NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference, the world's largest educational technology conference for teachers and technology coordinators, is being held in San Diego this summer: July 5 - 7.
We have two unique opportunities to present Free and Open Source Software solutions for schools. First, we will have a 20-computer lab running Linux thin client that will be used as a hands-on presentation area, complete with microphone and projector. The presenters in this area will have 1-hour time slots concurrent with the overall larger show sessions, *and* will be included in the official NECC program listings. There are 13 of these 1-hour slots, of which three or four are not spoken for at this point. If you are interested in presenting during one of these time slots, I need to hear from you this week so that I can give you instructions on submitting your proposal online by this coming Friday. Please contact me directly. Second, NECC is providing us with a "playground" center. This is a set of 6 booths where particular products or technologies can be showcased continuously. These are available during the whole show, and will need to be staffed the whole time. I'm thinking we could have booths for: Open Office, SchoolTool, Edubuntu/Ubuntu, Moodle, Blogging, Python, MySQL, Mambo/Joomla, ? These would be perfect for students to come and help man the booths and answer questions. I think this is a wonderful addition to what NECC has provided in the past. We don't have the same Friday deadline to make these arrangements, but I would like to hear back quickly from those who would be willing to come and help manage a booth. Looking forward to hearing from you! Steve -- Steve Hargadon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 916-899-1400 direct -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel