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* [[OLPC Chile]] — [http://ucpn.cl http://ucpn.cl] Un Computador Por Niño |
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* [[OLPC Ecuador]] — [http://www.ecuadorolpc.org http://www.ecuadorolpc.org] Un Computador Por Niño |
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* [[OLPC Jamaica]] — About 25 people from The University of The West Indies, Jamaican private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens |
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Revision as of 12:52, 22 November 2008
The Deployments page summarizes actual regional deployments of OLPC laptops.
There are many other interest groups, user groups, and advocacy groups around the world enthused about OLPC's mission and the XO laptop.
Setting up a group
Add a section to the "Talk" page (click the [discussion] tab) if you're interested in meeting other users and there isn't already a group in your area.
Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:
- this Wiki
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- EPals
- forum.laptop.org and OLPCnews forums for XO groups
This isn't an exhaustive list, Community building and How to start a grassroots group have more ideas.
Groups might also set up their own Jabber server, since there isn't one set up for XO owners as a whole, due to scale and cost issues.
Larger regional groups
- OLPC Spanish America
- a portal about laptop distributions in Spanish America
- OLPC Europe
- a meta-grassroots group with their own newsletter and bi-monthly meetings
- OLPC Oceania
- covers the OLPC Australia and OLPC New Zealand as well as the Solomon Islands and many other countries. OLPC Friends is the regional community organisation
Online groups
Besides the regional groups listed on this page:
- XO Owners group on Facebook
- the Classroom 2.0 XO Educator Group
- OLPC-US Yahoo! group
National groups
Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:
Europe and North America
- OLPC Austria — http://www.olpc.at/
- OLPC Bulgaria — http://olpc.openfmi.net
- OLPC Canada — http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev Toronto OLPC Developers list
- OLPC France — http://www.relire.org/olpc-france-blog/
- OLPC France is a team of ~15 people who are active in government lobbying, as well as being involved in OLPC Haiti
- OLPC Germany —
- OLPC Germany is a group of 15 people who are active in public demonstrations, software development and their own IRC chanel
- OLPC Greece — www.ellak.gr
- OLPC Netherlands —
- OLPC Russia — http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/
- OLPC Switzerland —
- OLPC Turkey —
- OLPC Uganda —
- OLPC United Kingdom —
- OLPC United States — more a news page than a deployment
Latin America & Caribbean
- OLPC Argentina — http://www.tuquito.ar
- OLPC Brasil —
- OLPC Colombia — http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/colombia
- OLPC Chile — http://ucpn.cl Un Computador Por Niño
- OLPC Ecuador — http://www.ecuadorolpc.org Un Computador Por Niño
- OLPC Guatemala
- OLPC Haiti —
- OLPC Jamaica — About 25 people from The University of The West Indies, Jamaican private sector, University of Technology, Jamaica Linux Users Group and private citizens
- OLPC Mexico —
- OLPC Peru —
- OLPC Uruguay — olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com
Africa
- OLPC Ethiopia —
- OLPC Ghana —
http://www.wilugghana.orgbroken Winneba Ghana LUG - OLPC Nigeria —
- OLPC South Africa — www.laptop.org.za
- OLPC Benin
- OLPC Egypt
- OLPC Ethiopia
- OLPC Libya
- OLPC Kenya
- OLPC Rwanda
- OLPC Senegal
- OLPC Somalia
- OLPC Zambia
Asia and Oceania
- OLPC China —
- OLPC India — also see Khairat school trial
- OLPC Japan —
- OLPC Korea —
- OLPC Mongolia —
- OLPC Nepal —
- OLPC Pakistan —
- OLPC Philippines — http://olpcph.multiply.com/ OLPC Philippines
- OLPC Thailand — wiki.nectec.or.th, see the Bann Samkha school
Asia
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
A XO user group is starting at Games Cafe in Kaohsiung on Saturday afternoons. We're only on emulators now, but hopefully will be getting the real thing soon. Contact Tobey (at) Playgames (dot) tw for more info.
North America
Canada
- http://www.olpcug.org/ , an umbrella for Canadian OLPC user groups
British Columbia
Jeremy Penner Looking to form an xo users group in Vancouver.
Quebec
- XO-Québec, une communauté québécoise en développement à l'entour du OLPC et de son environnement d'apprentissage.
USA
See OLPC United States#User groups and unoffical groups
See Also
Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG