OLPC Switzerland
Objectives of OLPC Switzerland
- Demonstrate that the concept is worth promoting by using OLPCs in Switzerland
- Show that OLPC is not just a cheap PC for developing countries by using OLPCs in one of the world's wealthiest countries
- Promote the dissemination of OLPCs in German, French and Italian speaking regions by adapting OLPCs to these languages.
- Promote the programming environment Squeak in the German speaking area by adequate examples and ideas developed in Swiss paedagogic universities and tested in Swiss schools.
- Emphasize the importance of basic concepts in contrast to product knowledge by using non-commercial hardware and software.
- Demonstrate the possibilities of digital learning tools to the Swiss education environment.
More generally speaking, we also aim at participating in the OLPC Europe group, and share the OLPC_Europe/Vision.
News from Switzerland
- January 15 2008: First face to face meeting of OLPC Switzerland, in Bern (minutes?)
- January 26th 2008: OLPC.ch mailing list opened
Events
Blogs
- http://mobileatschool.kaywa.ch/mobile-blogging/erstes-treffen-der-olpc-switzerland-community.html
- http://wiki.doebe.li/Beat/OLPCnunAuchInDerSchweiz
- http://www.greenpit.ch/blogwordpress/?p=235
- http://www.vorburger.ch/blog1/2006/02/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-via-100.html
Press
If you are a journalist in Switzerland, please do subscribe to our mailing list and introduce yourself. We would love to give you a demo (e.g. in Bern, or Lausanne; or elsewhere) of the innovative XO laptop, and share some of our enthusiasm with you... and maybe you would like to write about the OLPC movement, the XO education project, and OLPC Switzerland? ;-) Past articles:
- http://www.domainepublic.ch/files/articles/html/9725.shtml
- http://www.lematin.ch/pages/home/actu/economie/actu_economie__2?contenu=354155
Infrastructure
- We use this Wiki (this page and later sub-pages) for collaborative publishing for now
- We communicate and coordinate on the olpc-ch mailing list. Visit http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch to subscribe!
- We archive the olpc-ch list at http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-ch/ or http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-ch/ (and probably on Gmane shortly) for you to read what we have been up to in before you joined
- We own the olpc.ch domain name and make it available for OLPC Switzerland initiatives
- We could set up a (public?) school server later, if we manage to get XOs for a planned pilot?
Interested people
If you're interested in OLPC Switzerland, feel free to add your name to the following list. More interesting for you than only growing a long list of names here however might be if you join our mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch) and participate in discussions?
- Michele Notari
- Yvonne Buettner
- Martin Hofmann
- Beat Doebeli Honegger
- Jacqueline Peter
- Martin Lehmann
- Rainer Fischer
- Lorenz Schori
- Niklaus Giger
- Alexis Favre
- François Brutsch --Fbrutsch
- Michael Vorburger (see User:Vorburger))
- José Formaz
- Matthias Stürmer
- Norbert Bollow
- Mala Mukherjee Suess