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LCA2010 (Wellington 2010) Education miniconf
Sat, 2009-07-11 13:55
What is LCA?
LCA is one of the world's best conferences for free and open source software! The coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010, will be held at the Wellington Convention Centre in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 18th January to Saturday 23rd January 2010. LCA2010 is fun, informal and seriously technical, bringing together Free and Open Source developers, users and community champions from around the world. LCA2010 is the second time linux.conf.au has been held in New Zealand, with the first being Dunedin in 2006.
For more information see: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/
What is a Mini Conf?
Miniconfs provide the opportunity of hosting 1-day mini-conferences on a variety of topics that run for 2 out of the 5 days during linux.conf.au.
We have been accepted to organise an Education miniconf.
Submit a talk: http://laptop.org.nz/node/add/miniconfsubmission
Our Proposal:
* Talk one: One Laptop Per Child and Sugar Labs: Why you should care about Linux and education and what people in the region are doing about it
Overview of OLPC in the region (Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific), Sugar Labs, OLPC Friends, deployments coming up and community support and development
Target: People interested in getting involved or learning about a not for profit humanitarian education project
* Talk two: ePortfolios - to be confirmed
* Talk three: Learning management systems - to be confirmed
* Talk four: - to be confirmed
* Talk fix: - to be confirmed
* Talk six: - to be confirmed
Submit a talk: http://laptop.org.nz/node/add/miniconfsubmission
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WellyNZTesters
Organiser:
Tabitha Roder, +64 21 482229, tabitha@hrdnz.com
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Organiser of OLPC / Sugar Wellington based testing group
- Experience - HRDNZ have organised the MoodleMoot conferences for NZ for the last few years, speaker experience at International conferences
What if our proposal wins?
It did!
Now we are hosting our own mini "call for papers". If you're doing something great in education with open source software then consider submitting a talk for our mini conf.
