[K12OSN] OT: Conferences in Midwest
Mike Heins
k12osn at perusion.com
Fri Aug 12 14:28:17 UTC 2005
Quoting Eric Brown (ericbrown at mi-spot.com):
> 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.
They don't have any information about registration yet. If the cost is
not prohibitive, I may attend, as it is not that far from my parents home
and I can take that opportunity for a visit.
I am sure much of it will be depressingly Microsoft-based. 8-\
> I've wondered why more conferences aren't held in a more central
> geographic locations.
>
I think central population locations are more sought-after. 8-)
A lot of the once-per-year national conferences I deal with try to shift
it around year by year -- one year on the east coast, the next on the
west, then one in the midwest.
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