Re: [libreoffice-marketing] 21st Educational Technology Day at Ithaca College, USA Ithaca, NY, 2011-03-24

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 19:22 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 07:04 PM, drew wrote:
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday/
> > >
> > > 21st Educational Technology Day at Ithaca College
> > >       USA Ithaca, NY
> > >       2011-03-24
> > >       one day
> > >
> > > Educational Technology Day is a regional technology event that attracts
> > > over 1,600 people annually from the upstate New York region. It features
> > > local and national vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Dell, Epson, Hewlett
> > > Packard, Microsoft and many others. -- Mostly tech vendors but
> > > LibreOffice could perhaps make an appearance there. Targetted audience:
> > > higher education and K-12 teachers.
> > First I've heard of it - looking at the list of speakers, there is a
> > talk from a Google emp, regarding google docs. Looking at the showcase
> > (expo floor) google, orcle and Ithaca free Software.
> I just saw it on the Events page on the TDF "wiki" pages.

yup - I don't see that anyone notified the mailing list - that is a good
habit after updating the wiki page, lest it becomes lost.


> > Ah, that last one looked good, so going to their website:
> > http://ithacafreesoftware.org/
> >
> > I see they advocate OpenOffice.org.
> Yes, since they started with OOo, maybe now they will go with the better 
> package.

Also - looking deeper, the guys actually manning the table at the event
are coming, according to the ithacafreesoftware forum announcement[1],
from the NY State Ubuntu LoCo (Local) team[2].

I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't giving away discs and if that is
11.04 then I wonder if LibO is already on it.

> It would be nice to have this free software group a part of the N.A. 
> Community team

Reaching out to these other type groups would be a good thing, yes. What
else can you say on that.


> or marketing group.  Since they have several college/universities in the 
> Ithaca area.
> Cornell is a major player in status for New York State Colleges.  A lot 
> of major research
> partners with industries at Cornell.  

Actually from what I can see MSO is not the competitor any longer, not
in the USA and not in Education - it is Google Docs.


> > Also: too many lists to keep track of
> > This list, marketing @ libo is the international list, I doubt anyone in
> > Poland is concerned with an edu tech day in upstate NY NY, so please in
> > the future keep this to the US marketing list.
> Yes the European groups might be a little too far away, but I thought 
> the TDF groups might have an opinion on "supporting" local team[s] going 
> to that event.

Right!

Take care,

Drew


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