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To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

Kotahi tamaiti, Kotahi rorohiko iti: nō Aotearoa

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Sat, 2009-07-04 23:46

About One Laptop Per Child

The One Laptop per Child association develops a low-cost laptop—the "XO Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children.

The association's mission is "to provide educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

About Sugar Labs

The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software.

Originally developed for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook, Sugar runs on most computers. Sugar is free/libre and open-source software

More info on Sugar Labs

OLPC and Sugar in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wellington

The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.

We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.

Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.

To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. tabitha.roder@gmail.com

Check out the Cross - http://thecross.co.nz/

Auckland testers group

The first Auckland meeting was held 26 September 2009 in Mt Eden. We are planning to meet regularly and will put up locations here.

Christchurch testers group

There has been an offer to meet:
Sun: 2pm-7pm Wed: 7pm-11pm

This space has been offered - http://chchspace.nztech.org/

More information will be posted here.

Events

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