2008+Pre-Conference+Introductions

**Steve Hargadon** Facilitator CoSN Director, K-12 Open Technologies Initiative

**Benoit St-André**

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Revolution Linux Educational Services Director > Mainly doing large-scale work in Linux. Main concern: when schools go larger they hit walls and have failures. Hopefully we can help to show the way.

**Kevin Lowe** Aruba

**Forest Gaston** > Time, talent, or money to have a successful setup. Concern: high turnover of tech staff.

**David Thornburg** Thornburg Center > Thought cluster computing at Compaq--thought was cool. They asked him to look at Linux. Was backburner until he saw what was happening in Indiana. U.S. vs. Brazil. 4:1 ratio frozen for last years. Computers for All in Brazil. 850k Linux machines sold in first year, financed over 24 months with no interest. ProInfo? educational system movement.

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 * Norma Thornburg**

**René Marquis** Laval School Board (Quebec-Canada) CTO

> 10,000 pcs. 3300 thin clients on line today, going up to 5,000 in next 3 - 6 months. Using Ubuntu/Windows/Linux. 100 schools, 42,000 students as customers.

**Benoit des Ligneris** Revolution LInux CEO >

**Daniel Landry** Laval School Board (Quebec-Canada) School Board Commissioner

**Laura Taylor** Indiana DOE > Want a roadmap that isn't Indiana-centric. We know we're doing something unique, but there are places doing this and we want to leverage what they have learned. There is power in numbers.

**John Back** > Hated school, so became a teacher for a dozen years. Then wrote software, then director of technology for some schools. Has been working for himself for past year, student laptops the key to this game. Working for ZAReason, getting them to sell educational "application" computer (pre-loaded with OSS applications). Wants to get to classroom.

**Jim Hare** Quick 2 Learn (Wayne State University) > 1:1 program. NY public schools, 1 million students as reference project. Want to be able to fund 100% using eRate, so that very low income schools can move to 1:1 environment. Go to district with deficits, so have to bring the funding model and something that impacts student achievement.

IU Faculty liaison for learning technologies > Implementation / transition to SAKAI. 90k students. Particularly interested in electronic portfolios and how them might be used to bridge gap between k-12 and higher ed.
 * John Gosney**

**Adam Stratner** Michigan City Area Schools > 1:1 Linux desktop focus

**Kevin McGuire** Michigan City Area Schools Director of Technology Michigan City Area Schools > $500k invested. INAccess program. First time that he's implemented a technology program in the classroom, that once it's there the teachers are asking for the technology. Teachers are seeing the value and seeing changes in students. Achievement data? Attendance up, disruptions down, teachers gain 5 - 10 minutes per class.

**David Farming** Sugar Labs > Attempting to bring Sugar OS to hardware other than XO. Here to get feedback on what they need to build into OS.

**Martin Knott** MoodleRooms CEO > Largest Moodle partner now. Offices in 7 other countries. Goal: get rid of silos in education. Working with Google and Moodle for single-sign-on for Google apps. System can have 1 million concurrent users.

**Knut Yrvin** Norway, co-founder of SchoolLinux in 2001 (part of DebianEDU) > Open Source community manager for Nokia. Promoting KDE desktop and ? Opening up Symbian. Open Source going mobile. Education one of the most important arenas that people don't see. Education is actually future-oriented.

**Marcos Castilho** Universidade Federal do Paraná - Paraná Digital (Brazil) Project leader > More than 2,000 laboratories in their state in Brazil.

**Nate Ridderman** Sugar Labs >

**Walter Bender** Sugar Labs

**Mike Huffman** Indiana DOE

Mary Gish Michigan City Area Schools Coordinator Michigan City Area Schools Lillian Kellogg ENA Vice-President Kim Brand Keith Belzowski Michigan City Area Schools Jefferson Scheiber Paraná Digital CIO Don Vossburg Novell Adam Stradtner Michigan City Area Schools Computer Technician Jim Gery IMSI James Schweitzer IBM IT Specialist, for Atlanta Public Schools Millard Hill Atlanta Public Schools System Administrator James P. Kinney LocalNet Solutions Randy Orwin Bainbridge Island School District Director of Technology Vern Ceder Scott IMSI Jim Hirsch Plano
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