Below are upcoming OLPC Friends’ events from across the region. Please contact us to add any new events!
December 2008
- Australia - OLPC Test Parties will be happening in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide on Saturday the 20th December. Anyone interested is welcome to come along for a few hours, and the focus for this set of testing will be the new G1G1 OLPC activities and the new OLPC 8.2.1 image. Please contact the following coordinators for an event near you, and if you want to start your own Test Party, let us know!
January 2009
- OLPC @ linux.conf.au
- The Sugar learning platform by Walter Bender on Thursday 22nd January @ 10:35am
- OLPC in Australia and the Pacific by Pia Waugh on Friday 23rd January @ 13:45pm
- OLPC Birds of a Feather Session on Friday 23rd January from 5pm till late. Please register yourself to participate
- New Zealand - OLPC Wellington - start the year off by joining us and meeting Ian Thomson (Pacific RICS and OLPC Oceania Project Coordinator) this Saturday 10.30am at The Cross, Abel Smith Street
- New Zealand - OLPC Wellington and Catalyst IT Ltd invite you to meet Walter Bender, founder of sugarlabs, a non-profit foundation. Python based, Sugar enhances educational experience by emphasising collaboration and expression. Sugar is the interface used on XOs distributed around the world by OLPC. Venue - Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington. RSVP session 12-2 or 5-7 on 27 January by emailing <tabitha@learning.ac.nz>
- New Zealand - Linux Conference in Wellington in January 2010 - OLPC and Sugar mini conference proposal being submitted so fingers crossed!!
Regular events
- New Zealand - OLPC Test Group in Wellington - meets up every Saturday from 10.30am at Southern Cross
- Australia - OLPC User Group in Sydney - meets up last Saturday every month from 11am
Please note: this will be replaced with a events system that people can contribute to and subscribe to in the new year.