Regional groups

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Larger Regional groups

  • Spanish America
    • OLPC Spanish America is a portal that tracks information on Laptop Distributions in Spanish America
  • Europe
    • OLPC Europe is an information portal and loose organization of individual country grassroots groups
  • Oceania

National groups

Canada

Ghana

Nigeria

  • Fantsuam Foundation promoting rural community wireless networks and relevant technologies for development in northern Nigeria

Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:

USA State Groups

Alabama

  • OLPC Birmingham
    • OLPC Birmingham has both a Grasroots group and a planned full scale implementation of 15,000 machines. On the grassroots side, their team of volunteers is experimenting with the School Servers and and recently took part in BarCampBirmingham

Arizona

  • AZ XO
    • The Arizona XO user group has been meeting since February of 2008 and has over 10 members. They have their own forum, mailing list, and are starting to work with the local Global Literacy Foundation.

California

Connecticut

Georgia

  • Atlanta has a small ad-hoc user group

Illinois

  • Chicago is the home of [[OLPC Chicago] and ILXO, with the IMSA campus chapter in Aurora
    • OLPC Chicago is a grassroots group backing several innitives, including the Illinois Low Cost Laptop Act
    • IMSA is a Highschool campus chapter (Aurora), they have several XO's and are active in testing and debugging
    • ILXO is squad of full-time OLPC volunteers who have created a local office for OLPC in Chicago

Massachusetts

  • Massachusetts has two different active user groups: Lexington and Olin

Mississippi

Missouri

  • The Grassroots projects in Missouri have two different mailing lists, but no groups yet.

Montana

  • Native Ascent (USA, Bozeman, MT) [1]
    • Is working with Ft. Belknap Indian Resevation in Montana and the Marsabit District in Northern Kenya

New Mexico

New York

  • Three areas in New York are attempting to organize Local User Groups
  • Long Island is still in the process of organizing
  • OLPC Rochester, NY is a student group that has worked on testing the XO

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

  • OLPC Pennsylvania
    • This state has a couple of interested members on our wiki, but haven't yet formed as a group.

Rhode Island

  • Rhode Island
    • A Rhode Island group formed for a few meetings, and appears to have a couple avid] contributors, but seem to not have continued as a grassroots group.

Texas

  • XO-Austin
    • In Austin, Texas, the local user group has a community Jabber server for it's users. At least one member of the group is an active technical writer for various documentation projects.

Vermont

  • OLPC Vermont Vermont Development and Grassroot Group.
    • The Vermont group is focusing on emulating the [[Sugar] UI and is spreading info about OLPC locally.

Washington

Washington, DC

  • OLPC Learning Club D.C.
    • The OLPC Learning Club has several very active members, including Mike Lee and Ian Daniher. The group gives educational demonstrations, contributes to various content projects and develops software for the XO, such as GASP.

Community Repair Centers

Over a dozen volunteer-run Repair centers have been proposed in the USA and Canada, often hosted at larger universities.

See Also

Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG