Communication channels
The primary OLPC communication channels are mailing lists, IRC channels, and discussion forums.
Mailing lists
see also Community mailing lists See also blogs for a list of OLPC related blogs and feeds.
The full list of mailing lists is at http://lists.laptop.org. Sometimes they multiply when one isn't watching.
Starting a list
The best way to start a new mailing list is to begin a discussion on a related list that already exists, and once the discussion becomes active, to ask for a separate list for that topic or that sort of traffic. Then create a page here about the list you want to start, with a brief description. Finally, add a link from this page and leave a note for sj or ivan.
Public lists
Country discussions
- Argentina [no description available]
- Brasil OLPC in Brasil
- Egypt-opensource Discussion of open source in Egypt
- India OLPC in India
- Nigeria-opensource Discussion of open source in Nigeria
- Peru [no description available]
General discussion
Software and content development
- Devel Software development mailing list
- Sugar Discussion of OLPC design, desktop platform and user experience
- Etoys Discussion of the Etoys multi-media authoring environment on OLPC
- Library OLPC content discussions
- Games Games for the OLPC
- Localization Localization the OLPC project
Accessibility and other end-use issues
Hardware and other tech discussions
- Security OLPC Security Discussion
- linux-mm-cc Compressed Caching for Linux
- Networking Networking the OLPC world
- Commits-kernel Commits list for OLPC kernel NOT FOUND
- Bugs OLPC bugtracker mail
News and announcements
- Community-news Weekly community news
- Devel-boards OLPC Developer Machine mailing list (deprecated)
- Devel-machines OLPC Developer Machine mailing list (for people with development machines)
- Hardware-announce (rumoured to exist, deprecated?)
Chat
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</imagemap>Most OLPC chat takes place on IRC (that's Internet Relay Chat). See also the older IRC page.
IRC channels
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irc.freenode.net channels
The OLPC Community uses a series of channels in the irc.freenode.net network. Check {{User irc}} to see how to register your participation in the IRC channels within the wiki, and to find the category where users are registered.
| Primary: | |
| #olpc-help | Community help. If you need help using your XO, and you haven't asked anywhere else: try here first. |
| #olpc | Contact point for all things olpc, and the core hardware development team's own channel. Picture a room where the knowledgeable core people are hard at work. It is a good place for authoritative answers, but people may be out, or too busy to respond, or don't want interruptions at the moment. Consider going to #olpc-help first. |
| #sugar | Sugar development. |
| #olpc-content | content related matters and general discussion. |
| #schoolserver | Note: irc.oftc.net |
| #olpc-meeting | OLPC meeting, developer's meeting room |
| Channels by language — Usually following #olpc-xx (where xx is a language code). | |
| #olpc-es | Spanish language channel. Mostly OLPC Spanish America. |
| #olpc-de | German language channel. Mostly OLPC Germany and OLPC Austria. |
| Secondary channels — Usually following #olpc-country. | |
| #olpcaustria | German language channel. OLPC Austria meets here. |
| #olpc-peru | Peru and OLPC Spanish America subjects (most likely to be in Spanish) |
| #olpc-brasil | Brazil (note the spelling with the 's' - português) |
| #olpc-co | Colombia |
| #olpc-nl | the Netherlands |
| #olpc-pakistan | Pakistan |
| #olpcph | Philippines @ irc.freenode.net |
| #olpc-ro | Romania |
| #olpc-za | South Africa |
defunct and experimental channels
- #olpc-ko - Korea
- #olpc-philippines || [3] @ irc.oftc.net
- #olpc-wiki — geared towards issues or subjects relative to the wiki itself (Created around 20 June.)
- #olpc-l10n — has Localization as its focus (Created around 20 June.) — dropped in october due to low traffic and overlap with #olpc-content
- #OLPC-Dictionary — related to the omegawiki.org children's dictionary for the olpc. Inactive, though MartinMai has been active again recently
- #tam_tam — TamTam Inactive?
irc.oftc.net channels
- #olpc-devel — for core systems and other development, now that #olpc is truly becoming a general discussion channel
- #schoolserver — dedicated to the School server
- #debian-olpc — dedicated to porting Debian to the XO
How to use irc channels
- Visit the live web chat
- Some helpful resources are here, and this tutorial, which also includes basic commands.
- Learn about IRC etiquette. Try here, here, or here.
- Review the software client list. Pick one, download, install. A good all-around choice is Xchat, which works on both Linux and Windows; Linuxchix has a good tutorial.
- For IRC on your XO, install the latest XoIRC activity.
- Connect to to the above channels, and say hello. (To do this, choose irc.freenode.net as your server, and then /join a channel... if you're new to IRC, the #olpc-help channel is probably the place you want to go first).
- Note OLPC growing pains.
Other chat services
If there are any Skype, AIM, or other chatrooms about OLPC, please list them here.
Forums
There are a number of active OLPC forums, including
- http://olpc.osuosl.org, run by Michael Burns and the OSU OSL team
- http://www.xohelp.org