[Ambassadors] EdTech Day follow-up

[Karlie Robinson]

PS - OOo Impress file has been added to 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations#OLPC_SIG

Karlie Robinson wrote:
> Yesterday I attended the 19th annual Educational Technology [1] day at 
> Ithaca College in Ithaca NY, USA.  As you may have guessed by the 
> title, this show is focused on technologies used in k-12 as well as 
> higher education.
> I was camped out in the Ithaca Free Software Association [2] booth for 
> the day, so I must extend a hearty thank you to Eric and Marty for 
> their booth hospitality.  I also need to thank Charles Profitt of the 
> Rochester LUG/Ubuntu NY LoCo for giving me a ride to Ithaca (going 
> green by way of the carpool).  And last but not least, Brian Neil for 
> volunteering his time to jockey all 320 disc in and out of my printing 
> and duplicating equipment.
> I met with a mix of Students, faculty and staff from numerous schools 
> in upstate NY (Elmira College, Cornell, Syracuse, University of 
> Rochester, K-12 from the area Etc).  I was also able to meet with 
> community members.  In fact, the rush was more like a crush of 
> people.  For example, we had 300 discs at 9am when the doors opened.  
> At 10:30 we handed out the last disc.  (I saved 20 sugar spins for my 
> talk and I'm glad I did)
>
> While it's my preferance to keep a notebook handy to record contact 
> info for the people I meet with, this was darn near impossible.  
> Instead I relied upon my business card and the few I was able to 
> collect.  As of this writing, I've made contact with those I had cards 
> for and I've had one email come in.
> My presentation of OLPC - What if..? was well attended.  While I 
> didn't get a head count, we made it to standing room only - so I would 
> estimate 40-ish.
> Immediately after my presentation I was again, mobbed with questions 
> about Math4, OLPC and Fedora at the booth.  (good stuff eh?)
>
> At about 2pm I was finally able to go visit the other booths and was 
> stopped in the main hall by David Weil, the chair person for EdTech.  
> He thanked me for coming on short notice and offered OLPC/Fedora/Sugar 
> Labs space for next year.
> One final note, I was able to promote POSSE a bit so I hope we'll be 
> able to fill the bootcamp. Reply with questions.
> Notes at https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Webpath/EdTech
> Photos at 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/23277267@N03/sets/72157615986454834/
>
> Karlie
>
>
> [1] http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday
> [2] http://ithacafreesoftware.org/
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