Re: [seul-edu] Fw: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jay Sun wrote:

>  I agree, LinuxWorld is trying to make money on those sessions, and it
> has to be convinced that there are enough people interested in paying
> to attend the SEUL/EDU session.  Obviously not many schools are going
> to pay $1500 plus travel to attend half a day track in LinuxWorld,
> especially K12 schools.  There will be enough interest in colleges and
> Universities, but the management may be bombarded by blackborad or
> campuspipeline etc, and LINUX is not in their redar screen yet.  It is
> going to be a hard sale for LinuxWorld, thus hard sale for SEUL/EDU.

We had rather good attendance at the Linux in Ed pannel in NYC,
considering the time/day it was schedualed on.  We are not asking
LinuxWorld for an education track, just an education event to make sure
the people involved in the industrie see the connection.

			Harry

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> On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:03:53
>  Steelhead wrote:
> >
> >
> >Douglas Loss wrote:
> >
> >> I just got this from LinuxWorld.  Evidently they have a
> >> different definition of "education" than we do, as everything I
> >> see here seems to be aimed at Linux education rather than
> >> general education using Linux, OSS, and free software.  Can
> >> anyone corroborate or refute my guesses here?
> >
> >SNIP
> >************************************
> >Yes doug, the focus at the expo is making money and riding the HYPE of Linux,
> >thus they want to offer sessions on training self and learnig about training
> >others (read company staff) in using Linux daily on a workstation or server.
> >
> >They have no "...use Linux in the schools as a computing platform instead of
> >Mac/Windows" division as a focal point.
> >
> >If you can eloquntly convince them to, we may be able to sell them on a "btw,
> >we have a special session"  session focused on the classroom.  I can plan on
> >being there, as well as others such as Jim Lynch or Aaron Turner, or Jay Sun or
> >others in the local region perhaps.  After all, this conference is in Oakland,
> >California in the Fall.
> >
> >Bill's tiny suggestion.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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