Events

Below are upcoming OLPC Friends’ events from across the region. Please contact us to add any new events!

January 2010

OLPC @ LCA2010 in Wellington, New Zealand
OLPC and Sugarlabs - Improving education on a global scale - NZ Volunteers group by the Wellington testers on Tuesday 19th January @ 11:30am

New Zealand - OLPC New Zealand test groups - start the year off by joining us at one of the NZ test groups:
Saturdays 10.30am at The Cross, Abel Smith Street, Wellington
Second Saturdays 11am at Windsor Castle, 144 Parnell Road, Auckland
Christchurch details coming soon

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 11am at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith St

New Zealand - OLPC Test Group in Auckland - meets up every Saturday from 11am at Windsor, 144 Parnell Road

Please note: this will be replaced with a events system that people can contribute to and subscribe to in the new year.

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