OLPC Europe/Meetings/2008-01-10

Summary of the first OLPC Europe IRC Meeting

• Thursday, 10.1.2008 18:00 CET
• Log
• Log-Summary

Introduction

• Introduction Log

People participating

  1. h01ger		Germany
  2. crazy-chris	Austria
  3. Gregor_Marco	Germany
  4. sjoerd		Netherlands
  5. l-fy		Romania
  6. ChristophD		Austria
  7. b457144n		Netherlands
  8. ryd		Germany
  9. rwh		Netherlands
 10. yokoy		Germany
 11. sj			Boston
 12. _bernie		Italy/Boston
 13. aferti		Greece/Boston
 14. samy		France

First Part

Set of common guidelines

• Crazy-chris sent out File:Olpc europe mindmap.pdf and File:Olpc europe text.pdf
  • We basically agreed on all points
  • and to remove "political"
  • Discussion: political / not, / by default / in which ways

Visions

• Agreed: OLPC Europe can be a good contact point between Boston and local groups
• Agreed: Help in Remote Deployment
• Agreed: OLPC Europe doesn't do pilots but helps the grassroots
• Be a platform for exchanging / borrowing Laptops for events

Organisation

• Agreed: the olpc europe guidelines need a proper voting procedure or something to find consensus (today we said "agreed" when in fact not everybody agreed but only 90%)
• Agreed: most people want to keep the infrastructure focused on laptop.org with discussions about extensions if required
• Log: most people want to get involved / contribute time to olpc europe

Infrastructure

• Log: mburns and isforinsects (Seth woodworth) are talking about a consolidated blog, covering pilots and other communities
• Basically Agreed: use OLPC Europe as a starting point
• Basically Agreed: use grassroots mailing list at the moment (l-fy protested)

Events

Please see OLPC Europe/Events for a list of events and people participating

FOSDEM

• OLPC Europe/Events/FOSDEM
• Log: People at FOSDEM: Bastiaan, Sjoerd, Jens, Holger (Maybe: Chris, Joko)
• h01ger has three main goals with the fosdem event: 1. meet each other. 2. tell others we exist. 3. start olpc europe (this already happens \o/) - h01ger expects people from >30 european countries at fosdem

Other Conferences

• Log: Florian prepares something at Solutions Linux in paris from 29. to 31. January 08
• Log: OLPC Europe/Events/LinuxTag Berlin 08: Holger und Joko
• Log: OLPC Europe/Events/CeBIT_08: Christoph, Daniel
• OLPC Europe/Events/ApacheCon 08: Chris(?), ...?

Who has / needs how many laptops

• Log
• In France is 1 xo, there will be one borrowed via OLPC Austria for the Solutions Linux
• NL Group has also only 1 xo
• Exchange / Borrow laptops for events via o-e
• OLPC_Switzerland has one from an individual (User:Vorburger) and is contact with OLPC Austria to get two XOs owned by the group in the short term for OLPC_Switzerland/Events/OpenExpo2008, and hopefully more in the medium term, for a school pilot in discussion.

Next Steps

Next Meeting

• Thursday, 24.1.2008, 17:00 UTC (18 CET)
• Agenda

OLPC Europe/ToDo

• Please use and extend OLPC Europe/ToDo for topics to think/act upon

Project at dev.laptop.org

• Please send your ssh key to Holger if you want to get access
• Purposes
  • Documentation
  • Presentations
  • Information
  • Code
  • Press Material

Events

• Pages for events / meetings -> OLPC Europe/Events/...