RE: [school-discuss] Recommendations for NECC presentation

["James Smyth" <smyth@northeast.tec.ma.us>]

I have a preview version of DistrictDNA (district administration
software) that runs on Linux done. It has most of the data entry, but no
printing. I can send it to you if you like.

James P. Smyth
Technology Coordinator
Northeast Metropolitan School District


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
[mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net] On Behalf Of Doug
Loss
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:17 PM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: [school-discuss] Recommendations for NECC presentation

As most of you know, I'll be going to NECC (the National Educational 
Computing Conference) in Seattle at the end of the month with Harry 
McGregor of OSEF and Paul Nelson of K12OS.  I'll be representing both 
SEUL/edu and Schoolforge as a whole (both Harry and Paul will also 
represent Schoolforge in addition to their own groups).  I have a 
presentation to give on July 2 (the last day of the conference) about 
Linux software in education.  I'd like to demonstrate both a courseware 
application and an administrative application.  For the courseware one, 
it seems obvious to use GCompris, since it just won a prize and is 
included on the Freeduc bootable CD.  For the administrative one, I'd 
like to get some suggestions.

What is the best app to demo at a conference, given a two-hour 
presentation?  Only part of that presentation can be taken up by the 
app.  I'd like to show something that's clearly useful in North American

schools (since that's where this conference is), that's pretty easu to 
use, and that plays nicely with other software a school or district 
might be using.  It would be a great plus if it were included on either 
Freeduc or the OSEF CD; that would keep me from having to install and 
configure it.  Not asking for too much, am I? :-)

I'm waiting for your opinions!

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