Echanges avec OLPC Austria

Hi Lionel,

On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:01 PM, LASKE, Lionel wrote: > Hi OLPC guys from Austria, > > My name is Lionel Laské, I'm software architect in France and > published some articles on CodeProject, Dr Dobb's Journal and on a > French web site named DotNetGuru. Finally I'm the author of Liogo, a > Logo compiler for .NET (http://liogo.sourceforge.net ). whoa, not bad! :)

> > I'm thinking to create an “OLPC France” (...) > More, my dream is to launch a G1G1 in France at the end of this year (why not ?). The thing which has been holding back G1G1 and Give many in the EU are warranty issues.

> > Because, “OLPC Austria” seems to be a really active community, It > could be really interesting to have your advices to help us to create > our organization. > Of course I'm wondering lot of questions like: > • When you create “OLPC Austria” ? May 2007 > • What is your legal status ? legal association (NGO status)

> • How many people do you have in your association ? ~ 14 > • What is your budget ? hm, let me re-phrase that to "Where is our budget finally?"

> • What sort of events do you organize ? Many. We showed off XOs at Cebit, we currently work on http://projectdb.olpc.at, Simon will start to work on content issues, Helga created a super- tres-cool XO bag (http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Hansel_%26_Gretel), Christoph and Simon were in Slovenia and presented the XOs in front of quite a few ministries from Africa at the ACP-EU meeting), Chris Hager is coding a lot in python (xo-get, projectdb, physics software, imageQuiz), Andreas is working with XOs at a school, Tano and me are organizing a lot and doing blabla, etc... the list does not end. > • What is your logistic ? ?? OLPC has logistics in the EU? ;-)

> • How many XOs have you ? I have to count them but at the moment around 6 or so

> • Do you have help from OLPC Foundation in US ? well, we help them and they help us sometimes a bit. But mostly it is about trying out cool new things.

> • … > > I really appreciate your help and your advices. > > Best regards. > > Lionel Laské from the future “OLPC France” > association. You do know that there are already a few people in Paris (Xavier and Florian) who have one and who already started working on a french grassroots group?

They are pretty cool guys, maybe you want to meet once and see if you like each other and if you can work together. Tell them greetings from me and I miss their great humor and drinking habbits ;-)

a+, Aaron.