There are several groups in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.

Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008
Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly
Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
Independent project proposals

Come join us

To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz Look at laptop.org.nz for current events in New Zealand.

Wellington group

The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.

We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.

To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out the Cross

Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.

Auckland group

Suz & Tamara Olliver are looking at creating an OLPC owners group to meet up in Auckland and Wellington to review progress, show off what we are doing, generally socialise and probably eat curry. Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us. Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. Watch the Video to see for yourself

Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ

Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City

Moodle Developers

A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.

At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)

What else is going on?

Tabitha has issued a Call For Papers for the education miniconf we're running at the LCA2010 conference mid January next year

http://laptop.org.nz/content/miniconf

We're testing the full activity bundle for the upcoming Peru deployment

Some kind folks in Sydney are rounding up unused dust gathering XOs from the LCA2007 giveaway to ship to Wellington.

Who's got what

Where are the laptops?
Laptop	Who	Project
Laptop 1 (Karora)	Andrew McMillan	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 2 (Loco) CSN74701D32	Tim McNamara	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 3 (Pyro) SHF8150259E	Alastair Munro	Testing 8.2-767 User:Aly
Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC	Tabitha Roder	Testing 8.2-767 User:Tabitha
Laptop 5 (Shrek) SHF81502638	John Roder j.roder@auckland.ac.nz	Testing 8.2-767	Attempting to start Auckland group
Laptop 6 (Rocco) CSN7480015B	Callum and Brenda	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 7 (Moodle)	Uli Muellner	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 8 (Josh) CSN749028BA	Grant Patterson	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 9 (Tio) SHF7250080F	Callum and Brenda	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 10 (Pogo) CSN74802463	Tabitha Roder	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 11 (Zephyr) SHF80802932	Grant Patterson	Testing on....656
Laptop 12 (Rambo) CSN74802145	Alastair Munro	Testing on 8.2
Laptop 13 (Mojo) CSN74701F41	M Fabiana Kubke f.kubke@auckland.ac.nz	Attempting to start Auckland group
Laptop 14 (Twilight) CSN74804BF8	Tabitha Roder	Testing on 8.2
Laptop 15 (Monkey) CSN74804D7E	Bex	Testing on....
Laptop 16 (Pinchy)	David and Sigi	Testing 8.2-767	Own machine