OLPC France
| 2007 status: yellow | ||||
| yellow | ||||
| current status : jaune | ||||
About OLPC France
OLPC France (map) is a group of around 40 people supporting the OLPC project in different ways:
- promote the OLPC project in France,
- create a community around the project
- develop specific content,
- support every French initiative on the project,
- exchange with OLPC Foundation and OLPC country communities.
If you're interested by the OLPC project, by the XO or if you have any project around developement, research or education, do not hesitate to join us !
People
OLPC France gather people from various backgrounds: hackers from the /tmp/lab (some of them working on the OpenWRT project), people with a strong interest in pedagogy, some with a deep experience with Squeak/Etoys/Logo, others having a strong interest in international collaboration, etc.
Ongoing projects
(For a recent list of projects, check the french wiki.)
- We held a deployment of 100 XOs at Madagascar on the Nosy Komba island (more here)
- Two major events in 2009: CodeCamp and a SugarCamp
- We are an official repair center for XOs
Planned actions
- Pilot school
Contact us
For more information, you can reach us on the OLPC France mailing list and visit our wiki.
Links
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| Primary Language | ,|x|Language spoken::x}} |
| Number of Laptops | Number of manufactured laptops::100 |
| Keyboard Layout | Keyboard::OLPC English Keyboard |
| Build | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Date(s) Arrived in Country | ,|x|Has received laptops on date::x}} |
| School Server | ,|x|School server status::x}} |
| Pilot Status | [[Pilot status::100 XOs was deployed between July and August 2009
They are used at school from October 2009 A full report on this deployment is downloadable here News feed on the deployment is here]] |