XO Giving/Users
A question was asked on the question page about local user groups for owners of the "get 1" half of the "give 1 get 1" program. This page is a list of known user groups.
Infrastructure that can be used in forming groups:
- this Wiki,
- Mailing lists,
- IRC,
- EPals.
This isn't an exhaustive list.
North America
CBUG - Cambridge-Boston User Group
See Bug Found. See Bug Squashed. CBUG forming..
- :) Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria 09:12, 22 November 2007 (EST)
Houston, Texas
Robert Nagel has started an XO User Club. See http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/start_xo_user_club_houston.html and http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83399673 for more information. The first meeting is on a Saturday the 2nd or 3rd week of January.
Austin, Texas
Anne Gentle ... more information to follow, likely will mimic Robert's lead.
Interior Alaska
Lylah Caldwell is interested in helping start a user group in the Fairbanks/North Pole area for XO users. She has started a Yahoo Group for that purpose located here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XO_interior
Eugene, Oregon
An XO user group is being formed in Eugene. Jane Krauss began the group on November 16 and has set up a XO group on Classroom 2.0: http://classroom20.ning.com/group/xo --Mark 14:29, 21 November 2007 (EST)
- Thanks, Mark. Here's a link to our Eugene XO Users Workspace.
Seattle, Washington - SeaXO User Group
An XO user group is being formed in Seattle, Washington. More information will be posted soon.
Check this space, as well as http://www.SeaXO.com for the latest information. Alternatively, Email your contact information and/or interest to mailto:SeattleXO@gmail.com to be notified of meeting information.
Asia
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
A XO user group is starting at Games Cafe in Kaohsiung on Saturday afternoons. We're only on emulators now, but hopefully will be getting the real thing soon. Contact Tobey (at) Playgames (dot) tw for more info.
Europe
Switzerland
Has anybody else in Switzerland or elsewhere in Europe ordered an XO through "Give 1 Get 1" (through a friend in 'North America', obviously...) ? Leave a note here to network (and to discuss how to advance this with our ministery of education...). Vorburger 15:05, 25 November 2007 (EST)
There are a several groups forming on Facebook.
- :) Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria 09:12, 22 November 2007 (EST)