OLPC Pune

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OLPC has started it's journey in India.After the successful stories of Khairat, ...... now it's the turn of Pune!

An initial meeting of volunteers who are interested in OLPC project took place in SICSR on 14th Feb.It has been decided to start an OLPC volunteers group in Pune.Discussions are going on in mailing list

Getting Started Camp

A Getting Started Camp is scheduled on 1st March. All those who are interested in One Laptop Per Child project are heartily welcomed! Technical, learning and outreach aspects of OLPC project will be discussed in detail.

Date:01 March 2009 More details will be published soon here

Agenda of camp

  • Know more about XO
  • testing XO with selected children who never been exposed to computers before.
  • build an activity for XO
  • emulating XO on a GNU/Linux machine
  • of course, a tea session too!! :)

OLPC Pune To do list

  • Getting started camp and other meetings for volunteers
  • finding potential sites for project implementation
  • aim an initial distribution of 30 XO within 30 days.
  • finding potential sponsors
  • and....more....

Mailing list

http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-india