FOSSVT: Great Success

Bill McGonigle — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:36:00 -0400

Last week I attended and presented at FOSSVT, a conference focused on Open Source in Education. Organized by the National Center for Open Source in Education, FOSSVT, at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, VT, was attended by over a hundred educators and technology specialists.

Executive Director Bryant Patten did yeoman’s work organizing the inaugural event, arguably the most successful Open Source event in Northern New England in recent memory. Kudos to Bryant.

I presented “Taking Control of Your Network Using FLOSS Software”, a talk about why it’s important to have a well-regulated network, and a whirlwind tour of a bunch of Free (Libré) Open Source Software (FLOSS) tools that could be useful for educators and technologists looking to take control of a school network. We covered some concepts, troubleshooting techniques, and resources available for further study.

As promised here are the slides . (3.3MB PDF)

"FOSSVT: Great Success" by Glen Page

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:42:02 -0400

Looked over the slides and am sorry I missed it. I will tell you that I have spoken with one person who attended your session that seemed to think the FLOSS was A software package and not an entire genre/category. They wanted to know if I was using “that FLOSS package” that Bill talked about to manage my network.

The BFC Computing Weblog: FOSSVT: Great Success

FOSSVT: Great Success

"FOSSVT: Great Success" by Glen Page