Regional groups
The Deployments page summarizes actual regional deployments of OLPC laptops.
There are many other interest groups, user groups, and advocacy groups around the world enthused about OLPC's mission and the XO laptop.
Setting up a group
Add a section to the "Talk" page (click the [discussion] tab) if you're interested in meeting other users and there isn't already a group in your area.
Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:
- this Wiki
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- EPals
- forum.laptop.org and OLPCnews forums for XO groups
This isn't an exhaustive list, Community building has more ideas.
Groups might also set up their own Jabber server, since there isn't one set up for XO owners as a whole, due to scale and cost issues.
Larger regional groups
- OLPC Spanish America
- a portal about laptop distributions in Spanish America
- OLPC Europe
- a meta-grassroots group with their own newsletter and bi-monthly meetings
- OLPC Oceania
- covers the OLPC Australia and OLPC New Zealand as well as the Solomon Islands and many other countries. OLPC Friends is the regional community organisation
Online groups
Besides the regional groups listed on this page:
- XO Owners group on Facebook
- the Classroom 2.0 XO Educator Group
- OLPC-US Yahoo! group
National groups
Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:
- OLPC Argentina — http://www.tuquito.ar
- OLPC Austria — http://www.olpc.at/
- OLPC Brasil —
- OLPC Bulgaria — http://olpc.openfmi.net
- OLPC Canada — http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/toronto-dev Toronto OLPC Developers list
- OLPC Colombia — http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/colombia
- OLPC Chile — http://ucpn.cl Un Computador Por Niño
- OLPC China —
- OLPC Ecuador — http://www.ecuadorolpc.org Un Computador Por Niño
- OLPC Ethiopia —
- OLPC France — http://www.relire.org/olpc-france-blog/
- OLPC France is a team of ~15 people who are active in government lobbying, as well as being involved in OLPC Haiti
- OLPC Germany —
- OLPC Germany is a group of 15 people who are active in public demonstrations, software development and their own IRC chanel
- OLPC Ghana —
http://www.wilugghana.orgbroken Winneba Ghana LUG - OLPC Greece — www.ellak.gr
- OLPC Haiti —
- OLPC India — also see Khairat school trial
- OLPC Japan —
- OLPC Korea —
- OLPC Mexico —
- OLPC Mongolia —
- OLPC Nepal —
- OLPC Netherlands —
- OLPC Nigeria —
- OLPC Pakistan —
- OLPC Peru —
- OLPC Philippines — http://olpcph.multiply.com/ OLPC Philippines
- OLPC Russia — http://community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/
- OLPC South Africa — www.laptop.org.za
- OLPC Switzerland —
- OLPC Thailand — wiki.nectec.or.th, see the Bann Samkha school
- OLPC Turkey —
- OLPC Uganda —
- OLPC United Kingdom —
- OLPC United States — more a news page than a deployment
- OLPC Uruguay — olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com
Africa
- OLPC Benin
- OLPC Egypt
- OLPC Ethiopia
- OLPC Libya
- OLPC Kenya
- OLPC Nigeria
- OLPC Rwanda
- OLPC Senegal
- OLPC Somalia
- OLPC Zambia
Asia
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
A XO user group is starting at Games Cafe in Kaohsiung on Saturday afternoons. We're only on emulators now, but hopefully will be getting the real thing soon. Contact Tobey (at) Playgames (dot) tw for more info.
North America
Canada
- http://www.olpcug.org/ , an umbrella for Canadian OLPC user groups
British Columbia
Jeremy Penner Looking to form an xo users group in Vancouver.
Quebec
- XO-Québec, une communauté québécoise en développement à l'entour du OLPC et de son environnement d'apprentissage.
USA
See OLPC United States#User groups and Unoffical Groups
See Also
Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG