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RE: [school-discuss] Recommendations for NECC presentation
I'd say HelpmeICT, but then we are funding it ;-) Many educators may not
recognise the importance of a helpdesk management tool, but it is a very
powerful example of open source - some 9 weeks into the project, and the
software is being used for IT, admin and building requests in one school, IT
requests in 20; in the UK, Switzerland, and Canada; in government,
multi-nationals and 2 major consultancy firms - and that's just the people
we know of.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Loss
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Sent: 6/16/03 7:16 PM
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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