[DC LoCo] Thinking ahead: 2009.06.28 - 2009.07.01, Washington DC: National Educational Computing Conference (NECC)

[Kevin Cole]

Hi,

It may be old news to some of you, but the 30th Anniversary of the National 
Educational Computing Conference (NECC) will be held in Washington, DC 
early next summer (2009.06.28 - 2009.07.01).

A few summers back, some of the folks from this area flew out to San Diego 
for this conference, where the keynote presenter was a guy named Nicholas 
Negroponte. ;-)  We got to see a very early, chassis-less prototype of the 
XO laptop, and we had our own Ubuntu DC LoCo booth there, as well as 
helping out with the Open Source Lab run by Steve Hargadon.

It was a HUGE conference, and I think the Open Source Lab was able to make 
a real impact there, along with the Moodle presenters.  So, if you have any 
interest in FOSS in schools, put this on your radar.

I figure it's never too early to start thinking about such events...

More info to be had at:

    http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/

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