[seul-edu] Re: RedHat and education - conference info

[Karl <jackal@raptor.slc.edu>]

Hi Kerry,

I live in Virginia, but don't think I can take the day off on October
10th, unfortunately. The drive down would be nice, and I'd love to attend
otherwise.

For those who haven't found it already:
http://www.nceita.org/events/nova2001.html


Seeing as how it seems Microsoft and the big-commerce companies seem to
have flodded the NOVA 2000 conference, it is probably extremely important
that any SEUL-EDU folks nearby who can, attend.

This effort might be similar to what Phillip and I are trying to establish
at the 2001 FETC conference - I'd need to see more details to compare the
two.


   -Karl


e: karl@seul.org / jackal@raptor.slc.edu
SEUL/edu Projects Liason
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On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Kerry Kim wrote:

> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:01:17 -0400
> From: Kerry Kim <kkim@redhat.com>
> Reply-To: seul-edu@seul.org
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: RedHat and education (was Re: [seul-edu] seul-edu posting
>     guidelines  / Introduction)
> 
> Douglas Loss wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 04 Sep 2001, Kerry Kim wrote:
> > 
> > > After all that talking, people here were
> > > itching to do something.  So we've met with some local area
> > > schools and
> > > non-profit organizations and have begun soliciting donations
> > > of computer
> > > hardware, software, and services.  We've also committed to
> > > demonstrating
> > > a prototype "open source computer lab" at an educational
> > > conference in October.
> > 
> > Great!  Which conference?  Maybe we can get some SEUL/edu people
> > there for support.
> 
> The event is the 2001 Knowledge NOVA, held on 10/10/01 in Charlotte,
> NC.  If there are people on this list that would like to attend, please
> let me know.
> 
> > 
> > > One of the short term things I hope we can do (with
> > > all your
> > > help) is do some homework on what open source K-12
> > > applications are
> > > available and install/demo these on this computer lab concept.
> > 
> > Take a look at the SEUL/edu software pages
> > <http://www.seul.org:8080/wiki/edu/Software> or Les Richardson's
> > database version of the same <http://richtech.ca/seul/>.  They
> > list a few hundred educational apps.
> > 
> 
> Thank you very much for the leads.  Give me some time this week to get
> organized and I'm sure I'll have some more questions.
> 
> > >  Longer
> > > term, I hope we can influence those application developers
> > > that write
> > > critical software, to make their applications available on
> > > open source platforms.
> > 
> > We will be very happy to help in that effort.  In the meantime,
> > you might consider helping some of the various free/open source
> > projects that are working at developing such apps, too.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I will ask the more knowledgeable
> programmers here if they'd like to help with the projects.    
> 
> > --
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