[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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