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Presentation givin in Montevideo, May 2011. This explains what OLPC France does and gives a few ideas on what to do next to develop OLPC grassroots.
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How to grow a local grassroot ?OLPC France – EduJam – Montevideo 2011
OLPC France – the core team
OLPC France – brief overviewhttp://olpc-france.org
● Mission : hack the hardware and software, support (future) french-speaking OLPC/Sugar deployments with translation, documentation, activities, etc.
● Started in June 2008 at the /tmp/lab (hackerspace)● ~40 active members as of today● XO repair center● Support Gang : participate to the Contributor's program● SugarCamp (May 2009)● Nosy Komba deployment started in 2009 with « G du
cœur » (french NGO led by students)
OLPC France – translation
OLPC France – repair workshops
OLPC France – « design » workshops
OLPC France – « design » workshops
Develop activities – xoExplore.xo
Develop activities - A toi de jouer !
Develop activities - Nutrition
● Stefanie Nobel, new german member (developer) of OLPC France
● Internship with Danone and OLPC France● Alpha release end of May, Beta end of
september● Brainstorming started on sugar-devel@● Work with deployments to customize and test
the activity ?
Develop activities – others...
● Helpfr.xo : french version of Help● Madagasar.xo : bunch of Wikipedia pages● NosyKombaLibrary.xo : ePub ebooks● Tools to analyse the Journals and display
simple reports● ...
OLPC France – meet educational FLOSS projects/communities
● Gcompris● OOo4Kids● Moon activity (La main à la pâte)● Vikidia (offline wikipedia with Kiwix)● Sésamath ?● DrGeo ?● ...
Nosy Komba deployment - 2009-2011
Nosy Komba deployment - 2009-2011
Nosy Komba deployment - 2009-2011
● 100 XOs in 2009● 5 volunteers of « G du cœur » for 2 months
● 150 XOs in 2010● School server● 5 volunteers of « G du cœur » for 2 months
● 150 XOs in 2011● Try to bring Internet● Project supported by OLPC Europe● 5 volunteers of « G du cœur » for 2 months + 2
volunteers from OLPC France
Nosy Komba deployment - 2009-2011
● http://olpc-france.org/blog/tag/nosy-komba/
● http://xo-nosykomba.blogspot.com : from children Journals (2010)
● http://nosykomba2011.blogspot.com : last news from the NK team
8 principles to build a grassroot
● Be kind● Don't do politics● Work on projects● Meet IRL often● Have a story to tell● Build relationships with FLOSS/education
communities outside OLPC/Sugar● Participate IRL to OLPC/Sugar worldwide● Have fun !
Further developments for OLPC grassroots ?
● Decentralized Contributor's program?● Manage a worldwide OLPC volunteering
program?● Organize worldwide contests : best FLOSS
application for education? Best XO robotics project ? Best Sugar activity tutorial ?
● Set up an OLPC community website (on top of olpcmap.net)?
Thanks !