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Revision as of 17:43, 10 January 2008

Meetings of OLPC-NL

2nd OLPC NL meeting: 19 Jan 2008 in Delft!

  • Our Next OLPC NL meeting will take place on Saturday, January 19th 2008, starting at 2 pm, at the Mensenvereniging Wolbodo (Sociëteit NOVUM) at the Verwersdijk 102, 2611 NK Delft (directions; 10 minutes walk from Delft trainstation; parking: Paardenmarkt, along Phoenixstraat or in the parking garages Phoenixstraat or Zuidpoort). If you like to do a presentation on what you've been working on or introduce ideas, please add your topic to the meeting agenda. We have a beamer available. Foremost we want to have a 'gezellige knutselmiddag' in groups - again for newbies as well as for people that are already involved with OLPC. A number of XOs will be available for playing around. We hope to be a again a well mixed group of people with different backgrounds (technical, pedagogical, etc.). Bine 03:56, 10 January 2008 (EST)
  • Who's coming:
Name Topic(s) Confirmation
Marten Vijn tech/network/community awaiting confirmation
Gerard Mourits tech/network/community certain
Bastiaan Bakker OLPC-NL, OLPC-Europe, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?) certain
Reinier Heeres Sugar, Calculate, Read certain
Eric Oosterbaan olpc.be, Translations, Technical engineering certain

1st OLPC NL meeting: 15 Dec 2007 in Amsterdam!

Our very first gathering will be

  • When: Saturday, December 15th 2007, starting at 2 pm
  • Where: 'Canvas op de 7e' (Horeca & Exhibitions), Wibautstraat 150 (oude Volkskrant gebouw), Amsterdam; take the elevator to the 7th floor.
  • Getting there: I won't even start about parking your car in Amsterdam... but the Metro station Wibautstraat is basically in front of the building (btw, all metro lines from central station will stop at Wibautstraat).
  • Available infrastructure at the location: fast and free wireless, a beamer, enough comfty seats, an open bar and a spectacular view.
  • Agenda:

This is an agenda in progress. Please add topics you would like to have discussed at our first meeting. Bine 15:26, 2 December 2007 (EST)

  1. Short general introduction of OLPC, XO, Sugar
  2. Short introduction OLPC-NL incl. discussion (how to organize ourselves, etc)
  3. We are looking for people who want to demonstrate what they have been working on. Please add yourself to the list incl. name, contact, title of presentaion, estimated time needed for presentation): We know that lockwood (activity game) and others are planning on demonstrations. Bine 10:27, 9 December 2007 (EST)
  4. Hopefully a video livestream with the European grassroots meeting that is taking place at the same time in Vienna
  5. Sitting together and exchanging ideas - gezellig, gewoon.
  • Who's coming:
    • Sabine Hengeveld-Auer - certain.
    • Bastiaan Bakker - certain. will bring one XO borrowed from Reinier. Bastiaan 09:50, 10 December 2007 (EST)
    • Carlo Smouter - certain (presentation ~20min, me,my project, my thoughts about olpc-nl)
    • Sjoerd Simons - will bring two XO B4s, Bastiaan 21:50, 5 December 2007 (EST)
    • Arline Blanker - maybe, after 17:00 (since that's pretty late in the afternoon, we'll see how many people are still there - if not enough, Arline will hold the presentation at our next meeting in January. Bine 11:01, 9 December 2007 (EST)). Arline will present the G1G1 project her foundation Suri-Bridge is planning for Suriname. Bastiaan 22:55, 5 December 2007 (EST)
    • Vesna Manojlovic - maybe
    • Pascal+Maja - will bring one B4 (+Kleuter+peuter)
    • bas
    • Gawin
    • Frits Hoff - certain (benchmark with EEE / presentation ~20min, me, my work, my thoughts about olpc-nl)
    • Rop Gonggrijp
    • ewoud bras - certain but later.
    • Wouter Tebbens - certain (will catch a plane at 19:00, but very pleased to join the meet!)
    • Gerard Mourits

More information on the meeting to come (via wiki, and our new mailinglist (registration: http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc-nl). Bine 18:37, 30 November 2007 (EST)

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