Reminder: Jasig is co-sponsoring the 2-3-98 Conference this week at SUNY Delhi, and there's still time to sign up for onsite *or* live web registration.
This year's conference, "Technology During an Economic Crisis, The Benefits of Open Sourcing", will focus on the financial opportunities through Open Source technologies and techniques, balanced with case studies delivered by campuses that have deployed various open technologies. The program will include a presentation of Rensselaer's implementation of Jasig's incubated ESUP HelpDesk application by Mark Miller, Acting Director, Academic and Research Computing and Gary Schwartz, Director of Communications & Middleware Technologies, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Gary is also the current Chair of Jasig's Bedework Steering Committee. Other presenters include: Theresa Rowe, CIO, Oakland University, talking about a "right-sourced and open source future." John Harris, Director of Network and Security Services at The Sage Colleges, demonstrating Asterisk VOIP; Brian Hutzley, CFO and VP Business and Finance from SUNY Delhi, presenting SUNY Delhi's approach to open source and savings realized; Keith Landa, Director of Instructional Technology at SUNY Purchase, discussing hosting options with Moodle Rosalyn Metz, Systems Administrator for Curricular Support at Wheaton College, presenting on Wheaton's use of Amazon Web/Cloud Services; Joseph Ugoretz, Director of Technology and Learning from City University of New York speaking on Wordpress as an e-Portfolio. In addition to these speakers, the final day will be a Moodlemoot dedicated to all things Moodle. The three-day event is just next week, August 11th - 13th, with registration still open. If you or members on your staff are interested but can't make the trip, the entire event is available live, online. Sponsors include: Moodlerooms, Remote-Learner, rSmart, SUNY Delhi and UMassOnline Hope to see you there. For more information see: www.delhi.edu/2-3-98/ -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
