OLPC United States
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Entered the list of 'green' countries through the news announcement of 2007-04-28 (which can be found in the archive) and states:
3. OLPC added a new country this week: the USA. This move will engage a wider developer community, impacting and improving software and content. Please note that such a move into schools and learning in the USA is not necessarily a commercial machine.
Maine and Georgia have similar programs using conventional laptops. As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney called for XOs in MA schools. This is not part of his presidential campaign.
On 2008-1-9 OLPC announced the formation of OLPC America.
US Virgin Islands
We're conducting a pilot on the island of Saint John this fall (2007).
Should this prove successful, there's great interest from the government to purchase XOs for every elementary student in the US Virgin Islands.
More information (and a video) can be found on the Project Waveplace site.
Private and Church Schools
If your school has the ability to make purchasing decisions independently of state education programs, then you could buy a set of laptops through the Give 1, Get 1 program. If course, this means that you will simultaneously be funding a school of equivalent size in a developing country as well.
States
Please add yours if there is an active effort there.
California
I don't know whether CA is talking to OLPC, but I have started talking to politicians here. Assemblyman Ira Ruskin has a bill to fund a pilot project to encourage use of Free Textbooks in CA junior colleges. --Mokurai 17:49, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
I'm a computer consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA... If I can make the time to, I am considering starting a project in Marin City- Sausalito, CA HUD housing and/or Richmond, CA and/or Oakland, CA these would be urban rather than rural environments. I thought this would be a good way to increase OLPC's visibility in the US media as well as Internationally. An OLPC international Pal (penpal) vitual exchange student program or a OLPC sister/brother Sibling school concept was one of my inspirations.
Jakub
Georgia
Said to have a program.
it dosent have a proram i go to school in georgia
Maine
Said to have a program using Apple iBooks.
Massachusetts
See also
See the XO Giving page at http://xogiving.org/ for information about a "Give 1/Get 1" program in the US and Canada.
Regional_community_groups lists some regional community groups
Form your own regional group on the User Groups forum at olpc news: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?board=4.0