OLPC Netherlands

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About OLPC The Netherlands

OLPC The Netherlands (OLPC-NL for short) is a grassroots group interested in contributing to the OLPC project. We are just starting up and are looking for more like minded people.
Please contact us at contact@olpc-nl.org for further information.

To Do List

  1. find more people
  2. have a brainstorm session to gather cool ideas for this grassroots group
  3. document what projects we are working / want to work on
  4. start regular meetings, besides Bine & Bastiaan's discussions during carpooling :-)
  5. create a forum or irc channel (als voorbeeld) (just start using olpc-nl on FreeNode)
  6. create a mailing list
  7. request 1 or 2 XO laptops for demonstration and development/test purposes (e.g. for WhatsThatSound)
  8. create a multi user wordpress blog for dutch members

People

Bastiaan Bakker
User:Bastiaan

  • Software Engineer
  • Interested in: developing fun activities for the XO
  • Lives in: Zoetermeer

Sabine Hengeveld-Auer
User:Bine

  • Communications
  • Interested in: spreading the word about OLPC in the Netherlands
  • Lives in: Pijnacker

Don Hopkins
User:Dhopkins

  • Software Engineer
  • Interested in: SimCity, Python, Visual Programming
  • Company: TomTom
  • Lives in: Amsterdam

Pascal Scheffers [1]:

lockwood

Reinier Heeres
User:rwh

  • Working on: sugar, Calculate, Read
  • Lives in: The Hague
  • Doing PhD in Delft

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Mailing List

Work In Progress. Please check again later.

IRC

Channel #olpc-nl on FreeNode. May be a bit quiet. Todo: schedule regular IRC meetings.

Meetings

We aim to have regular meetings, provided there is enough interest.
The first meeting is planned for saturday, December 15th, 14:00 hours, location TBD. We are looking for people who want to demonstrate what they have been working on.

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