Re: [school-core] Affero's concept

["SteelHead" <bill@ries-knight.net>]

I concur..
Being a presenter is good... but there are still hurdles to getting there
and the expense of travel and housing unless the conference is local to the
presenter.

On that realm.. In discussions from last year we considered many things and
I believe the thought of coming up with a "series of presentations" that
could be shipped to a local person or group was touched on.

My thought was on this line... The presrentation would comain Ready-to-use
material and a presenter could be brought up to speed in pretty short order.
The material to support it could reside in a section just like the online
case histories for later reference by the presentee's.

just thinking

Bill


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bucknell" <david@members.iteachnet.org>
To: <schoolforge-core@schoolforge.net>; "Matt Jezorek" <matt@bluelinux.org>
Cc: <XIARCEL@prodigy.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [school-core] Affero's concept


> Let me clarify what I was trying to say. I suggest that we offer to give
> workshops and presentations _within_ the conferences rather than pass
> ourselves off as vendors. In the educational conferences, this is a
> respectable and effective way in. I don't know about the hard core tech
> conferences, but I imaging they must also look for workshop leaders and
> presenters.
>
> David
> Quoting Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>:
>
> > > As for breaking into the tech fairs, that is not hard. It is just as
Doug
> >
> > > said, finding the money. There is the travel, depending on where the
fair
> > is,
> > > and the entrance/presenter fees. Sometimes the fees are waived if
> > > presentations are accepted. But there's still travel. I proposed and
was
> >
> > Let me tell you the fee's are crazy. I was invited to Linux World New
> > York to setup a booth. IDG sent me the "Package" with the price list.
They
> > wanted me to pay them $20,000 USD to setup a SMALL booth. The fees are
> > crazy to a point of Its almost not work attending some of them, even as
a
> > bystander. The biggest money gets the biggest show, not the best
> > technology.
> >
> > Sorry for my bad attitude about most of these tech fairs.
> >
> >
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> > Linux for Education
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