OLPC Netherlands

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About OLPC The Netherlands

OLPC The Netherlands (OLPC-NL for short) is a grassroots group interested in contributing to the OLPC project. We are just starting up and are looking for more like minded people.
Please contact us at contact@olpc-nl.org for further information.

To Do List

1. find more people
2. have a brainstorm session to gather cool ideas for this grassroots group
3. document what projects we are working / want to work on
4. start regular meetings, besides Bine & Bastiaan's discussions during carpooling :-)
5. create a forum or irc channel (als voorbeeld) (just start using olpc-nl on FreeNode)
6. create a mailing list
7. request 1 or 2 XO laptops for demonstration and development/test purposes (e.g. for WhatsThatSound)
8. create a multi user wordpress blog for dutch members

People

Bastiaan Bakker
User:Bastiaan

• Software Engineer
• Interested in: developing fun activities for the XO
• Lives in: Zoetermeer

Sabine Hengeveld-Auer
User:Bine

• Communications
• Interested in: spreading the word about OLPC in the Netherlands
• Lives in: Pijnacker

Don Hopkins
User:Dhopkins

• Software Engineer
• Interested in: SimCity, Python, Visual Programming
• Company: TomTom
• Lives in: Amsterdam

Pascal Scheffers [1]:

• pascals on IRC
• Working on Push to Talk and documenting APIs

lockwood

• lockwood_dev on IRC freenode
• Working on a educative math game (pygame)
• Uses Windows XP and Fedora 8
• Lives in: Almere

Reinier Heeres
User:rwh

• Working on: sugar, Calculate, Read
• Lives in: The Hague
• Doing PhD in Delft

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Mailing List

Work In Progress. Please check again later.

IRC

Channel #olpc-nl on FreeNode. May be a bit quiet. Todo: schedule regular IRC meetings.

Meetings

We aim to have regular meetings, provided there is enough interest.
The first meeting is planned for saturday, December 15th, 14:00 hours, location TBD. We are looking for people who want to demonstrate what they have been working on.

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