OLPC Europe/Events

2013 11 27 Sven AERTS OLPC Community talking about OLPC at the http://eudevdays.eu/topics/science-and-innovation-development. This resulted in identifying several top players also active in the EU OLPC Community landscape, firing up spirits, stressing teams to document their efforts on this wiki.laptop.org so others could find out about them, link up, built upon projects etc..

	Name and link where we develop this	Their Link	Date	Place	Contact User	Status	Infos
	OLPC in Euronews; interview during the EU Africa Business	Their Link: http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/02/europe-and-africa-working-together-to-build-investment-opportunities/ (fastforward to 2:05)	Date: 2014/04/02/	Place: Brussels	Contact User: --SvenAERTS 13:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)	Status: not relevant	Infos: olpc community member Sven AERTS was filmed with an XO and interviewed for over 15'
	More: olpc at the Eu Africa Business Forum 2014 Brussels	Their Link: http://www.euafrica-businessforum.eu/	Date: 20140331 & 20140401	Place: Brussels	Contact User: --SvenAERTS 09:51, 2 April 2014 (UTC)	Status	Infos: Major event with many presidents of state, kings, ministers and leaders s.a. Ms. MANDELA and business decision makers that followed them or thought this worth participating in the forum. The olpc-community was invited to participate in the session on eSchools. The panel and audience were conclude to give recommendations to the EU Commission. It was great to see other panel members and members in the audience confirming what we were presenting and communicating as olpc-community. I had borrowed an XO from former OLPC Europe and still olpc community member Bernadett Lauko. The XO still is a great eye-catcher and opener and indispensable tool for every OLPC/olpc "evangelist". OLPC, olpc, the XO is known by about 30% of the participants. Of course all the participants from Rwanda know it and are happy and very proud to join in the conversations. It gives them a boost of confidence you rarely will have seen. They are very very confident. The leading message from the conference: all these Agenda21 action plan, Millennium Development Goals and other initiatives, they are working, economy is taking off everywhere, even in the regions, but things are moving and indeed teachers get bought away by the private sector everywhere. The money is there, the support programs think micro-finance etc. are all there, the technologies are there, the ngo's are there and it is making a change. The challenge is: transfer of know-how and ... maybe olpc can also help out there to a certain extent. But most definitely: those business leaders want to chip in money in the "pot" of OLPC because they have a huge frustration: they have gone through so much efforts to get a great product or service ... but most are only appealing to a. consumers b. who can read, write and know numbers. So they all know and see that chipping in a bit in the pot of OLPC is will come back as a return on investment in the form of people who can read, write and know numbers, have increased their revenues and can finally label themselves as "CONSUMERS", or maybe some will prefer the label "Active Citizens". :) Several reporters and Euronews heard me pitch at a little booth I created on a table and recorded me. Euronews even filmed and interviewed me for about 10'. I've got about 65 business cards and emails who all received an email from me the same evening. They will be followed up by www.AfricaCO2e.tk - EU and EU Diaspora Leadership Institute / olpc community Dpt. PS I got the confirmation from the Kenyan delegation that OLPC won a public tender a couple of weeks ago for 1,2 million laptops. Some of the competition however challenged their losing and claim that though olpc won indeed, the tender procedure had not followed the Kenyan code of good practices and didn't fulfill the legal requirements and brought the whole case to the Kenyan Court where things are now pending. In my pitches I made it clear that the XO is like the wikipedia, linux, libre office etc. and that nobody is going to pay you because you would "sell" them the wikipedia, because everybody knows the wikipedia is for free. And that the way to make money with OLPC is to provide services: e.g. if teachers would ask you to help them to integrate the use of wikipedia into their lessons during some workshops and you'd give the workshops, they you could make money. Idem the XO's: nobody can make money selling XO's, even the salaries of the staff at OLPC is paid by other means (donations, etc.) but not from some profit on the price of the XO's. The XO's are always sold at rock bottom price: the price of the components and putting them together. OLPC is a very small foundation: just a couple of very brilliant hardware ICT engineers who make sure they visit specialised ICT component manufacturing fairs and implement the every more performing hardware, and then some people who can pick up the phone and all they want to hear is how many XO's you want to order and make sure of a steady and as large as possible flux of orders every month so the manufacturers of components can give rock bottom prices in exchange for a steady stream of orders so they can keep a basic capacity occupation of their manufacturing machines and manufacturing belt/chain. When you explain it like that people get it and understand there is room for them to sell their services and products that can be "ented" on the XO which is like a LEGO block. This was also very useful information for some of the people in the Kenyan delegation to take back. --SvenAERTS 09:51, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
IDAY English and French Newsletter addressed to governmental and non-governmental leaders dealing with development issues.	Their Link: http://www.iday.org/	Date: March Newsletter	Place: English and French Newsletter addressed to governmental and non-governmental leaders dealing with development issues.	Contact User: --SvenAERTS 10:01, 2 April 2014 (UTC)	Status	Infos:
	OLPC and The BETT show	[1]	22. to 25. January 14 (every second half of january in every year)	London	--SvenAERTS 11:55, 16 January 2014 (UTC)	Status: Mentioned it to Giulia D'AMICO = Mgr OLPC Tablet	Infos: The learning technology event - The BETT show is the global meeting place for the education technology community, bringing together 35,000 educators and learning professionals every January. Attending the event is the best way to see the latest technology and innovative solutions that inspire, in order to shape and improve the way people learn from the classroom to the boardroom. olpc Community member Irini POUTAKIDOU confirmed that OLPC Uruguay gave a key-note presentation. --SvenAERTS 10:01, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
	Solutions Linux	[2]	29. to 31. January 08	Paris	florian	Fixed
	FOSDEM	[3]	23. to 24. February 08 (every year)	Brussels	h0lger	Fixed	OLPC: Saturday, 23. February, 15:00 to 17:00
	Chemnitzer Linuxtage	[4]	1. to 2. March 08	Chemnitz	daja77	Fixed	OLPC: Saturday, 1. March, 10:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
next >	CeBIT	[5]	4. to 9. March 08	Hannover	daja77	Fixed	OLPC: Saturday, 8. March, 11:15 a.m. @ LinuxForum
next >	OpenExpo 2008	[6]	12. and 13. March 08	Bern, Switzerland	vorburger, Michele	Planned
	ApacheCon 08	[7]	7. to 11. April 08	Amsterdam	Marten	Talks
	LinuxTag Berlin	[8]	28. to 31. May 08	Berlin	holger, joko	Fixed
	OpenCommunityCamp	[9]	10-17th August 2008	Oegstgeest,The Netherlands	Marten	Fixed

2011 29 03: Sven AERTS OLPC Community talking about OLPC at the Committee of the Regions Assises Staten Generaal Development Tonu KARU EU representation of Lithuania in Brussels and the Ambassador or Ruanda in Den HAGUE. This resulted in identifying several top players also active in the EU OLPC Community landscape, firing up spirits, stressing teams to document their efforts on this wiki.laptop.org so others could find out about them, link up, built upon projects etc.