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Good morning everyone! Guess what! FOSSed 2009 is less than 50 days away! That means the school year is winding down and we're all getting ready to think about summer and our plans for the next school year. For tech folks, both classroom teachers and IT personnel, summertime is a time for planning and redirection. Summer is also a great time to LEARN new skills and formulate new ideas! THIS summer is particularly important as many folks are faced with cutbacks, funding shortfalls, and decisions on how to get the most out of what you currently have. FOSSed is a perfect opportunity to learn new ideas, network with other colleagues, and share your own knowledge with others. Bring a team of your colleagues...sit, relax, unwind and just talk. Learn from each other...and learn what other folks in other schools/organizations are doing. FOSSed 2009 is shaping up nicely! We have some new sessions that we'll be adding to the list in the next few days. Those include sessions on netbook imaging/cloning and deployment with Shaun Meredith, Google offerings for Education, Sugar on a Stick (the One Laptop Per Child OS for EVERY computer!)....and more! (the wonderful folks from SugarLabs at MIT - Walter Bender and Caroline Meeks - would like to come to FOSSed and show us how to use the revolutionary Sugar OS for kids on a USB thumbdrive! It's pretty cool!) You can use it to repurpose older machines and also to set up new machines for younger kids with an operating system that make sense for kids! Check out the current session list at http://www.fossed.com Scholarship! The great folks at InfoBridge are huge supporters of free and open source software in education. They are offering a couple of scholarships for folks to attend FOSSed this year. One is reserved for a first-time FOSSed attendee...if you've never been to FOSSed and you'd love to come this year, but finances are an issue....then check out the scholarship section of the FOSSed web site and download the form. Entries must be received by May 15th. The second scholarship(s) will be for other members of the FOSSed community....see the form for details. *NOTE - if you are an ACTEM member we encourage you to utilize your ACTEM professional development benefit for $400 prior to the scholarship. ACTEM members Don't forget! You have an awesome benefit as part of your membership with ACTEM. You can use up to $400 per year for professional development. See the ACTEM PD section of the ACTEM site http://www.actem.org/Pages/ACTEM_ProDev/index for more information. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected] (we've been doing this for a while) ;-) ACTEM is one of our generous sponsors for the FOSSed banquet on the second night of the conference! Thanks ACTEM! You're entitled and we're flexible! If anyone understands how tight budgets are, it's me. My technology budget for next year is in danger of being cut down to near zero (my job is safe, but I may be using a lot of duct tape next year). However, my professional development money is safe. Why? Because the greatest computers in the world cannot replace dedicated and knowledgable teachers and IT folks. You are entitled to professional development. You NEED to learn. We all do. We even offer CEU's from the University of Southern Maine for those who need them. We're also VERY flexible. If you have a special financial circumstance and would like to work out some special way of finagling/scheduling payment and so forth....let us know! We're happy to help. Register soon! As I mentioned before, FOSSed is less than 50 days away. This means that it's crunch time for us. So....if you are hoping to join us at FOSSed this year....please register ASAP. (even if you don't have all the financial details worked out...register) Register at the FOSSed site at http://www.fossed.com If you have questions about FOSSed....we'll be happy to help you....contact us at [email protected] Hope to see you at FOSSed! David Trask FOSSed 2009 Copperdog Consulting & Training [email protected] (207) 446-2738 David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [email protected] (207)923-3100 (207)923-4305 (direct) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
