OLPC Switzerland

Interested people

• 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

News from Switzerland

First Meeting of OLPC Switzerland on January 15 2008 on 9:15 AM; in Bern

Report of the meeting

1. Demonstrate that the concept is worth promoting by using OLPCs in Switzerland 2. Show that OLPC is not just a cheap PC for developing countries by using OLPCs in one of the world's wealthiest countries 3. Promote the dissemination of OLPCs in German, French and Italian speaking regions by adapting OLPCs to these languages. 4. 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. 5. Emphasize the importance of basic concepts in contrast to product knowledge by using non-commercial hardware and software. 6. Demonstrate the possibilities of digital learning tools to the Swiss education environment.

Events

• OpenExpo in Bern 12. und 13. März

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

• http://www.domainepublic.ch/files/articles/html/9725.shtml
• http://www.lematin.ch/pages/home/actu/economie/actu_economie__2?contenu=354155