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