[K12OSN] OT: Conferences in Midwest

Fri Aug 12 19:17:49 UTC 2005

Burke,
Where are you located?

Petre

Burke Almquist wrote:
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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:
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>> 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)
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>>> 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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