Regional groups

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Larger Regional groups

National groups

Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:

USA State Groups

Alabama

  • OLPC Birmingham
    • OLPC Birmingham has both a Grassroots group and a planned full scale implementation of 15,000 machines. On the grassroots side, their team of volunteers is experimenting with the School Servers and and recently took part in BarCampBirmingham

Arizona

  • AZ XO
    • The Arizona XO user group has been meeting since February of 2008 and has over 10 members. They have their own forum, mailing list, and are starting to work with the local Global Literacy Foundation.

California

Connecticut

Georgia

  • Atlanta has a small ad-hoc user group. An elementary school in Fulton County is piloting a lending program with 10 XO laptops that arrived August '08.[www.creekview.org]

Illinois

  • Chicago is the home of [[OLPC Chicago] and ILXO, with the IMSA campus chapter in Aurora
    • OLPC Chicago is a grassroots group backing several innitives, including the Illinois Low Cost Laptop Act
    • IMSA is a Highschool campus chapter (Aurora), they have several XO's and are active in testing and debugging
    • ILXO is squad of full-time OLPC volunteers who have created a local office for OLPC in Chicago

Massachusetts

Mississippi

Missouri

  • The Grassroots projects in Missouri have two different mailing lists, but no groups yet.

Montana

New Mexico

New York

  • Three areas in New York are attempting to organize Local User Groups
  • Long Island is still in the process of organizing
  • OLPC Rochester, NY is a student group that has worked on testing the XO

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

  • OLPC Pennsylvania
    • This state has a couple of interested members on our wiki, but haven't yet formed as a group.

Rhode Island

  • Rhode Island
    • A Rhode Island group formed for a few meetings, and appears to have a couple avid contributors, but seem to not have continued as a grassroots group.

South Carolina

Texas

  • XO-Austin
    • In Austin, Texas, the local user group has a community Jabber server for it's users. At least one member of the group is an active technical writer for various documentation projects.

Vermont

  • OLPC Vermont Vermont Development and Grassroot Group.
    • The Vermont group is focusing on emulating the [[Sugar] UI and is spreading info about OLPC locally.

Washington

Washington, DC

  • OLPC Learning Club D.C.
    • The OLPC Learning Club has several very active members, including Mike Lee and Ian Daniher. The group gives educational demonstrations, contributes to various content projects and develops software for the XO, such as GASP.

See Also

Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG