On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 19:22 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > On 03/11/2011 07:04 PM, drew wrote: > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday/ > >> > >> 21st Educational Technology Day at Ithaca College > >> USA Ithaca, NY > >> 2011-03-24 > >> one day > >> > >> Educational Technology Day is a regional technology event that attracts > >> over 1,600 people annually from the upstate New York region. It features > >> local and national vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Dell, Epson, Hewlett > >> Packard, Microsoft and many others. -- Mostly tech vendors but > >> LibreOffice could perhaps make an appearance there. Targetted audience: > >> higher education and K-12 teachers. > >> > > First I've heard of it - looking at the list of speakers, there is a > > talk from a Google emp, regarding google docs. Looking at the showcase > > (expo floor) google, orcle and Ithaca free Software. > > > I just saw it on the Events page on the TDF "wiki" pages.
yup - I don't see that anyone notified the mailing list - that is a good habit after updating the wiki page, lest it becomes lost. > > > Ah, that last one looked good, so going to their website: > > http://ithacafreesoftware.org/ > > > > I see they advocate OpenOffice.org. > > > Yes, since they started with OOo, maybe now they will go with the better > package. Also - looking deeper, the guys actually manning the table at the event are coming, according to the ithacafreesoftware forum announcement[1], from the NY State Ubuntu LoCo (Local) team[2]. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't giving away discs and if that is 11.04 then I wonder if LibO is already on it. > It would be nice to have this free software group a part of the N.A. > Community team Reaching out to these other type groups would be a good thing, yes. What else can you say on that. > or marketing group. Since they have several college/universities in the > Ithaca area. > Cornell is a major player in status for New York State Colleges. A lot > of major research > partners with industries at Cornell. Actually from what I can see MSO is not the competitor any longer, not in the USA and not in Education - it is Google Docs. > > Also: too many lists to keep track of > > This list, marketing @ libo is the international list, I doubt anyone in > > Poland is concerned with an edu tech day in upstate NY NY, so please in > > the future keep this to the US marketing list. > > > Yes the European groups might be a little too far away, but I thought > the TDF groups might have an opinion on "supporting" local team[s] going > to that event. > Right! Take care, Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
