Re: [seul-edu] Australian Educational Mini Conf - 2004

[Ivan Teliatnikov <ivan@es.usyd.edu.au>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Lloyd wrote:

Dear David,

I am a system administrator/PHD student in geology and geophysics at the
University of Sydney. In the past 3 years I have being successfully
building a schools IT infrastructure in the school based on open source
and commercial Linux solution. We now have all our mission critical
services running on Linux/Solaris. There 2 computer labs running Linux 
full-time, there is a growing number of post-grads and researches who use 
Linux as their major platform.  We just received 20,000,000 $ worth 
of geophysical software from one of the world leading geophysical software
company to run on Linux.

I would be interested in attending Australian Educational Mini Conference 
in 2004. Could send me more information, please.

Thank you in advance,

Ivan.

> 
> 
> Hi There,
> 
> 
> I just thought I'd say that I have rather foolishly offered to act as
> lead organiser for the Australian Educational Mini Conoference in 2004
> following Leon Brook's superb effort in 2003. For the first ever
> gathering of its type in Australia we attracted from 30- 45 attendees at
> the mini-conf.
> 
> Speakers ranged from people involved in Government policy and direction
> to people who implemented open sourcelinux solutions in their
> educational institutions.
> 
> We weren't just focussed on local or Australian speakers--somehow Leon
> had managed to attract a speaker from Michigan who provided a very funny
> anecdote. He'd set a task for his students to try to "hack" his computer
> but not set a "finish date" for such activities. So when he discovered,
> some time later in the term, that he'd been "hacked" the particular
> perpertrator's reply was "...but you said we should try to...".
> 
> (btw...I understand said student got the bonus points)
> 
> So, this was just a hands up to say that the Aussie guys aren't going to
> drop the ball and we're going to build on this. It's mainly just to say,
> it's happening again.
> 
> [no, I don't have an official site, programme committee or such -- it's
> currently just me with Leon saying he thinks it's worth it and he'll
> help - these will be announced soon]
> 
> DSL
> 

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