Echanges avec OLPC Deutschland

hi thank you for your interest in OLPC Deutschland and first of all sorry for the delay!

we are currently working hard to put up our infrastructure. sadly i do not speak (or write) any french at all.

we have just founded the "OLPC Deutschland e. V." this weekend. we were planning this since most of us first met at CeBIT in march this year. i am not quite sure how the "e. V." (eingetragener Verein) translates to french. but it is a very common struckture to use for sports and social clubs. the thing we aim at is to get the status of "benefit to the public" which basically means we can issue cotribution receipts for charitable donations. that is needed for successful fundraising.

since we are just founded there are only about 15 people in our organisation. but we are growing on a dayly basis. budgets do not yet exist. we rely on membership fees and donations to get work done. so we will have to do some aggressive fundraising to get anything done.

we are planing to organize demo events in schools and for interested teachers and public presentations to create an awareness for the need for an educational laptop for kids. we will be supporting projects within germany as well as in developing countries.

right now we only have some development laptops and a few from the american GiveOne-GetOne program which we cycle and pass on for presentations.

logistic we have none jet, but we are very eager to work out a scheme to import a larger number of laptops with localized keyboard for the D-A-CH region in cooperation with olpc-ch and olpc-at.

i hope this was helpfull for you. if you have further questions please ask... i promis we won't take as long to answer next time.

greetings falko