OLPC Switzerland

Objectives of OLPC Switzerland

1. Demonstrate that the concept is worth promoting by using OLPCs in Switzerland
2. Show that OLPC is not just a cheap PC for developing countries by using OLPCs in one of the world's wealthiest countries
3. Promote the dissemination of OLPCs in German, French and Italian speaking regions by adapting OLPCs to these languages.
4. Promote the programming environment Squeak in the German speaking area by adequate examples and ideas developed in Swiss paedagogic 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.

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

News from Switzerland

• January 15 2008: First face to face meeting of OLPC Switzerland, in Bern (minutes?)
• January 26th 2008: OLPC.ch mailing list opened

Events

• Conference in Geneva, 7. and 8. February 2009
• OpenExpo in Bern 12. und 13. März

Blogs

• http://mobileatschool.kaywa.ch/mobile-blogging/erstes-treffen-der-olpc-switzerland-community.html
• http://wiki.doebe.li/Beat/OLPCnunAuchInDerSchweiz
• http://www.greenpit.ch/blogwordpress/?p=235
• http://www.vorburger.ch/blog1/2006/02/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-via-100.html

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:

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

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/ (and probably on Gmane shortly) for you to read what we have been up to in before you joined
• 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?

Interested people

If you're interested in OLPC Switzerland, feel free to add your name to the following list. More interesting for you than only growing a long list of names here however might be if you join our mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch) and participate in discussions?

• Michele Notari
• Yvonne Buettner
• Martin Hofmann
• Beat Doebeli Honegger
• Jacqueline Peter
• Martin Lehmann
• Rainer Fischer
• Lorenz Schori
• Niklaus Giger
• Alexis Favre
• François Brutsch --Fbrutsch
• Michael Vorburger (see User:Vorburger))
• José Formaz
• Matthias Stürmer
• Norbert Bollow
• Mala Mukherjee Suess