[Grassroots-l] [Olpc-open] OLPC in Finland?

[Sameer Verma]

Walter Bender wrote:
> I am back in Tampere the weekend of the 30th of June, but I think the
> lecture referred to in the blog is from one year ago. 
Ah! It didn't say what year it was. I'm heading back to SF in a week.
Will you be speaking about OLPC/Sugar when you get here? If so, I'll
pass that info along.
> Happy to spend
> time with OLPC Finland if anyone is around.
>
>   

So, there is an OLPC Finland? Do you have any references to them?

cheers,
Sameer

> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Seth Woodworth wrote:
>>     
>>> There isn't anything on the wiki under regional groups or that I can
>>> find on the wiki:
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Regional_groups#National_groups
>>>
>>> But personally I love the Finnish language and the country.  I'm
>>> interested in what you can find out while you are there.
>>>
>>> Seth
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>> I spoke with a couple of parents of 5 year olds and an administrator at
>> a University in Helsinki. I'll keep the dialog going and see if we can
>> get some traction.
>>
>> I found this.
>> http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=olpc-please-some-cultural-respect which
>> says that Walter was at Univ. of Tampere (Finland) on May 9. He might
>> know a bit more. Walter?
>>
>> Sameer
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>>
>>
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu
>>> <mailto:sverma at sfsu.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     I am currently visiting Finland, and had a meeting with some folks who
>>>     found the project interesting. Is there any activity with respect to a
>>>     Finnish installation/pilot?
>>>
>>>     Any pointers would be great.
>>>
>>>     Sameer
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>>     Associate Professor of Information Systems
>>>     San Francisco State University
>>>     San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>>>     http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>>     http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>>>
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