OLPC-NL meetings
Meetings of OLPC-NL
Techmeeting 28 Mar 2008
- Informal meeting with no agenda about tech on olpc
- When 28 Mar 2008 20:30 - 23:00
- Where at Marten's home: Scholtenstraat 13 2313 GK Leiden map
- Who tech people....
- What to bring:
- cake/cookies
- notebooks / XS / XO
4th OLPC NL meeting 15 Mar 2008
- When: Saturday, March 15th 2008, 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 meeting.
- Selforganisation of OLPC NL grassroots (vereniging), define goals and ways to work together. Make a decision on it. In advance: discussion on the mailinglist. Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
- Setup of workgroups/interestgroups and suggestions on projects for grassroots. Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
- Setup of our online presence/communications, incl. clear definitions of ownership, licence, etc. Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
- Presentations of enthusiasts on ideas, projects, etc.
- Sitting together in interestgroups and have some good discussions and some fun coding going on (suggestion: at least 2 hours reserved for that). Bine 06:09, 8 March 2008 (EST)
- Who's coming:
- Sabine Hengeveld-Auer - certain.
- Carlo Smouter - certain.
Techmeeting 14 Mar 2008
- Informal meeting with no agenda about tech on olpc
- When 14 Mar 2008 20:30 - 23:00
- Where at Marten's home: Scholtenstraat 13 2313 GK Leiden map
- Who tech people....
- What to bring:
- cake/cookies
- notebooks / XS / XO
Structuremeeting 05 Mar 2008
- Informal meeting with agenda about structure on olpc
- When 05 Mar 2008 20:30 - 23:00
- Who active people.... Please, limited place, so mail me in front
- What to bring:
- cake/cookies
3rd OLPC NL meeting: 16 Feb 2008 in Leiden!
- When: Saturday, Februari 16th 2008, starting at 2 pm to latest 6 pm (we'll find a place to eat together around 6, for whoever is still there and hungry then)
- Where:Marinus Van de Lubbe zaal, Koppenhinksteeg 2, 2312 HX Leiden
- Getting there: map
- Internet: 3000/512 Kb/s on wifi and a switch
- Bar: coffee and tea are free (limited), other drink are available at the bar.
- Beamer: for presentations a beamer is available.
- Donations: There be a "pot" to leave donations. The money will be spend on organizing this kind of meetings.
Like always, everyone is welcome to join our 'gezellige knutselmiddag'. We hope to be again a colorful mix of people from various backgrounds like information technology, electro technology, education, media, non-profit organizations, international business, politics, to name just a few. Please add yourself to the list below to give us an indication of how many people we'll be. We are promoting this meeting again just P2P, therefore forward the invitation to all people you think might also be interested in the idea is much appreciated. Thank you!
Agenda:
| Name | Topic(s) | Presentation or Discussion | Approx. time | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | Short discussion about forum and website promotion olpc-nl, use OX-sugar on Ubuntu laptop - test yourself =;) .. | Sorry everyone, the flu 'killed' me ! | 00 | |
| Marten | Building sugar on Ubuntu. The slides are here. | Presentation to group | 20-30 | |
| ewoud bras | special interest groups | 30-50? |
Coming:
| Name | Topic(s) | Confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Marten Vijn | tech / network / community / schools in Leiden | certain |
| Gerard Mourits | network / community / schools / organizational issues | certain |
| Sabine Hengeveld-Auer | OLPC-NL grassrooting - the usual ;) | certain |
| Ed Kikkert | tech / network / community | certain |
| Bastiaan Bakker | OLPC-NL, OLPC-Europe, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?) | very likely |
| Eric Oosterbaan | olpc.be, website promotion, Engineering - Ubuntu demo Sugar | very likely |
| Harrie Vollaard | Project Making Miles for Millennium, visiting OLPC Projects in Asia) | certain |
| Reinier Heeres | Sugar etc. | certain |
| ewoud bras | certain | |
| Frits Hoff | Organisation / Dutch pilots | certain |
| Just Vecht | - Linux user, interested in OLPC from the start. | very likely |
| Urso Wieske | Will come alone. Information Technology. | certain |
IRC Brainstorming-Session on Sponsoring Jan 26th 2008, 20:30h
If you are interested in joining the IRC brainstorming-session on sponsoring of our expenses, please join channel #olpc-nl on the FreeNode IRC server on Saturday at 20:29h CET. Bine 16:38, 24 January 2008 (EST)
Please list points you'd like to discuss in advance (and leave your stamp by typing 4 time '~') here:
Hands-on Workshop Jan 25th 2008 in Leiden
- Goal setting up sugar (development setup) with sugarjhbuilder
- When Jan 25th 2008 20:00 - 23:00
- Where at Marten's home: Scholtenstraat 13 2313 GK Leiden map
- Who People who want build sugar on linux, max 5 people so register!
- What to bring:
- Laptop with Linux installed, and if possible spare laptop disks
- tried some steps in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Installing_Sugar
- cake/cookies
- registered (max 5):
- Tip for use of sugar on Ubuntu: Use the latest OS ( 7.10 or more ) then sugar will run OK. Regards Eric
2nd OLPC NL meeting: 19 Jan 2008 in Delft!
- When: Saturday, January 19th 2008, starting at 2 pm to latest 6 pm (we'll find a place to eat together around 6, for whoever is still there and hungry then)
- Where: Mensenvereniging Wolbodo (Sociëteit NOVUM), Verwersdijk 102, 2611 NK Delft
- Getting there: directions; it's about a 10 minute walk from the trainstation Delft; parking is best possible at the Paardenmarkt, along Phoenixstraat (below the tracks) or in the parking garages Phoenixstraat or Zuidpoort
- Available infrastructure at the location: a beamer, a bar and hopefully a wireless router that works ;) and, most important: A number of XOs will be available for playing around.
- Agenda:
This is an agenda in progress. If you like to do a presentation on what you've been working on or introduce ideas, please add your topic here. For the rest we will sit together in interest-groups, playing and brainstroming. Bine 14:48, 10 January 2008 (EST)
| Name | Topic(s) | Presentation or Discussion | Approx. time | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabine | Short introduction OLPC/XO for newbies | Presentation to group | 30 | |
| Reinier Heeres | Software development for XO | Presentation to group | 30 | File:Sugar getting started.pdf |
| Frits Hoff | Benchmarking the XO with ASUS EEE, Classmate, Everex Cloudbook, etc | Presentation to group | 30 | |
| Sabine | Workgroups within our grassroots / structuring ourselves | Discussion in group | 30 | |
| Sabine | Dutch Pilot ideas | Discussion in group | 30 |
- Who's coming:
Like always, everyone is welcome to join our 'gezellige knutselmiddag'. We hope to be again a colorful mix of people from various backgrounds like information technology, electro technology, education, media, non-profit organizations, international business, politics, to name just a few. Please add yourself to the list below to give us an indication of how many people we'll be. We are promoting this meeting again just P2P, therefore forward the invitation to all people you think might also be interested in the idea is much appreciated. Thank you! Bine 14:48, 10 January 2008 (EST)
| Name | Topic(s) | Confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Marten Vijn Kobus | Marten: tech/network/community, Kobus: hardware testing, random key generation | confirmed |
| 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(nl), Promotion XO at dental exhibition , Technical engineering | depend on job-planning |
| Sjoerd Simons | Telepathy | certain |
| Sabine Hengeveld-Auer | OLPC-NL, Communications, Translations, Dutch OLPC Pilot(?), barmaid and cleaning lady Wolbodo that day | certain |
| Pascal Scheffers | Health content, Translations, some coding | certain |
| Fabienne Kulakowski | certain | |
| Ewoud Bras | Will bring partner and perhaps our puppy. Am interested in ideas, pilot, promotion & education methods. | certain |
| Frits Hoff | OLPC-NL, OLPC-Europe, Dutch OLPC Pilot, open educational resources, benchmark (with ASUS EEE, Classmate, Everex Cloudbook, etc) G1G1. My son Floris (age 15) will come to test the XO, in comparison with the EEE. | certain |
More information on the meeting to come (via wiki and our mailinglist (registration: http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc-nl). Bine 15:10, 10 January 2008 (EST)
Back to the OLPC-NL page
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)
- Short general introduction of OLPC, XO, Sugar
- Short introduction OLPC-NL incl. discussion (how to organize ourselves, etc)
- 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)
- Hopefully a video livestream with the European grassroots meeting that is taking place at the same time in Vienna
- 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)