OLPC New Zealand

There are several people in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.

• Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
• Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
• Independent project proposals.

Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ

The Computer Clubhouse in Manukau City New Zealand is putting together a proposal to OLPC. If you are interested in joining the their proposal please click on the EOI below. Note that this is not the only proposal being put together in the region.

Expression of Interest

More details on their plans in OLPC New Zealand / Pacific/ComputerClubhouseNZ

Moodle Developers

A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.

At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)

Other initiatives / proposals

Suz & Tamara Olliver are looking at creating an OLPC owners group to meet up in Auckland and Wellington to review progress, show off what we are doing, generally socialise and probably eat curry.

Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us.