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 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 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 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

• January 15 2008: First face to face meeting of OLPC Switzerland, in Bern (minutes?)
• January 26th 2008: OLPC.ch mailing list opened
• February 14th: finally the two XO from Austria arrived.. this wiki edit is written with one of them... ;-)

Events

• Lift08 Conference in Geneva, 7. and 8. February 2008
• BarCamp at Lausanne EPFL, 3. March 2008
• OLPC Switzerland/Events/OpenExpo2008 OpenExpo in Bern 12. und 13. März; see Infotext distributed there, and Some Photos from OpenExpo and Some Videos from OpenExpo
• OSS an Schulen, Weiterbildungstagung 24. Mai 2008
• Conference call for interested participants. Please watch mailing list: [| Link to conference call]: *Wednesday, March 26. 19:00 Swiss local time*
• Subjects for phone conference: Please make suggestions for the conference

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)

Blogs

• http://mobileatschool.kaywa.ch/mobile-blogging/erstes-treffen-der-olpc-switzerland-community.html
• http://wiki.doebe.li/Beat/IsaOLPC (all postings tagged with OLPC)
• http://www.greenpit.ch/blogwordpress/?p=235
• http://www.vorburger.ch/blog1/2006/02/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-via-100.html
• http://infam.antville.org/stories/1772265/

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:

• NZZ 04.12.07 Kabale und Liebe
• NZZ 13.11.07 Ein Mobilcomputer nicht nur für Kinder
• NZZ 11.02.07 Der Billig-Computer wird teurer

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)

XO Hacking stuff by OLPC.ch members

• get_mo

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
• Markus Gaelli
• 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 -- User Profile:Malaidoskop
• Jonas Schaller
• Aletta Karsies van Eeden
• Arjun Sarwal (part of OLPC- India, contact for any collaborative
• Bernd Kulawik projects/conference calls/IRC sessions)
• Susanne Triner (Together21-Projects)
• Elisabth Halbherr
• Dominik Huber
• Felix Rabe
• Lukas Ritzel