Re: [seul-edu] Our presence at trade shows

[Bill Ries-Knight <brk@slip.net>]

There are many TEACHER focused conferences, they usually are related to
the idea of "continued education requirements" or as "staff enrichment
conferences".  I tried to dial in on a big Taacher Technology conference
last year out here in Sacramento, California, and ran into a problem.
The promoters of these shows are interested in PAYING VENDORS.  As a
freebie group with no assets, there is a limit to where and what we can
do.  I think we need some advocacy by our most eloquent members to this
(these)groups.  I will try to dig through my old email archive and see
if I can come up with an email contact for  the sponsors of the program
in Sacramento.

Bill

Doug Loss wrote:

> Ray said something a while ago I wanted to get some discussion on.
> He mentioned that going to Linux trade shows was all well and good,
> but the people we need to talk to include teachers and educational
> administrators who we won't likely see at such shows.  That's a very
> good point.  Since we have fairly limited resources for attending
> shows, can any of you alert us to conferences on "technology in
> education" or something similar that we should attend?  We probably
> ought to try to do some outreach in this direction, I think.
>
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