OLPC Europe/Meetings/2008-02-07

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Summary of the second #olpc-europe irc meeting.

• 24.1.2008, 17:00 UTC, 70 minutes
• log, log_summary
• Participating: crazy-chris, h01ger, b457144n, groupsky

Summary

• Projects from people / national grassroots
  • Chris has been at the Nordic Game Jam in Copenhagen. Interest in OLPC was high, but unforutnately not mange games were developed for OLPC.
  • Bastiaan mentions the OLPC-NL_Making_Miles_for_Millennium_2008 Making Miles for Millenium project. A couple will travel by bus through Poland, Russia, Mongolia, Nepal, India, visiting OLPC projects and helping out.
  • A Dutch school is interested in starting a pilot

• Infrastructure status
  • domain names status quo: olpc-europe.org and olpceurope.org point to olpc europe, no mail addresses are in use
  • application of dev project for newsletter,etc. has stalled. Holger will send a reminder email to the devel list
  • Chris has been too busy to work on the newsletter. He will post a request for newsletter content on the mailing list, because without help the 10 Feb. newletter will be rather short. The news will be collected on a wiki page since the git repo is not available yet.
  • Chris, SJ and Aaron have been working on a new project database for the developer program: [1].

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Actions

• Bastiaan
  • write meeting summary
  • document startup of NL pilot
  • send suggestions and request for ideas on how companies can donate manpower instead of money to the grassroots list
• Chris
  • send request for newsletter content to the grassroots list.
• Holger
  • send reminder for next meeting to the grassroots list
  • finalize the agenda for the fosdem event a week in advance. discuss at next meeting
  • link together the existing two pages about pilots
• Open
  • establish _and_ document a procedure how to get a pilot started