The story continues on [[blog/2008/04|April 2008]].

== Bernie's brain backup for March 2008 ==

=== Thu, 20th ===

==== More blogs ====

Our friends of OLPC Austria also reported on the event:

  http://christoph-d.blogspot.com/2008/03/olpc-presence-at-acp-eu-meeting-in.html

I've finally distributed all the remaining laptops, and I'm flying back to Brussels.


=== Wed, 19th ===

====  The laptops arrived! ====

{{LaptopsHaveArrivedSmall.jpg | Our Deus ex Machina got the laptops released}}


=== Tue, 18th ===

==== OLPC demoed to the EU president Danilo Türk ====

Today we have been received by the President of Slovenia, and **President in charge of the European Union**,
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_T%C3%BCrk | Danilo Türk]]. I was asked to show him some of the unique
features of the XO.  Somehow, I managed my excitement and performed a decent presentation.

Before leaving us, the President expressed profound interest in the OLPC educational goals.
This means our project is likely to receive support within the European Parliament.

**Update**: President Türk knows about the shortage of Internet addresses, and
was impressed by our laptop being IPv6-ready.  We mentioned that the infrastructure
is currently a show-stopper in most places, but the President said this issue will
have to be addressed if we want the Internet to scale to the point required by our
ambitious project.

Media coverage:
  http://www.up-rs.si/up-rs/uprs.nsf/dokumentiweb/8759FD3D80235E44C1257411003580E0?OpenDocument

{{TurkMeeting1.jpg | L2R: Giulia, Deva, Türk, WdB, Bernie}}
{{TurkMeeting2.jpg | L2R: Deva, Walter De Brouwer, Türk}}
{{TurkMeetingSmall.jpg | Talking with the chief of the cabinet after the meeting}}


=== Mon, 17th ===

==== OLPC presence at the ACP-EU meeting in Ljubljana ====

{{AcpHallSmall.jpg | The ACP-EU conference hall}}

The newly born OLPC Europe team attended the [[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/acp/ | ACP-EU]]
conference in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana | Ljubljana, Slovenia]].

Representatives of [[http://www.olpc.at/ | OLPC Austria]] rushed here on very short notice to
help with the OLPC booth.  We demoed the laptop to 79 delegations of the African countries,
members of the EU parliament and dignitaries of the United Nations
Development Programme.  Not surprisingly, the laptop was called
"**the killer event at the ACP-EU meeting**". 

Media coverage:
 * Meeting opening cerimony: [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=GLKK-ZYEsuk]] [[AcpOpening.flv | local copy]]
 * [[http://www.nirjdeva.com/ | MEP Nirj Deva]] interview: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VMiVtUOT97E  [[DevaInterview.flv | local copy]] (<- **GREAT STUFF!**)
 * OLPC press conference: [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tHYdpsNTQIg]] [[AcpPressConference.flv | local copy]]
 * [[http://eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=19953]]
 * TODO: add everything else

{{AcpBoothSmall.jpg | Our frugal OLPC booth at the ACP-EU meeting}}

=== Fri, 7th ===

==== Talk at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence ====

{{PalazzoVecchioOlpcConfSmall.jpg}}