OLPC Switzerland

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There are 4 national languages in Switzerland. English (which is not a national language) is probably the best way to reach the largest audience. That is the reason why we publish in English here..

olpc-ch mailing list

If you are interested in following the OLPC.ch grassgroots group efforts, please do join our olpc-ch mailing list, by subscribing at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch. When you subscribe, it would be nice if you would briefly introduce yourself via an email to the list.

Objectives of OLPC Switzerland

  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 pedagogic 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.

More generally speaking, we also aim at participating in the OLPC Europe group, and share the OLPC_Europe/Vision.

See also the VIDEO (in French) where Michael Vorburger of OLPC.ch speaks about the XO and OLPC Switzerland.

News from Switzerland

  • January 15 2008: First face to face meeting of OLPC Switzerland, in Bern (minutes?)
  • January 26th 2008: OLPC.ch mailing list opened
  • February 14th: finally the two XO from Austria arrived.. this wiki edit is written with one of them... ;-)

Events

Material: Talks / Presentations / Articles / Videos

Blogs

Press

If you are a journalist in Switzerland, please do subscribe to our mailing list and introduce yourself. We would love to give you a demo (e.g. in Bern, or Lausanne; or elsewhere) of the innovative XO laptop, and share some of our enthusiasm with you... and maybe you would like to write about the OLPC movement, the XO education project, and OLPC Switzerland?  ;-) Past articles:

French:

German:

Infrastructure

XO Hacking stuff by OLPC.ch members

Interested people

If you're interested in OLPC Switzerland, feel free to add your name to the following list. More interesting for you than only growing a long list of names here however might be if you join our mailing list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch) and participate in discussions?


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