FOSS Advocacy in education in northern New England

[Bill Sconce]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:23:06 -0400
Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:

> Just a quick tip 'o the fedora to those local folks who help FOSS
> Advocacy in northern New England with their efforts at FOSSEd (formerly
> NELS), this year being held three times: in Bethel, ME, Durham, NH and
> Washington, DC. Go team!
> 
> New Hampshire's own Matt Oquist is heavily involved, GNHLUGgers Bill
> Sconce and Warren Lubkeman will be featured at the Gould Academy
> presentations next month. Bravo.



Here's some more stuff, particularly with regards to the UNH session,
which is next month.  (Dave Trask, the sender, and Matt Oquist are the
prime movers in FOSSED/NELS.)

The "high school kids from Yorktown" are Jeff Elkner's students.
They're learning CS in high school!  (In Python, naturally.  :)
They blew the conference away last year, contributing real work
to SchoolTool (which is written in Zope).  "Summer of Code NH"!

-Bill

________________________________________________________________________
From: "David Trask" <copperdoggy at gmail.com>
To: "David Trask" <dtrask at vcsvikings.org>
Subject: Coming soon! Join us for FOSSED/NELS 2007 at UNH!
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:36:59 -0400

(Feel free to pass this along!  Post and blog...far and wide...let everyone
know!)

Hello everyone!

The 2007 FOSSED/NELS conference at Gould Academy is 2 days away.  I hope you
are coming, but if you weren't able to join us at Gould...there's still
another conference in July at UNH!  Air conditioned rooms, good food, great
conversation and lots of hands on learning!  In true FOSSED/NELS tradition,
UNH offers great sessions and presentations like the conference at Gould
Academy.  In fact, UNH has a few sessions that are unique to the UNH
conference.  If you attended Gould and wish to expand on your
knowledge...check us out at UNH!  We'll have many of the same presenters and
sessions, but we'll also be featuring several new sessions and presenters as
well!  You can find out all about it at the FOSSED site at
http://www.fossed.com.  Check out the UNH Session descriptions
HERE<http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfvj9xq4_16xh45b9>
and check out the schedule for UNH
HERE<http://fossed.com/2007-fossed-schedule-unh.pdf>

Some notable differences:

for teachers:   Check out the awesome sessions featuring Tim Hart as the
presenter...Moodle!

for system admins/techies:  Jorge Castro will host some great sessions!  I'm
hoping to attend them myself  :-)

We'll also have the high school kids from Yorktown Virginia with us again!
They are part of the "Can-Do" project and they'll be working directly on
developing the Open Source project called SchoolTool!  You get to see open
source development up close and personal!  You even get to provide input!
See your suggestions incorporated into the software!  (This was VERY cool to
see last year)

So!  Please join us this year at the Free & Open Source Software in
Education conference at the University of New Hampshire on July 8th - 11th
(arrive p.m. of the 8th).  For more information and to register....

http://www.fossed.com

-- 
David Trask and Matt Oquist
Copper Dog Consulting and Training
copperdoggy at gmail.com