As mentioned last night, the Prairie Linux User Group's (http://plug.ca) February meeting will feature the OLPC XO (little green laptop) and the Asus EEE-PC (little black laptop).
Our meetings are fairly informal, and the attendance pretty small, so there will be ample opportunity to just play. MUUG members interested in planning a MUUG presentation on this topic may find this PLUG meeting a good opportunity to explore what aspects local geeks are interested in.
I'm going to attempt ahead of the meeting to build the OPLC software in /opt/olpc, and run it on my regular clunky laptop. This will allow us to make use of a projector. If I manage to build all of the obscure dependencies into there as well - I can copy /opt/olpc over to other people with x86 laptops running GNU/Linux. (I should also just see if someone has made a live CD and save myself the hassle!)
The meeting will be in room 3M58 at the University of Winnipeg, at 7:30pm, on February 21, 2008.
Mark