User Conference and Developer Gathering June 2008
Basics
User Conference: |
5-6 June 2008 |
Participants at |
User Conference click the link |
Developer Gathering: |
6-8 June 2008 |
Developer Registration: |
Please read ahead |
Location: |
Institue of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway |
Airport: |
Closes airport is Oslo Airport (OSL) |
Train: |
Take the airport train from the airport to the central station, and then the subway to Forskningsparken station |
hotel: |
Suggestions for hotels comes later |
Map: |
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Weather: |
The gathering will include work on several topics
- User experiences, how to start with free software in schools
- Pedagogic software on phones and other small or embedded devices
- Development
- Translation
- Testing
Invitation
Anyone who is a teacher or user of Debian-Edu/Skolelinux and other free software solutions or software in education. Of course the waist numbers of free software developers are invited too, helping out to improve Skolelinux.
Developers, translators and testers can apply for traveling expenses reimbursment. Expenses has to be preapproved by styret@friprogramvareiskolen.no and the participant have to prepare and submit an invoice after the gathering has taken place. For details on this process, see Styret/Okonomi
For users, teachers and others which will mostly tend the first two days at the conference part, will pay their own travel. Lunch will be provided for free under the conference, and the dinner Thursday 5 June.
In Collaboration With
- Minister of Government Administration and Reform
- University of Oslo, Institute of Informatics
- Extremadura, Spain
- Educational authorities in Indiana, US
- Skolelinux Germany
- Skolelinux France
- Linpro
- Trolltech
- Telenor iLabs project
- Skolelinux Drift AS
Registration
You can register in two ways:
- enter your details into the list at the bottom of this page
send an email message to debian-edu@lists.debian.org (or linuxiskolen@skolelinux.no ), containing the following information:
Subject: Yes, I will participate in the developer gathering <dates> Body:
- Your name
- Your travel expenses (if you are or plan to be an active developer, translator or contributor to Skolelinux).
- Which part of the gathering you are joining (conference, technical/testing, translation, system user/documentation, facilitators)
- If you are joining us for dinner on Thursday, Friday and/or Saturday
- If you are a developer, we would like to know which Bug(s) you are going to work on as well. Our bugs can be found at
Organizers
Should read /Checklist (http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/prosjektet/delprosjekt/gathering-checklist.txt)
Coordinators |
Knut Yrvin / fixme - need more help |
Local arrangement committee |
fixme - need more help |
The local committee takes care of practical issues such as location, food shopping, dinner reservations, and so on.
Program for the conference
Thursday 5 juni
Time |
Theme |
Who |
10:00 |
User experiences using Skolelinux and free software in schools |
Lars Risan |
11:00 |
What's neccessary to get started. Experiences from rollouts |
Knut Yrvin / Monica Lassen (confirmation needed) |
12:00 |
Free software on mini laptops |
Bjørn Venn (confirmation needed) |
13:00 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 |
Pedagoic games on mobile phones |
A researcher from UiA |
15:00 |
Experiences on use of free software in Spain |
José L. Redrejo Rodríguez (confirmation needed) |
16:00 |
Student project wrap up |
Students / Telenor R&I / Trolltech |
Friday 6 June
Time |
Theme |
Who |
09:00 |
Workshop - Enterence Ramp. How to get started |
All |
12:00 |
Lunch |
|
13:00 |
Workshop on pedagogic software on phones and other embedded devices |
All |
15:00 |
Wrap up |
|
16:00 |
Conference ends, Skolelinux developer gathering starts |
All |
Plan for the gathering
Friday 2008-06-06
18:00 |
Registration, presenting status and plan the weekend |
20:00 |
Dinner |
Saturday 2008-06-07
10:00 |
Start working |
13:15 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling (library) |
13:30 |
Lunch |
14:00 |
Continue working |
15:00 |
Session for moving configuration data into LDAP (teachers-room) |
16:45 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling (library) |
17:00 |
Small meal |
17:30 |
Continue working |
18:30 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling |
19:00 |
Demo from the student projects (10-15 minutes) |
19:30 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling |
19:45 |
Depart for dinner |
Sunday 2008-06-08
09:30 |
Breakfast |
10:00 |
Start working |
11:00 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling |
13:15 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling |
13:30 |
Lunch |
13:00 |
Continue working |
14:00 |
Short break for status updates and work rescheduling |
16:00 |
Break for status updates and summarize the weekend |
17:00 |
Departure |
Registration
Name |
June 5-6 Conference |
June 6-8 Dev.gathering |
From where |
Cost |
Technical/testing |
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Knut Yrvin |
X |
X |
Oslo |
0 NOK |
Translation |
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Axel Bojer |
? |
? |
Nesodden |
|
Total |
- |
|
|
0 NOK |
|
|
|
|
|
Documentation |
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Anders Kringstad |
? |
? |
Trondheim |
? |
Ole-Anders Andreassen |
? |
? |
Sunndalsøra |
? NOK |
Total |
0 |
|
|
0 NOK |
|
|
|
|
|
Usability/testing |
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Hans Eidnes |
? |
? |
Harstad |
? NOK |
Total |
0 |
|
- |
- |
Sum Total |
0 |
- |
- |
0 NOK |
Budget
Skolelinux sponsoring
Travel expences |
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Developers |
0 NOK |
Translators |
0 NOK |
Usability/testing |
0 NOK |