[K12OSN] OT: Conferences in Midwest

Burke Almquist balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Fri Aug 12 18:42:34 UTC 2005


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MN is definitely much closer to my neighborhood than Maine, SF, or  
Portland. I'd definitely be interested
On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Petre Scheie wrote:

> When David Trask and Chuck Liebow, et al, organized their "Maine  
> get-together of K12LTSP-ers" last year (or was it two years ago  
> now?),  Chris Bacigalupo from Duluth, MN offered his city as an  
> alternative site for the Maine conference, not entirely in jest. I  
> started keeping track of people on the list who seemed to be not- 
> too-far from Minneapolis, where I am, with the jealous hope of  
> someday organizing something similar (your name is on the list  
> already, Scott).    I was hoping to get enough people to make it  
> worth Jim's and/or Eric's time to come out for it.  I only have  
> about a dozen names so far, and some of those haven't been heard  
> from on the list for a while, so I don't know how active they are.   
> (Chris, are you still on this list?)
>
> There are two reasons for such a conference:
>
> 1.  It would be great fun, allowing some of us to meet face-to- 
> face.  It would be helpful to learn more about what others are  
> doing with LTSP, and it would inspirational.  This project works  
> because of the community, and this would be a way to enhance that  
> community.
>
> 2.  I thought I would try to invite people from all the other  
> schools in town, to introduce them to LTSP, to show them a better  
> way of providing computing services to schools.  Show them how easy  
> it is to install K12LTSP, how it makes better use of resources, how  
> it's easier to manage, perhaps cover the natural symbiosis between  
> education and OSS, etc.  I'd LOVE to show them all of Jim  
> Kronebusch's various Macs all running as thin clients!
>
> The tricky part is that the above are two different audiences: the  
> first would involve people who already understand LTSP, while the  
> second would be more of the uninitiated. But I think they could  
> both be accomodated if we had, say, two days, where the first would  
> be focused on topics that assume you already understand LTSP, and  
> the second day would be more introductory, or vice-versa.
>
> Then there's the question of topics and format.  If Jim M. and/or  
> Eric could come, they could talk about what they're working on,  
> e.g., MueKow; I'd like to hear more details from Jim Kronebusch  
> about getting the Macs to work.  What else?
>
> For the second day, for people unfamiliar with LTSP, someone could  
> talk about & demo K12LTSP, perhaps do an installation.  CodeWeavers  
> is based here in the Twin Cities, and Jeremy White, the founder, is  
> a friend of mine; I thought I might invite him to talk, to show one  
> way to support Windows apps on LTSP.  CW has a portable LTSP/WINE/ 
> CrossOver setup they use for demos, showing off MS Word 'loading'  
> in just a second or two on an old Pentium 100.  While I want to  
> keep the focus on the community, I think some schools would like  
> the idea that they could get commercial support for a K12LTSP  
> installation, so perhaps there could be some support vendors there,  
> if there's interest.
>
> I figured if I could get ten people to come for the first day, it  
> would be worth doing and would be enough people to draw Jim and/or  
> Eric.   I think the Maine folks had about 20 (David, are your  
> pictures from your conference still online?); Maine seems to have a  
> lot of people doing K12LTSP, lucky dogs; hopefully 'new recruits'  
> from group #2 above would increase our numbers in Minnesota.  I was  
> thinking perhaps a Friday-Saturday, in June after school is out;  
> but I'm not a teacher so I figured I'd let those who are pick the  
> dates.  I thought I might try for this summer, but I just didn't  
> have the time, so I've been looking toward next summer.  In  
> Minnesota, in October we have a two-day (Th-Fr) teacher in-service  
> holiday when there's no school, to allow teachers to attend  
> training, conferences, etc.  I've considered that weekend, but as  
> it's a Minnesota thing only, I was afraid none of the Iowa/ 
> Wisconsin/Michigan folks would be able to attend.
>
> Any thoughts or interest in this?
>
> Petre
>
>
> Eric Brown wrote:
>
>> There's the Iowa Technology in Education Connection conference  
>> held in Des
>> Moines this October (http://www.itec-ia.org/confer/index.htm).  I  
>> just found
>> out that my proposal to run a workshop on K12LTSP just got  
>> accepted.  Linux
>> was incredibly under represented at the last conference (a few  
>> vendors had
>> linux powered devices, but no workshops).  I look forward to  
>> seeing other responces to this question.  I've wondered
>> why more conferences aren't held in a more central geographic  
>> locations.
>> Eric Brown (not the cool Eric that puts k12 together)
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]  
>> On Behalf
>> Of Scott Sherrill
>> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:46 AM
>> To: k12osn at redhat.com
>> Subject: [K12OSN] OT: Conferences in Midwest
>> I apologize to the moderators, I posted the message with the wrong  
>> email
>> addy the first time I tried.
>> Off topic from K12LTSP but since all types of information is  
>> shared and
>> discussed....
>> I am looking for anyone with leads (and preferably websites) on  
>> midwest area
>> conferences.  I was thinking of a conference geared towards K12  
>> folk, but not a teacher conference.    Something geeky ;-)
>> The group I work with is located in Michigan but we are closer to  
>> Minneapolis, and Chicago than we are to Detroit.   I've found a  
>> great conference in Michigan (MAEDS) and Wisconsin (Brainstorm),  
>> but I open to new
>> places and pools of knowledge.
>> I suppose if the conference is good and the price is right (read  
>> "cheap"), I
>> am open to suggestions for any other conferences across the US  
>> too.  I made
>> the trek to NELS in Maine this year and that was another gem.
>> Thanks eh.
>> Scott
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