Regional groups

Current Grassroots Organizations

See also Category:XO User Group

Canada

• Toronto OLPC Developers (mailing list)

Ghana

• Winneba Ghana LUG working on wireless and computers for development

USA

California

• Open Source at San Francisco State University
• Silicon Valley Linux User Group Meets at Symantec monthly, holds an install fest at Google monthly
• Bay Area Python Interest Group meets at Google monthly
• OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea

Illinois

• Chicago Interest Group

Massachusetts

• Boston : MitchellNCharity 16:27, 18 October 2007 (EDT) (B4)
• Lexington: LeXO: Lexington XO Users Group

Mississippi

• Picayune Interest Group

Missouri

• XO-StL (USA, Missouri, Saint Louis) — [1]
• XO-KC (USA, Missouri, Kansas City) — [2]

New York

• New York Metro Area: See user:cheesebuyer. Interested in forming an XO laptop user group? We have members from New York City and Connecticut. Everyone within reach is welcome. First order of business: establish online and live meeting places.

North Carolina

• Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, RTP: http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-rdu

Ohio

• Cleveland: CWRU Hacker Society

Oregon

• Oregon : see user:mburns and Ed Borasky http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-olpc-users/
• Eugene XO User Group

Rhode Island

• Rhode Island : see user:bjepson and http://rinexus.com/forum/general-discussion/xo-laptop-meetup-ri

Texas

• XO-Austin (USA, Texas, Austin) - Jabber server, more coming

Washington

• SeaXO
• Bainbridge Island (near Seattle)
• Volunteer/Contributer/Organizer Seth Woodworth with 2 XO-1's, see My User Page
• Volunteer/Support - Whatcom County, Bellingham (with 2 XO-C2/MP's, another 3 connections locally), See Iain Davidson User page.

National groups

Organizations that are currently promoting OLPC, and local community groups:

• OLPC Argentina — www.tuquito.ar
• OLPC Brasil — digitalmediauniverse.blogspot.com DMU - revista sobre OLPC no Brasil
• OLPC Chile — ucpn.cl Un Computador Por Niño
• OLPC Greece — www.ellak.gr
• OLPC Nepal — www.olpcnepal.org
• OLPC Russia — community.livejournal.com/ru_olpc/
• OLPC South Africa — www.laptop.org.za
• OLPC Thailand — wiki.nectec.or.th
• OLPC Uruguay — olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com

• In this wiki
  • Other sources may be present in each country page. Current 'green' countries are:

    Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Libya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Thailand, United States, Uruguay

  • OLPC Austria
  • OLPC Brazil
  • OLPC Colombia
  • OLPC Ethiopia
  • OLPC Germany
  • OLPC Korea
  • OLPC Russia
  • OLPC Switzerland
  • OLPC United Kingdom

• Developer-oriented groups

Larger Regional groups

• Spanish America
• Europe
• Oceania
• Category:Community

Out of Warranty - North American Repair Facility

• Out of Warranty Repair Center Post 30 Day Repair Support

See also

• IRC - there are regional channels.
• Community building
• Category:Community
• Interactive XO Support Forum Interactive Community Based Tech Support

Keywords: User Group; Special Interest Group SIG