This week I managed to chase down Pia Waugh for long enough to have a chat about the exciting things she has been doing with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project. She is a founding member and volunteer for the OLPC Friends organisation. Pia is a passionate supporter of Open Source Software (OSS), actively involved in Australia’s Linux Community and also a powerful advocate & supporter for Women Working in IT, especially working with School age girls to challenge the stereotypes of working in IT to foster a growing Women in IT community. 

I always love chatting with Pia – I find her passion & energy that she puts into her projects absolutely contagious - and I always feel so inspired after I chat with her! Pia is one of the awe inspiring Australian Women working in IT we have here, so it was a total honour to get to interview her for this podcast.

(Apologies for the background noise as the only place we could meet was a cafe)

 Podcast 7.0 Pia Waugh: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Some handy links for the OLPC project:

The OLPC Friends Organisation Website: http://www.olpcfriends.org/

If you are interested in Volunteering for the OLPC project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Friends/volunteers

The Australian OLPC Organisation: http://olpc.org.au/

Pia’s Blogpost on her experience setting up the OLPC in Niue: http://pipka.org/blog/tag/niue/

Pia’s Blogposts on Australia’s First deployment of OLPC: http://pipka.org/blog/tag/deployment/

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