Switzerland/Subjects for phone conference

Discussion subjects

feel free to complete the list

1. Quick poll to determine language
2. Short presentation (max. 1' / person?) of the participants of the phone conference (please give a short presentation of your person and what you're specially interested in.. see list below)
3. Was bisher geschah (what happened until now)
4. How to get XO's for the pilots
5. Communication with OLPC
6. Next OLPC-CH Meeting in Bern / Lausann / ? / Mai 08..
7. Discussion of objective 4 of OLPc.ch: 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.:
   1. Why Squeak and not programming oder programming environments for children or constructionist use of ICT by children?
   2. Why only in the german speaking area (what about french and italian)?
8. Priorities for the next 3 months
9. Recall of decided specific next steps and individual action items

Back to OLPC-ch

Participants

• Michele: Moderator, initiator of OLPC-ch interested in pedagogical concepts, coordination of activities of the group, contact to OLPC-Europe AND.. The two XO's mostly 'live with me' ;-): Chatname: micheleno
• Michael Vorburger
• Beat
• Susanne
• François
• Philippe
• Felix: takes notes; got an XO-1 over G1G1; studies Theology; hacks since age of 8; got picked up by Michael and Niklaus at the OpenExpo 2008 in Berne. I mostly 'live with the XO' ;-)
• User:Sj
• Mala ?
• Lorenz ?
• Niklaus Giger. Unfornately I have no time to be with you.

 My plans for the near future are:
 * Prepare for questions from teachers like:
    - We/I already have a PC/laptop (not uncommon in Switzerland). Can I use the SW?
    - What is the difference for a school with normal PCs at school with OLPC loaded
      on them and OLPC for everybody
    - Most pupils have access to normal PCs at home. Can they install OLPC on them?
    - How do the programs on the OLPC compare to my ???
 * Look for LiveCD/USB-Stick of the XO to enable interested people to work on a 
   "normal" PC with the OLPC (see e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD)
 * Get a sugar-jbuild running on my Debian system. Need some more insight
   into package handling/translation.
 * Mai: If I can get the 2 XOs here. Prepare a presentation at the local school
   (techears/Schulart) to get feedback for ideas like:
 * Why don't we prepare a solid plan to the Konferenz der Erziehungsdirektoren 
   (Conference of cantonal heads of education, as in Switzerland primary education 
   is run not at federal but at canton/state level) to propose 
   introduction of OLPC here in Switzerland.