[Lias] ANNOUNCEMENT: educationaLinux 2003 UWA 20-21 January 2003

[Leon Brooks]

http://linux.conf.au/        http://plug.linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/

The world-reknowned Linux Conference Australia (LCA) comes to Perth in 
January, and with it an opportunity to do a mini-conference specifically on 
education.

LOCAL!

This will be the only chance in 7 years to attend LCA without the cost and 
inconvenience of interstate travel and accomodation. Many of the presenters 
are Australians addressing Australian schooling environments.

PRESENTATIONS

We have several exciting presenters lined up, and are looking for more. 
Allocations are only being pencilled in now, but first off the block at this 
stage is Kathryn Moyle from the Department of Education and Children's 
Services (South Australia) expounding on how the properties of Open Source 
Software interact with government policy on schooling.

The bulk of the miniconference, and LCA itself, has a heavily technical 
orientation, so we will be hearing from several presenters on details of new 
and matured Linux roll-outs in their schools. A pleasing common theme is 
reasons other than financial for choosing OSS in general, and Linux in 
particular.

ROUNDTABLE

The final session of the miniconference is a round table, a moderated 
discussion of education and Linux, revealing what's working and sorting out 
what most needs to be done next. The round-table and certain sessions will be 
streamed to the Internet as well, using the royalty-free NDA-free Ogg Vorbis 
media format (plugins available for almost anything).

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aside from a few obvious choices getting early priority, most of the available 
timeslots have not been filled yet (and even the existing allocations are 
tentative), so if you think you have something people would like to hear at 
the conference, read http://plug.linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/papers.html and 
fire off a precis for consideration to ELPapers at cyberknights.com.au by Monday.

NETWORKING

Linux devotees, including educational specialists, will be attending from all 
over the world, and all over Australia. This is an unmissable opportunity to 
swap experience, knowledge and contacts.

HOW DO I REGISTER TO ATTEND?

Register at http://linux.conf.au/register.html to attend the main conference, 
and educationaLinux attendance is included. You'll need to email us (at 
ELbookings at cyberknights.com.au) so we can allocate a seat for you in the
miniconf.

The conference prices are so good that even attending just a miniconference 
works out less expensive than most conferences.

WHERE WILL THE MINICONFERENCE TAKE PLACE?

In the Physics and Arts departments at the University of Western Australia in 
Crawley. We will be posting a virtual tour of the facilities shortly.

Cheers; Leon

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