Torsdag 3. januar 2008, skrev Morten Werner Forsbring: > o June > GUADEC 2008 is arranged 7th-12th of July, so maybe 20th-22nd and > 27th-29th of June are the best weekends?
Is it possible to add an International so called "Ramp On" gathering/conference to the dev.gathering schedule, in mid June 2008. This "ramp on" thing aims at users of Skolelinux and school leadres who considers or are helping schools on using free software. This event was suggested in the "Prosjektsøknad for videreutvikling av Skolelinux"[1] that got approved by The ministry of reform when supporting money to further development of Skolelinux. Se point 6 on project activeties and the proposed budget. 1. http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Application/2007-projects/2007-Skolelinux The plan is to do a user survey where Lars Risan are interviewing end users and teachers in April/May, and presents this experiences on the "Ramp On" conference in mid June at Agder University. (Agder University organised GUADEC 2004). Contributors to the Extremaduras GNU/LinEx, French Skolelinux effort, Germany Skolelinux, Indiana (US) and other contributors to free software are invited to this conference too as a part of the Debian Edu family. The focus will be how to get started whit Skolelinux/Debian Edu both in schools and as contributors. So the "Ramp On" thing will consit on a "get started" tracks for users and potential users of Debian Edu, and a collaborative developer gathering with friends from Europe and some other continents in the manner as Extremedura has hosted for Debian Edu dev.gatherings last couple of years. As I see it this is a sort of "pay back" known as Quid pro quo[1] (something for something) for the effort Extremadura has put into Debian last couple of years. 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo Best regards Knut Yrvin
