OLPC Switzerland

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There are 4 national languages in Switzerland. English (which is not a national language) is probably the best way to reach the largest audience. That is the reason why we publish in English here..

olpc-ch is a non profit association

In June 2008 the non profit association olpc-ch has been founded. To become a member you have to subscribe to the mailing list and send a mail to the president of the association Michele Notari To make a donation please use Swiss postal account nr: PC-60-487193-0

olpc-ch mailing list

If you are interested in following the OLPC.ch grassgroots group efforts, please do join our olpc-ch mailing list, by subscribing at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch. When you subscribe, it would be nice if you would briefly introduce yourself via an email to the list.

Objectives of OLPC Switzerland

  1. Demonstrate that the concept is worth promoting by using OLPCs in Switzerland
  2. Show that OLPC is not just a cheap PC for developing countries by using OLPCs in one of the world's wealthiest countries
  3. Promote the dissemination of OLPCs in German, French and Italian speaking regions by adapting OLPCs to these languages.
  4. Promote the programming environment Squeak in the German speaking area by adequate examples and ideas developed in Swiss pedagogic universities and tested in Swiss schools.
  5. Emphasize the importance of basic concepts in contrast to product knowledge by using non-commercial hardware and software.
  6. Demonstrate the possibilities of digital learning tools to the Swiss education environment.

Our Flyer (also Flyer in German as RTF and Flyer in French as PDF) is a handy summary you may find of interest too.

More generally speaking, we also aim at participating in the OLPC Europe group, and share the OLPC_Europe/Vision.

See also the VIDEO (in French) where Michael Vorburger of OLPC.ch speaks about the XO and OLPC Switzerland.

News from Switzerland

  • 2008-01-15: First face to face meeting of OLPC Switzerland, in Bern (minutes?)
  • 2008-01-26: OLPC.ch mailing list opened
  • 2008-02-14: finally the two XO from Austria arrived.. this wiki edit is written with one of them... ;-)
  • 2008-03-26: Chat conference - minutes

Upcoming Events

Past Events

Material: Talks / Presentations / Articles / Videos

Blogs

Press

If you are a journalist in Switzerland, please do subscribe to our mailing list and introduce yourself. We would love to give you a demo (e.g. in Bern, or Lausanne; or elsewhere) of the innovative XO laptop, and share some of our enthusiasm with you... and maybe you would like to write about the OLPC movement, the XO education project, and OLPC Switzerland?  ;-) Past articles:

French:

German:

Virtual Infrastructure

Physical Infrastructure

olpc.ch hosts two OLPC XO computers. They are used for exhibitions, presentetations, and experimental use. See XO Reservation System for details.

XO Hacking stuff by OLPC.ch members

Interested people

If you're interested in OLPC Switzerland, feel free to add your name to the following list. More interesting for you than only growing a long list of names here however might be if you join our mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch) and participate in discussions?

Creation of a non profit association OLPC-ch - first ideas

Articles of Association: OLPC-ch

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