-07 to 2008-02-08: Lift08 Conference in Geneva

Material: Talks / Presentations / Articles / Videos

• 2008-02-14:Flyer for the Open-expo in Bern: German / French Infotext.
• 2008-02-14: http://ngiger.dyndns.org/olpc/Vortrag.pdf
• 2008-02-25: http://beat.doebe.li/projects/olpc08
• 2008-03-08: Presentation of olpc-Austria (CBit 2008) (adapted presentation for open-expo in Bern)
• 2008-03-09: VIDEO Interview about OLPC.ch, made by TSR Nuovo journalist at the LIFT conference in Geneva
• 2008-03-09: VIDEO of OLPC.ch member having fun with Mesh Networking with Charbax from OLPC.tv
• 2008-03-09: Erstaunliches aus Arahuay (translation of Ivan Krstić article from Peru into German, by OLPC.ch's Niklaus Giger): Web Version (HTML), Print Version (PDF)
• 2008-03-13 Video Interview about OLPC-CH on Open-Expo-Conference in Bern:Michele Notari and Susanne Trier: [[1]]

Blogs

• http://wiki.doebe.li/Beat/IsaOLPC (all postings tagged with OLPC)
• http://www.vorburger.ch/blog1/2006/02/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-via-100.html
• http://swissroll.info/?2007/11/12/1043-teaser
• http://swissroll.info/?2007/12/26/1059-mon-noel-pc
• http://www.greenpit.ch/blogwordpress/?p=235
• http://swissroll.info/?2008/01/10/1065-des-nouvelles-du-xo
• http://mobileatschool.kaywa.ch/mobile-blogging/erstes-treffen-der-olpc-switzerland-community.html
• http://infam.antville.org/stories/1772265/
• http://swissroll.info/?2008/03/23/1091-l-olpc-xo-s-expose

Press

If you are a journalist in Switzerland, please do subscribe to our mailing list and introduce yourself. We would love to give you a demo (e.g. in Bern, or Lausanne; or elsewhere) of the innovative XO laptop, and share some of our enthusiasm with you... and maybe you would like to write about the OLPC movement, the XO education project, and OLPC Switzerland?  ;-) Past articles:

French:

• http://www.domainepublic.ch/files/articles/html/9725.shtml
• http://www.lematin.ch/pages/home/actu/economie/actu_economie__2?contenu=354155

German:

• 2008-05-05: TA - Der Drittwelt-Laptop wird unsere Notebooks verändern:
• 2007-12-04: NZZ - Kabale und Liebe
• 2007-11-13: NZZ - Ein Mobilcomputer nicht nur für Kinder
• 2007-02-11: NZZ - Der Billig-Computer wird teurer

Virtual Infrastructure

• We use this Wiki (this page and later sub-pages) for collaborative publishing for now
• We communicate and coordinate on the olpc-ch mailing list. Visit http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch to subscribe!
• We archive the olpc-ch list at http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-ch/ or http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-ch/ or http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.switzerland or http://www.mail-archive.com/olpc-ch@lists.laptop.org/ for you to read what we have been up to in before you joined
• We host files on http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-ch/files (100 MB)
• We own the olpc.ch domain name and make it available for OLPC Switzerland initiatives
• We could set up a (public?) school server later, if we manage to get XOs for a planned pilot?
• Amount of XO's worldwide (G1G1 and others): http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/upload/presentations/ Switzerland 'ons 57 XO's (two of them OLPC-ch)

Physical Infrastructure

olpc.ch hosts two OLPC XO computers. They are used for exhibitions, presentetations, and experimental use. See XO Reservation System for details.

XO Hacking stuff by OLPC.ch members

• get_mo

Get Involved

If you're interested in OLPC Switzerland, feel free to join our mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch) and see how you can participate.