OLPC France presentation @ the OLPC EduJam event in Montevide 2011

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 !

bzg@laptop.org