XO Giving/Users

A question was asked on the question page about local user groups for owners of the "get 1" half of the "give 1 get 1" program. This page is a list of known user groups.

Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:

• this Wiki,
• Mailing lists,
• IRC,
• EPals.

This isn't an exhaustive list.

Groups might also set up their own Jabber server, since there isn't one set up for the owners as a whole, due to scale and cost issues.

North America

CBUG - Cambridge-Boston User Group

See Bug Found. See Bug Squashed. CBUG forming..

- :) Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria 09:12, 22 November 2007 (EST)

Houston, Texas

Robert Nagel has started an XO User Club. See http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/start_xo_user_club_houston.html and http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83399673 for more information. The first meeting is on a Saturday the 2nd or 3rd week of January.

Austin, Texas

Anne Gentle ... more information to follow, likely will mimic Robert's lead.

Interior Alaska

Lylah Caldwell is interested in helping start a user group in the Fairbanks/North Pole area for XO users. She has started a Yahoo Group for that purpose located here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XO_interior

Eugene, Oregon

An XO user group is being formed in Eugene. Jane Krauss began the group on November 16.

Here's a link to our Eugene XO Users Workspace.

Jane hosts an XO educator group in Classroom 2.0 also. --Mark 14:29, 21 November 2007 (EST)

Seattle, Washington - SeaXO User Group

An XO user group is being formed in Seattle, Washington.

Check http://www.SeaXO.com for the latest information. As we're all waiting for our XO computers, there's not very much to announce just yet. Certainly, a meetup and a chance to try out the Mesh network capabilities will be high on everybody's list. In the next few weeks more will be added to the site.

Meanwhile if you'd like to receive any announcement and meeting information, email your contact information and interest to mailto:SeattleXO@gmail.com , or go to the SeaXO.com contact page[1].

Washington DC

The OLPC News team is organizing a OLPC Learning Club for the DC Metro area. We'll be having our first meeting on December 18 with guest speakers and (hopefully) a mass XO mesh. Come by and co-learn!

• Bog
• Wiki
• Listserv

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Bill McTeer The Minnesota Chapter of the Independent Computer Consultants Association is starting a group. We would love to link up with others in the area. We have a Google Group located here: http://groups.google.com/group/icca-mn-olpc

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.

Europe

Switzerland

Has anybody else in Switzerland or elsewhere in Europe ordered an XO through "Give 1 Get 1" (through a friend in 'North America', obviously...) ? Leave a note here to network (and to discuss how to advance this with our ministery of education...). Vorburger 15:05, 25 November 2007 (EST)

FaceBook

There are a several groups forming on Facebook.

• XO Owners group
• XO Owners, Cambridge/Boston area

- :) Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria 09:12, 22 November 2007 (EST)

XO Educator Group in Classroom 2.0

Here's a link to a space where we can collect materials, pictures, meeting agendas/notes.