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

[Shea Almumin]

Kevin,

I saw that the dc.ubuntu site hasn't been updated in a while. Do you all
still meet?

Shea

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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